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    Here are some recommendations for tourists to choose from.

    Banff, Canada

    Banff, located in the Rockies, has a view of tall mountains, deep valleys and lakes, making it the first town to become part of the country's national parks. Tourists can enjoy its beauty by hiking, horse riding and boat trips. Banff was founded in 1883 while a railroad was in construction. It was the water springs that drew the engineers' attention to the place as a settlement. With such a fantastic view, it's no surprise that Banff hosts a number of cultural festivals.

    Lisbon, Portugal

    Lisbon is the capital of Portugal, with the warmest winters of any major European city.

    Belem Tower and Jeronimos Monastery are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The former was built in the 16^th century as a symbol of Portugal's Extraordinary Age and the latter is one of the greatest examples of the Portuguese late-Gothic style of architecture. The Lisbon Oceanaium is among Europe's finest aquariums. The Museu Calouste Gulbenkian is among the best museums in Europe containing priceless artworks covering 4000 years from ancient Egyptian times to the late 20^th century.

    Portland, US

    Portland is frequently recognized as one of the world's most environmentally-friendly cities because of its well-built pavements, large community of cyclists and convenient public transportation. Its climate is ideal for growing roses and it's called the “City of Roses”. Besides, the seaport is also known as a city of beer: it has the largest number of beer breweries（啤酒厂）of any city in the world. Today's Portland is better known for its music. It's called “the capital of karaoke” and “one of the most exciting music scenes” in the US.

    Bordeaux, France

    Bordeaux attracts tourists with its rich cultural heritage, especially its wealth of architectural treasures. Besides the Cathedral of Saint Andrew dating back to 12^th century, the Basilica of Saint Michael is another one of the city's UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It took 200 years to build from 14^th to 16^th centuries. Other significant buildings include the Grand Theater built in 1780 in the new Classical style and the Stone Bridge built in 1821.

    An 18-year-old US girl gained unexpected appreciation and a surprise after she gave “extra help” to an elderly man in the restaurant she was working.

    It's social media that made her seemingly small action go viral and brought her appreciation from hundreds of thousands of strangers and a scholarship to Texas Southern University.

    The heroine Evoni Williams has reportedly been working full-time to earn money for further study in a restaurant in La Marque, Texas，the United States. It was last week when an old man named Adrian Charpentier asked for help to chop his ham for his hands were weak because of illness. On that busy morning when she had loads of work on shoulder, Williams helped the man without hesitation. The moment she was leaning over the counter and cutting the ham was shot by a customer known as Laura Wolf.

    Wolf posted the picture on the Internet and wrote, “I'm thankful to have seen this act of kindness and caring at the start of my day while everything in this world seems so negative. If we could all be like this waitress and take time to offer a helping hand…” According to local reports, Wolf didn't know Williams, neither did Williams know her act was shot and shared on the web. However, the small act of kindness soon accumulated its own power on and outside the Internet.

    Besides praise from netizens and media reports across the United States, a 16000-dollar scholarship to Texas Southern University was recently granted to Williams to support her study plan on business management.

    “We wanted to reward Evoni's act of kindness and let her know that good deeds do not go unnoticed,” said Melinda Spaulding, an administrator at Texas Southern University.

    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took out full-page ads in British and American newspapers on Sunday to apologize for the Cambridge Analytica scandal（丑闻）, admitting the quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked（泄漏）Facebook data of millions of people was a “betrayal of trust”.

    Since the scandal broke, the public has become more aware and concerned about how their online behavior may be used for purposes to which they have not agreed. It emphasizes the urgent need for better protection of personal information.

    To better protect personal data privacy（隐私）, targeted laws are needed. More effective cooperation should be carried out to protect people's privacy online as soon as possible.

    Countries, such as the United States and China in particular, which are global leaders in the use of big data should accelerate legislation（立法）on how it can be collected and for what purposes it can be used.

