Hong-Kong- a wonderful place to visit

If you like shopping, you 【小题1】 (love) Hong Kong. There are some expensive shops and also some cheap ones. There 【小题2】(be) something for everyone in Hong Kong.

One of the 【小题3】 (interest) places in Hong Kong is Ocean Park. You can visit the Lowland Gardens 【小题4】 (see) some animals, or get a 【小题5】 (bird) -eye view of the whole park by 【小题6】 (ride) in a cable car. At the Ocean Theatre, you can watch 【小题7】 dolphin show.

【小题8】 (visit) from all over the world come 【小题9】 Hong Kong every year and have a 【小题10】 (wonder) time.

The UK is an island country. It 【小题1】 (make) up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Island. Like China, the UK has a long history. Kings and queens were once its 【小题2】 (ruler). There are many palaces and castles in this old 【小题3】 (Europe) country. Buckingham Palace is the most famous one. It 【小题4】 (be) the home of kings and queens for a long time. There are a lot of wonderful museums too, 【小题5】 (most) in cities and universities. Among 【小题6】 (they) is the British Museum. You can learn a lot about the 【小题7】 (world) culture there. The UK also has many places of natural beauty, such as the Lake District. The best time 【小题8】 (visit) the UK is from May to September because its winter is wet and cold. And the weather 【小题9】 (change) often there. It is sunny one minute, but rainy the next, so 【小题10】 (prepare) for it before you go there.

From April 30th to May 9th, four of the Bronze (铜) Zodiac (生肖) Animal Heads in Old Summer Palace—the ox head, the tiger head, the monkey head and the pig head—were showed in Shantou 【小题1】 the first time.

The Animal Heads were made according to the 12 zodiac signs during Qing Dynasty. They are the symbols of 12 Shichens of the day in ancient time. 【小题2】 it comes to its time period, a Head will pour water out of its mouth.

In 1860, the Old Summer Palace was burned down by British and French forces. A lot of Chinese treasures, 【小题3】   the 12 Bronze Zodiac Animal Heads, were taken away. After that, they were lost for more than 140 years. Luckily, some of the Heads made 【小题4】 way home after 2000. By now we have succeeded in bringing eight of them back home with the 【小题5】 of many Chinese.

“One of the reasons why we 【小题6】 them to Shantou is to show our respect (尊重) for the hard-working Shantou people, and especially for the 【小题7】 with a history of 162 years.” the host of the show says. “As 【小题8】 as I know, Shantou opened its port (开埠) in 1860. It was also the 【小题9】 year when the Bronze Zodiac Animal Heads were lost abroad. So these cultural treasures happen to have a new relation with Shantou, which adds 【小题10】 special meaning to this show.”