At only 12, Milton Hershey stopped {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (attend) school and began to work for a candy maker in Lancaster. There, he learned to mix sugar and water to make candy products,{#blank#}2{#/blank#} he moved to Philadelphia to set up a candy store. However, his store was a complete {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (fail). So he {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to Lancaster and began making caramels (焦糖) in his own way — with fresh milk and he made it.

Then in 1893 he bought the chocolate-making machines made by Germany. He was developing a(an){#blank#}5{#/blank#} (usual) plan — to build a large chocolate factory and a town to support it. So soon he bought a town {#blank#}6{#/blank#} he set up his chocolate factory in the following year. The factory provided free accommodation and all his workers lived in it. He found a way to make large amounts of milk chocolate. The Hershey Candy Company was on its way to success.

    Today, in the town of Hersey, the streetlights {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (shape) like the candy. The air often smells {#blank#}8{#/blank#} chocolate. At Hershey's Chocolate World, visitors can learn {#blank#}9{#/blank#} chocolate is made. This special town calls {#blank#}10{#/blank#}  “The Sweetest Place on Earth.”

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    Johann Strauss was born in Vienna in 1825. Although his father did not want him to become a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(music), Strauss Junior studied the violin {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(secret) as a child. When his father discovered his son practising on a violin one day, he gave him a beating,{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(say) that he was going to beat the music out of the boy. But that didn't prevent the boy from becoming one of the {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(great) composers of all time.

    He wrote his first waltz(华尔兹）at the age of six. At nineteen, he decided to devote {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(he) to music. He formed his own orchestra and made a successful tour of Europe and soon became known {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the Waltz King. The emperor of Austria was so {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(please) with his music that he appointed him the conductor at the court balls of Vienna. It was for these occasions {#blank#}8{#/blank#}he wrote some of his most popular waltzes, among {#blank#}9{#/blank#}was the well-known favorite The Blue Danube（蓝色多瑙河）in all, the talented Johann Strauss {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(write) more than 500 masterpieces.