The Burj A1 Arab is a luxury hotel in Dubai. It stands on a man-made island     1    (locate) just off Dubai’s coast, and is connected to the mainland by means of a private bridge. The amazing building is one of the tallest hotels in the world. It was designed to look like the sail of a “dhow”，     2     type of Arabian boat. Tom Wright, the designer of the hotel, said he wanted the Burj A1 Arab to be a symbolic     3     (construct) for Dubai like the Eiffel Tower is for Paris.

The Burj A1 Arab has 202 rooms as well as six award-winning restaurants. One of these restaurants, the A1 Muntaha,     4     (offer) fantastic views of Dubai, because it is 200 metres above sea level.

Guests     5     decide to stay at the Burj A1 Arab can look forward to     6     (receive) extremely good service. From the moment you check in to the moment you are dropped off at the airport, the hotel’s staff take care of everything.

    7    (fortunate), entry into the Burj A1 Arab is not allowed unless you are a hotel guest. But don’t worry; views of the outside of the hotel are as     8     (impress) as views of its inside. So, if you ever visit Dubai, be sure     9     (take) a photograph of the Burj A1 Arab. It is     10    a doubt one of the most beautiful hotels in the world!

A hutong is an ancient city street typical in Beijing.     1    (surround) the Forbidden City, many were built during the Yuan, Ming and Qing     2     (dynasty). In order to establish the strongest power, emperors planned the city and arranged the residential areas.     3     center of the city Beijing was the royal palace—the Forbidden City.

At the end of the Qing dynasty, after     4     (close)China came under the influence from abroad, many old hutongs lost     5     (they) former neat arrangement.

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, hutong conditions     6    (improve). But in recent years, the houses in many hutongs have been pulled     7     and replaced by modern buildings. And the hutong today is fading into the shade for     8     tourists and local people.

However, in the urban district of Beijing houses along hutongs still occupy one     9     (three) of the total area, providing housing for half population, so many hutongs     10     (survive). In this respect, we see the old in the new in Beijing as an ancient yet modern city.

【推荐3】Home of the copper drum

Hechi’s copper drum culture goes back as far as the Han Dynasty (206 BC—AD 220),     1     the people living in the area considered copper drums sacred and Hechi is still one of China’s     2     (large) copper drum sites. A 2003 survey by cultural heritage departments     3     (find) more than 1, 400 copper drums in the area, with at least 1,300 copper drums     4     (be) used by local folk artists. In this way, ethnic groups in Hechi have produced a     5     ( unique) rich and diverse cultural form and customs for festivals, weddings, celebrations, funerals, and religious       6     (activity) of local people, with ballads and for rice-planting and frogs. That same year, a copper drum conservation project along the Hongshui River basin joined the Culture Ministry’s Top 10 conservation project list for ethnic and folk cultures.

In 2006, the Zhuang People’s Copper Drum Practices     7     (add) to the national cultural heritage list by the State Council. In 2008, the Culture Ministry declared Donglan county and     8     city of Hechi the “Home of Chinese Copper Drum Art”     9     in 2009, its “Copper Drum Practice” became a candidate for the Human Cultural Heritage. There are now more than 2,400 copper drums in the world, at least 1,400 of     10     (they) in Hechi, making it a Copper Drum Cultural and Ecological Reserve with recognition across Guangxi,