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The 688 Beef Bowl restaurant in Taiwan has the most expensive beef noodles in the market. Do you know how h    1     the price of a bowl of noodles can be? Customers (顾客) who want to taste their noodles must pay up to 2,000 yuan and e    2     make an order beforehand(提前).

The 688 Beef Bowl restaurant is not quite big. It o    3     seven different tastes of beef noodles, priced from 100 yuan to 2, 000 yuan.

About five years a    4     Wang Congyuan founded (创建) the restaurant in 1990, it started to become very p    5     . Wang began to do research about how to make beef noodles far more delicious. From the beef itself to the china (瓷器) in which he serves it, Wang has d    6     most of his life to making the very best beef noodles.

Now, all the beef Wang uses is f    7     Japan, Australia, the USA, and Brazil. Each cut of beef gets trimmed (整齐的) in a certain way, and the soup Wang uses has different tastes.

Wang’s beef noodles are now c    8     as a wonder in the food industry. Many customers w    9     come to Taiwan want to try the beef noodles from 688 Beef Bowl.

“At the age of 40, all I’m t    10     about is how to make the most delicious beef noodles. My dream now is to make the best beef noodles in the world.” Wang said.

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Yangzhou is one of the first 24 historic and cultural cities in China. It l    1     at the crossing of the Yangtze River and the 2,400-year-old Grand Canal. It. In the old town, there are many old streets and houses. It’s b    2     to visit Yangzhou in spring. Spring paints it in bright colours.
Yangzhou has many wonderful places of interest. A    3     them, the Slender West Lake is the most popular one. The lake is about 4.5 km long and c    4     an area of 33 km^2. You can see willows along the lake. And the famous Twenty-four Bridges is a good place to enjoy the m    5     at night. With fantastic views and history, it has enough to keep a tourist busy for the whole day.
L    6     the Slender West Lake, we will head for He Garden. It was o    7     owned by the family of He Zhidao in Qing Danasty. He Zhidao designed this garden with buildings in b    8     Chinese and Western styles. He also made good use of rockery(假山).
Another hotspot you won’t want to m    9     is the Grand Canal. Boating on the old canal, you can get a whole view of the river town: old buildings, stone bridges, crossing waterways …. You will be a    10     at the liveliness of this canal and the city’s history and culture.

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There is a town called Walden in England. It is a q    1     small town. Cars c    2     go into the centre of the town, so it’s very pleasant(令人愉快的) to walk around.
You can s    3     at least half a day visiting the museum. It’s on a hill outside the town in a lonely old building. The museum brings history to life. You can even ride on a horse and cart ( 马车 ) in the street. I was really interested in a 1950s living room in the museum. It was just l    4     my grandmother’s house. I lived there when I was a c    5    .
If you can’t wait, there’s a new exhibition (展览) opening soon. Walden is f    6     for candy! If you like candy, this exhibition is the place for you. You can learn about its history. I n    7     see so many different kinds of candies.
But I won’t go now b    8     it will start on the 26th of May.
When you are there, have a look around Walden too. I    9    you start in the main square and follow(跟随) the green signs, they’ll take you to the museum, and you’ll see lots of o    10     interesting things on the way, too.
Welcome to Walden!

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The Antarctica (南极洲) is the most southern area on the earth and is mostly c    1    with ice. People have never wanted to live there because of its coldest t    2    . But now scientists from all over the w    3     come here to learn more about the earth’s history.
Some scientists live there for part of the y    4    . But they don’t usually stay there for m    5    than six months because there are six months of light and six months of darkness.
Antarctica usually has lots of fine w    6    . Most parts doesn’t have any wind at all. Also it isn’t very wet because there is very l    7    snow or rain. It only snows on the ice in winter, but at other times Antarctica is d    8    , just like the Sahara Desert（沙漠）.
In winter the sea around Antarctica freezes (结冰) for t    9    of kilometers. But scientists tell us that the earth is getting w    10    ., there may be less ice in the Antarctic sea in the future. When that happens, our weather will never be the same again.

