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Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun.He drew cartoons，wrote stories，and played with plastic toy bricks.His grandparents b（1）oughtoughthis first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since.He e（2）venventook his building bricks to college with him!I（3）nsteadnsteadof books and a computer，he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer b（4）ututgave up his highly-paid job to become an artist that uses toys in his art.He uses toy bricks to build e（5）verythingverything from the Statue of Liberty to Superman!He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art.He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait （自画像）.It took him two d（6）aysays just to build the eyes.
Nathan's w（7）orkorkhas appeared in museums around the world.Children love his art because it is made out of the same t（8）oysoysthat they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating.Since it began in 2007，Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very p（9）opularopularwith museum visitors everywhere. "I'm p（10）roudroudthat I took a dream I had as a child，to become an artist，and I have actually made a job out of it，" says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."
【考点】人与社会．
【答案】ought；ven；nstead；ut；verything；ays；ork；oys；opular；roud
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发布：2024/4/20 14:35:0组卷：62引用：1难度：0.5
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