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Hutongs are the many little alleys that connect the courtyards of     1     (tradition) houses. They are a feature of ancient Chinese architecture. Nowadays, hutongs also refer to the courtyards and the communities there. Most of Beijing’s hutongs were built between the 13^th and 19^th    2     (century). The Emperors during these periods built hutongs to help keep control over the city. They were then able to place guards at the entrances of the     3     (vary) of hutongs, making it easier to keep     4     eye on people’s movements. People’s houses     5     (build) facing each other around courtyards,    6     people supported each other, and shared the joy and sorrow, and played together. Towards the end of the Qing Dynasty, hutongs were built     7     (house) the increasing population, but they were     8     (poor) made. After the People’s Republic of China was founded, the government undertook the preservation of many hutongs. Hutongs,    9     (show) that Beijing is truly ancient     10     modern, are important and are loved by the tourists.

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After Emperor Kangxi decided to build     1     summer resort here in 1703, Chengde became the second political center of the Qing Dynasty, and it was also the place where the emperors received foreign guests, avoided summer heat and hunted.

    2    (construct) throughout the 18th century, the Mountain Resort was used by some emperors of the Qing Dynasty. During the reign(统治)of Emperor Yongzheng, the city Rehe was called Chengde for the first time, and it reached its     3     (high) in the reign of Emperor Qianlong.

The Moutain Resort and Eight Outer Temples     4     (list) among the World Cultural Heritage sites in 1994, and they have contributed towards the city being one of the famous cities in the world.

A little further up north of Chengde lies another jewel of the city-the natural hot springs. It’s no wonder that in Qing Dynasty Chengde was called Rehe, which literally translates     5    “hot river”. The hot springs     6     (contain) about 43 kinds of minerals are     7     (benefit) to the human body.

In the southwest of Chengde, there is a wonderland,     8     (specific) for artists and space lovers. It’s also home to one of the world’s biggest telescopes known as LAMOST, through     9     you can observe more than 4000 stars at one time.

Whether you have a creative spirit, a scientific mind    10     are simply looking for a soul-cleansing getaway, Chengde is a perfect place for you.

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Macquarie Island was a beautiful place     1     its native inhabitants,including royal     2    (penguin), king penguins, and elephant seals, existed     3     harmony with their natural habitat for thousands of years. However, in 1810, humans     4    (arrive) on the island with rats and mice. They quickly took over the island,eating birds’ eggs and     5    (attack) baby birds. Cats     6    (bring) to control the rats and mice, but they also liked eating birds. Meanwhile, rabbits were introduced to the island but the exploding rabbit population provided food for cats, meaning that the number of cats also increased    7     (rapid). This in turn led to more cats hunting birds. The end result was that parakeets, once large in number and native to the island, died    8     in 1891. 

A virus     9    (release) onto the island caused rabbits to decrease, but the cats,without enough rabbits to eat, killed native birds for food. Although all the cats were caught in 2000, rats and mice exploded once again. Besides, the rabbits’     10    (dig) caused some land to collapse and killed many penguins. 

A programme was started to tackle this problem. This intervention is a long process, but we humans owe it to the island to give it a happy ending.

【推荐3】Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper farm of the given word; far the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Sky Kurtz farms in the desert. The co-fbunder and CEO of Pure Harvest Smart Farms—    1    (locate) outside Abu Dhabi, where temperatures regularly top 113°F—and his team use the challenging environs to trial new crops and technologies that have the potential to change farming in climate-challenged areas. Pure Harvest also provides produce to supermarkets and restaurants in Dubai and across the region     2    (use) less water, which is important in one of the most arid regions of the world.

Kurtz founded Pure Harvest Smart Fanns in 2017 with his co-founders Mahmoud Adi and Robert Kupstas. Passionate about food insecurity, they spent the first year studying high-tech food-production systems around the world,     3     searching for the optimal site for their first farm.

Kurtz’s farms in the UAE started out with “    4     but a PowerPoint, a pile of dirt, and the promise of what we would do,” says Kurtz. But Pure Harvest quickly proved it was built on more than a promise. The founders’ research and technological innovation led to the development of a proprietary (专利的)Controlled-Environment Agriculture (CEA) system—a combination of high-tech greenhouses and vertical farms that     5     (provide) a stable year-round climate.   The first crop of tomatoes was planted in August 2018 and harvested in October. The company’s original farm is now its R&D facility, and Pure Harvest has expanded its facilities in the UAE to 16 hectares of growing area. It also operates a 6-hectare farm in Saudi Arabia, and is developing a 6-hectare farm in Kuwait.

It now produces 14 types of leafy greens; two varieties of strawberries, with seven more     6    (develop); and almost 30 varieties of tomatoes, the product that started it all. With limited availability of local, seasonal produce, the UAE has typically imported much of its food, often air-freighted,     7    comes at a high cost, both economically and environmentally. And while they are more expensive compared with locally grown seasonal produce, the company says its fruit and vegetables are typically up to 60% cheaper than air-freighted imports of comparable quality. “I think we’ve fundamentally changed a belief system that said local is     8    (bad).” says Kurtz.

Their vision fits in with a larger objective for Dubai to become more self-sufficient. The focus is not just on growing for premium markets but also developing affordable solutions    9    (help) democratize access to fresh food.

Kurtz hopes the company’s data-driven technology can become a model for other regions that are experiencing climate stress. “We believe that we can develop a local-for-local solution     10     it’s needed most, and we’ve battle-tested that capability in one of the harshest environments in the world." he says.