【Passage 1•福建省福建师范大学附属中学2020-2021学年高一下学期期末英语试题】
Visitors to China may be amazed at many souvenir shops ___77___ the service of “Seal Engraving(刻印) ” is readily available. To the Chinese，a seal was for many ___78___ (century) a symbol of power. The emperor’s seal ___79___(call) Xi, and it gave authority to all his ministers, and governments at different levels all issued orders with official seals. In other words, the seals stood ___80___ different levels of government and their matching powers.
The art of seal-engraving can date back to more than3,000 years to the Yin Dynasty when the cuttings of words on tortoise shells were the only way that the ideas of human being could ___81___(record) . It developed rapidly in the Qin Dynasty when people engraved their names on tools and documents ___82___(claim) ownership in social contacts.
Today, stone is the most widely used material in seal engraving. Among all he stones, Shoushan stones, which come from the ___83___(north) part of Shoushan, Fujian Province, ___84___ (be) the most famous.
Nowadays, seals are still widely used, and the art of seal engraving has become more, not less, popular ___85___ ever before. This art form, ____86____(consider) uniquely Chinese for a long time, is appreciated by many foreigners.
【答案】77．where
78．centuries
79．was called
80．for
81．be recorded
82．to claim
83．northern
84．are
85．than
86．considered
