Tongariro National Park is the oldest national park in New Zealand. In 1993, it 【小题1】(become) the first World Heritage Site to be considered as a cultural landscape (风景). This means it has 【小题2】(nature) environments that should 【小题3】(protect) both because they are special, and 【小题4】 they are culturally important to the native people.

The park, sitting near the center of the North Island of New Zealand, covers about 800 square kilometers. It protects different 【小题5】(type) of landscape. 【小题6】 are snow-covered ski fields, hot springs, lakes, etc.

At the center of the park 【小题7】(be) three huge active volcanoes(火山)—Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro. All three are very much alive, with Tongariro erupting (爆发) as recently as August 2012, but this doesn't prevent people from 【小题8】(visit) them—a monitoring system (监测系统) provides early warning of eruptions. These mountains have important cultural meanings for the native Maori people, 【小题9】have lived in this area for about a thousand years.

Tongariro National Park is home to the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing, 【小题10】(wide) considered as one of the world's best one-day hikes.

I have just 【小题1】 (receive) a letter from my brother, Tim. He 【小题2】 (be) in Australia. He has been there for six months. Tim is 【小题3】 engineer. He is working for a big firm and he 【小题4】 (have) already visited a great number of 【小题5】 (difference) places in Australia. He has just 【小题6】 (buy) an Australian car and has 【小题7】 (go) to Alice Springs, a small town in 【小题8】 centre of Australia. He will soon 【小题9】 (visit) Darwin. From there, he will fly to Perth. My brother has never been abroad before, so he is finding this trip very 【小题10】 (excit).

When you step off the train in Anyang, you step back in time.

The city 【小题1】 (sit) on the borders of Shanxi and Hebei provinces, and its central location puts it within a few hours by fast train of many Chinese cities.

It is 【小题2】 comfortable place where accommodation is cheap, dining affordable and taxi fares low. But leaving the ordinariness of modern life behind, the visitors will soon be able to survey some of the city’s 【小题3】 (glory) past, for it is one of China’s eight ancient capitals, and in it there are ruins and relics 【小题4】 (date) back as much as 3,000 years.

The city has just got a little more attractive because the Henan government 【小题5】 (announce) recently that visitors to 432 A-level scenic areas in the province would not require entrance tickets between Oct 10 and Nov 10, 【小题6】 (include) all of Anyang’s 35 A-level scenic spots. 【小题7】, if you wish to take advantage of this you’ll need to be quick, because the free visits can be offered only when you make reservations 【小题8】 advance.

Visitors can also enter Fuhao’s underground tomb, which was discovered in 1976 in the Yinxu Ruins. There are also exhibitions about 【小题9】 (write) languages of China’s ethnic minority (少数民族) groups and the development of printing techniques, such as movable type printing, one of the four great 【小题10】 (invent) in ancient China.