Two villages have been named the Best Tourism Villages 2022 by the World Tourism Organization, thanks to their achievements in balancing tourism with economic development while    1    (stick) to environmental protection.

According to the organization, 32 villages in 18 countries and regions including Austria, Chile and China    2    (award) the recognition late on Tuesday. China’s Dazhai village in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region    3    Jingzhu village in Chongqing won the recognition.

Figures cited from the county’s culture and tourism bureau show that tourism development in Dazhai    4    (bring) great economic benefits to villagers and created more jobs for them since the village started to develop tourism around 2003.

    5    the bureau has pointed out, though the village only received 32,000 visits in 2004, the number rose    6    (sharp) to nearly 798,000 in 2019 before COVID-19 emerged. The villagers’ average income among its 1,212 people of 271 households, also saw    7    rise from 700 yuan per year ($100) to over 34, 500 yuan in 2019, the bureau said.

Jingzhu village, the other village    8    (recognize) by the World Tourism Organization this year is located in Wulong district of southwest Chongqing and over half of the villagers work in the tourism industry.

The World Tourism Organization began to award Best Tourism Villages across the world in 2021    9    (promote) the cultural heritage protection and sustainable development of villages. China so far has four villages winning the title,    10    the other two being Yucun village in Zhejiang and Xidi village in Anhui.

Bird-watching, a hobby    1     (favor) by many westerners, has been included in a public benefit program “Park Classes” in Wuhan schools. In the past six years, the program has carried out over 3,000 activities in Wuhan’s thirty urban parks,    2    (cover) all of the city’s primary schools and welcomed by over one million students. Buried in books and having little access to the outside world, many students don’t have the     3    (little) idea of what nature really is. This program is designed to enhance the awareness of environmental protection among school kids,    4    often feel greatly refreshed by appreciating the grace of the adorable creatures through cameras.

Among the selective courses     5    (be) the restoration of small and micro wetlands .As for this course, what is needed is a lot of hands-on practice. Under the    6    (guide) of their teachers, students are required to conduct a research on a 500-square-meter wetland in the city parks. Focusing their attention    7    the wetland’s physical condition, they have recorded the number of plant and animal species to create a restoration plan. Thanks to    8    (they) efforts, the biodiversity of the wetland has been significantly improved.

“It’s very meaningful,” said Li Chenliang,    9    eighth grader from this project. “I have learned a lot of knowledge that cannot be    10    (direct) got from books. I should make full use of the city’s ecological advantages and get more chances to get closer to nature.”

The Grand Canal, a great man-made project completed in ancient China, has witnessed Chinese history spanning over 2,500 years. On June 22, 2014, it     1    (include) on the World Cultural Heritage List.

Over a thousand years, the Grand Canal has been meandering (蜿蜒) through eight provinces and cities along     2     (it) course of 3,200 kilometers and connecting five major rivers, which     3    (be) the longest and oldest canal in the world. It is a precious heritage     4    (pass) down to us by our ancestors.

In modern times, as     5     result of social unrest, climate change, economic change and other impacts, the Grand Canal has been troubled by a series of problems such as river channel cutoff, water     6    (pollute), and water ecological damage. It was once the Chinese people’s dream that the Grand Canal could be restored to the past glory.

    7     the beginning of the new era, many places along the Grand Canal have launched ecological restoration projects. While maintaining the original form of the river course, they have focused on scientific protection and cultural heritage,     8    (highlight) the cultural, historical and ecological value of the Grand Canal.

On April 28, 2022, the Grand Canal was refilled with water for the first time in a century, after a 14-day water-supply project. With     9    (far) development of the project, the Grand Canal has gradually restored the past shipping capacity. Boat tours     10     cargo transportation have become available along the course. The “Golden Waterway” turns clean and lively again.

Yunnan is the hometown of tea. It provides the ideal climate and the ecological environment for large-leaf tea trees, which are located in the     1     (region) along the Lancang River. Thousands of years ago, they formed those ancient tea plantations,     2     are the best gift that nature has grated us.

    3     (preserve) the ancient tea trees, Southwest Chinn’s Yunnan Province has passed a protection regulation recently,     4     (clarify) that wild and cultivated ten plants aged over 100 wars should be better protected in the province. The new regulation, which will come into force starting from March 1, 2023,    5    (prohibit) six kinds of behaviors that harm ancient tea plants and their growing environment. Unauthorized cutting and transplantation of ancient tea trees, carving tree branches, digging the roots,     6    damaging the ancient lea trees are all banned.

