“A barbecue restaurant owner I know told me to come back on Monday, so as to leave the weekends to out-of-town visitors.” said Huang Yang, a native of Zibo city in Shandong province     1     works outside his hometown. He recently returned home for a visit and wanted to have some barbecue,     2     he failed to find seats in four different restaurants.

Thanks to social media recommendations, Zibo has gone viral on Chinese social media platforms.    3     (video) on sites such as Xiaohongshu show thousands of people traveling to the city to try its local barbecue, which they say     4     (wrap) in a pancake and has a “distinct taste” .

Taking advantage of the barbecue craze, Zibo has gone all out to promote local tourism resources, while     5     (work) to ensure the safety of visitors and the quality of tourism products. To provide visitors     6     a happy experience, market regulators have carried out inspections on barbecue restaurants to ensure food safety. Police have increased     7     number of patrol (巡逻) personnel to ensure visitors’ safety. Railway authorities have even added two additional high-speed trains between the     8     (province) capital Jinan and Zibo on weekends to meet the growing passenger demand. The local government now has released a map of barbecue joints and added 21 new bus routes     9     (facilitate) urban transportation.

According to data from on-demand service platform Meituan, Zibo has seen an 800 percent increase in accommodation bookings for the upcoming holiday     10     (compare) to 2019, ranking first in Shandong province in terms of growth rate.

My name is Svetlana and I have worked as a guide at Lake Baikal (贝加尔湖) for more than 10 years.     1    (lie) in a pretty location in Siberia, the deep and fascinating lake with more than 300 rivers flowing into it is one of the world’s greatest natural wonders. Lake Baikal holds between 20% and 23% of the world’s surface water.     2     is the world’s oldest, clearest and deepest lake. The climate there is much milder than that of the     3    (surround) area. Plant and animal life in the lake is rich and     4    (vary). There are between 1500 and 1800 animal species at different     5    (deep), and hundreds of plant species live on or near     6    (it) surface.

Every season, I accompany and guide tourists. Baikal is     7     territory with unique wildlife, breathtaking beauty, and vast local culture. Ancient, inspiring, mysterious, and beautiful, Lake Baikal appeals     8     visitors like no other place on the earth. I feel     9    (bless) to have been born here, and I am looking forward to many more years of welcoming visitors to a     10    (memory) experience at Baikal.

Our wedding was unconventional and it was exactly what Matt and I wanted. We both had failed marriages in the past, so we planned to do something different this time     1     (express) our desire that this one     2     (last); a sunrise ceremony on the Wisconsin shore of Lake Michigan. We even wrote our vows and     3     (person) information and put them in a bottle. To share our love with the world, we threw the bottle into     4     lake. “It will be     5     (high) interesting to find out where it ends up,” I told Matt.

Since we held this special ceremony, Matt and I had managed to stay together happily. But years later, I began to have a little     6     (anxious) and doubt about our marriage.

One day, Matt went to the mailbox and took out the mail. There was a letter     7     (write) to us. He carried the mail inside, sat down at the kitchen table     8     the letter and opened it. It turned out that our bottle     9     (find) by a couple,     10     were also married on the Wisconsin shore on August 18 twenty. Eight years ago. When we read it in disbelief, my negative thoughts about our marriage somehow disappeared.