Not long ago I read something about delicious food in Shunde, Guangdong Province. As a girl from Shunde, I have more to say about my _______.

Shunde is part of Foshan. It’s near Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao. Shunde has a long

Shunde is famous for its delicious food, _______ its rice cakes. Many of the best cooks in China learn _______ to cook in Shunde.

There are many beautiful places to visit. You can see both _______ and modern buildings in Shunde. If you come here, Qinghui Garden is surely a place to visit. It is one of the four famous _______ in Guangdong. Besides, Shunde Mountain Park and Chencun Flower World are also well worth (值得) _______.

Shunde is a rich city with a lot of factories and companies. What’s more, it is the _______ of many famous people, for example, the movie star Bruce Lee.

In a word, Shunde is a great place to ________ the life and culture of southern China. I hope you can come to Shunde!

Sometimes the best way to travel around a country is not always the quickest or the most modern. If you really want to learn about the culture, do as the locals do.

	Coco Taxi Next time you visit Havana, do travel around the city in a Coco Taxi. The taxi is called Coco, because it’s like a coconut (椰子). With two seats, the Coco Taxi is a bit noisy but cheap.
	Beer Bike Visit European cities like London or Amsterdam while you drink and paddle (踩踏板) with your friends. These green bikes help you make more friends while you are sightseeing.
	Chiva Express The Chiva Express, an enjoyable way to travel around in Ecuador, is a bus that rides mostly on rails, like a train. It connects the beautiful hills to the pretty beaches. Local people no longer take it to travel around now. It serves mostly as part of the sights.
	Bamboo Train The bamboo train in Cambodia is made of bamboo. It can travel up to 40 kilometers an hour. And it’s one of the cheapest ways to travel around the country.

It is 7 o’clock on Sunday. 13-year-old Lin Qi is going to a stadium near his home. Every Sunday morning, Lin and his friend go there to play ping-pong. It’s very early, but the stadium is full of people because they can play for free in the stadium from 7 am to 9 am on weekends.

Things like this are happening in many stadiums across China. They are cheap or free to people. We have this good situation because of our government’s efforts (努力).

To make more people exercise, the Chinese government does a lot. It helps build lots of sports facilities (设备). It also improves physical education in schools and gives much help to stadiums.

Thanks to these efforts, more and more Chinese people are having fun playing sports. A study shows that more than 500 million Chinese people often exercise. As more people play sports, China’s sports industry (工业) is growing fast as well.

The government says that they will do more to help people exercise and build China into a country strong in sports. Let’s wait for more good news.

One day when a farmer was passing by a large old well (井), his donkey (驴) fell into it. The well was so deep that the donkey couldn’t get out and it cried for hours.

The farmer tried everything possible to get the donkey out, but it didn’t work. After hours of thinking, the farmer had to give up on his donkey and started to put some dirt (泥土) into the well so that it wouldn’t be a risk to anyone else.

At the beginning, the donkey didn’t know what was happening. And when it did, it got afraid. With more and more dirt landing in the well, the donkey couldn’t help but cry louder and louder.

After some time, the donkey quieted down, and the farmer was surprised. He looked down into the well, only to see something surprising: the donkey, stepping (踩踏) on the dirt, was a little closer to getting out of the well. And as the filling went on, the donkey finally jumped out of the well.

So, friends, the problems we meet in life are like dirt to the donkey. When life throws “dirt” at you, just take a step up!