The Great Pyramid was built nearly 5,000 years ago for a king【小题1】 (call) Khufu. It is on the west bank of the Nile River.【小题2】(actual), all the pyramids along the Nile River are on its west bank. The ancient Egyptians thought of the rising of the sun as the beginning of life and the【小题3】(set) of the sun as the end of life. This is why their bodies【小题4】(bury) on the west of the Nile.

【小题5】 is very hard to realize how big the Great Pyramid is. It has over 2,300,000 pieces of stones, most of【小题6】weigh two and a half tons. Some even weigh fifteen tons. Without machinery, the ancient Egyptians cut, moved 【小题7】lifted these stones. Almost all the stones came【小题8】the east bank of the Nile, and they were taken across the river in boats. It took more than 100,000 people twenty years【小题9】(build) the Great Pyramid.

The Great Pyramid is over 450 feet high today. Each of the【小题10】(side) of the Pyramid is 755 feet long. It is about twenty-minute walk all the way around it.

Table tennis started as an after-dinner game, but is now a fast, high-tech sport. It also has 【小题1】 most players of any sport in the world.

【小题2】 is believed that upper-class Victorians in England invented table tennis in the 1880s as an after-dinner alternative (可能的选择) to tennis, 【小题3】 (use) whatever they could find as equipment. A line of books would often be the net, and sometimes a cigarette box cover would be a racket.

In 1926, at a meeting 【小题4】 (hold) in Berlin, the International Table Tennis Federation was formed. The first World Championships were held in London in the same year, but the sport had to wait a long time before it was given a chance 【小题5】 (make) its first appearance at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.

The sport 【小题6】 (progress) greatly since it was first invented. Nowadays, players use 【小题7】 (special) developed rackets and a lightweight, hollow (空心的) ball. Thanks to their high-tech rackets, they can now enjoy the 【小题8】 (magic) feeling of hitting the ball at over 150 kilometres per hour!

Over the years, table tennis has developed into a worldwide sport. There are perhaps 40 million competitive table tennis players and countless millions 【小题9】 play less seriously. Hopefully, table tennis 【小题10】 (play) by more people all over the world in the future.

The Amber Room, a witness of an 【小题1】(amaze)history between Russia and Germany, was designed first 【小题2】the Palace of Fredrick I. Surprisingly, the next king determined not to keep, it and gave it to Peter the Great as 【小题3】symbol of the friendship of the two countries.【小题4】 (late), it served in Russia as the winter and summer palace of the kings and queens where they had great time.

Unfortunately, a war broke 【小题5】 between the two countries,【小题6】 put the Amber room in danger. Although the Russians had time to remove what they believed was worth 【小题7】(save), the Nazis had the room itself 【小题8】(steal). Nobody knows where it is now.

However, the people of the two countries had it rebuilt 【小题9】 (celebrate) the friendship of Russia and Germany. It is hoped that art works all over the world 【小题10】 (protect)it well in the future and the story of the Amber Room will never happen again.