Riding a Mobike on the street, you might hear some people speaking Chinese aloud. But you’re not in China— you’re in Manchester in Britain. In fact, you might see similar things in many     1    cities. Chinese products have been going global.

Chinese food has been enjoyed in Western     2    for a long time. To meet     3     people’s tastes, Chinese restaurants have made some changes to the dishes.

“One     4    is the meat, ” said Yin Hang, who is studying at the University of Wollongong in Australia.

“We like to eat meat with the bone in,    5    people here don’t. So Chinese restaurants provide big pieces of meat     6    bones, even for fish. ”

Some Chinese brands are also becoming more     7    .In many cities in Europe, stores sell TCL televisions, Haier fridges and Lenovo computers, reported Reuters.

In the past, most Western people thought Chinese     8    were cheap and unreliable. But things have changed     9    .“Made in China” has become cool and more people trust Chinese brands.

For example, Huawei, one of China’s major smartphone makers, overtook Apple in global smartphone sales for     10    first time in June and July, behind only Samsung, noted consulting(咨询)firm Counterpoint Research.

【推荐2】If the Slender West Lake is compared to a pretty young lady, the Five-pavilion Bridge(五亭桥) is like a beautiful belt worn on her. The Five-pavilion Bridge is not only the symbol of theSlender West Lake, b    1       that of Yangzhou as well. Built in the Qing Dynasty, it has ah    2    of over 200 years.The Five-pavilion Bridge, also named the Lotus Bridge, is a stone arch bridge(拱桥),which runs for o    3     50 metres across the lake. There are ceiling decorations inside the pavilions and windbells hanging   o    4    . They look like five flowers rising slowly out of water. The lower part includes 15 bridge openings of d    5     sizes.When you s    6     on the Five-pavilion Bridge, you will see the Fishing Terrace(钓鱼台).It is also called the Blowing Terrace, where the instruments used to be played. It’s said that

Emperor Qianlong once fished here. To s    7     him, the local salt businessmen of Yangzhou secretly chose several good divers and sent them carrying live fish down into the water. The divers were c    8     with lotus leaves, breathing through lotus stalks.

Whenever the emperor threw his line, the divers would put the live fish onto his fishhook. In this way, Qianlong wash    9     as the live fish took the bait at once.The terrace is surrounded by water on three sides, namely in the south, north and west, each side with a moon gate. From the west moon gate, one can see the Five-pavilion Bridge over the l    10     .

The small town of Hay sits on the border (边境) between England and Wales. It was such     1     quiet place until 1961. That year a man called Richard Booth was back from a trip and     2     (bring) home a lot of second-hand books. He bought the town’s fire station and many empty shops and made them into bookshops.     3     (final), Hay became the world’s first “book town”.

With the money he made, Booth bought a castle, much     4     (large) than the other buildings in the town. On April 1, 1977, he jokingly called     5     (he) “King” and said the town was now an independent (独立的) country! Some local people thought he was a little mad.

    6     he wasn’t crazy at all. In fact, the joke made more people interested in this special “country” and they come to Hay     7     (buy) second-hand books. By the 1980s, there were one million books on sale, on 15 km of     8     (shelf) in over 30 bookshops.

Then in 1988, a literature festival     9     (hold) in Hay. Writers came to talk about their new books, along with scientists, artists and even the President     10     the USA! Now half a million visitors come to Hay every year and spend over three million pounds.