1 . West Lake is suitable for visiting all year round. The scenery is different according to the weather and season.

Spring

Spring ( from March to May) is the best season to visit West Lake. In Spring, green    1    (leaf) and flowers make West Lake more beautiful. Lots of visitors choose to visit West Lake in March and April.

Summer

Summer( from    2    to August) is the season of Lotus(莲花) flowers. The lotuses attract many people. “Lotus in the Breeze at Crooked Courtyard" (曲院风荷)is one of the    3    famous sights of West Lake. It is also the best place to visit in summer. It is an area by the    4    (west) bank of the lake. Every summer, there    5    ( be) hundreds of kinds of beautiful lotuses    6    are enjoyed by millions of visitors from home and abroad.

Autumn

Autumn( from September to November) is cool at West Lake. In Autumn, the enjoyable weather is right for    7    ( walk) round or going boating on the lake. West Lake is also a popular place for enjoying the    8    moon in the sky at the Mid - Autumn Festival.

Winter

Winter( from December to February) at West Lake is very cold and wet. Sometimes it snows. The snow makes West Lake white and beautiful. “Melting Snow at Broken Bridge" is beautiful scenery in winter. The bridge is famous not    9    for its snowy scenery, but also for its romantic tale. It was on the Broken Bridge that Bai Suzhen first met her    10    ( love), Xu Xian.

The Great Pyramid is one of the Seven w    1     . It took 100 000 people over 20 years to complete it The Great pyramid was considered a u    2     building in the 19^th century AD. All that time, it was still the tallest building in the world. According to scientific research, the ancient King, Khutfu,     3    (命令) his men to build the Great Pyramid stone by stone. The biggest stone weighs as much as 15 tons, Each stone was fixed so well, t    4     the ancient workers didn't have any modern tools. The Great Pyramid has four sides and each side is 230.4 meters long and 146.5 meters high At that time, there were no modern machines or equipment, so how did the ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid? To this day, it is still a     5    (奥秘) But many scientists continue to study their methods, The completion of the Great Pyramid shows the wisdom and the achievements of ancient Egyptian working people