Guilin is a dream place for tourists seeking the limestone(石灰岩) mountain tops and dark waters of the Li River. It     1     (picture) by artists in so many Chinese paintings. But a study of travelers conducted by the website TripAdvisor names Yangshuo as one of the top ten     2     (destination) in the world. And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia. Abercrombie and Kent, a travel company in Hong Kong, says it regularly arranges quick getaways here for people     3     live in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Iceland is a land of volcanoes. Nowhere is     1     (evident) than on the West man Islands off the southern coast of Iceland. Here,     2    (century) of volcanic eruptions formed many eye-catching sea cliffs (悬崖), among    3     one stands out: A part of the volcano-formed coast on Heaney looks exactly like the head of a large elephant    4    (stick) its trunk in the water.

In fact, it looks so much like an elephant that many people think it must have been shaped by humans. That is not     5     case, however. The elephant’s realistic     6    (appear) is, at least partially, due to the fact that the cliff    7    (consist) of a special rock. The rock gives the figure “skin” that looks wrinkled and gray, just like that of a real elephant.

The most common theory is that the rock formations came from the Endwell Volcano, which    8     (erupt) many times since the 1940s.

In spite of the strong resemblance to an elephant, some people     9    (actual) see something different when they look at the rock formation. They see the fictional character Cthulhu, a sea beast.

Whether you see an elephant     10     a fictional beast, as one of many attractions on Heaney, the rock does draw curious sightseers.

Xinjiang is now in a harvest season. Last week, CCTV teams traveled to Xinjiang    1    (record) these joyous events from different angles using photography, live broadcasts in multiple languages and interviews.

Xinjiang is rich in natural resources,    2    benefit from its unique climatic conditions. The enough sunlight and large temperature differences between day and night make the region    3    ideal place to grow crops.

Xinjiang offers a wide variety of fruits, and many say Aksu Prefecture has the    4    (good) apples in the region. Aksu has witnessed rapid    5    (develop) in apple industry. Today,    6     (it) apples are highly sought-after at home and abroad. If apples are not unique enough, sea buckthorn (沙棘枣) can    7    (definite) be called a name card of Xinjiang fruit. It contains plenty of vitamin C, even higher    8    kiwifruit. Farmers in northern Xinjiang are now harvesting the small yellow fruit, whose sweet taste makes them ideal for    9    (make) juice. China’s output of sea buckthorn fruit accounts for 90 percent of the world’s total.

As the largest cotton-growing area in the country, Xinjiang recorded 5.16 million tons of cotton output in 2020. Modern agricultural machinery    10    (adopt) in cotton picking in recent years, boosting the development of the industry and benefiting local farmers.