Everywhere survivors looked, there was     1     but ruins. Nearly everything in the city was destroyed. About 75 percent of the city’s factories and buildings, 90 percent of its homes,     2     all of its hospitals were     3    . Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves,     4     no wind could     5     them away. Most bridges had fallen or were not     6     to cross. The railway tracks were now     7     pieces of metal. Tens of thousands of cows, hundreds of thousands of pigs, and millions of chickens were dead. Sand now filled the wells     8     of water. People were in shock — and then, later that afternoon,     9     big quake shook Tangshan again. Even more buildings fell down. Water, food, and electricity were hard to get. People began to     10     how long the disaster would last.

Tibetan antelopes live on the plains of Tibet, Xinjiang, and Qinghai.    1    them move slowly across the green grass, I’m struck by their    2    . At the same time, I’m also reminded    3    the danger they are in. They are being hunted,    4    , for their valuable fur.

Zhaxi, a villager from Changtang, works at the Changtang National Nature Reserve. “We’re not trying to save the animals,” he says. “    5    , we’re trying to save ourselves.” The 1980s and 1990s were bad times for the Tibetan antelope.    6    population dropped by more than 50 percent. Hunters were shooting Antelopes to make    7    . Their    8    were becoming smaller as new roads and railways were built.

In order to save them, the Chinese government placed them under national protection. The measures were    9    . The antelope population    10    and in June, 2015, the Tibetan antelope was removed from the endangered species list.

But hope was not lost. Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to dig out those who were     1     and to     2     the dead. More than 10, 000 doctors and nurses came to provide medical care. Workers built     3    for survivors     4     homes had been destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people were helped. Water and food were brought into the city by train, truck, and plane. Slowly, the city began to     5    again.

Tangshan started to     6     itself and get back up on its feet. With strong support from the government and the tireless     7     of the city’s people, a new Tangshan was built upon the earthquake ruins. The new city has become a     8     to more than seven million people, with great improvements in transportation, industry, and environment. Tangshan city has proved to China and the rest of the world that in times of disaster, people must     9     and show the     10     to stay positive and rebuild for a brighter future.

PERU is a country on the Pacific coast of South America with three main areas:     1    , dry, flat land running along the coast, the Andes Mountains and the Amazon rainforest.

In the 1400s and 1500s, Peru was the centre of the     2     ancient Inca Empire. The Inca emperor lived in the now-famous     3     Machu Picchu. Spain took control     4     Peru in the 16th century and ruled until 1821. It is for this reason that Spanish is the main     5     language of Peru.

This four-day walking tour will take you on amazing     6     through the Andes Mountains on the way to the city of Machu Picchu. After reaching your     7    , you will have a day to     8     and be amazed by this ancient city. Especially amazing is the Inca’s dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to     9     sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the     10     fit of the stones.