Burj Dubai,the World’s Tallest Skyscraper (摩天大楼) , was built successfully on January 4th,2010 in the United Arab Emirates. This is 1 Dubai does best. The building has been renamed Burj Khalifa 2 the leader of Abu-Dhabi,which recently made Dubai in 3 with $25 billion. The tower is 828 meters 4 . It is taller than Taipei 101 in Taiwan,which at 508 metres has held the tallest-building-in-the-world title since 5 opened in 2004. It has 6 an army of 12 ,000 labours working day and night to complete this tower. It's made up of the 160 floors of apartments,offices and hotels.

   After taking a lift to the 124th floor,you can 7 the exciting views一the city's Sheik Zayed road,the desert and so on. The most exciting view is the Burj's own shadow on the sea. It is like a huge sundial (日晷) .Even though you’re 8 2,600 feet in the air,it surprisingly doesn’t feel that high. Perhaps the dirty 9 help. It takes six months to clean the tower's windows from top to bottom. What hard work it is!

   Dubai,the Gulf Arab trade and tourism center,has built a lot of buildings in recent years,10 three palm-shaped (棕榈状的) islands off its coast and some islands shaped like a map of the world.

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