A farm in England has started to conduct cow yoga (瑜伽) classes to help improve fitness,     1     might seem strange to you.

The class,     2     (hold) on the farm, gives people a chance to enjoy exercising     3     (outdoor) with cows. Animals     4     (think) to be able to help lower the level of stress.

The cows live at Paradise Farm in Lancashire. They also get special     5     (treat). When they’re not helping during a yoga class, the cows are kept entertained with music by     6     (artist) from Mozart to Madonna. The cows even get to rest on individual mattresses (床垫).

    7     recent study showed that UK adults spent 40% of their hours awake     8     (watch) television. Furthermore, the amount of physical activity people took part     9     between March and June during the pandemic dropped by over a quarter.

Azhar Zoug, managing director at Lancashire Farm Dairies, said, “Yoga is the perfect activity to get the public moving.     10     (good) of all, it’s a great way to enjoy the countryside and walk with these wonderful animals.”

Without the usual smoggy days, local     1    (resident) have been happy with the air quality since the heating season started. They open the window to air their homes. In social media, pictures of blue skies and white clouds     2    (frequent) appear,     3    (show) people's excitement with the clear days.

In Shanxi,     4     major coal production province, burning coarse coal(粗煤)for heating used to be a main source of air     5     (pollute). The government has been striving to change all this. It has launched a campaign to replace coarse coal     6     clean fuels for heating since 2017.

More than 38 percent of the heating companies- in Shanxi had applied advanced equipment with higher efficiency and     7    (low) emissions (排放)by the end of 2019,     8     (compare) with 25.5 percent at the end of20l7. It     9     (estimate) that the number can reach 50 percent by the end of this year,     10     is the goal of the government.

Earth is setting heat records. It will be much hotter one day. But     1    hot could it get? As a heat wave     2     (roast) the western United States last week, temperatures in California's Death Valley rose to 130 degrees Fahrenheit,     3     (mark) the hottest temperature measured anywhere on Earth since 1931 and the third hottest day ever recorded on our planet. It's difficult     4     (forecast) how hot Earth might get if we keep jamming carbon into the atmosphere,     5     (expert) say. As Michael   Wehner, an extreme weather researcher, put it in an email, "    6     increase in temperatures of future heat waves     7     (depend) a lot on how far into the future and how much more carbon dioxide we send out. ” But a recent research     8     (exact) tells people what the heat waves of tomorrow could look like if we don't control our carbon emissions (排放)at all. By the end of the century, heat waves in California could top out at temperatures about 10 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit     9     (high) than they do today, "I would expect that an event of the same rarity (罕见)     10    Today’s 130°F would be about 140°F in that high-emission future,” Wehner says.

Pioneering underwater photographer David Doubilet is a master craftsman,     1    combines technology and capture (捕捉) life underwater,         2    (bring) images back to the surface for those who might never see those sights with their own eyes. Entering the sea as a journalist, artist, and         3     (explore), Doubilet documents both the beauty and the   devastation (破坏) in our oceans.

He believes that the photography has the power         4     (educate), and influence change. Doubilet is deeply concerned about the future of the oceans. When he     5       (ask) what sort of powerful stories he’d like to tell through his work, he says, “Right now, we’re   telling the most     6    (meaning) story in the world. Doubilet and his wife, Jennifer Hayes, are working on a National Geographic project     7     (name) “Coral Status, the Science and the Future”.

They are looking at coral worldwide to see how it’s changed, and changing. “A lot of climatologists are thinking coral may be one of     8     greatest indicators (指示者), the thermometer of the health of this planet. We’re looking at reefs that are thousands     9    years old, and in the last four and five years they have     10    (complete) died. That’s what happens when you have a warming ocean.

On April 16, a fire     1     (destroy) the spire (尖塔) and roof of the 580-year-old cathedral Notre Dame (巴黎圣母院). Citizens of Paris gathered around the giant church,     2     (sing) hymns (圣诗) and praying. The church,     3     was built in 1163, is a historical and     4     (art) treasure. It combined Gothic art with Christian architecture     5     it led to taller and     6     (awesome) churches throughout Europe. Notre Dame is also home     7     many religious artifacts (手工艺品), paintings and sculptures.     8     (fortune), its world-famous stained glass rose windows survived the fire. Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel, the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, brought the church to the world’s attention. French President Emmanuel Macron promised     9     (reconstruct) the building. “ Notre Dame is our history, it’s our literature, it’s our imagery,” he said in     10     public speech.

