Melbourne is in Australia. It is a beautiful city with 【小题1】（巨大的）gardens, great parks and many 【小题2】（神奇的）buildings. Many people come to visit it every year.

Melbourne is also an 【小题3】（古老的）city in Australia. It has an interesting history of 【小题4】（超过）170 years. The first people came in 1835, and in the 1850s, gold was discovered. 【小题5】（因为）this, Melbourne became a very rich city. Many new buildings were 【小题6】（建造）at that time.

And today Melbourne is 【小题7】（……其中之一）the world’s greatest cities. It is 【小题8】（因……而闻名）its beauty and its famous universities. It is also Australia’s top city for sports. Many of them are very popular. For example, young people are mad about 【小题9】（足球）here. In 1956, the Olympic Games came to the city, and for the first time they were showed live on TV around the world.

Melbourne is a nice place and you can always have great 【小题10】（乐趣）here.

I’m Daming. I come from Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi province. It’s a nice city 【小题1】 a long history of more than 2,500 years. Fen River runs across the city. On both sides of the 【小题2】, there are lots of flowers and grass .【小题3】 make the city look more beautiful.

There are many places of interest in my hometown, such as Jinci Temple, Mengshan Giant Buddha and Yingze Park. If you come to my hometown, I can show you around these beautiful 【小题4】.

In my hometown, there 【小题5】 also a lot of nice food. People in Shanxi began to make food with flour (面粉)more than 2,000 years 【小题6】. There are many different kinds of food made of flour. Among them, noodles are 【小题7】 most famous. And among the noodles, my 【小题8】 noodles are sliced noodles. To help more people enjoy the delicious noodles, now there is a festival about food made of flour in Shanxi every year. 【小题9】 you are a food lover, don’t miss it.

Welcome to Shanxi. I am sure you will have a 【小题10】 time here.

Recently there is a piece of good news: Beihai has become one of the fastest growing cities in the world. It lies on the 【小题1】 (东南) coast of Guangxi province. As a city with a population of about 1.85 million 【小题2】 (已经), it is still growing because more people are 【小题3】 (感兴趣的) in starting a new life here.

Many years ago, Beihai was just a small fishing village 【小题4】 (然而), because of its wonderful nature views, Beihai became busy and 【小题5】 (拥挤的) with many tourists. The beaches and islands were quite amazing, 【小题6】 (尤其) the Silver Beach. So many people thought these places would be a good 【小题7】 (选择) for business. Tourists could also play 【小题8】 (排球) there. Then the government made a plan to build a new city. Though they faced many difficulties, they tried really hard 【小题9】 (提升) the situation. Now the whole city is lively and active, with many big companies and several universities. And the government 【小题10】 (研制) more plans to make Beihai better in the future.