    At the same time, a closer watch should be kept on the world's major internet companies, such as Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu to ensure they do not acquire unnecessary personal information or misuse the information they obtain. Despite the huge challenge such personal data protection may pose to their established profit-making models, these companies should know that the more powerful they are, the bigger responsibilities they shoulder.

    Strengthened efforts for personal privacy protection do not mean that big data must not be used, but that it is used appropriately. Big data is like a mountain or gold, and overemphasis on its security at the expense of its use will undoubtedly waste a valuable resource. The key problem is how to promote its use while guaranteeing people's privacy to be protected.

    Abralda, one of the largest coral reefs in the world, is truly an amazing place for scientific research.

    However, when we arrived there, things didn't go as smoothly as expected. It was raining so hard that we couldn't dive into the sea for research. What's worse, we didn't know how long we had to wait.  We did hope it would stop raining soon.

    Since we couldn't dive, we stayed on our boat that was meant to keep track of us when we were diving. We dived quickly down in depth into a warm and colourful place. Meanwhile, the boat was following us all the way.

    There were various sea creatures swimming around us. Interestingly, I was joined by a turtle which stayed on ray mask for a while. And it followed me during the rest period of my dive.  I was amazed and even shocked! Beautiful living coral covered nearly 100 percent of the bottom! Besides the turtle, many more sea animals passed by me closely. It was so fun. All stress, noise and troubles of life were left at the surface of the sea.

     I dived for as long as I could that day. This was how I felt about Abralda—I loved it and never wanted to leave. In fact, we are already planning another diving research in Abralda.

A. It made us disappointed and upset.

B. We were dissatisfied and decided to leave there.

C. However, we had to do research on wildlife there.

D. I looked around to explore the fantastic underwater world.

E. Exploring so well underwater, I was unwilling to leave the sea.

F. Luckily, the rain stopped on the fourth day，and we went diving.

G. Therefore, we went to study and record the wildlife there months ago.

    Two of my friends had financial problems and needed my help on two occasions.

    The first guy 1 a sum of money for his tuition while he was at his final year of the university. He came to me and 2 to borrow some money for his school fees, 3 that he'd pay all of it back once he 4a job after graduation. As a student, I didn't have much 5 at that time. However, as his friend, out of 6, I decided to give him what he needed 7 the condition that he would pay back. After that I 8 bothered him. Never did I ask when he would pay back.

    On another occasion, another friend told me his 9 dilemma. Being an orphan（孤儿）, he could hardly 10 himself. He delayed his rent for two months, and his 11 was threatening to throw his things out from the house the next day.

    It was the day before 12 my father had given me some money for my monthly expense. And13, it was the exact amount he needed－I gave it all to him. I felt like 14 a special act of kindness.

    A few days later. 15 struck me that I could cancel my friend's 16. After all, things were so difficult for an orphan.

    So I called him up to cancel his debt. He couldn't believe it and said “Seriously? 17!” He was so happy and later sent me a message of heart-felt 18.

    In life, it is the 19 actions of love that matter. 20 unites us.

    Many people agree that going to a museum is a good way of learning about ancient treasures. However, others may find  boring to spend hours there. Therefore, how to make museums and their lifeless collections more appealing is a tough question worth （attach）importance to.

    Luckily, National Treasure（国家宝藏）, a TV program which（begin）to air on Dec, 3, 2017, shed light on ways to inspire interest in museums and their collections.

    Aiming to make ancient relics to come （live）, the program presents treasures through different artistic.（method）including dramatic performances and storytelling,  fully interprets the history behind each cultural relic, so that audiences can not only understand how to appreciate the beauty of cultural relics,  also know the civilization and the spiritual core of Chinese culture. In fact, such programs that promote traditional ancient relics have become popular  recent years. For example, a 2016 documentary featuring the Forbidden City's cultural relics and their restorers, urged lots of college students （apply）to work as volunteers there. It is （universal）accepted that National Treasure has been successful in encouraging more people to visit museums by touching their hearts.

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