Mount Wutai, located in the northeastern part of Shanxi province, is 230 kilometers away from the provincial capital city Taiyuan. It was named after five peaks that look like five giant columns (柱子)     1     (rise) straight from the ground. With its high peaks, snow covers for much of the year. Even in midsummer days it remains cool and pleasant,     2     has given rise to another name: Qingliang Mountain as     3     ideal place for escaping summer heat.

Mount Wutai is quiet a beautiful mountain landscape with a cultural heritage that is at least as     4     (value) as the mountain’s natural beauty.     5     (know) as one of the four sacred Buddhist mountains of China, it is home     6     forty-one temples. Within their walls     7     (be) a rich collection of over 100, 000 superb sculptures and paintings, along with a great quantity of Buddhist cultural relics. For example, the east main hall of the Foguang Temple is the     8     (high) wooden building in China that     9     (survive) since the Tang Dynasty.

Wutai Mountain displays its outstanding     10     (combine) of the natural landscape and Buddhist culture, religious belief in the natural landscape and Chinese philosophical thinking on the harmony between man and nature.

Beijing is a city     1     (bridge) the ancient and the modern. From Buddhist temples to museums, narrow hutong to royal palaces, it is home to more than 3,000 years of glorious history even down to its layout, with the city keeping its carefully built system of ring     2     (road).

But for all its ancient buildings, Beijing is also a place which     3     (welcome) the fast-paced development of modern life, with 21st-century architectural wonders standing side     4     side with historical buildings of the past.

It is a distinct visual contrast (反差) that shouldn’t work, but somehow these two very different worlds make a good     5     (combine). Having visited several times over the last 10 years, I was amazed by     6     co-existence of old and new, and how a city was able to keep such a rich heritage (遗产) while     7     (constant) growing. As a photographer, I have     8     (spend) the last two years recording everything I discovered.

The remarkable development of this city,     9     is consciously designed to protect the past while stepping into the modern world, means     10     is always something new to discover here, and I could be photographing Beijing for the next 50 years.

Have you ever been to New York city? There are many exciting things     1    (see). One sight is the famous Brooklyn Bridge and     2     was built more than 100 yeas ago. Another is the Empire State Building. It is one of the     3    (tall) buildings in the world. You can take a lift ride to the top of the building. From there, you can see for miles.

One of the best things to see in New York is the Statue of Liberty. It stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.     4     you can do is go to Battery Park, from where you can take a boat to Liberty Island. The Statue of Liberty is 151 feet in     5    (high). It     6    (give) to the United States by France in 1884. The statue is a woman     7    (hold) a torch, and she stands for freedom.

Since 1886, millions of people     8    (visit) the Statue of Liberty. For many people     9     came here by ship from other countries, the Statue of Liberty was the first thing they saw. It is     10     important symbol of America.