【推荐1】MR. Nature is the greatest artist in the world. It creates many wonders on Earth. Let’s have a look at the six amazing tourism areas around the world.

	Cave of the Crystals (水晶洞) This cave is in Naica, Mexico. All those crystals are 40 feet long. Sadly, it is said that these crystals are decomposing (分解) in Oxygen (氧气).
	Trollstigen (巨魔之梯) In Norway there is a road called Trollstigen. It is special because its steep incline (陡坡) can lead you to the top of the mountain. Standing on the top, you can enjoy the amazing views around you. However, you can only visit this place in summer, because it’s too dangerous and cold to come here in winter.
	Great Blue Hole (大蓝洞—伯利兹灯塔礁) The Great Blue Hole is in Caribbean Sea (加勒比海). It’s part of the Lighthouse Reef (灯塔礁). The hole itself is darker than the waters around it because it is over 400 feet deep.
	Salar de Uyuni (乌尤尼盆沼) If you want to find out the feeling of walking on the clouds, you can visit Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. It’s the largest salt flat (盐沼) in the world. In winter, the water turns into a wonderful mirror. It reflects (映出) the sky and this makes you believe as if you were walking on the sky.
	Glass Beach (玻璃海滩) The beach is in Fort Bragg, California, America. In the 1900s, people were allowed to put rubbish into the water of this place. Glass plates and bottles formed pebbles (卵石). The city is now famous for its special pebbles. It’s not dangerous to walk on them because they are smoothed (使光滑) by the water.
	Travertine-terraced Hot Springs (石灰华阶梯温泉) What you see is not snow at all. This place in Turkey is covered with travertine. The travertine results from hot spring water in this place. The water in the terraced pools is about 100 °F.

【推荐2】When we ask readers, teachers and students what their biggest problems are in reading English newspapers, almost everyone immediately answers “vocabulary”! It is true that some readers are probably to find many new words, but that is not really a “problem”. We hope to show you a good way to increase your vocabulary.

One way to do this is, of course, to make a great effort to learn new vocabulary by using your dictionary. Look up a large number of new words you meet in the newspaper. That is not the method we are going to talk about, however. In fact, using too much dictionary is not good for your understanding of the stories. It slows down your reading speed (速度) so much that it is difficult to see how ideas fit together. Instead, we are going to suggest very useful ways for increasing your vocabulary and your reading comprehension (理解) at the same time.

One of the fastest way to build your vocabulary through the newspaper is on a “topic (主题) by topic” basis(基础). You can do this by reading stories with similar topics. You can also follow an interesting story for several days or more. You will begin to see a group of words commonly associated (有联系的) with the topic.

The other way we suggest is to use context to learn vocabulary. Sometimes you can guess the meaning of the new words with the help of the sentences around them. Also, some newspapers are made to be understood easily. Stories are written for general audience (观众), not for experts (专家). And there are also several photographs besides (除……之外) the stories.