We can see walls everywhere in the world. But the Great Wall of China is 1 of all. The Chinese call it " The Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wall". It is 2 more than 6,000 kilometers long. It is 6-7 meters 3 and 4-5 metres from side to side. In most places, five horses or ten men can walk side 4 side along the top. When you visit the Great Wall, you can't help wondering how the Chinese people 5 build such a great wall thousands of years ago. 6 any modern machines, it was really very difficult to build it. They had to do all the work by hand. It 7 millions of men hundreds of years to build it. The Great Wall has a history 8 over two thousand years. The men began to built the first parts of it around two thousand seven hundred years 9 . Then Qin Shihuang had all the walls 10 . He thought that could keep the enemy out of the country. Today the Great Wall has become a place of interest. Both Chinese and people from all over the world come to visit it.
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