On Monday morning, my family 【小题1】 Penang in Malaysia. It was 【小题2】 (sun) and hot, so we 【小题3】 (决定) to go to the beach near our hotel. My sister and I tried paragliding. I felt like I was a bird. It was so 【小题4】 (excite)! In Georgetown, there are a lot of new 【小题5】 (build) now. We also saw the houses of the Chinese 【小题6】 (trade) from 100 years ago. I really enjoyed 【小题7】 (walk) around the town. On Tuesday, it started 【小题8】 (rain), so we took the train to the top of the mountain, and we couldn’t see anything below. We had one bowl rice and some 【小题9】 (fish). I was 【小题10】 (hunger), so the food tasted great.

Every town in the United States has a post office. Some are very small, and you may also find them in the corner of a shop. O【小题1】 are larger buildings. They are open five days a week and on Saturday mornings. From Monday through Friday they are usually open five days a week and on Saturday mornings. From Monday to Friday they are usually open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

If you know how much the postage is for your letter, you can buy stamps a【小题2】any window. In some post offices you can buy stamps from machines. Stamps are sold at many different prices, from one cent to many dollars. If you are not s【小题3】how much postage is for your letter, you may ask the man or the woman in the post office for help. He or she will give you the stamps you n【小题4】. If you are sending your letter far away, you should use airmail envelopes. Remember that postage will be more expensive for a letter that you want to send to foreign countries.

At a post office you can also buy postcards. A postcard is c【小题5】 than a letter. Usually the price of postage for a postcard is about half that of a letter. The postcard you buy at a post office do not have pictures. However, they are also not to be sent outside the countries. Letters are an easy and cheap way to keep in touch with people in many different countries.

There are many cities in most countries. But every country has one special city --- the capital. For example, China’s capital city is Beijing. The capital of UK is London.

The capital city is very important. It is home to a country’s central government (中央政府). Leaders of a country w【小题1】   and live there. It is often the centre of a country’s economy (经济) and culture too.

The capital city is very special, so countries do not often change it. But Indonesia (印度尼西亚) is going to b【小题2】 a new capital on the island of Borneo. Jakarta, the capital is sinking (下沉) into the sea now. The city has taken out too much groundwater.

People cannot change the capital city easily in a few months. It will take around 10 y【小题3】 and cost about $32 billion (十亿).

There are some interesting things to know about capital cities around the world.

◎ Capitals are u【小题4】 large cities, but not always the largest city in a country. For example, Canberra (堪培拉) is the capital of Australia, but the largest city in Australia is Sydney.

◎ Some countries have over o【小题5】 capital. For example, South Africa has three and Bolivia has two.

◎ Some s【小题6】 countries take the whole country itself as the capital, such as Singapore (新加坡) in Asia. It just has an area of 719 square kilometers, while Beijing is 16410 square kilometers.