Yangshuo, China

                It was raining lightly when I{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(arrive) in Yangshuo just before dawn. But I didn't care. A few hours{#blank#}2{#/blank#}, I'd been at home in Hong Kong, with {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (it) choking smog. Here, the air was clean and fresh, even with the rain.

              I'd skipped nearby Guilin, a dream place for tourists seeking the limestone mountain tops and dark waters of the Li River{#blank#}4{#/blank#}are pictured by artists in so many Chinese{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (painting). Instead, I'd headed straight for Yangshuo. For those who fly to Guilin, it's only an hour away{#blank#}6{#/blank#}car and offers all the scenery of the better-known city.

             Yangshuo{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (be) really beautiful. A study of travelers {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (conduct) by the website TripAdvisor names Yangshuo as one of the top 10 destinations in the world. And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia. Abercrombie & Kent, a travel company in Hong Kong, says it{#blank#}9{#/blank#}  (regular) arranges quick getaways here for people {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (live) in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

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    More and more foreigners like to come to China. Last Friday our school was invited a foreign teacher in our city give a class to the students of Senior Grade Two. We found his class interested. I learned a lot from him. The teacher had a free talk to us with easy English . He spoke slow so that we could understand him well. Sometimes he repeated what we don't understand. My classmates were all active in the class. To his joy, I understood everything the teacher said. And I was able to ask question in English. This class encouraged me very much. I'm sure that until we keep on practising, it will be easy for us to learn speaking English well.

    Human tower-building, or castell（叠人塔）, is a great team sport. This kind of sport can organize {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (hundred) of individuals to work together to climb several meters up to the air. The lower can involve as many as 400 people and reach a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(shock) height. The world record for the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(tall) tower belongs to the team Minyons de Terrassa, which defeated competitors{#blank#}4{#/blank#}half a meter during the event in 2015.

    The unusual tradition dates back to the 18th century and. as CBS News reported, the 26th competition{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(take) place in Catalonia, Spain not long ago.{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (win) the event, a team called Colles assembled to build the most complex castells. The {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(construct) process was only half the battle. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the Colles achieved their maximum height, they then had to take apart themselves without toppling over（倒掉）.

    According to Times of Malta,{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (rough) 20,000 people gathered to witness {#blank#}10{#/blank#}competition. This year the Castellers de Villafranca team was crowned victorious, marking their eighth win in a row.

    On a bright, warm July afternoon, Mac Hollan, a primary school teacher, was cycling alone from his home to Alaska {#blank#}1{#/blank#} he heard quick and loud breathing behind him. “Man, that's a big dog!” he thought. But when he looked to the side, he saw immediately that it wasn't a doe at all, but a wolf, quickly catching up with him. In fact, he {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (meet) some cyclists just 5 minutes before and had just set {#blank#}3{#/blank#} from a gas station, but now no one could help him.

    Mac found out his can of bear spray (喷雾) and fired at the wolf. It fell back, shaking its head. But a minute later, it was by his side again, making him more {#blank#}4{#/blank#}  (fright). He fired at the wolf {#blank#}5{#/blank#} second time, it fell back only {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (start) the chase (追赶) again quickly.

    Mac waved and yelled at passing cars but was careful not to slow down. He saw a seep uphill climb before him. He knew that once he hit the hill, he {#blank#}7{#/blank#}  (catch) up and the wolf's {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (tooth) would be tearing into his flesh.

    At this moment, Paul and Beeky were driving their car on their way to Alaska. They spotted what they, too, thought was a dog {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (run) alongside a man on a bike. As they got {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (close), they realized that the dog was a wolf. They stopped their car in front of him. Mac jumped off his bike immediately and ran for the car quickly.

The English word "dinner" used to refer to breakfast. It comes from the Old French word "disnar", {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in fact means "breakfast".

So {#blank#}2{#/blank#} did this word come to have a different meaning? {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (tradition), dinner (what we now refer to as breakfast) was the first meal of the day, eaten around noon. It also happened to be the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (big) meal of the day, with a lighter meal coming later {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (know) as supper.

Today many people find {#blank#}6{#/blank#} strange that the biggest meal of the day once centered around noon, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} it made great sense at that time. Artificial lighting such as oil lamps and candles were expensive, and provided weak light at best. So people went to sleep at sundown, because it's difficult {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (work) and eat in the dark. The last meal of the day was a rushed affair, a quick snack before the lights went out.

Eventually, more meals {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (add) to the day. This meant that people were eating smaller meals before the bigger meal. So the word that once {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (refer) to our first meal, now refers to our last. However, it is true that in many Western cultures dinner still remains the biggest meal of the day.