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选择性必修第四册　Unit 5　Launching Your Career
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Ⅰ.完形填空
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(2021·山东德州质检)
We’ve all been there before：You’re driving down the road when suddenly a pothole seems to appear out of nowhere and sends the 1 jumping.Most people think potholes are 2 ，but artist Jim Bachor sees them as a canvas for his artwork.
Bachor uses the 3 art form of mosaic to create eye-catching，colorful images of famous artists like Aretha Franklin or simple everyday 4 like food.He even makes less-appealing visuals of insects.
Bachor was a graphic designer for 20 years before he began his 5 in mosaic.He regards an incidental trip to Europe as his motivation to change careers.While 6 in Italy，Bachor fell in love with Pompeii，a preserved ancient Roman city.A tour guide pointed out a mosaic，made of mainly glass and marble，and told Bachor，“Glass and marble don’t 7 .So，this looks essentially the way the artist intended.” Bachor says，“That kind of staying power just 8 me so much.”
A year later Bachor returned to attend a mosaic class in Ravenna，Italy，to learn the proper way to 9 the ancient technique.Years after that，he mastered the technique.He 10 that mosaics can be just as significant today as the art form over 1,000 years ago.“I just saw that there was a(n) 11 to bring it into the new age as a contemporary subject，” he says.
So，Bachor decided to make a special pie