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Reading is an activity people enjoy a lot in their free time.

Some like reading newspapers and o__1._ enjoy books. My f_2.___ books are those about the lives of great people. Reading them always gives me a lot of ideas on how to make my o__3._ life better.

Great people are famous not because they were handsome or beautiful, but because they did not give up w__4.__ their life was difficult. They tried to use e__5.__ chance to change their life and to make the world better.

One good example is Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two brothers who invented the airplane. The plane has m_6.___ the world into a small village. Hard work, not good luck, was the r__7.__ why the Wright Brothers could invent this machine and become great people. Today we will remember them when we see planes f__8.__in the sky.

Whenever I read s__9._ about great people, I always learn a lot from them and they encourage me. This is w__10.___ I enjoy reading great people's lives.

Today some people call Amsterdam the“City of Bicycles”because it is a city which is flat and convenient(方便的)for bicycles.
In the 1960s, a group of cycling fans had an i  46 . They believed that it would be better for everybody if o  47  bicycles were allowed in the city centre. They were hopeful that this would help to save energy, reduce pollution and provide free public transport. The group p  48  hundreds of bicycles white and placed them in public places around Amsterdam for people to use.  A  49  was allowed to take them and use them for short journeys, whether he was a local or a foreigner. Wherever someone finished a journey, they would l  50  the bike there for someone else to use. The problem was that it didn’t work –t  51  took all the bicycles within weeks!
H  52 , more than thirty years later，the“white bike”is back in town---this time with a computer chip(芯片)to r  53  its every move! There is a  54  less traffic in central Amsterdam. Thanks to the good ideas of lots of people, like the cycling fans in the 1960s, many people around the world have been enjoying city centre streets w  55  cars for many years.

I read an article about London in a m  1.    yesterday.

London is one of the c  2.    with a long history in Britain. It is also the b  3.city in Europe. You can find some of the best theatres and m  4.  of the world there, such as the National Theatre, the National Gallery(画廊) and so on. You may visit many places of i  5.   there. Most of the old and f  6.   buildings are o 7.     the north bank of the River Thames. On the south bank, there are some fine m  8.   buildings.

If you want to k    9.   the people there better, you should learn more about the l  10.   and the culture（文化） as well.