A painting with a     1    (long) of 1014. 37 meters has received a Guinness World Record title for the longest drawing by an individual artist. The record was announced at the Simatai Great Wall on Saturday,     2     is surrounded by the verdant (草木苍翠的) mountains of an early autumn, and the painter folded the painting with great care     3     the presence of many viewers.

    4     took artist Guo Feng two months to complete the black-and-white painting named Yongsheng in Chinese, meaning living forever. Clearly     5     (inspire) by the view of the Great Wall from the sky, he wanted to call for peace and harmony in the world. In fact, Guo Feng is     6     (familiar) to the public as a music producer than as a painter. And one of his songs, Let the World Be Filled with Love, has enjoyed great popularity all over the country for     7    (decade).

The painting is made up of 10 sub-themes, and was created     8    (large) using marker pens. "I     9    （draw） for more than 10 hours a day over the past months and sometimes I began working at 4 am,” said Guo. "Creating the work on the Great Wall was an unprecedented (空前的) lonely and quiet time for me     10     (look) into my past, today and the future,” he added.

Three hundred years ago, the maohou or “hairy monkeys” quickly became much loved by the people in Beijing. How did somebody come up with them?

The story    1    (go) that the shopkeeper of a Chinese medicine shop was often seen shouting at his employees. One evening an apprentice was tidying up the ingredients（原料）    2    (use) to make Chinese medicines in the shop. To pass the time, he found     3    (he) making a little figure out of the feathery flowers and the head and legs of a cicada’s（蝉）skin. The apprentice showed it to his colleagues,     4     (joke) that it looked like their bad-tempered boss.

The little creature became such     5     hit that they started making more figures. Thus,   Beijing’s unbelievable craft of “hairy monkey” making     6     (bear).

Nowadays, “ hairy monkeys” are far    7     the most popular children’s gifts on the market in Beijing. Mass-produced toys have    8    (most) reduced demand for handmade figures. But that’s not to say that the maohou have completely died out. Walk among the     9    (seller) and giant teddy bear stands of today’s temple fairs in Beijing,     10     you might still find a few places selling “hairy monkeys”. They are without doubt one of the city’s most amazing crafts.

It is hard to give a precise definition of Western art. Perhaps the best way     1    (understand) Western art is to look at the development of Western painting over the centuries. During the Middle Ages, the purpose     2    Western art was to teach people about Christianity. Thus, artists were not interested in     3    (paint) realistic scenes. This began to change in the 13th century with Giotto di Bondone, whose paintings     4    (show) real people in a real environment. Next came the Renaissance, when new ideas and values gradually replaced old     5    (one) from the Middle Ages. Painters adopted a more humanistic attitude to life,     6    (use) perspective and oil paints. The emphasis     7    (increasing) shifted from religious themes to people and the world around us. After the invention of photography, paintings were no longer needed     8    (preserve) what people and the world looked like. As a result, Impressionism emerged in France. The name of this new movement came from     9    painting by Claude Monet called Impression, Sunrise. In this work, Monet’s aim was to convey the light and movement in the scene. Picasso, one of the painters of Modern Art, tried to analyze the shapes     10    existed in the natural world but in a new way, with Cubism.

China has countless attractions. The Great Wall is     1     (probable) one that is most familiar     2     the Western tourists. The Great Wall is like a giant stone dragon,     3     (wind) across the country from the ocean on the east to the desert on the west. It is the longest wall that     4     (build) ever, 1500 miles in     5     (long). Along the wall are watch towers,     6     soldiers were on the watch for threats. The wall was initially constructed     7     (prevent) invasion of neighboring states, and the majority of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty. From the top of the Great Wall, people can enjoy     8     impressive view of continuous mountains, green trees and blooming wild flowers. If we were to build such a wall now, we would use modern machines.     9    , the ancient Chinese had to build the wall by hand. The reason why the Great Wall attracts tourists from all over the world every year is     10     it represents the highest wisdom of ancient China. Just as the saying goes, “He who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man.”