Venice is     1     attractive city between the sea and the sky. The city consists of over 100 islands and there aren’t any cars or buses. All the islands     2     (link) by canals and bridges, making it     3     (convenience) for people to travel around the city. The best-known of the canals, the Grand Canal, serves as the main street in the part of the city.

Venice has a lot of world-famous tourist     4     (attraction), including Saint Mark’s Square, the Doge’s Palace and Saint Mark’s Basilica,     5     is the city’s most famous church. Every year thousands     6     tourists visit this beautiful city. They always find     7     (them) impressed by the city’s cultural treasures.

Sadly, the Italian city has been     8     (regular) flooded by rising sea water over the years. From November to February, sea level rises up to one and a half meters,     9     (cover) many of Venice’s famous areas. But people in Venice still love their city. They are unwilling     10     (leave). Instead, they want to stay there to save Venice from the sea.

If one travels to Chengdu for the first time, Chunxi Road is a place that should not be missed. Chunxi Road     1     (build) in 1924 to connect two commercial (商业的) centers. It provides lovely food choices, attractive sightseeing, and a lot of shopping chances for visitors. It is     2     (real) an excellent place     3     (have) fun and experience the life of Chengdu locals.

    4     (stand) at the north end of Chunxi Road are some statues. An old man     5     (dress) in traditional Chinese clothes holds a snuff (鼻烟) bottle in his hand. Not far from him, a modern young lady in fashionable clothes is walking in     6     hurry. A stone lock statue lies between them. It shows the time 00:00 on February 10,2002, the date     7     the rebuilding was finished. The old man stands for the businessmen from the past, while the lady stands for the modern young people.

Chunxi Road is a paradise (天堂) for shopping with all kinds of stores selling goods from international high-end things     8     cheap ones. Besides, the     9    (tradition) Chengdu food here will make your mouth water. Famous local     10     (snack), such as Zhong Dumplings, Lai Tangyuan and Han Baozi, are delicious and cheap, getting popularity among visitors across the world.

Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip     1     Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast. Rather than     2    (take) the airplane all the way, they took the train from west to east across Canada. The     3    (think) that they could cross the whole continent was exciting.

Canada is the second     4    (big) country in the world. People say Vancouver is Canada's most beautiful city     5    (surround) by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. On the coast north of Vancouver, it is so wet there     6     the trees are extremely tall.

That afternoon aboard the train, the cousins settled down in their seats. They know cowboys from all over the world compete in the Stampede. Many cowboys have     7     gift for riding wild horses. They also learned that most Canadians live     8     320 kilometers of the USA border and the population is only slightly over thirty million, but now they were     9    (amaze) to see such an empty country. Then they arrived in Thunder Bay, a city at the top of the Great Lakes and learned even more about Canada and its     10    (nature) resources.