四、阅读短文,在文中空白处填入1个适当的单词,或用括号内所给单词的正确形式填空。
Born in 701, Li Bai was one of the
greatest
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(great) poets of the Tang Dynasty. At the age of
24, he left home and started to travel around China. During
his
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(he) lifetime, he wrote more than one thousand poems about nature, friendship and many other wonderful things.
To Wang Lun was one of Li Bai's poems, which was about his friendship with Wang Lun,
an
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important person to him. It is said that Wang Lun respected Li Bai for his talent and looked forward to
seeing
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(see) him. When he
heard
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(hear) that Li Bai was travelling to a place nearby, he wrote a letter to Li Bai
and
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invited him to visit his hometown.
In
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the letter, Wang Lun described his hometown as having 10 li of peach flowers and 10,000 wine houses(酒家).
Li Bai couldn't find the scenes(景象) described by Wang Lun when he arrived. Wang Lun explained that "peach flowers" was the name of a pool and "Wan" was the family name of the wine house
owner
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(own).
Li Bai laughed about Wang Lun's little trick. He understood that Wang Lun
truly
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(true) wanted to see him and the two became good
friends
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(friend).
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greatest
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his
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an
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seeing
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heard
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and
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In
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owner
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truly
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friends