If you have a chance to travel in Europe you’d better choose Italy as a good place to visit. Because Italy is a very famous country with a long history, and there are many interesting cities in this country . There are three million people each year who visit the city of Pisa. It is known for the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The tower looks as it might fall at any time . (1)In fact, some visitors stop at the tower just long enough to take a picture, then they hurry away. The tower has 194 steps. Visitors who can climb to the top and come down will feel like heroes.

Engineers say that safe, though, leans, the , are, the , visitors, tower. This tower has been leaning for about eight hundred years. And it leans a tiny bit more every year. If this keeps on, （2）塔最終會(huì)倒下. But many engineers are trying their best to keep the tower standing as long as possible.

1.       When did the tower begin to lean?

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2.       把（1）句翻譯成漢語(yǔ)。

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    3． 把斜體部分的單詞連成一句話。

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    4． 把（2）處的句子譯成英語(yǔ)。

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    5. What’s the passage mainly about?

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