Every Saturday evening, many people come to an open square in a small town in Xi’an. They want to watch Chen Kun and his friends put on a shadow puppet play（皮影戏）.
Shadow puppets are made of hard leather（皮革）. The leather is cut out in the shape (A) ________ a person.
During a shadow puppet play, Chen stands behind a white screen with lights behind (B) it. The audience sit in front of the screen. Chen and his friends hold the puppets very close (C) ________ the screen so the audience can see the puppets’ shadows clearly. Then they move the puppets around and do the voices of the different characters.
Shadow puppet plays are a traditional Chinese art. (D) Nowadays, shadow puppet plays are not as popular as before. To let more young people learn the skills of shadow puppet plays, Chen provides students with training courses. (E) Shadow puppet plays are quite a hard job, but he still wants to pass this traditional art down.
阅读短文, 根据题目要求完成下列任务。【小题1】在文中（A）和（C）的空白处分别填入适当的介词：
【小题2】文中划线（B）的 “it” 指代的是什么?
【小题3】请在文中找出一个意为 “表演” 的短语。
【小题4】Translate the underlined sentence（D）into Chinese.
【小题5】请将（E）改为同义句, 一空一词。
