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Everyone would like to be remembered. A few people e 1.   try to do something that no one else in history has ever tried to do. These people sometimes have their names r 2.   in the Guinness Book of Records.

Often it takes a group of people to do something unusual. One such team paddled a bathtub 145 kilometres for 24 hours. This group had 13 m 3.   . They paddled their bathtub on a river near Ashford, Great Britain on May 28^th and 29^th, 1983. A month l 4.   , a racing team of hospital bed pushers in Avon, Great Britain, pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometres in j 5.   minutes. However, the distance record for hospital bed pushing is still held by the men of Bruntsfield Bedding Center. This team from Edingburg pushed a hospital bed 5,203 kilometres in 1979. It took the team 35 days to c 6.   the distance.

Another group of record makers held the h 7.   dinner party in the world. Nine people from Sydney, Australia, climbed Mountain Huascaran on June 28^th , 1989. The climbers t 8.   a dinner table, chairs, and a meal up the mountain. When they reached the top of the mountain, they had to c 9.   warm clothes to have dinner.

People all over the world are trying hard to do something unusual to make a record. It should be understood, however, that now not all the records will be k 10.  in the Guinness Book of Records.

In the middle of Jiangsu province, Yangzhou is an important city in the economic circle of the Yangtze River delta(三角洲). It is m  【小题1】 up of three cities of Baoying, Gaoyou, and Yizheng, three districts of Hanjiang, Guangling and Jiangdu. It has an area of 6,638 square kilometers and a population of 4.6 million, i  【小题2】  the central area of 1,100 square kilometers with a population of 1.31 million.
Yangzhou is a cultural city with a long history and rich c  【小题3】. It has a long history of about 2,500 years since King Fu Chai of Wu dug Hangou and built Hancheng. There were three g 【小题4】 times in the history of Yangzhou. It took shape in the Han Dynasty, developed in the Tang Dynasty and reached its top in the Qing Dynasty. A number of politicians, writers and a 【小题5】 such as Li Bai, Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty and Ouyang Xiu and Su Dongpo of the Song Dynasty all served as officials or went sightseeing there and l 【小题6】 many poems describing the beauty of Yangzhou. "Eight eccentrics of Yangzhou", Yangzhou school and Yangzhou opera all enjoy special qualities. In h 【小题7】, Yangzhou was a famous and open city. In the Tang dynasty, it is the biggest city in Southeast China and one of the four ports(港口) that conducted economic and cultural exchanges with other c 【小题8】. Over 10 thousand foreign businessmen lived in Yangzhou then. Master Jianzhen went eastward to Japan to s【小题9】 China’s culture.
Yangzhou is a friendly and beautiful city suitable for people to live in. Such famous well-known sayings as “In this flowery March journeyed south to Yangzhou”, “The green city is Yangzhou”, “Only Yangzhou is suitable for people to l 【小题10】 in” give true expression to Yangzhou. In 2006, it was awarded the United Nations Habitat Award, the highest prize in the area of global habitat.

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Last week, my friends and I talked about the rules in our school. Here are some of our ideas.

At our school, we have to wear uniforms every 1.d______. The problem is that all my classmates think the uniforms are 2.丑的______.We think young people should3.l______ smart and so we would like to wear our own clothes. Our teachers believe that if we did that, we would concentrate more on our clothes than our studies. We don’t4.同意________.We would feel more comfortable and that is 5.g______ for studying. If we can’t do that, we should be6.允许__________to design our own uniforms. That would be a good way to keep both teachers and 7.学生___________ happy.

Besides, vacations should be longer. At present they’re too8.s______. Longer vacations would give us time to do things like volunteering. Last summer I had a(n) 9.机会_________ to volunteer at the local hospital, 10.b________ I couldn’t because I had to go back to school.

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Whitney Houston was (1) b        on August 9, 1963. She is an famous American singer, actress and model. She is the most awarded woman artist of all time, according to Guinness(吉尼斯) World Records and she had won 415 awards by the year 2010.

Houston’s success in the music industry made her well-known, after that she (2)e         the film world. In 1992, she acted in “The Bodyguard” with Kevin Costner. Though some people in the world were not satisfied (3) w        Houston’s acting, the film was a great success, making more than $410 million worldwide. It also made “I Will Always Love You” one of her most popular songs.

Houston passed (4) a       on February 11, 2012. People all over the world mourned the (5) l         of her by collecting her albums and videos. Later last year her film “Sparkle”was shown in cinemas.