The Chinatown in San Francisco is the     1    (big) in America, and also the oldest. The climate is mild all year round,     2    (mean)it is always a good time to visit. Now, the majority of residents in Chinatown     3    (be) still ethnic Chinese, many of whom do not speak English     4    (fluent). This allows visitors     5    (experience) a real taste of China. Visitors can spend hours just     6    (explore) the interesting sights, smells, and sounds of China. The stores in the Chinatown offer     7     unique range of souvenirs, goods, and clothing. All kinds of traditional Chinese herbal medicine can be found, too, and there are Chinese tea stores,     8     visitors can taste and buy varieties of Chinese tea.     9    perhaps what many tourists and San Franciscans treasure most about Chinatown is     10    (it) food. There is Chinese food to suit everyone’s taste, with traditional dishes from all over China.

In Sarek National Park, I woke up to the sound of the wind     1     (buffet)the cloth of my tent. Standing on the edge of the mountain, I found a few     2     (branch) of the Rapa River flowing through the valley below. Sarek’s mountains used     3     (cover) by vast sheets of ice. Around 9, 000 years ago, this ice     4     (melt), with about 100 glaciers     5     (leave) behind. Soon after, reindeer began to arrive. Following the reindeer     6     (be) the Sami people, who made this territory their home. In 1909, the government made Sarek a national park to keep the land in its natural state.

For hundreds of years, looking after reindeer was a way of life for the Sami. With reindeer     7     the move, the Sami would pick up their tents and accompany them. Today, most Sami have houses in villages near Sarek and live     8     modern life. But every spring, some Sami still follow their reindeer into the valleys of Sarek,     9     they live in tents and enjoy their traditions. I am not a Sami, but in Sarek I’ve adopted some of their habits. For example, this morning my breakfast is flat bread warmed over a fire and some     10     (extreme) delicious berries that I found growing near my tent.

Edinburgh,     1     (locate) in the southeast of Scotland, is the capital city of Scotland.

With     2     (it) museums, shops, wonderful historic castles and many restaurants, there are many interesting things for visitors     3     (enjoy) all year round.

Besides, there is more to have fun in Edinburgh. Each year, the Edinburgh International Festival     4     (take) place in the city. In late summer, for three weeks, the festival presents classical music, theatre, opera and dance throughout the city. Whatever your cultural     5     (taste) are, you are sure to find something to enjoy.

So far, the Edinburgh International Festival has earned its reputation(声誉)as one of the world’s     6     (great)celebrations of the arts. The founders believed that the programmes should be of the highest possible artistic standard presented by     7     best artists in the world, that the festival should enrich the cultural life of Europe an     8     that it should provide a platform(平台)for the flowering of the human spirit.

The popularity of the festival led     9     the birth of another festival soon—the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Both of them have been     10     (wide) popular over the past 70 years.

The Longji Rice Terraces, built by the Zhuang and Yao people in Guangxi, are     1     (colour) in different seasons. It took hundreds of years     2     (complete) them in the early Qing Dynasty.

People turned the entire mountains     3     terraces because of few large, flat areas of land in the region. The flat terraces can catch the rainwater and keep the soil from     4     (wash) away.

People designed the terraces     5     (wise) using many waterways connecting with each other. In the rainy season, rainwater     6     (move) down the mountains and into the terraces along these waterways. The water changes into vapour due to the sun’s heat,     7     forms clouds. And then rain from the clouds falls down onto the terraces again. Besides, the environment of the terraces is perfect for     8     (bird) and fish.

The terraces are valuable for the local people to pass down     9     (they) tradition and thousands of visitors come to appreciate     10     wonder which is created by people and nature together.

On Aug 13, four Chinese irrigation sites won global     1    (recognize) and were added to the 2018 list of Heritage Irrigation Structures, among     2     Dujiangyan is the oldest and only surviving damless irrigation system in the world.

Built over 2,000 years ago in     3     is now Sichuan Province in Southwest China，this amazing engineering achievement is still playing a crucial role in irrigating farms and providing water resources for more than 50 cities in the province.

In ancient times, the region in which Dujiangyan now stands     4    (threaten) by frequent flooding from the Minjiang River. Li Bing, a local official of Sichuan Province at that time, together with his son, decided to construct an irrigation system on the Minjiang River     5    (prevent) flooding. After many studies, they found the     6     (simple) solution was to build a dam, but this would have ruined the Minjiang River. So instead Li designed a series of     7    (channel) built at different levels along Mount Yulei that would take away the floodwater while leaving the river flowing     8    (natural). Better still, the extra water could be directed to the dry Chengdu Plain,     9    (make) it suitable for farming.

Ever since the great Dujiangyan Irrigation System was completed, the Chengdu Plain has been free     10     flooding and the people there have been living peacefully.

People say that the real culture of Beijing lies in the culture of hutong and siheyuan. The hutongs     1    (form) by lines of siheyuan, which is a type of residence     2     houses are purposely built to form squares or rectangles (长方形) in order to create a type of     3    (tradition) courtyard. In the mid 20th century, several hutongs in Beijing had been torn down     4    (pave) way for the development of infrastructure (基础设施).     5    , thanks to efforts designed to safeguard this significant aspect of the Chinese architectural culture, many hutongs have been preserved.

Because of the interlacement (交织) of the lanes, every house is connected to the other,     6    (make) it easy for local people to keep     7     touch with their neighbors. Therefore, once one enters any of the lanes, one can feel the deep and warm relationships among people, which are     8    (rare) found in this modern world.

In the twisted lanes one can experience the life of the locals. It is just like a community. These    9    (lane) have witnessed the development of Beijing. Where there is such a lane, there is a story. If one wants to explore the culture and experience Beijing hutong food and hutong shopping,     10     hutong tour should not be missed.