._The_architect_told_him_that_he_was_working_on_a_project,_which_he_planned_to_make_as_a_new_symbol_of_Athens.

　　Then_Jack_flew_over_a_range_of_mountains_called_Alps,_and_reached_Paris._Situated_on_the_famous_River_Seine,_Paris_has_a_world­famous_landmark_-_the_Eiffel_Tower._About_two­thirds_of_France's_artists_and_writers_live_in_Paris.

　　二、勤练高考题型，多练自能生巧

　　Ⅰ.完形填空

　　I was only eight years old when the Second World War ended, but I can still remember something about the __1__ celebrations in the small town where I lived on the day when the war in Europe ended. We had not __2__ much from the war, though, like most children of my age, I often saw __3__ houses in the streets and the very big __4__ lorries passing through. But both at home and at school I had become __5__ to the phrases "before the war" and "when the war is over". "Before the war"， obviously, __6__ had been better, though I was too young to understand why, __7__ there had been no bombs then, and people had eaten things like ice cream and bananas, which I had __8__ heard of. When the war was over we would go back to London, but this meant very __9__ to me. I did not remember what London was like.

　　What I remember now __10__ V­Day was the afternoon and the evening. Some boys and girls were collecting __11__ and building an enormous bonfire. We stood and watched them for a time, and then I went home and __12__ myself in with my key and waited for my parents to come back from work.

　　It was May and still broad __13__ when my mother arrived, and my father came in about an hour later. After dinner I said I wanted to __14__ the bonfire, so when it got dark my father took me to the end of the street. The bonfire was very __15__， and somehow people had collected some old clothes to __16__ "Hitler" with the moustache (胡子) they had put on top of it. Just as we arrived, they set light to it. The flames __17__ soon. Everyone was cheering and shouting.

　　I stood beside my father until the __18__ started to go down, not knowing what to say. He said nothing, either. He had __19__ in the First World War and remembered everything he had experienced. At last he said, "Well, that's it, son. Let's hope that this time it really will be the __20__ one."

　　语篇解读：本文通过"我"--一个八岁孩子的所见所闻，介绍了庆祝二战胜利的"胜利日"的情景，以及人们对和平的渴望。愿世界永无战争。

　　1．A.war　　　　　　　　 　B．victory

C．Christmas D．birthday