新加坡爱狮考试（AEIS）必考题：文章阅读完形填空4选1   热   

PRACTICE 22
Choose the most appropriate word to fill in each of the blanks below. 


When and Where did puppetry begin? Many experts on puppetry believe that
this art was born in China. Some___(1)___say that there were puppet-shows in China
as___(2)___as the tenth century B.C. The first puppet master was Yang Shih, and he
___(3)___for the Chu Emperor Mu Wang;the story goes on to say that women were
___(4)___to attend puppet performances because the Emperor caught Yang Shih's 
puppets ___(5)___at them,

It is___(6)___whether the story is true; but by the Sung Dynasty (the tenth
century A,D.), puppetry was an___(7)___art. There were many different and rather
unusual forms of puppetry in China. For example, there were ‘live’ puppets which
were, in fact, children sitting on adults’ shoulders, ‘water’ puppets that performed
afloat on lakes,‘powder’ puppets which were___(8)___by fireworks or by some
chemical force, and ‘wire‘ puppets which were___( 9)___by horizontal wires from
behind the stage, Today, live, water and powder 'puppets no longer___(10)___ .

The___(11)___form of puppet theatre was the portable booth or ‘pien tan hsi’,
carried on shoulder poles. In this way, ___(12)___puppeteers took their theatres
from village to village to perform before the people.