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    Icebreaker to the North Pole is a new book ____ the well-known Chinese writer Bi Shumin. It describes her special trip to the North Pole last year.

    Longing to go to the North Pole, she always heard about it when she was young. Bi, now in her 60s, has at last realized the dream to see it for ____ (she).

    “This dream was hidden in my heart by myself in the past. It gradually became dusty, but it never disappeared.____ I dreamed has finally come true.” Up to now, Bi ____ (travel) to 73 countries worldwide. Besides the North Pole, she made a trip to Easter Island, which is around 3,700 kilometres off the western coast of Chile. In the same year, she went to the South Pole. And she intends ____ (go) to other places in the near future.

    As a writer ____ (show) a great interest in travel, Bi thinks traveling ____ (be) a part of our life. She also believes it is ____ only way to see different cultures and histories.

    “If the view is the same every day, we will easily become ____ (bore). But if we go to a strange place, we will soon enter a condition of experiencing and thinking about different cultures. Travelling gives me much ____ (free).”

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    Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago, the world had only a few thousand people. These people moved from one place to another. They moved over the land, hunting animals for food. No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to move houses any more. They could stay in one place and grow it. People began to live near each other, so the first village grew. Many people came to work in the villages, and these villages became larger and larger. Then people had machines, life in the villages changed again. People built factories. More and more people lived near the factories. So the villages grew into cities. Some of them grew very big. Today, it's strange that some people are moving back to small villages. Can you tell me why?