Satire (讽刺)is     1    art form in which wrongdoing is mocked. There     2    (be) great satires created by artists and writers in the past 300 years in many different cultures, but one of the most famous is Gulliver's Travels (1724) by Anglo-Irish writer Johnathan Swift. It is a satire based     3     English politics in the 18^th century.

The book contains four imaginary sea voyages by a ship's doctor and later captain, Lemuel Gulliver. Swift uses the cultures of each of these countries     4    (make) satirical points about the real world.

The most famous of these places is Lilli-put, a land     5    the people are only 15cm tall. The story of the gigantic Gulliver among these tiny people is very     6    ( amuse).

But when Gulliver hears about the political system of Lilli-put, he compares it to     7    (England). The citizens of Lilli-put think their parties have different aims,     8    in reality they both are greedy and only want increasingly     9    ( much) power.     10    ( see) this, Swift concluded that the only difference is their high-heeled shoes.