Other     7     (legal) practices include using harmful chemical herbicides, releasing waste gas and water, as well as dumping and throwing waste     8     (casual) within the protection range of the trees, according to the regulation.

Yunnan has diverse resources of tea trees. The regulation also advocates proper research and     9    (apply) of Yunnan’s resources of ancient tea trees, raising varieties     10    new tea trees of good quality, as well as the establishment of relevant industrial chains.

Balesin Island lies in Lamon Bay, about 60 nautical miles east of Manila,     1     capital of the Philippines.

My family and I recently visited the small island,     2     is open for members only. The island is known     3     its slogan (标语): “Balesin, the most unique in the world.” What makes it so special? You can experience many     4     (difference) cultures and cuisines (菜肴) from around the world on one island.

Balesin Island is home to villas (别墅) representing several     5     (place), including the Greek island of Mykonos. Depending upon which villa you visit, the food and architecture make you feel like you’re in Bali, Tuscany, or the Greek island of Mykonos. There are also some stand-alone restaurants,     6     (offer) such choices as German, Japanese, Korean, and Mongolian food.

Most of the food     7     (serve) at the restaurants is grown on the island. Activities include bird watching, boating, fishing, gardening, and horseback riding.

J. J. Fernandez, a     8     (tour), said that she fell in love with the island during     9     (she) visit. Being on Balesin, she     10     (add), is like “traveling around the world in just three days.”

Haitian Earthquake shook the Caribbean in 2010. Many people may remember this from the “Hope for Haiti Now” programme    1    aired on television. Within the next day, the fundraising call had resulted in the    2    (collect) of $58 million US dollars. The earthquake    3    (strike) the island of Hispaniola on January 12, 2010. It started 16 miles west of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and killed anywhere between 100,000 to 316,000 people. The estimates of the death toll vary to this day. The magnitude (震级) was relatively low    4    7.0, but the fact that its epicentre (震中) was so close to     5    population centre made it     6     (high) deadly.

Aftershocks of magnitudes between 5.5 and 5.9 continued for almost two weeks. Haiti’s lack (缺少) of building     7    (rule)meant disaster for the country. The buildings floated like rainwater down the streets. Haiti had seen several major earthquakes before this one:1751, 1770, 1842, and 1946. Even though it is a seismically (地震的) active area, a lack of proper services made it even    8    (hard) for the country    9     (deal) with a situation like this. According to the Haitian government’s estimate, the earthquake caused heavy losses,    10    (leave) almost 250, 000 houses and 30,000 buildings in ruins(废墟).

Hua Weiguang,     1     retired teacher from Tongliao, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is a photography enthusiast.

A decade ago, the arrival of tree planters     2     (catch) Hua’s attention and the photos of the tree planters     3     (take) by Hua are evidence of the     4     (remark) transformation of the land. In those photos, hats, scarves and goggles, for the workers fighting desertification, are basic necessities to protect them     5     the wind and sand. There was no way to avoid the brutal summer heat in the land so the workers had to lie down on the ground or curl up in the narrow shade of their cars to cool off. And they also had to eat their lunch amid the blowing sands, taking in the small pieces of sand with their food.

“    6     we don’t fool the tree, it won’t fool you. You take it     7     (serious), and then it behaves in the same way to you. You put efforts to make it live, and the tree lives up to your     8     (expect),” the planters say.

China’s forest resources have increased by over 70 million hectares in the past decade,     9     (rank) first in the world. One tree after another, a green Great Wall has been built. Brush by brush, a green field     10     (paint) over the yellow sandy land up to now.

The population of the earth is increasing very fast. Humans must make the earth support the increasing population. This has made it necessary for agriculture and industry     1     (develop) rapidly.

Such a rapid development produces more and more waste,     2     goes into water, soil or air. When there     3     (be) too much waste, it will do great harm to the environment and people.

When farmers add fertilizer (肥料)     4     the soil to make plants grow better, or use pesticide (杀虫剂) to kill pests, they will go into the soil or the surrounding air. Even     5     (bad), they may go into the grain (谷物). When     6     (bird), fish or people eat the grain, drink the water or breath the air, harm will be done to their health.

The air in some cities     7     (pollute) because of the pollution from the cars and factories. Millions of tons of poisonous gases are sent into the air with smoke. In some places, little is done to make the smoke clean     8     it goes into the air.

    9     (fortunate), people are beginning to realize just how serious the whole situation is. In many countries, laws have been made to prevent factories     10     (send) out poisonous gases. More and more people are taking action to protect the environment.