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.

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.