It’s reported that about 10% of the global population do not have clean water. The water crisis has serious effects on people’s health, education, and     1     (finance) situation and on the stability of their community.

Water     2     (use) to keep clean and keeping clean is the key to good health. For example, a simple cut to a child’s leg can be treated by washing it, to avoid infections.     3     clean water, that simple cut can become a serious medical condition.

Children who spend a lot of time collecting water are less likely     4     (attend) full time education. Chances are that those students aren’t able to study to the level     5     (require) to go to college or university. The problem is     6     (particular) bad for girls, who tend to be the family’s members     7     (walk) a long way to collect water.

Low standards of education make     8     much more difficult for people to get jobs that are both well-paid and safe. If there is no money from     9     (employ), it’s difficult for communities to develop their water supply and sanitation (卫生).

Water is often a source of argument and even wars. The stability of a whole region or even a country can be in danger because of a shortage of clean water. To decrease the influence of the water crisis, the United Nations has a Sustainable Development Goal     10     specifically refers to water and sanitation.

Mount Qomolangma is the     1     (high) mountain in the world, but     2     (unfortunate) it is one of the messiest, too. About 4,000 people have climbed Mount Qomolangma since Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay from Nepal first     3     (reach) the summit (山顶) of Qomolangma in 1953. But, unlike Hillary and Tenzing, these tourists have been dumping ( 丢 弃) tonnes of used equipment on the mountain.     4     (bury) under snow in the winter, the rubbish is revealed in the summer when the snow melts.

However, 15 Nepalese artists are taking action. They have worked hard and turned eight tonnes of rubbish into 75 sculptures,     5     are being shown at a hotel in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.

The rubbish used in the artworks was collected by     6     (climber). It includes old ropes, tent poles, oxygen cylinders, drink cans, and even the remains of a helicopter. Kripa Rana Shahi, the project organizer, was looking for a way     7     (spread) awareness about keeping Qomolangma clean when she had the bright idea of     8     (change) the rubbish into works of art. The sculptures range in price from $15 to $2,300. According     9     the report, a part of the money has been given to the artists and     10     rest to environmental organizations to turn the rubbish into gold.

In history, countless women     1    (fight) for gender equality. Mulan cut off her waist-length hair and disguised herself as a male warrior. Then came Marie Curie, who believed everyone was gifted for something and that that thing,     2     whatever cost, must be attained. In a time when stereotypes were placed upon women, their stories just empowered females.

It was these trailblazers     3     paved the way to the gender equality nowadays. In China, over half of the graduates today are women,     4    (surpass) males for the first time. At Tokyo this year, women made up 49 percent of     5     Olympic competitors. By comparison, in the 1908 games, men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

However, after the struggle of     6    (generation), are we seeing the light at the end of the tunnel? Nowadays, single women in their thirties are leftover women,     7     men in their thirties are golden bachelors. Women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman makes only 77 percent of what the average working man makes.

And my grandmother has just called me this morning to instruct me the stage etiquette of being sweet and     8    (adore). She did not know that over half of the national finalists are girls, and many of them have won the semi-finals by     9    (wear) black dark suits instead of the pink dresses, as she has said.

The power of ideals has enabled women to be equal counterparts to men. I believe the whole world will treat both men and women     10    (equal), just in the way that the judges have done to the contestants in this speech competition.