After new measurements, China and Nepal have announced a new official height for Mount Everest. The result     1     (announce) on Tuesday that Everest’s peak stands 8,848.86 meters tall,     2     (high) than previously thought. It was reported during an online video event     3     (lead) by the foreign ministers of China and Nepal.

The two countries agreed to the official height after new     4     (survey) of the mountain in 2019 and 2020. Everest’s height was first declared as 8,842 meters by a British team around 1856. But the most     5     (wide) accepted height has been 8,848 meters decided by the Survey of India in 1954.

Nepal had never previously measured the height of Mount Everest     6     its own. In 2005, a Chinese team reported height of 8,844.43 meters, not including the mountain’s snow top. A Nepal government team of climbers and surveyors climbed Everest in May 2019, using GPS and satellite     7     (equip) to measure the peak. Later that year, the leaders of the two countries decided they should agree on     8     official height. A survey team from China then carried out measurements in the spring of 2020, during     9     time all other climbing activities had stopped because of the coronavirus crisis.

Nepal’s climbing community welcomed the result. “The height of Mount Everest will not be a conflict     10     a mutually agreed number. This is a milestone in mountaineering history,” said Santa Bir Lama, president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.

These days, modern buildings are everywhere. But if you want to see     1     life was back in the old days, China still has many beautiful water     2     (town) to visit. CNN has chosen four of the country’s most beautiful ones.

The village of Zhouzhuang in Jiangsu calls     3     (it) “the oldest water town in China”. The village, which     4     (build) in 1086, is crossed with canals. Taking a boat ride through town, the red lanterns might make you think of China’s romantic past.

Hongcun,       5     (fill) with lakes and beautiful Anhui-style buildings, is 900 years old. It was built to look like a big ox. Huangshan Mountain is the head；the town is the body and the bridges are legs.

Fenghuang in Human doesn’t look like a bird,     6     its name means “phoenix” (凤凰) in Chinese. The town is as beautiful as the       7       (magic) bird. The stilted (吊脚的) buildings on each side of the Tuojiang River make the area look like a scene from     8     postcard.

While most water towns are in the south, Shangdong’s Tai’erzhuang stands out in the north. The town     9     (be) on the bank of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. In the town, there are ancient bridges, a canal and temples,     10     (make) you think of its past glory.