1 . 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Chinese cultural elements commemorating (纪念) Tang Xianzu,     1     is known as “the Shakespeare of Asia,” add an international character to Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare’s hometown.

Tang and Shakespeare were contemporaries and both died in 1616. Although they could never have met, there are common     2     (theme) in their works, said Paul Edmondson, head of research for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. “Some of the things that Tang was writing about     3     (be)also Shakespeare’s concerns. I happen to know that Tang’s play The Peony Pavilion (《牡丹亭》) is similar in some ways     4     Romeo and Juliet.”

A statue commemorating Shakespeare and Tang was put up at Shakespeare’s Birthplace Garden in 2017. Two years later, a six-meter-tall pavilion,     5     (inspire)by The Peony Pavilion,     6     (build)at the Firs Garden, just ten minutes’ walk from Shakespeare’s birthplace.

Those cultural elements have increased Stratford’s international     7     (visible), said Edmondson, adding that visitors walking through the Birthplace Garden were often amazed     8     (find)the connection between the two great writers.

    9     (recall)watching a Chinese opera version of Shakespeare’s play Richard III in Shanghai and meeting Chinese actors who came to Stratford a few years ago to perform parts of The Peony Pavilion, Edmondson said, “It was very exciting to hear the Chinese language     10     see how Tang’s play was being performed.”

2 . When we begin to see things differently around us, we can open __________ (us) up to new possibilities and new opportunities and clear out fear. (所给词的适当形式填空)

3 . Song Dynasty military forces as early as 904 A.D. used gunpowder devices against __________ (they) primary enemy, the Mongols. (所给词的适当形式填空)

6 . The variety show, Shang Xin Le Gu Gong, broadcast __________ (it) first episode (一集) on Beijing TV and online streaming media site, iQiyi.com, on November 9. That first episode won wide acceptance from audience and was thought highly of on Douban.com. (所给词的适当形式填空)

7 . He practiced rapidly moving the glove to his good hand after he had pitched the ball to his father. He was always forcing __________ (he) to get that glove faster and faster. (所给词的适当形式填空)

8 . Jinling Library, founded in 1927, established __________ (it) first “Window of Chinese Books” overseas in Nigeria in 2013. There will be more in the future. (所给词的适当形式填空)

10 . The middle route, the most prominent one due to __________ (it) role in feeding water to the nation’s capital, begins at the Danjiangkou reservoir in the Hanjiang River in central province of Hubei and runs northeastward to Beijing and Tianjin. It started supplying water in December 2014. (所给词的适当形式填空)