Doha’s first-ever Panda House was officially open     1    the public on November 17th.    2    (locate) at Al Khor Park near the Al Bayt Stadium, the Panda House will be home to Chinese giants, three-year-old female Si Hai and four-year-old male Jing Jing.

“The giant pandas     3    (receive) careful and thoughtful care since they moved in”, Chinese Ambassador to Qatar Zhou Jian said,     4     (add) that they can understand certain words in the Sichuan dialect.

“The     5     (expert) here are working very hard to take care of the giant pandas and trying to learn the dialect to communicate with the pandas     6    (well),” he said. “I must say they are doing     7    great job.”

Born in the Wolong Panda Base, a natural     8    (protect) zone under the China Giant Panda Research Center in Sichuan Province, Si Hai and Jing Jing arrived in Qatar on October 19th     9    went through a 21-day quarantine (隔离期). After that, they met the public in their     10    (full) air-conditioned areas.

The environment pollution was more and more serious today. We have no clean water to drink it because of water pollution. And when trees cut down, some animals disappear. There is more and more dirty smoke in the air. People’s health has been great affected by air, noise and water pollution. Many people have died of diseases causing by pollution. In order to live the better life, it’s time for us to protect our world. We should recycle, reduce and reuse things, what saves money and reduces pollution. Use things so long as possible. Don’t use plastic bag. Besides, we must plant more trees and stop people cutting it down. We hope our world will be more and more beautiful.

The word hutong was borrowed from the Mongolian word to mean, “water well”, about 700 years ago. Later it referred to a place     1     people live. Hutong we see today are made up of small lanes     2     (form) by walls of siheyuan. They were built during     3     Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

When the People’s Republic of China     4     (found) in 1949, there were more than 3,000 hutong. Most of the city’s population lived in this traditional housing.

    5     with the modernization of the city in the 1980s and early 1990s, many hutong were pulled down to build     6     (road), skyscrapers and modern houses. The government has     7     (ultimate) recognized the importance of hutong as Chinese cultural heritage. In 2002, Beijing listed 40 protected historical zones and increased its efforts to restore some key relics and older streets in the city. Nearly 500 hutong     8     (survive) so far.

Hutong that still exist are like oases (绿洲) of calm surrounded by the     9     (noise) city. Walking through them, it is common     10     (see) groups of elderly citizens sitting together playing cards, mahjong or Chinese chess. In the early mornings and evenings, they gather to practice traditional forms of exercise such as taijiquan as well as dancing and singing folk songs or Peking Opera. Hutong have become a museum of Beijing’s folk customs and history.