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The arrival of a new high-speed railway line to the scenic lakeside town of Qiandaohu in East China's Zhejiang province has changed the lives of the 【小题1】( resident) immeasurably.

I sat 【小题2】 ( quiet) in my seat on the new Fuxing bullet train on the first day of February. I looked out of the window and watched the views outside flash by in an instant. The train continued 【小题3】 (it) top speed toward the south. A great many cities and rolling hills with green trees took turns to make an 【小题4】 (appear).

It was the first time I 【小题5】 (be) able to travel home by train directly from Beijing 【小题6】 having to transfer. The railway 【小题7】 (connect) Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou and Huangshan city in Anhui province opened on Dec 25, linking a group of tourist attractions in the Yangtze River Delta and my hometown, 【小题8】 is named after the lake that it sits on.

A high-speed train leaves Beijing for Qiandaohu every day. It takes five hours and 55 minutes 【小题9】 (get) to my hometown. Previously, I had to travel first to Hangzhou, whether I traveled by train 【小题10】 by plane, and then headed for my hometown by road. It added another three hours to my journey.