IV. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. (Question 26-35)

Bau Truc pottery village of Cham ethnic minority is one of the oldest pottery villages in Southeast Asia. lt is located about 10 kilometres in the South of Phan Rang town. The small village is (26) _____ to more than 400 families, (27)_____ 85% are in the traditional pottery business. The style is said to be handed (28) ____from Po Klong Chan, one of their ancestors from the immemorial time.

People in Bau Truc use their skillful hands bamboo-made circles and shells to create priceless works. It is (29) ______ that while the Kinh people have switched to using wheel as an indispensable (30) ______ , the Cham counterparts, on the contrary, still (31) ______ talent hands and simple tools. To create a pottery product, a Cham craftsman only needs an anvil, not a potter`s wheel, and other simple equipment and moulds and then uses hands to (32) ______ pieces of clay into the works he wants.

The clay is taken from the banks of the Quao River and is very flexible, durable when (33) ______ . The skills needed to mix sand with the clay are also various. The amount of sand mixed with the plastic material is dependent on what the pottery used for and the sizes. For these reasons, Bau Truc pottery is quite different from pottery elsewhere. For example, water Jars made in Bau Truc are always favoured by people in dry and sunny areas (34) _____ the temperature of the water in the jars is always one centigrade cooler than (35)______ outside.

The clay is taken from the banks of the Quao River and is very flexible, durable when ______ .