B) 根据短文内容及首字母提示, 填写所缺单词。
You may think you can not live through summer without air conditioners. But in a【小题1】 China, hand fans were almost the only ones to cool you down.
Chinese people started to use hand fans over 2,000 years ago. Fans came in different s【小题2】, such as round and square. They were also made of all kinds of materials. Palm leaf fans were cheap and easy to make. Feather fans could show the o【小题3】 high status(地位). Sandalwood(檀香木) fans could send out a sweet s【小题4】.
Later, hand fans became far more than just something that could help people keep c【小题5】in summer . They developed into artworks, in which tuanshan (round fans) and zheshan (folded fans) were the most c【小题6】.
In the shape of a full moon, tuanshan was usually made of silk. They had beautiful birds and flowers on them. Women, e【小题7】 those in the imperial palace, liked to use them. Meanwhile, men, such as the literati(文人) , used zhenshan. The literati liked them b【小题8】 they were usually made of paper and they could paint and write poems on them. It was a way for them to s【小题9】 off their ability in literature, painting and handwriting. Almost anything can be painted on Zheshan.
Today, Chinese people s【小题10】 use these fans, but people don’t write or paint on them any more. Next time when you are waving a fan, you may think of the stories behind it.