【推荐1】John Snow was a famous doctor in London-so    1    ,indeed,that he    2    Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became    3    when he thought about helping ordinary people    4    to cholera.This was the deadly disease of its day.Neither its cause nor its    5    was understood.So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak.John Snow wanted to face the challenge and solve this problem.

First there was England.Wales was    6    to it in the thirteenth century.Now when people    7    to England you find Wales    8    as well.Next England and Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the name was changed to "Great Britain".Happily this was accomplished without    9    when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well.Finally the English government tried in the early twentieth century to form the United Kingdom by getting Ireland    10    in the same peaceful way.

John Snow was a famous doctor in London—so expert, indeed,     1     he attended Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people     2     to cholera. This was the deadly disease of its day. Neither its cause     3     its cure was understood.

In g    1    , doctors in those days had two c    2    theories to explain how cholera spread. One theory was that bad air caused the disease. Another was that cholera was caused by an i    3    from germs in food or water. Snow s    4    to the second theory. It was correct, but he still needed p    5    . Consequently, when an o    6    of cholera hit London in 1854, Snow began to investigate. He discovered that in two particular streets the cholera outbreak was so severe that more than 500 people died in ten days. He was determined to find out why.

After two days’ travel, the girls began to realize that Canada is quite empty. At school, they had learned that most Canadians live     1     a few hundred kilometers of the USA border, and    2     Canada’s population is only     3     over thirty million, but now they were     4     to see such an empty country. They went     5     a wheat-growing province and saw farms that     6     thousands of acres. After dinner, they were back in an     7     area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes. The girls were surprised at the     8     that ocean ships can sail up the Great Lakes. Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more    9     water than any other country in the world. In fact, it has one-third of the world’s total fresh water, and much of     10     is in the Great Lakes.

    1     (…有) so much more to learn about the interesting history and culture of the United Kingdom.     2     (学习) the history of the country will make your visit much more     3     (快乐的). The capital city London is great place to start, as it is an ancient port city that has a history     4     (追溯到) all the way back to Roman times. There are     5     (数不清的) hisroric sites to explore, and lots of museums with ancient relices from all over the UK. The UK is a fascinating mix of histoy and modern culture, with both new and old traditions. If you     6     (留心), you will be surprised    7     (发现) that you can see both its past and its present.