阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。On a table at his home in Rosetta, a port city in 【小题1】 (north) Egypt, self-taught artist Ibrahim Bilal displayed a variety of his signature mini sculptures 【小题2】 (make) with pencil tips.
With about 80 works 【小题3】 (feature) landmarks and famous people in Egypt and beyond, 【小题4】 30-year-old artist said he 【小题5】 (inspire) four years ago to thoroughly grasp the art form after watching videos of a Chinese artist carving pencil lead(铅笔芯) into sculptures.
Fond of ancient Egyptian icons(图标), Bilal dedicated one of his earliest works to the world-famous Rosetta Stone, an ancient Egyptian relic 【小题6】 (accidental) discovered in his city and has been kept in the British Museum.
Bilal uses a microscope for an enlarged view, a set of pen cutters or carving detail 【小题7】 (knife), and quality pencils 【小题8】 are mostly made in Germany or China while working. Through his hands, landmarks across the globe, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, appear on the pencil tips. The size of each sculpture is no more 【小题9】 6 mm unless it is a tower. And each takes an average of 10 hours 【小题10】 (finish).