Yangshuo, China
It was raining lightly when I____(arrive) in Yangshuo just before dawn. But I didn’t care. A few hours__
__, I’d been at home in Hong Kong, with __
_(it) choking smog. Here, the air was clean and fresh, even with the rain.
I’d skipped nearby Guilin, a dream place for tourists seeking the limestone mountain tops and dark waters of the Li River__are pictured by artists in so many Chinese _
__(painting). Instead, I ‘d head straight for Yangshuo. For those who fly to Guilin, it’s only an hour away_
_ car and offers all the scenery of the better-known city.
Yangshuo____(be) really beautiful. A study of travelers_
__(conduct) by the website Trip Advisor names Yangshuo as one of the top 10 destinations in the world. And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia. Abercrombie & Kent, a travel company in Hong Kong, says it_
__(regular) arranges quick getaways here for people_
__(live) in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
We will leave London on 15 July, and we’ll be flying to Morocco. We are going to travel on camels the Sahara Desert.
It seemed that the water led to cholera．John Snow looked into the source of the water for these two streets．He found that it came from the river, had been polluted by the dirty water from London．Immediately John Snow told the astonished people in Broad Street to remove the handle from the water pump so it could not be used．Soon the disease began to slow
．
John Snow had shown that cholera was spread by germs and not in a cloud of gas．___ addition, he found two other deaths in another part of London that were concerned with the Broad Street outbreak．A woman, who had moved away from Broad Street, liked the water so much that she had had it delivered from the pump to her house every day．
Technological developments have also played their part ______ keeping Valentine’s Day relevant in the 21st century. Valentine’s ecards have been very popular in recent years.
Now，Valentine’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. However, the traditions often differ from place to place.
In Japan，for example，it is normal _______the woman to send chocolates to the man, ___
___in South Korea April 14th is known as “Black Day” and is when the unfortunate men who received nothing on Valentine’s Day gather to eat noodles and show sympathy for each other.
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