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Big Ben is not the name of a man. It is the name of a huge c  1  in London. London is the capital of England. This clock has four f  2  . So, no matter w  3  you stand, you can r  4 

the time on the face of Big Ben. Each face is about the s  5  of a double-decker(双层)　bus. The hands are about four meters l  6  . It is about the size of two people standing on top of each other. I  7   you go to London, you may want to visit the Houses of Parliament（议会大厦）. In that place, you will find Big Ben sits at the top of the clock tower. In the Houses of Parliament, you will find Big Ben sits at the top of the clock tower. In the Houses of Parliament, you will probably hear it as w  8  as you see it. The giant clock m  9  such a loud noise, “Ding dong, ding dong” that the whole city can hear it. It sounds every quarter of an hour.

The clock was n  10  after a big man. He was Sir Benjamin Hall. This man did much building work in London many years ago.

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We are beautiful red-crowned cranes. We have red caps on top of our heads. You may t  1       the caps are our feathers. In fact, they are combs(冠)。We are one of the l  2    birds in size in the world. We are the heaviest cranes. An adult red-crowned crane can w   3  up to 11 kilograms. We are good at dancing. I think we are the most beautiful dancers of all the birds. We are also good s   4    . We sing loudly and beautifully We are good at flying as well, we fly to warm East Asia when s   5    comes. We give birth to baby cranes there. We like to live together on wetlands in Southwest China and some other places. We f   6   on worms and small fish. We like to live in long grasses. Water and grasses are i  7    for us. But sometimes, life is harder these years. We are one of the most e   8    birds in the world now. People keep t    9     our living areas to make farms and build houses. We don’t have enough space to live. And we don’t have enough food to feed our babies because people f   10   and hunt too much. Can you help us!