—________.

    Suzhou is my hometown. This beautiful city is in Jiangsu Province. 1 it is not as big as Beijing, everyone in China knows this beautiful place. People 2 it as "Venice of the East (东方威尼斯)".

    Suzhou has a long history. There are many ancient Chinese3 in Suzhou. Now, these beautiful gardens are becoming famous tourist places in Suzhou.

    In the past 30 years my hometown has4 rapidly in many ways. The biggest change I have found is the5. On the one hand, many people here don't live in the 6 houses anymore. They have moved into the new high buildings and are enjoying a comfortable life. On the other hand, nowadays builders have 7 thousands of modern buildings of different styles (类型). I think this change is 8 because it has made Suzhou become more modern and more beautiful.

    To be honest, everything has changed9 my hometown. I think you should think about 10 the beautiful city. I'm sure you will love it.

    My hometown is different from what it looked like before. To be honest, it is more beautiful than before. Ten years ago, it used to be a poor village. There was only one mountain path (小路) to go there. People lived in low straw­thatched cottages (破草房). Now my hometown has changed a lot since our government helped us. So it's convenient to go in and out of our hometown. Also, we have built some schools so that the children can receive a good education. As people have made more money by working in the cities, or planting more economic crops (经济作物). All the villagers are living in new houses, some even in large buildings. There is a beautiful park in our town. Every day, after dinner people would like to go to the park to enjoy themselves. We are living a happy life now.

    Liu Tuchi, an 87­year­old man, has given away thousands of books to kids in five villages in Southwest China and built some reading rooms in the past 13 years by collecting and selling rubbish.

    "After selling the rubbish, I go to bookstores to search for good books," Liu said. When he has enough books, he sends them to the kids in the villages.

    Liu was an officer in Sichuan Province before retiring (退休) in 1993. "I passed by a primary school in Qilong Village in 2005 and was shocked by the poor conditions," he said. With old classrooms and broken desks, the students hardly had any books. So Liu took out more than 5, 000 yuan and raised more than 8, 000 yuan from his family and friends to give away books to the school. Since then, he has kept on giving away books to rural (农村的) kids.

    Liu's work has opened his new lifestyle (生活方式). He collects and sells waste, such as bottles and old newspapers. In 2008, Liu started building reading rooms. So far he has built more than 15 reading rooms. Liu always says, "Children in rural areas should not be left behind, especially in education."

Please these names and numbers.

people leave the countryside to work in the cities every year.

These old things many good memories to me.

—No. Actually, I haven't done much exercise________ I got a new computer.