88-year-old Gao Siji lives in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. She often goes to seafood stores to1fish bones. In her eyes, they are not2, but great things for making works of art. And she is3 for her fish-bone pictures. Lots of people love them.
You may wonder4Gao started making pictures with fish bones. It was about 30 years ago. "As soon as I left my job because of age, I went to study5. When I ate fish one day, I got interested in the 6of the fish bones and had a(n)7 to make works of art with them," she said. "Then I cleaned the fish bones, colored them and glued them together to finish my first fish- bone picture. " The picture was wonderful and Gao fell in love with this kind of art. Soon she started using other seafood waste to make pictures. Over the past thirty years, Gao has made more than one hundred works of art. How8she is!
Gao's fish-bone pictures are a good example to make us believe that there is no such thing as waste, only resources (资源) in the wrong place. 9 should make full use of waste. Gao also 10people in need, she gave the money she won from competitions to special education groups.