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Monmouth, Wales, a small town in the United Kingdom where King Henry V was born, has made history again by becoming the world’s first Wikipedia Town. Since May 19, visitors have been able to take an in-depth wiki tour of the town with their phones by scanning more than 1,000 different bar codes that have been placed on various landmarks (地标)．The phones immediately find out each landmark's Wikipedia page.

Created in 2001, Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia (百科全书) written and edited by anyone who wants to contribute. It attracts more than 400 million visitors each month. The Monmouth project, called Monmouthpedia, aims to describe every famous place, person, object, plant, and animal in the town in as many languages as possible. Over the past six months, many people came together to make that happen. The town has free town-wide Wi-Fi. Local people created nearly 500 new articles about the town and updated about 150 existing ones. Other volunteers translated the articles into more than 26 languages, including Hindi, Czech, Hungarian, and Latin.

Universities, museums, historic sites, hundreds of shops and businesses and most schools in Monmouth have been tagged (加上标签) with QRpedia codes --- bar codes that a phone can read through its camera. Each code takes a person to scan it to a Wikipedia page in his or her chosen language. The person can then read all about the landmark, object, etc.

Monmouth was chosen as the first Wikipedia Town because of its rich cultural history. It is home to a 13th-century bridge and to the remains of Monmouth Castle, built in the 11th century.

Wikimedia UK hopes other towns will become Wikipedia towns in the future. “If everyone shares the stories of their local area, we’ll have a much clearer understanding of the world we live in,” Stevie Benton of Wikimedia UK said. “And that’s a powerful thing.”

8. Monmouth has made history because _____________.

A. many Kings like Henry V were born there]

B. it becomes the world's first Wikipedia Town

C. many people go to visit it frequently every year

D. visitors can find various landmarks in the town

9. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?

A. Monmouthpedia was created in 2001.

B. Over 400 million people go to visit Monmouth.

C. Monmouthpedia describes everything about the town.

D. Monmouthpedia has been translated into over 26 languages.

10. How can you get information about certain places in Monmouth?

A. By phoning the local people. B. By scanning QRpedia codes.