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The summer holidays are the best lime of the year for most children. The weather is usually good. With July     1     (come), boys and girls will have two months to rest, and they can spend most of their time in swimming, camping or traveling with their parents. 0f course the most    2     ( enjoy) place is the seaside. Some children are lucky enough to live near the sea. They enjoy the beauty    3     (easy). As for those who live far from the sea, their parents will also take them to the seaside, for they know that a week or two at a seaside town during the summer holidays     4     (be) their children’s eager hope.

In England not only the rich but also factory workers or bus drivers can take their children to seaside for their holidays. In fact, during August holiday most     5     (city) are empty.

Why do children like       6     (spend) their summer holidays at seaside? It is     7     they like the sand, the sun, the cool wind and the salt water there    8     (much) than anything else. Of course there are lots of new things     9     (see), nice things to eat, and exciting things to do, but it is    10     feelings of sand under one’s feet, of cool wind and salt water on one’s feet, and of the warm sun on one’s back that make the seaside what it is.

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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.

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    1    (base) on the story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp, the film ---- the Sound of Music, is about a young Austrian woman     2    (study) to become a nun(修女) in Salzburg in 1938. She is sent to the villa（别墅） of an officer,     3    has lost his wife, to bring     4    his seven children alone.     5    bringing love and music into the family through     6    (kind) and patience, she marries the officer.

The film was     7    great success and soon got popular throughout the world. The Los Angeles Times described the movies as “three hours of visual and vocal brilliance”. It     8    (list) as the greatest movie of all time.

    9    is thanks to this Hollywood movie that Salzburg City has become    10    (true) world-famous. Visitors from all over the world come to Salzburg every year.

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Some people thought in 1941 the Nazi army stole the Amber room,       1     was once called the eighth wonder of the world. Others believed that it     2    (destroy)by the Nazi army in the World War Ⅱ. In fact, nobody knows     3     exactly happened to it.

It is certain that the Amber room was     4    (high)thought of. It was a great treasure decorated with gold and jewels. Afterwards, Catherine II had more details     5    (add)to it Just imagine how     6    (amaze)it was! So       7     is no wonder that man people have been looking for it since it got missing. The searches came to no end.

In order to celebrate the 300^th   birthday of St. Petersburg, the Russians and Germans decided to rebuild it by       8    (study)old photos of the former Amber room. The rebuilding lasted 24 years and shows the world       9     new Amber Room, attracting millions of     10    (visitor)around the world.

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The Dragon Boat Festival has been marked by eating zongzi and racing dragon boats for thousands of years. It     1     (fall) on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese lunar calendar in honor of Qu yuan,     2     is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself.

Qu was minister of the state of Chu     3     (locate) in the present-day Hunan and Hebei provinces during the Warring States period. He was upright, loyal and     4     (high) respected.     5    , he was fired from office due to his suggestion to fight against Qin in cooperation with other states. During his stay in other states, he wrote many poems to express his strong love for his country. When Chu     6     (defeat) by Qin. He realized     7     he could do about it was nothing. Qu jumped into Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month.

After the     8     (dead) of Qu Yuan, people of Chu went to Miluo River to mourn (悼念) over the great poet they loved so much. People threw eggs and rice wrapped in leaves     9     the river to feed the fish to keep them away from Qu Yuan. Now the Dragon Boat Festival has become a       10    ( tradition) festival for the Chinese people.

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Steel, concrete（混凝土）and glass are common materials in any skyscrapers. But more high buildings are now using wood. In the last four years, Australia, Norway, England and Canada     1     (build) wooden skyscrapers. The latest one is in Sweden,     2     new, 19-storey wooden hotel called “Sida vid Sida” (side by side).

Why are wooden skyscrapers chosen ahead of concrete     3    ?

Wood     4     (use) in many Chinese buildings for thousands of years, but is it strong enough for skyscrapers?

“There are a whole bunch of new materials made out of wood     5     are structurally able to build big buildings,” material expert Dr. Michael Ramage told CNN.

Architects（建筑师）use woven（编制的）wood to make sure it is. They put layers of wood across one another coated with special glue     6     (create) a very strong material.

Wood also lasts a long time and doesn’t rot（腐烂的）    7     it is well looked after. Many examples can be found, one of     8     is the rooftops of Beijing’s Forbidden City.

Ramage also said bamboo     9     be cut in special ways to make it far     10     (strong).