Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, is the economic and     1     (culture) center of southwest China. It is linked by rail with all of China's major cities. Its rail link with Hanoi(河内)     2     (establish) in 1901.

Kunming's mild climate makes it a good place     3     (visit) any time of the year.    4     it can be hot and humid in summer, it has cool, dry winters. The climate here is great for flowers, with more than 400 varieties     5     (plant) here. The camellia (山茶花)is the city's official flower. The city is also known for     6     (it) green parks, such as Cuihu (Green Lake) Park with its waterways and winding paths. Younger     7     (travel) may enjoy a visit to Daguan Park because of its food stalls.

In addition to its own charms, Kunming serves as a base from    8     people can explore the culture of ethnic groups in the area. The most well-known are the Dai, Bai and Naxi. People can also visit the Yunnan Stone Forest, which has been known     9     the "first wonder of the world" since the Ming Dynasty. Located 120 km (75 miles) from Kunming, the stone forest     10     (feature) awesome rock formations.

In hundreds of cities around the world, people can use a car     1     actually owning one. It’s known as car sharing.

Car sharing works like this: people pay a fee     2     (join) a car share organization. These organizations have cars available in different parts of a city 24 hours a day. Members make a     3     (reserve) for a car, and then go to one of several parking lots in a city to pick up the car. They pay an hourly or daily rate for driving it. When they are     4     (finish), they return the car to a parking area for someone else to use.

Car sharing works well for several reasons. Some people only need to drive from time to time. Usually, people only need a car for special reasons like moving things or     5     (take) long trips. Many people don’t want the costs or responsibilities of owning     6     car. The car-share organization pays for gas insurance, cleaning and repair costs.

Members also don’t have to wait in line or fill out     7     (form) to get a car. They know a variety of cars will be available when they need one.

Car sharing also     8     (benefit) the environment. People drive only     9     they need to and fewer cars on the road means     10     (little) traffic and air pollution. As more and more cities become interested in reducing traffic, car sharing programs are becoming an effective choice.

According to a new report by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the deadly heat waves, floods     1     droughts are disturbing the     2     (life) of thousands of people from the American West to southern Europe and central China. And they will be likely only to get     3     (bad) as global temperatures continue to rise. “So far, all regions of the world     4     (affect) by some extremes,” says Sonia Seneviratne, an environmental     5     (science). “We can link extreme weather to climate change in     6     same way we can link cancer to smoking,” says Friederike Otto, one of the report’s authors. And, like smoking, the damage is hard     7     (disappear), Otto says. The most important thing, experts say, is to make sure these events don’t grow even more common and intense     8     they are now. “I feel     9     (strong) that the public needs to know that dangerous climate change is here and now,” says Michael Wehner, an extreme weather researcher. To limit global warming to just 2℃, Wehner says, “It’s my feeling that we would have to do something rather extreme.” Something extreme, he adds, means completely     10     (get) rid of consumption of coal, oil, and natural gas.

Sanjiangyuan, literally meaning the “source of three rivers”, is home to the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers. The pilot national park, with a total area of 123,100 square km     1     (locate) on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and harbors more than 70,000 herdsmen. Therefore.     2     is very important to maintain the purity and cleanliness of this area, because it directly affects the water quality in most of China.

For a long time, there were too many local herdsmen and animals     3     (use) the grass in the area and consequently the local lakes were getting smaller.     4     the national park was established, the government has invested a significant amount of money in equipment and training for accurate monitoring of wildlife. For example, the population of snow leopards is an important indicator of ecological health in the area, and as long as     5     number of these animals stays stable, the area is safe and     6     (environmental) healthy. Much of the grassland has been returned to its natural state, and the herdsmen have been helped to move to the local towns and to find new jobs.     7     (encourage) by local government, more and more local people are supported to take part in environmental protection. They have been appointed as conservators in the area, responsible for collecting rubbish or for observing the wildlife.     8     more people working as conservators, the     9     (aware) of environmental protection has gradually become part of their lives. Local officials also have said that their jobs have become a lot     10     (easy) now that the training programmes and government support are in place. Now, in Sanjiangyuan National Park, the mountains have become greener, the water clearer and the sky bluer.

A male elephant that broke away from the wandering elephant pack     1    ( send) back to its forest home on Wednesday in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said.

Yuxi City headquarters in charge of monitoring the pack's migration (迁徙) took the     2     (decide) early Wednesday morning     3     ( prevent) the lone animal from entering heavily populated areas. At 3 p. m.，the elephant was caught and returned to the nature reserve. The animal appeared     4     (health) and did not suffer from any injuries.

The pack of 15 wandering wild Asian elephants travelled about 500 kilometers north from their forest home. The male elephant separated from the pack on June 6, and moved around in the     5     (city) of Kunming, Anning and Yuxi, with an activity area of 140 square kilometers and a walking distance of 190 kilometers. It had relied mainly on     6     was provided by the locals. The     7    (remain) 14 elephants have been moving southward recently but are still far from the reserve.

Asian elephants are     8     A-level state protection in China, where they are     9     (most) found in Yunnan. Thanks to determined protection efforts in recent decades, the wild elephant population in     10     province has grown to about 300, from 193 in the 1980s.

May 15 (UPI)—China landed a rover (火星车) on the surface of Mars for     1     first time on Saturday, the China     2     (nation) Space Administration announced.

The Tianwen-1 orbiter launched from the island province of Hainan     3     July 23 and entered Mars orbit in February. The rover, Zhurong,     4     is named after the Chinese god of fire, set down on the red planet on Saturday morning.

China is the second country after the United States     5     (place) a rover on the surface of Mars. The former Soviet Union landed a probe on Mars in 1971, but lost contact immediately.

The rover descended (下降) from the orbiter via entry capsule,     6     (lower) by parachute before jettisoning (投弃) its outer shield and using a retrorocket (反向火箭) to land. Geng Yan, with the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center at the CNSA, said the rover’s descent took about 9 minutes and     7     (perform) autonomously.

“Each step had only one chance, and the actions were     8     (close) linked. If there had been any flaw, the landing     9     (fail),” he told state-run media Xinhua.

The rover will spend three months searching for     10     (sign) of water and ice on Mars.

When Peggy Zheng first stepped into Wangmantian Village in Anhui Province, she was amazed by     1     primitive it was.

    2     (hide) deep inside a mountainous area 40 kilometers away from the     3     (near) bus station, Wangmantian attracted Zheng, a handicraft enthusiast from Beijing, because of its fish lantern parade, a folk custom     4     (date) back more than 200 years.

“The parade is actually held every year around the Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month,     5     this year because of COVID-19 , I missed the event and didn’t get to visit the village until June,” she said.

The village still     6     (look) pretty much like it did a century ago. Ancient buildings and bridges     7     (construct) in typical Hui-style architecture, a Chinese style that has prevailed in the ancient area of Huizhou, including what is today’s Anhui.

People still live     8     (happy) in a pre-Internet era, communicating     9     other by dropping around rather than texting or using mobile phones.

“All the     10     (family) are more or less related to each other, mostly surnamed Wang,” Zheng said. “It is so safe here that the villagers don’t bother locking their doors during the day.”