A new international theme park—the Universal Beijing Resort—is catching much attention this month. Even before it opened, hundreds of thousands of people     1    were interested in the park had experienced trial operations (试运营) for the park. Tickets for its opening day sold out in just one minute after they     2     (release) on September 14.

    3     (build) in the capital’s eastern area, the park is the     4    (five) Universal Studios theme park in the world and the third in Asia. People think     5    (high) of it. Beijing resident Han Lifei said she felt like she was brought into a magic world when     6    (visit) the 160-hectare park — nearly four times    7    (large) than the area of Vatican City. And     8    surprised the “Harry Potter” fan was to see the fictional(虚构的)world from the film come to life. “I queued up (排队) for a long time,     9    I was a bit tired,” a visitor said, “But the moment I left     10    park, I was thinking of returning again.”

The city of Zibo had never seen so many visitors. As the sun began to set, the smell of sizzling (发出咝咝声的) meat     1     (draw)in even more hungry customers. The     2     (enjoy) sound of sizzling meat and joyful chatter echoed (回荡) through the streets as families and friends gathered around tables at barbecue restaurants,     3     (eager) waiting for their meals. The small city in East China’s Shandong Province was packed with people moving to its numerous barbecue restaurants for     4     taste of the mouth-watering dishes.

The city was little known by outsiders     5     it went viral (走红) on Chinese social media platforms recently. Most visitors are young people,     6     travel to Zibo to experience the city’s barbecue culture and share it on social platforms. Barbecue restaurants in Zibo are usually small and crowded, with customers sitting at outdoor tables or     7     (stand) around the grilling area. The fame of Zibo barbecue used to be limited     8     just Shandong Province. Behind Zibo’s sudden fame are the efforts and services of the local government.     9     (promote) Zibo-style barbecue, Zibo has launched two dozen “special barbecue trains”, where local tourism officials would serve visitors themselves. Netizens joke that the high-speed trains are packed with     10     (tour) and the air on the board is filled with cumin (孜然).

Simply raise your hand     1     a taxi appears     2     no time. They are usually red and they display the price per kilometre on the window.

Public transport provides a cheap way     3     (get) around in Beijing. There are 20000 buses and trolleybuses in Beijing, but they can get very crowded.     4     is a good idea to avoid public transport during the rush hour. Fares are cheap,     5     (start) at 1 yuan.

Like all big cities, Paris has a traffic problem: lots of cars, traffic jams and pollution from exhaust fumes (废气). So since 2007, the city     1     (begin) a plan to improve the situation.

Under the Velib scheme (公共自行车计划), people can take a bicycle, use it as long as they want, and then leave it at the same or another bicycle station. The first half hour is free,     2     if you don’t return it after 30 minutes, you have to pay. The bicycles are     3     heavy as 25 kilograms, and they’re all grey and have baskets.

Paris isn’t the first city     4     (operate) a scheme like this. Not everybody thinks it’s a great idea. One Parisian (巴黎人) said, “These bicycles are only suitable     5     short journeys.”

A city spokesman said, “The bicycle scheme won’t solve all our traffic problems, but it might work in     6     (reduce) air pollution. Traffic, together with factory fumes,     7    (be) a big problem. Global warming and dramatic climate changes are becoming more and more serious,     8     is partly because rain-forests are     9     (gradual) disappearing. And it’s also because there’s so much pollution. Unless we do something now, there will be more traffic jams and temperatures will continue to rise, so the problems in our environment will get even     10     (bad).”