The Dubai Tower has become the tallest building in the world in just 1,276 days, leaving behind other tall buildings.

　　The Dubai Tower will house 30,000 apartments in addition to the world’s largest shopping mall. It is the centerpiece(重要工程) of the 20-billion-dollar venture. Another venture gradually emerging across the desert sands is Dubailand, a series of multi-billion-dollar projects claimed to be the Middle East’s very own Orlando. Dubai also paid 100 million dollars to buy the Queen Elizabeth II, one of the world’s superb cruise liners(游轮), which it plans to turn into a luxury floating hotel.

　　Faced with decreasing oil wealth, the Western-oriented emirate(酋长国) has raced to turn itself into a business and leisure hub and it aims to more than double the number of tourists to 15 million by 2015.

　　63. The underlined word “surpasses” in the second paragraph means____.

　　A. is equal to

　　B. matches

　　C. is left behind by

　　D. is higher than

　　64. Which building was the tallest in the world before the Dubai Tower began to be built?

　　A. Dubai land

　　B. Orlando

　　C. Taiwan’s Taipei 101

　　D. The Twin Towers

　　65. Why has the Western-oriented emirate paid more attention to becoming a business and leisure center?

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