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.

Annie Ant was basking (晒太阳) in the sun when she saw Bumble Bee busy gathering (聚集) food in the field. “【小题1】 are you gathering food now, Bumble?” Annie asked. Bumble stopped in midair and looked at Annie. “Winter is coming. Are you all prepared?” Annie looked at Bumble in disbelief. “Gather food 【小题2】 winter now? Are you mad? Stop for a while and come to Alice’s party with me.” Bumble shook her head. “No, thanks. I have a lot more work to do. Goodbye.”

Days turned into 【小题3】 (week). Annie woke up one morning 【小题4】 saw the field covered by snow. “Oh goody, winter is here. I shall go and play in the snow after breakfast.” She went off to get some food and was frightened to find that there was 【小题5】 /nʌn/ left. “Oh, no! I have forgotten about food. What should I do?” Annie cried. 【小题6】 (sudden), the doorbell rang. Annie was 【小题7】 (surprise) to see Bumble at the door.

“Annie, I know you did not gather any food. Since I started early, I have 【小题8】 /'plenti/ to share. Would you like to come to my house and share 【小题9】 (my),” Bumble said kindly. Bowing her head in 【小题10】 /ʃeɪm/, Annie replied, “Thank you, Bumble. I should have listened to you. I’m sorry. Let me clean your house this winter in return for food.”

“No problem. Let’s go, Annie”, said Bumble. Together, they trudged over to Bumble’s house.

I scream (尖叫), you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

【小题1】 a hot sunny day, who would say no to a sweet, ice-cold ice cream? It would be an 【小题2】 (excite) treat to find out who invented ice cream. The first kind of ice cream 【小题3】 (make) in China almost three thousand years ago. It was a mixture of snow, milk and rice. From China, the recipe (食谱) was spread to Europe. The emperor Nero of Rome enjoyed a frozen dessert that was a mixture of snow, honey and fruits.

In Asia, the Mughal Emperors required 【小题4】 (they) horsemen to bring snow from the mountains to Delhi (Delhi can get very hot). The ice was mixed with flavors (风味) and was then used in fruit sorbets (沙冰).

Because the Italian Catherine de Medici married Henry II of 【小题5】 (French), she brought flavored sorbet recipes to France. Her cook created different flavour fruit ice for each day of the wedding celebrations.

Ice cream arrived in England from France. King Charles II, built an ice house in the center of London and was the 【小题6】 (one) British king who is known to have eaten ice cream. Until the 1800s, ice cream remained a delicious dessert enjoyed only by the rich.

Ice cream came to America from Europe. In 1832, White House cook Augustus Jackson found out how 【小题7】 (put) ice cream in cans to send to ice-cream stores. He was named the“Father of Ice Cream”.

Technological development made ice cream production possible. In 1843, the ice cream machine was spread to England and America. This was made from a wooden box filled 【小题8】 ice and salt.

Today there are so many different flavors of ice cream. You can name flavor and there will be an ice cream of it. The most popular flavors are chocolate 【小题9】 strawberry.

Interesting fact

The first ‘refrigerators’ were created by mixing salt and ice. Mixing salt with ice reduces the freezing point. You can achieve temperatures 【小题10】 (low) than -14℃.