“Village Basketball Association” or “Village BA” is     1    grassroots basketball tournament in Taipan Village, Taijiang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Organized by local residents, the sport     2     (gain) popularity over the years, so it draws a large crowd of spectators and participants alike.

    3     March 27, the team of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture won the title by     4     (beat) the team from Zunyi City 68-65. Some 20,000 spectators watched the game. The champion collected fragrant rice, a local specialty, and a Miao silver hat     5     (handmake) by an inheritor of intangible (非物质)cultural heritage skills as their award, besides the trophy and medals. A day ago, the team of Tongren City beat the team from Bijie City 57-50 in the bronze medal game. The game attracted more than 30,000 spectators, nearly double the average regular season attendance at an NBA game.

The village-level basketball     6     (compete) has been part of activities to celebrate the Chixin Festival,     7     falls on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. Local authorities have upgraded the     8     (surround) facilities and added more than 20,000 seats     9     (improve) the spectator experience. According to statistics from the Guizhou Sports Bureau(体育局), the “Beautiful countryside” basketball league has held over 5,000 matches,     10     (effective) driving the development of local tourism, culture and economy.

Coca-Cola is the world’s     1     (large) soft drink company. It has set     2     excellent goal to help solve the problem of packaging (包装) waste in the United States and around the world. It plans to recycle all of     3     (it) bottles and cans by 2030. The company wants to make a     4     (contribute) to saving our environment.

Coca-Cola has announced an activity     5     (call) “World Without Waste”. It says that food and drink companies are responsible     6     much of the waste on streets and beaches. Besides, the company says that it wants to increase the amount of material     7     can be recycled in its products. It also intends     8     (advise) users on how to recycle products best. And Coca-Cola plans to work together with local governments     9     environmental groups.

Greenpeace, one of the most important environmental organizations, has welcomed the move. But it points out the company should especially pay attention to reducing the amount of plastic that is being produced. Plastic is a major problem because plastic does not break down     10     (rapid) and it is often eaten by animals and fish and ends up in our food chain.

How much do you know about the Amazon rainforest? It is without doubt one of the true    1    (wonder) of the world. The Amazon rainforest is of great    2    (important) because it is home to thousands of animals, birds and insects.

The Amazon rainforest is in South America,    3    (cover) most of the Amazon basin of South America. It travels across 9 different countries.    4    (actual), the Amazon rainforest is the    5    (large) rainforest in the world and it has been around for at least 55 million years, Many of the medicines that we use today are from plants in the rainforest.    6    , about 2.7 million acres(英亩) of the rainforest    7    (ruin) each year, which is bad for everyone as forests and trees help to keep our air clean. Scientists think that if climate changes are to increase the world's temperature    8    only 3℃, then 75% of the Amazon rainforest will be destroyed. If all the forests continue to be cut down, 137 rainforest species will be destroyed every single day! That is    9    (frighten). The Amazon rainforest is a very precious place on Earth, and we    10    protect it to make it survive for years to come.

Leonora Buenviaje     1     (make) women’s clothes out of waste materials to date. She says wearing clothes made from waste materials can be both     2     (economy) and good-looking. To make her dresses, she uses a sewing machine to join together the waste materials. These include     3     (recycle) newspapers, plastic wrapping and rice.

Recycling is when something new is made from something that has been used before. The process that Buenviaje uses     4     (join) the materials together is called sewing. “The bubble wraps from     5     (deliver) packages are nice looking,” she said. Bubble wrap is     6     plastic product that is used to protect goods that are being delivered. She said white bubble wraps were good for making wedding dresses. The dresses are used for everything from coming-of-age parties for a woman’s 18th birthday,     7     weddings.

In Asia, there is plenty of waste material for Buenviaje to work with: about 80 percent of the world ocean plastic     8     (estimate) to come from Asian rivers.

“It’s important to recycle used materials so we can help our earth,” said Lalaine Alcalde, who buys clothes from Buenviaje. Buenviaje said her dresses were used in beauty competitions and     9     she got delighted whenever they won. “The designs are simple     10     they still win,” she said.