题目内容：

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

It’s one of the 1. (great) novels in world literature. First published in 1791, A Dream of Red Mansions, also 2. (know) as The Story of the Stone, is to Chinese people as William Shakespeare’s famous plays are to westerners.

The novel, 3. reflects the history of the Qing Dynasty, follows the rise and fall of the noble Jia family. Originally, the family seems 4. (be) wealthy and powerful, thanks in part to its close relationships with the royal family. Yet, the heir to the family, Jia Baoyu, enjoys 5. (live) a pure, carefree life, having no interest 6. politics at all.

Expected to pair with Xue Baochai, Jia 7. (stay) glued to his delicately brilliant cousin, Lin Daiyu. As the lovers head toward a tragic end, the family falls on hard times, fading away eventually.

The 8. (appreciate) of the classic novel is surely both a pleasant treat and a bittersome challenge. As always, the novel has experienced various adaptations. Making the detailed 120-chapter novel into just several hours is 9. (absolute) no piece of cake. “Still, choices have to be made,” the opera’s stage director Stan Lai concluded. “For everyone else, the challenge is to make it 10. excellent opera.”