【推荐2】Beijing’s annoying smog s    1     to have hurt the city’s appeal to tourists. Last year ，Beijing Youth Daily reported that the number of visitors to Beijing   had   fallen   50   percent since January. It’s said that the city’s bad air q    2     was responsible for the decline. It’s also more difficult to a    3     high-end employees to work in Beijing, especially those with children.

H    4    , the blanket of poisonous smog hasn’t hurt Beijing’s office market, which has jumped up quickly on a g    5     ranking to become the fourth-most-expensive location to rent office space in the world. According to a recent research, office space in Beijing’s Central Business District c    6     on average $1,412 per square meter per year.

That’s more expensive than No. 5-ranked central Tokyo or No.6-ranked Madison & Fifth Avenues in New York. The research took into c    7     both published rental rates and “additional costs”，which i    8     agent fees and other costs to make the deal happen.

London remains the world’s most expensive city in w    9     to rent office space. Hong Kong, home to the priciest office space in Asia, comes in second globally. The cities experiencing the highest annual g    10     in office rental rates are both in South Africa with 40 percent rate for Durban and 44 percent for Sandton.

If you ever visit Scotland, you may want to visit The Pineapple. Built in 1751, this summerhouse sits among     1     (love) gardens. The top of the house was shaped into a huge pineapple, giving     2     the name. Why on earth would anyone want to put a huge pineapple     3     top of their summerhouse? In the 17th and 18th     4     (century), wealthy people in Europe were attracted by the fruit. Not only was the fruit in high demand, but also it was     5     (real) difficult to grow the pineapple in Europe. So pineapples     6     (call) the “the king of fruits”. The wealthy     7     (require) their gardeners to find ways to grow the fruit. They began to do so in hothouses. The Pineapple also has a hothouse     8     (grow) pineapples. Nowadays,     9     the Pineapple is not popular, it is still thought as one of most classical buildings all over the world. If you have     10     chance, just visit it! You will see how amazing The Pineapple is.