Many of China's ancient architectural treasures crumbled to dust before Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng began documenting them in the 1930s. The husband and wife team were by far the best-known __ to operate in China.Their __ have since inspired generations of people to speak out for architecture threatened by the rush toward development.
Becoming China's first architectural historians was no easy____.The buildings they wanted to___ were centuries old, often in shambles and located in distant parts of the country. In many cases, they had to journey through ___conditions in the Chinese countryside to reach them.
___China's outlying areas during the 1930s meant traveling muddy, poorly maintained roads by mule, or on foot.This was a(n)____undertaking both for Liang,who walked with a bad limp(跛)after a motorcycle accident as a young man, and Lin,who had a lung disease for years. Inns were often unimaginably dirty,food could be tainted(污染的),and there was always __ of violence from rebels,soldiers and bandits.
Their greatest discovery came on an expedition in 1937 when they dated and extremely____catalogued Foguang Si, or the Temple of Buddha's Light, in Wutai County,Shanxi Province. The breathtaking wooden temple was____in 857 A.D.,making it the oldest building known in China at the time. (It is now the fourth-oldest known).
Liang and Lin crawled into the temple's most____areas to determine its age, including one aerie inhabited by thousands of bats and millions of bedbugs, covered in dust and littered with dead bats. Liang wrote of the____in an account included in "Liang and Lin:Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past," the English-language story of their lives written by Wilma Fairbank,their close friend and correspondent.
"In complete darkness and amid the___smell, hardly breathing, with thick masks covering our noses and mouths,we measured,drew,and photographed with flashlights for several hours,"Liang wrote."When ___we came out to take a breath of fresh air, we found hundreds of bedbugs in our backpack.We ourselves had been badly bitten.Yet the____and unexpectedness of our find made those the happiest hours of my years hunting for ancient architecture."
【小题1】A.architects | B.historians | C.preservationists | D.travelers |
【小题2】A.documents | B.efforts | C.operations | D.encouragements |
【小题3】A.achievement | B.dream | C.determination | D.breakthrough |
【小题4】A.construct | B.develop | C.announce | D.save |
【小题5】A.opposing | B.unexpected | C.unfamiliar | D.dangerous |
【小题6】A.Exploring | B.Touring | C.Developing | D.Overlooking |
【小题7】A.unadvisable | B.priceless | C.demanding | D.worthless |
【小题8】A.tolerance | B.accusation | C.suspicion | D.risk |
【小题9】A.efficiently | B.carefully | C.merrily | D.creatively |
【小题10】A.built | B.ruined | C.discovered | D.recorded |
【小题11】A.untidy | B.ancient | C.forgotten | D.important |
【小题12】A.crawl | B.experience | C.prospect ion | D.exploitation |
【小题13】A.unknown | B.disgusting | C.hard | D.thick |
【小题14】A.at last | B.in contrast | C.in result | D.with effort |
【小题15】A.misery | B.result | C.reflection | D.importance |