Against a backdrop of misty green forests and with its buildings on stilts (桩) above the River Tuo, Fenghuang is a picturesque place to spend a day or two. Its winding allays, lined with traditional shops and temples, lead     1     narrow wooden bridges and stepping-stones that cross the river.

Although the town can get     2     (extreme) busy with continual tour groups, it has managed     3    (preserve) much of its traditional architecture. Wandering off the main streels     4     (allow) you to get a sense of     5     it would have been like before the tourists began to visit and taste the local delicacies including bamboo rat, frog and snake.

Fenghuang itself does have a section of rebuilt Ming city walls     6     (run) along its riverbank, but it’s the Miaojiang Great Wall that is the main draw here. Built in 1554, during the Ming dynasty     7     (defend) against the Miao, the wall     8     (destroy) partly by Miao ethnic group and then rebuilt under the Qing rulers, who also sought to strengthen their power through     9     control of China’s southern minorities. Nowadays only a section is     10     (access), but it’s still an impressive sight, offering great views of the surrounding countryside.

A new United Nations climate report predicts Africa’s rare glaciers (冰川) will disappear in the next 20 years. The report, called State of the Climate in Africa,     1     (release) last Tuesday by the UN’s World Meteorologicale (气象的) Organization (WMO) and other agencies. It warns that climate change will be the cause of the     2     (disappear) glaciers in eastern Africa.

The report warns that     3     shrinking glaciers at Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Kenya’s Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda are signs of widespread climate change to come. “    4     the current shrinking rate continues, it will lead to total disappearance by the 2040s,” the report says.

The report notes that last year was Africa’s third     5     (warm)on record. Data shows temperatures on the continent were 0.86 degrees Celsius higher than the average in the 30 years leading up to 2010. The WMO warns that Africa’s 1.3 billion people remain “    6     (extreme) vulnerable (脆弱的)” as the continent keeps getting warmer     7     a faster rate.

Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the WMO, said massive displacement, hunger and increasing climate events such as droughts and flooding are likely     8     (continue). He added there is a great need for investments in Africa to develop systems and technology     9     can help the continent deal with the effects of climate change. The money could be used to improve early warning systems and build     10     (equip) to better observe weather and water movements.

Dongting Lake, the second     1     (large) freshwater lake in China, has been known for being home to fishes and mammals since ancient times. They reached here along the flow of the river to live and produce young, giving local fishermen including He Daming countless     2     (nature) gifts.

In the 1980s, there     3     (be) more than 120 species of fish in the Lake. However, illegal sand mining coupled with many ships sailing in the area affected the lake ecosystem     4     illegal power grids (电网) began to appear around the area. As a result, fishery resources in the Lake continued to be reducing,     5     threatened the ecology of Dongting Lake. It was around this time that the number of finless porpoises (江豚) that used to be common in the lake dropped     6     (clear).

He Daming gathered some of his fellow fishermen     7     (discuss) the situation and even required them to stop fishing. In addition, they set up an ecological protection     8     (organize). A lot of well-educated young people also joined it.

From 2020 on, as fishing was not allowed in key areas of the Yangtze River basin, including Dongting Lake, many fishermen have gradually given up fishing and taken up jobs in many other     9     (industry).

Thanks to their efforts, Dongting Lake ecology has taken on     10     complete new look so far.

Buried deep in the ruins of the Shang Dynasty, specifically in Anyang City of Henan Province, bones of the rhino(犀牛)were found.

A collection of archaeological evidence has confirmed the     1    (exist) of rhinos in ancient China. The animal     2     (distribute) across China’s Central Plains,    3     Chinese civilization originated.

Nevertheless, the rhino was no longer wandering in the region after the Han Dynasty. One explanation is that it was the colder climate of Northeast Asia that saw the creature    4    (appear) from the pages of history. However, Zhou Yu, the writer of History of Chinese Armor(盔甲), offered up     5     explanation: the crafting of armor.

Armor was    6    (original) made of bamboo but the material possessed limited     7    (defend)capabilities. Leather armor later became popular during the pre-Qin period. Zhou’s book     8     (read) that the rhino’s thick skin was a primary material for the creation of warriors’ armor. Many ancient accounts recorded the killing of rhinos and     9     (turn) their skin into protective covering. “The huge demand     10     rhino skins might have caused the animal’s disappearance or at least its migration from the Central Plains to the southwestern regions,” Zhou told Beijing Review.

The Aswan Dam was completed in 1970. Before the dam was built, people had already known that there were going to be several     1     （problem）. As a result of the dam, the water level of the lake would rise by 63 meters. It was necessary     2     （move）53,000 people from their villages. Also, around the area of Aswan there were a lot of important old temples,     3     （date）from about 1250 BC. These temples were     4     danger because many of them would be covered by the waters of the new lake.

One of them was at Abu Simbel,     5     was carved in the rock, and it had four large stone figures on the outside, each 20 meters high. Engineers studied the problem and suggested several plans to rescue the temple. At last. , they decided on a     6     （solve）, moving the whole temple stone by stone and rebuilding it above the water level of the new lake. First, each stone was marked with     7     number. The pieces of stone were then carried to the new place for the temple, 60 meters     8     （high）up the hill. The project was     9     （successful）completed in 1968 and the Abu Simbel temples     10     （place）on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1979.

A librarian in Indonesia’s Java island is lending books to children in exchange for rubbish they collect in a novel way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more.

Each weekday Raden Roro Hendarti rides her three-wheeler with books     1    (pile) up at the back for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups, bags and other waste that she carries back.

She told Reuters she is helping develop reading in the children as well make     2    (they) aware of the environment. As soon as she shows up, little children, accompanied by their mothers surround her "Rubbish library" and cry for the books.

They are all carrying rubbish bags and Raden's three-wheeler     3     (quick) fills up with them as the books fly out. She s happy that the     4     (kid) are going to spend less time on online games as     5     result.

Let us build a culture of literacy from young age to     6     ( less) the harm of the online world. Raden said. "We should also take care     7     our waste in order to fight climate change and to save the earth from rubbish" Raden said.

She     8     (collect ) about 100 kg of waste each week,     9     is then sorted out by her colleagues and sent for recycling or sold. She     10     (lend) 6,000 books to children so far and wants to take the mobile service to neighboring areas as well.