It was my first day in Hangzhou, the Chinese city famous for its {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (nature) beauty and history and I didn't have much time to spare. I wanted to see {#blank#}2{#/blank#} much of the city as possible in the two days before I was to return to Guangzhou.

    My first task was to decide where to go and how to get there. I took out my guide book {#blank#}3{#/blank#} there was a lot of information about the city's well-known tourist {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (attraction) and started to read. At that moment, an attractive young lady who noticed my book came up {#blank#}5{#/blank#} me and introduced herself. She said her name was Bai Li and {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (kind) offered to show me around the city. I was delighted and was about to accept her suggestion when she {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (suggest) we first go to the West Lake and walk along the Broken Bridge.

    I liked the idea of visiting the West Lake, but wasn't so sure about crossing the Broken Bridge. If it was broken, did she expect me {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(jump) across? And I couldn't swim, so if I fell in then I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (die). That was definitely not an attractive idea, so I politely declined her {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (invite), closed my book and walked away.

    Xu Lizhen, a 74-year-old lady, has been acting as a tour guide for nearly 20 years in Yang Shuo, Gui Lin, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is a city known both in China and abroad for its beautiful landscape. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} she attended only primary school when she was young, she can now speak approximately 11 foreign languages {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (fluent).

    Since 20 years ago, tourists {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (show) affection for Yang Shuo, including a great many foreigners, In order to make a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (live), Xu Lizhen began to sell water. However, she could hardly make any money at first because foreigners didn't understand her accent. She tried to imitate the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (pronounce) of the foreigners, take notes and learn them {#blank#}7{#/blank#} heart. If she came across tourists who can speak both Chinese and a foreign language, she would ask them to translate their words many times so that she could remember them {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (well). It is in this way that the old granny masters 11 languages, such as English, French, Russian, Korean. Now, she has no difficulty at all {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (communicate) with foreign friends in simple oral English. She is also {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (refer) to as Mother Moon for her kindness among tourists.