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    As less people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a ____(distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is committed to ____ (keep) the art of sugar painting alive.

    Li worked as a miner for more than ten years. After ____ mine closed down, Li turned____ housing decoration, until he ____(force) to give that up due to a finger injury. Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest in.

    Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by____(he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. Li loved painting when he was young, and he found it easy to learn the skill in sugar painting. He soon mastered the skill and could make a ____(vary) of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with ____(melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman ____(normal) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup(糖浆). When the sugar cools down, ____ appears is a piece of sugar art.