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Culture UK: Bristol

    Chocolate!

    The first chocolate bar in the world was created in Fry's, a company in Bristol. Joseph Fry invented the delicious treat around the year 1720. Fry's also produced the first chocolate Easter egg in the UK in 1873. The company continues to produce chocolates and sweets to this day.

    Balloon Festival

    The Bristol Belle was the first modern hot﹣air balloon in Western Europe and was developed and built in 1967. The Bristol International Balloon Festival is held every summer in the city, and is Europe's biggest hot﹣air balloon event.

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    According to a new study, Bristol is the UK's most musical place, with the biggest number of musicians among the population. It's well﹣known for giving birth to the trip﹣hop scene in the 1990s. Its multicultural(多元文化的)population has really influenced the sounds of the Bristol music scene.

    Famous people

    JK Rowling

    J.K. Rowling was born and brought up in Chipping Sodbury, just outside Bristol. It is said that she invented her famous character Harry Potter after meeting a young boy named Ian Potter in the village where she grew up.

    Banksy

    Banksy is a graffiti artist local to Bristol. He is famous all over the world for his street art. Some of his pieces have been sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds. Many Hollywood pop stars and famous people love to collect his work.

(1)What does Fry's produce?  

(2)What can people see every summer in the sky of Bristol?  

(3)Please give a title in English for Paragraph 3. (In no more than FIVE words.)  

(4)Is Ian Potter an invented character or a real person?  

(5)What is Banksy well﹣known for?  

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