Some popular places to visit are built by people. Other famous places are created by nature. For e  1   , in the northeast of the United States, there was a famous rock on a high mountain that l  2   just like an old man. He had lots of hair, a big nose and a beard．People c  3   him “The Old Man of the Mountain” and every year more than a m  4   people came to look at him. Scientists think that the stone face had been there for about 17,000 years. 

   In May 2003, there was very bad w  5   near the Old Man of the Mountain. There were

very high winds and the temperature was very cold. The sky was so c  6   that people couldn’t see the stone face for many days. As soon as the storm was o  7   , people looked for the Old Man and they couldn’t see him. They discovered t  8   he had fallen apart. The stones that made his face sank down the mountain. A number of scientists climbed up to see i  9   they could repair the stone face, but they had to g  10   up. They figured out（斷定）that the damage from the weather was just too bad．