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Shanghai, a beautiful city during the day, becomes even more wonderful at night.
At the end of the day, both the older part of the city around the Bund and the more   m    1     buildings in Pudong are full of colorful bright lights. The buildings, both new and old, look c    2     different and very exciting.
If you look across the Huangpu River, you can see the brilliant Oriental Pearl TV Tower and the Jinmao Tower. Take a boat a    3     the river and you can see the amazing nightlife on the Bund. There are more than 30 tour boats, including ancient dragon boats in the Ming and Qing styles and boats made in the Shikumen style.
If you prefer w    4     in the streets, try the famous Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street (步行街). There are busy shops and cafes and you will see thousands of local people enjoying themselves. Most of the shops close at 10 pm but at that time, teahouses are still open. In fact, some of them are open 24 hours a day. Karaoke bars and coffee houses are also popular nightlife places where you can meet friends and make new o    5    .
If you are in Shanghai for the first time, make sure you also visit Xingtiandi, a very popular
a    6     where you can see buildings in Western and Chinese styles side by side. Xingtiandi is a great place for young people, but it may be a little n    7     for older visitors! A quieter place to visit is Park 97, near the west gate of Fuxing Park, Luwan District. Park 97 opened in 1997 and you can find clubs and international restaurants like Baci where you can get Italian food and Tokyo Joe’s, a Japanese restaurant.

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The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. It was b    1    more than 4, 000 years ago in Egypt. It is so p    2    that millions of tourists from around the world come to visit it every year.

In Egypt there are over 80 pyramids and the l    3    one is the Great Pyramid. It l    4    on the west bank of the Nile. In fact, all the pyramids along the Nile are on the west bank. The ancient Egyptians compared the rising of the sun to beginning of life and the setting of the sun to the end of life. That is w    5    their dead bodies were buried(埋葬)on the west bank of the Nile.

You can h    6    imagine how huge the Great Pyramid is. It has over 2 million blocks. Some are as heavy as five school buses. A    7    they were heavy, workers were able to put a block into the pyramid every three minutes.

The workers, Egyptian men and women, worked in teams. The teams had different t    8    . Some dug up the stones. Others moved them. Another team cut the stones. The last group put the stones into the pyramid. There were so many different teams, but the pyramid is perfect. No stone is in the w    9    position.

But how did the Egyptians move those heavy stones to the top w    10    any modern machinery(机械)? No one knows for sure. Many things about the Great Pyramid are still a mystery.

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I left my hometown twenty years ago. As time w    1     by, great changes took place in my home village. There u    2     to be many old and low houses in the village. A lot of houses w    3     built fifty years ago. And there wasn’t a cinema o    4     any big shops in the village. To my s    5    , now there are many new, tall buildings. The streets were very dirty and narrow (狭窄的) in the past. Now they are wide and c    6    . There was also a polluted (被污染的) pool in front of the village. It has been c    7     into a nice swimming pool. People used to walk or ride for a very long time to get to town. Now they can take a bus or drive a car. And lots of people can use computers. I believe every family will have one in the f    8    . I think in 15 or 20 years there will be even more changes and the changes here are getting more and more people’s a    9    . I take great p    10     in the development of my hometown.

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Big Ben lies in the tower in London. It is very famous around the world, but few people really know why it was built and c    1    Big Ben .
Long ago, the queen of England knew that many clocks had different times. People were
e    2    early or late. she had it built so that people would have the s    3     time.
How did Big Ben get its name? Some people say that it was named after Benjamin Caunt, a boxer. People called him Big Ben. But more people believe it was named after Sir Benjamin Hall. He was in c    4     of this work in 1859. A story was told that during the discussion about what the bell should be called, Sir Benjamin was going to give his ideas when an officer behind him shouted suddenly, "Let' s call it Big Ben! " From t    5    on, it was named Big Ben .

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I am Mike. I w    1     born in London, the c    2     of the UK. Today I am very happy to s    3     you around London. London has an a    4     of about 1, 577 square kilometres.
L    5     Beijing, London is also an old city with a long h    6     , over 2000 years.
So, it has a lot of old buildings and churches. But London is also very m    7     , you can see the many tall buildings here and there．Every year, people all o    8     the world come and visit it. London has hosted the Summer Olympics (奥运会) three t    9     . Do you like London now? I hope you can come h    10     some day.

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Yangzhou lies in the east of Jiangsu province. It is an a    1     city with a history of about 2,500 years. In the city there are many old streets, houses, temples, towers and pagodas. These places have been carefully p    2     and fully developed in the recent years.

On the world list of Canal heritage (遗产), the Grand Canal in China has long been thought as the most v    3     one. The Grand Canal is the mother river of Yangzhou. Emperor Yang Guang b    4     it. A poet in Tang Dynasty once wrote, “T    5     everyone complains that the Sui Dynasty ended because of the canal, it is still an important way for people to t    6    . If he hadn’t had so many palaces and dragon boats built, his a    7     could have been compared with Dayu.” Now the part of the old canal flows from Zhuyuwan to the Guazhou town. The canal is the p    8     of Yangzhou.

Do you know when the b    9     time to visit Yangzhou is? In early spring, when it is misty with willows (柳树) and flowers. Tourists can deeply feel the b    10     of the special city.

In a word, Yangzhou is worth a visit.