While many countries love their tea, UK citizens are particularly proud of being “tea people”. The average UK citizen consumes nearly 2 kilograms of (dry) tea each year.

    Tea only made its way to England in large {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(quantity) in the first years of the 17th century. Tea from China and a few other Asian countries{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(sell) more widely in England at that time. Then tea was getting more and more popular among different social classes.

    There are many varieties of tea. They all come from the plant Camellia sinensis (茶树), and are{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(simple) processed in different ways. Black tea mixtures are still{#blank#}4{#/blank#}most common type drunk in the UK. The reason why black tea is dark in colour is {#blank#}5{#/blank#}the leaves have been allowed to oxidize (氧化) before drying. People usually serve {#blank#}6{#/blank#}with milk or lemon.

    You may still find tea made with loose tea leaves, served up in a pot, and {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(pour) into the best china cups with saucers for visitors, but behind closed doors it is likely to be served in a tall cup, and made with a tea bag.

    Tea is still a large part of daily life in the UK today, but it seems to be {#blank#}8{#/blank#}the decrease. Tea sales {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(fall) by 6% in 2014 alone.

    Still, what goes around comes around; it's sure{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(become) fashionable again.

    Back in 1995, Jack Ma made his first trip to the US and used the Internet for the first time. After searching for “beer”, he saw that no results came up related {#blank#}1{#/blank#}China. When he then searched for “China” and still saw no results, he decided {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (set) up a Chinese website—the seed for Alibaba was sown.

    Ma {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(simple) wanted his company to have a {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(globe) and interesting name, and realized Alibaba was a story {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(know) across the world.

    The company{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(found) in 1999 and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} then has grown from 15 employees to over 30,000. Alibaba has directly and indirectly created 40 million jobs for China.

    Ma hopes to keep expanding Alibaba outside of China and is aiming for 2 billion {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(consume) and 10 million small businesses to use {#blank#}9{#/blank#}company outside of China.

    Ma became the richest man in China, when  the company he founded floated on the stock market last year with a value of around ＄140 billion—the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (large) public offering in history.

    This weekend I was delighted to show my parents around Seville, as they {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(come) for a short but sweet visit. Although the weather wasn't the best, we still made {#blank#}2{#/blank#} best of our time together.

    Being reunited with the people you love in a new place {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(bring)such excitement. Showing them around the new city makes you {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(extraordinary)happy. For example, as Seville is known for flamenco(弗拉门科舞), I took them to see a famous {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(perform)my friends recommended to me, which gave us such a wonderful visual feast. Furthermore, getting to show your visitors the places {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(appeal)to you is a pleasant feeling, because you are eager to let them know where you love to spend your time. You are letting them get involved {#blank#}7{#/blank#} your new life. Also you have the opportunity {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(show) your loved ones the new places that they may fall in love with.

    So, after a two-day trip, I feel pleased to have had the time to explore those {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(attraction) with my parents. I am already looking forward to their next visit {#blank#}10{#/blank#}I can show them more of what Seville offers and what I am still yet to discover.

    The Silk Road was a route that connected people from the East to West for hundreds of years and allowed {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (they) to trade valuable goods with each other. But there's more to the story. The Silk Road should {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (real) be called the Silk Roads. The Silk Road, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} started in China, went west and branched out into many routes.

    The Silk Road has been around for nearly 3,000 years. Most people know that valuable goods traveled along the route: silk and spices from China; jewels and wood from India; gold and animals from East Africa. These goods {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (trade) in cities along the route or ended up as far west {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Europe.

    But the people {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (travel) along the Silk Road were carrying something far {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (valuable) than their goods. They were carrying ideas and technology. European travelers returned home with stories of huge Chinese ships they had seen. The compass is an example of a(n) {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (invent) that came west from China. Europeans learned from Korean maps, which were advanced for the 1400s.

    {#blank#}9{#/blank#} was the 11, 000 km Silk Road that shaped the world we know today. The many routes were a way for different people {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (meet) each other and talk about the developing world.

Yoho National Park is a Canadian national park. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (cover) an area of about 507 square miles, it was established in 1886. Yoho National Park {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (know) as one of the four famous national parks in the Canadian Rockies. Because of its special {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (locate), Yoho National Park has many mountains, including Mount Stephen, Mount Balfour, Mount Goodsir and so on. The {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (tall) mountain among them is Mount Stephen. There are also waterfalls in the park. Wapta Falls is the largest waterfall. And Takakkaw Falls is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (official) known as the second highest measured waterfall.

Yoho National Park is close {#blank#}6{#/blank#} three other national parks in the Canadian Rockies. To the north is Jasper National Park, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} is the largest of the four. Banff National Park borders (接界) Yoho from the east. Kootenay National Park, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (name) after one of the two rivers that flow into it, is located to the south.

Although most people like to visit Yoho during the summer, there are quite {#blank#}9{#/blank#} sizable number of visitors during the spring and autumn. Common summer {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (activity) include camping, climbing, hiking, fishing, and wildlife viewing.