My time here in China is going well. Over the October holiday, my parents and I are planning to go to Xi’an to see the Terracotta Army and     1     the ancient civilization of Qin Dynasty. I’ve heard that it is an     2     sight, and I can’t wait to go. To me, the story of the Terracotta Army is almost     3    . It’s said that there are more than 8,000     4    , and no one in modern times knew about them until the 1970s.

Julie is going to Jiuzhaigou for holiday. She has just finished the travel     1    . First, she has booked a flight to her     2     in her destination. She also has made hotel     3     well in advance. Besides, she will spend two days     4     the amazing waterfalls, colourful lakes and beautiful mountains. She is looking forward to seeing a lot of amazing     5    .

Wuhan is a city with both an ancient history     1     a thriving(繁华的) present. Historic relics tell the city’s long history dating     2     3,500 years. In the period of PreQin (770 B.C.--221 B.C),it     3     the land of the State of Chu and the cradle(发源地)

Starting here,    4     followed the great Yangtze River of the brilliant Chu Civilization. and lake network to expand businesses throughout the entire country. In the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)， Hankou became one of the four best-known towns in the country. For centuries, Wuhan has been the center of trade and transportation in     5     China. Today it is     6     important center in central China and a feature of Yangtze River cruises(航行) for sightseers and businessmen     7     from Sichuan to Shanghai or Hong Kong.

The uprising voice of the Revolution of 1911 was     8     here firstly. The revolution aimed to overthrow the Qing Dynasty (1636-1912) and establish the Republican     9     government, is one of the     10     events in modern China.

Throughout the 20th century, Japanese towns and cities grew     1    . Today about 80 percent of the Japanese people live in urban areas. The growth of towns and cities, called urbanization (城市化), happens in two ways. One way is     2     rural-urban migration, when people move to the city from the country. As cities prosper and grow, industries and services that     3     many people both as workers and consumers grow to meet the     4     of the increasing population. New industries and services emerge to support the growing business, and the region experiences an upward spiral of growth.

The urban areas on the Japanese island of Honshu (本州岛) continue to grow     5     they attract more people, industries and business. These urban areas contain nearly two-thirds of Japan’s population and manufacturing. City suburbs are     6     in the rural spaces between the towns and cities, and Japan’s efficient and fast transportation system links them all.

Four     7     cities on Honshu-Tokyo Kawasaki (川崎), Chiba (千叶), and Yokohama (横滨) have grown together into one of Japan’s largest urban areas. Two other large urban areas have     8     on Honshu. The area around the city of Nagoya (名古屋) forms one, and the cities of Osaka (大阪)，Kyoto and Kobe (神户) from the other. At the     9     time, these three areas are growing toward one another to form one long, enormous urban area. A single urban system this large is called a megalopolis. This Japanese megalopolis on Honshu, stretching from Tokyo in the east     10     the way to Kobe in the west, is called the Tokaido (东海道) megalopolis.

After camping in the Redwood Forest and visiting Napa     1    , Li Lan took a tour of San Francisco, which     2     itself after the earthquake that     3     in 1906. It     4     felt good to be back again.

In the morning, she walked around the Mission District, where she looked at the street art and ate some delicious Mexican Chinese noodles. In the afternoon, she     5     to a local museum that showed the     6     changes in California. She learnt that many     7    from different countries and cultures came to California to seek their     8     during the gold rush and played an important part in its development. Later in the evening, she went to Chinatown and     9     a Cantonese restaurant that served its food on beautiful china plates. Now she is planning to go to a jazz bar in the Richmond     10    .