Have you ever tasted or perhaps heard of sugar painting? As fewer people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a     1    (distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is devoted to     2    (keep) the art of sugar painting alive.

Li worked     3     a miner for more than ten years. After the mine closed down, Li turned to housing decoration until he     4    (force) to give that up due to a finger injury. Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had     5     interest in.

Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by     6    (he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. Li loved painting when he was young,     7     he found it easy to learn the skill in sugar painting. He soon mastered the skill and could have varieties of sugar paintings     8    (make) with melted brown or white sugar. A craftsman     9    (careful) paints animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup (糖浆). What appears is a piece of sugar art when the sugar     10    (cool) down.

Keeping the balance between progress     1     protection of cultural sites can be a challenge. In the 1950s, the Egyptian government wanted to build a new dam across the Nile     2     (control) floods and produce electricity, but the     3     (propose) led to protests. Water from the dam would likely destroy cultural relics so the government turned to the UN for help. A committee     4    (establish) to prevent the loss of cultural relics. Finally, the cultural sites were taken down piece by piece, then moved and put back together in a place     5     they were safe from the water.