It definitely feels good     1     (be) back in San Francisco again. In 1906 a big earthquake    2     (strike) the city. Amazingly, it was able to rebuild itself.     3     (locate) on top of big hills, many beautiful old buildings offered great views of the city, the ocean, and the Golden Gate Bridge. There is the Mission District near downtown, one of the     4     (old) parts of the city. Many of the people living here are from Mexico or Central America. This district used to be a poor area of town, but is now a centre for art, music, and food. An art movement that started here     5     (call) the “Mission School”.     6     (walk) around and looked at the street art for a few hours, she ate some delicious Mexican-Chinese noodles for lunch. In the afternoon, Li Lan headed to a local museum,     7    she learned a lot about the history of California. In 1848, gold     8     (discover) near San Francisco, which made over 300,000 people from all over the world rush here     9     (seek) their fortune. The museum did a really good job of showing     10    America was built by immigrants from different countries and cultures.

Have you ever seen the tide of the Qiantang River?

The Qiantang River,     1     (locate) in Zhejiang on the southeastern const of China, stretches over more than 500 kilometers and flows into the East China Sea.

Every year     2     the eighteenth day of the eighth lunar month, people gather along its banks expectantly, eager for the     3     (arrive) of the tide. The waters of Hangzhou Bay and the Qiantang River meet on the horizon,     4     (form) a thin white line. Hundreds of thousands of tons of water     5     (dramatic) tumble (翻滚) back towards the land. The seawall contains the force of 7 tons per square meter. The waves can reach     6     maximum of 9 meters, about three stories     7     (height) and even taller than four of China’s famous basketball player, Yao Ming.

The huge tides and waves do little     8     (stop) the bold. People     9     (jump) into the powerful waves as early as the Southern Song Dynasty of China, more than 800 years ago. The people of the time called them the Tide Players. It looks so much like today’s surfing, without the surf board. Today, the Qiantang River attracts thousands of people     10     are from far and wide for the annual tidal surfing competition.