Standing on the top story of Basantapur Palace in Nepal, Yuan Mengxi is having a hard time relating today’s reality with    1    she saw seven years ago.

The palace complex,     2    (locate) in the middle of Durbar Square in the country’s capital Kathmandu, was badly damaged in    3    massive earthquake in April 2015. The 9-storeyed       palace, a tourist landmark, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979.

The palace not only has great    4     (history) significance, but is also an architectural feat (功绩). “ You can see the whole place from here, and everything is beautiful and    5    order,” says Yuan, a 33-year-old originally from Zhengzhou, the capital of Central China’s Henan province. She is     6     (current) working for the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage and is in charge of a team sent    7     (rebuild) the palace.

She says she was in shock    8     (see) the city after the quake at the time. Heritage buildings in Durbar Square    9     (destroy), with wooden statues buried and spread over a wide area.“ Kathmandu Valley was still covered in the dust from the quake,” she recalls.

After the earthquake, both the Chinese and Nepali governments agreed to launch a project    10     (aim) at restoring the nine-storeyed Basantapur Palace complex.