Wuhan University reopened to the public for cherry blossom appreciation after closure last year due to COVID-19, its     1    (office) Wechat account said on Sunday.

From March 15 to 27, people can make an online reservation     2    (visit) the campus between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on workdays and between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekends. Reservations should     3    (make) three days ahead of the day of the visit. This year, the university is limiting     4     number of visitors to 15,000 on workdays and 30,000 on weekends.

Anyone     5    (present) symptoms of illness, including fever, cough, runny nose or sore throat will not be allowed to enter the campus until     6    (full) recovered.

At the beginning of 2020, 42,000 doctors and nurses from other regions and 540,000 local medical workers     7    (fight) against COVID-19 and missed the chance to see the famous cherry blossoms on the campus, China News Agency reported.

Dou Xiankang, the headmaster of Wuhan University, said they would set a special day every year for doctors and nurses     8     were engaged in COVID-19 prevention and control in Wuhan to appreciate the blossoms. Saturday is the specially     9    (select) day in 2023 for the medical staff and their     10    (family). Each person is allowed to bring up to two family members.

Beijing is a city bridging the ancient and the modern. From Buddhist temples to museums, narrow hutong     1     royal palaces, it is home to more than 3,000 years of glorious history even down to its layout, with the city keeping its carefully     2     (build) system of ring roads.

But for all its ancient buildings, Beijing is also a place     3     welcomes the fast-paced development of modern life, with 21st-century architectural     4     (wonder) standing side by side with historical buildings of the past.

It is a distinct visual contrast (反差) that shouldn’t work,     5     somehow these two very different worlds make a good combination.     6     (visit) several times over the last 10 years, I     7     (amaze) by the co-existence of old and new, and how a city was able to keep such a rich heritage (遗产) while constantly growing. As a photographer, I have spent the last two years     8       (record) everything I discovered.

The     9     (remark) development of this city, which is consciously designed to protect the past while stepping into the modern world,     10     (mean) there is always something new to discover here, and I could be photographing Beijing for the next 50 years.