Do you know an old city called “Pingyao”? It is not far 【小题1】 Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi. It’s a town with a long history of more than two thousand years.

It is not very large. It is only 2.25 square kilometers in size. And there are 【小题2】 tall buildings here. Most of the buildings have only two floors. And most of 【小题3】 are made of stones (石头).

Pingyao is a square city. The city has a wall 【小题4】 it. You can take buses or trains here. It 【小题5】 you only 20 yuan. If you take a train, it will take you less time.

Which 【小题1】(中国的) city is the most beautiful? I think it is Hangzhou for 【小题2】(肯定). People call the city “Heaven on the Earth”(人间天堂). On 【小题3】(星期天), people go to the West Lake for a trip. In 【小题4】(十月), you can see osmanthus(桂花) near the lake. Some people like 【小题5】(读) books there. The West Lake 【小题6】(看上去) nice at that time. There are free bikes 【小题7】(到处) in Hangzhou.

You can drink a cup of Longjing tea in Hangzhou. It has about 1000 years of tea 【小题8】(历史). It is great and 【小题9】(健康的). Hangzhou has much beautiful music and it has a music festival every year. It’s so 【小题10】(轻松的). Do you think Hangzhou is a beautiful city with great fun?

The British Museum is one of the biggest museums in the world. There are so many things in the museum to see: clocks that have been telling the time for 600 years, Roman money, some of 【小题1】(early) books in the world and so on.

The British Museum was set up nearly 300 years ago 【小题2】 a doctor, Sir Hans Sloane. The man liked to collect things such as books, drawings, clothes, money 【小题3】 flowers. He hoped that his things would be kept well. And he also wanted people to visit the place after his 【小题4】(dead).

【小题5】 (he) wish came true, and 【小题6】 museum opened in 1759, six years after Sir Hans Sloane died. Later, more antiques (古董) arrived at the museum, and more people wanted 【小题7】(visit) it. Since its opening, many famous people wrote and studied there. It is now open every day of the year, except for two holidays(New Year's Day and Christmas).

There 【小题8】(be) lots of special exhibitions and every day there are different films and talks. Small machines tell you 【小题9】 the museum as you walk about it, and you can look and listen at the same time. So if you are one of the British Museum's visitors, don't see it all too 【小题10】(quick).