At Zhongshuge, a bookstore and library in Yangzhou，China, the books go on forever, or at least, that's    1    it looks like. When you walk into Zhongshuge，you're surrounded on all sides by endless books. They fill the ceiling, walls, and floor，some even    2    (appear) to be challenging gravity.

How does this magical bookshop do it?    3    arehitectural studio called X+ Living designed the internal structure of Zhongshuge. The shelves    4    (arrange) in are shapes，creating the tunnel-like appearance. The floor is covered with black mirrors, reflecting the shelves above and creating the visual effect that the bookshelves continue down past the floor on    5    you're standing. And there you have it：the rows of books never end.

As it turns out, the store's design has more    6    (significant) than just fun. Yangzhou is full    7    canals and rivers，and in history many of China's literary greats    8    (draw) inspiration from the flowing water. X + Living, therefore, integrated this concept with Zhongshuge, and tried to create the feel of being    9    (complete) involved in a “river“ of books. They highlighted that feeling with the zigzag shape on the ceiling, which,    10    (reflect) on the floor, “flows“ throughout the store like a river.

There are places on earth that     1    ( puzzle) scientists in the past centuries and have been the subject of much discussion around the world.

Two of the most fascinating places are Easter Island and Stonehenge. Lying in the South Pacific, Easter Island is one of the most isolated places on earth and is famous for the large stone monoliths (巨石)that line its coast. Shaped like human heads, these structures,     2     were carved by ancient people, range in     3    ( high) from about 3. 5 to 12 meters. Today, about 600 stones remain. On the opposite side of the world stands Stonehenge. This ancient English site is a collection of large stones arranged     4     two circles, one inside the other. Although only ruins of the original formation exist today, archaeologists believe that the inner circle of bluestones, each     5    ( weigh ) about 4 tons, was built first. The giant stones that form the outer circle,     6    ( know) as sarsen (砂岩)stones, each weigh as much as 50 tons!

Scientists     7    ( current) believe that early Polynesians residents carved     8     island's monoliths—believed to be religious symbols—from volcanic rock, then pulled them to their different     9    ( location ) . And the enormous stones at Stonehenge     10    ( transport) from places around the country—some up to 240 miles away. Scientists consider this a remarkable achievement, for heavy lifting equipment used in modern construction was not available at that time.

Chinese Gardens

The Chinese garden has a long history. It first    1    (appear) as early as the 1lth century B. C. during the Zhou Dynasty. It is usually referred to    2    a place of beauty and a harmonious connection with nature.

Famous for the    3    (rich) of theme ideas, the Chinese gardens are deeply rooted in the traditional Chinese culture.    4    (base) on that, Chinese gardens focus on the harmony between heaven, earth and man. Honoring and following nature became    5    unshakable principle of building Chinese gardens. With this principle,    6    (create) a garden, designers integrate buildings, mountains, rivers and plants as one, featuring man-nature coexistence and harmony.

Typically, there are three major    7    (element) of a traditional Chinese garden: water representing    8    (constant) changing nature, stones    9    (indicate) stability and strength and plants providing beauty, harmony, etc.

Overall, the Chinese gardens do not take the actual landscape we can see as the ultimate design goal. Instead, they are all about the images behind the landscape and meanings beyond what is expressed,     10    is the so-called “view borrowing”.

China’s Liangzhu Archaeological Site     1    (declare) on the list of World Heritage sites on Saturday by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee during its 43^rd session in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

The site,     2    is located in Yuhang District in Hangzhou City in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province, showcases the civilization of prehistoric rice agriculture between 3,300 B.C.     3     2,300 B.C. The ruins of ancient Liangzhu city were discovered in 2007, and then large dam sites     4    (surround) the Liangzhu ancient city were unearthed continuously after 2009. It was     5     (official) submitted to UNESCO in 2019, hoping to win     6     (recognize) as a World Cultural Heritage Site. The site     7     (include) archaeological remains and unearthed cultural relics of the Liangzhu Ancient City as well as a wetland that covers     8     area of 908. 89 hectares in a plain river network. It is also found that the Liangzhu ancestors started to use characters about 5 ,000 years ago, 1 ,000 years     9     (early) than previously thought, according to Colin Renfrew, a retired professor of archaeology at the University of Cambridge.

The World Heritage Committee added Liangzhu to the UNESCO list    10     (encourage) better protection of the site, considered to be of “outstanding universal value” to humanity.

On Aug 13, four Chinese irrigation sites won global     1    (recognize) and were added to the 2018 list of Heritage Irrigation Structures, among     2     Dujiangyan is the oldest and only surviving damless irrigation system in the world.

Built over 2,000 years ago in     3     is now Sichuan Province in Southwest China，this amazing engineering achievement is still playing a crucial role in irrigating farms and providing water resources for more than 50 cities in the province.

In ancient times, the region in which Dujiangyan now stands     4    (threaten) by frequent flooding from the Minjiang River. Li Bing, a local official of Sichuan Province at that time, together with his son, decided to construct an irrigation system on the Minjiang River     5    (prevent) flooding. After many studies, they found the     6     (simple) solution was to build a dam, but this would have ruined the Minjiang River. So instead Li designed a series of     7    (channel) built at different levels along Mount Yulei that would take away the floodwater while leaving the river flowing     8    (natural). Better still, the extra water could be directed to the dry Chengdu Plain,     9    (make) it suitable for farming.

Ever since the great Dujiangyan Irrigation System was completed, the Chengdu Plain has been free     10     flooding and the people there have been living peacefully.