In August 2014, paleoanthropologist (古人类学家)Yingqi Zhang and his team went down into a sinkhole on the hunt for Gigantopithecus, the largest known primate(灵长类动物)to ever live. They came back out with a mix of bones from the unfortunate     1     (creature) that had fallen into the natural "death trap". None of those bones belonged to the extinct ape, but the team was in for a surprise: The mix included a 22,000-year-old lower jaw from     2    ancient panda. And within its worn edges, the jaw contained     3     is now the world’s oldest sample of panda DNA. Moreover, the genetic evidence     4    (show) that the bone comes from a     5    (previous) unknown lineage of giant panda. This animal may have been specifically adapted to    6    (live) in its subtropical home, suggesting that the black-and-white beasts were once much     7    (diverse) than they are today, the authors argue in a paper     8     (publish) in the journal Current Biology. While the     9     (conclude) about panda diversity is probably not revolutionary, the team's work collecting ancient DNA from the degraded fossils is     10     great significance.

Since     1     first fully artificial plastic was invented in 1907, humans     2     (find) innumerable uses for the material. It has found     3     (it) way into our tools, our clothes and even our bodies. In a new study in     4     (environment) science and technology, researchers estimate the average American eats more than 50,000 pieces of microplastic particles,     5     (small) than 5 millimeters in length every year and breathes in another 50,000. Although the health     6     (effect) of consuming these tiny bits of plastic are unclear, researchers stress the real volume that people are     7     (casual) swallowing is alarming. The largest contributor came     8     drinking bottled water, in     9     the bottle itself added more than 32 times more plastic to a diet     10     (compare) with tap water, The Guardian reports.

8 . China’s first overpass for wildlife migration has already come into use. The bridge     1    (lie) over the newly constructed National Highway 214 is able to link animal habitats separated by the road.     2    (cover) with sand―much like the surrounding land, the overpass can fit in with the environment well.

It’s about two years since the national highway     3     (begin) and it is designed with environmental protection as a top priority. A project environmental engineer for the highway said they based the construction of these man-made corridors（通道）    4     years of observation of wildlife migration in the region. The bridge, for example, is built according to the region’s natural conditions and with     5     purpose of reducing the highway’s effect on the animals significantly. Wildlife overpasses and underpasses assist animals     6     (safe) crossing over or under busy roadways and allow them to continue to use their customary paths,     7     would otherwise be blocked.

Those passageways, with a total     8     (long) of 59 kilometers, enable antelopes and other animals to cross the railway freely. So far, China has put great effort into achieving     9     (harmony) coexistence between human development and the protection of wildlife. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world’s     10     (high) railroad, has 33 underpasses for migrating animals.

Windsor Castle is surrounded by a lot of green gardens in the English countryside. It looks out onto the River Thames and sits next     1     a hunting ground. It was built just outside of London     2     (protect) the capital from the enemies on the west side.

Windsor Castle is the oldest and largest castle     3     (occupy) in the world. The castle has a long, rich and troubled history.     4     the castle walls could talk, they’d have many stories to tell.

Kings were born and     5     (die) here. It’s been used as the home of kings and queens for centuries. However, it was also used as a prison during the English Civil War II, the royal family     6    (secret) slept at Windsor Castle because it was safer than London’s urban areas.

Today, Windsor Castle is the private home of Queen Elizabeth II. When she doesn’t meet guests at Buckingham Palace, she goes to Windsor Castle.     7     that’s not all. Windsor Castle is open to the public. It is now one of England's most popular tourist     8     (attract). Visitors can look at some of the finest artworks,     9     (include) the paintings of Rembrandt as well as the well-kept gardens. Is there a better way to learn about England     10     to enjoy some of the country’s finest scenery?

We all know how good nature can make us feel. The sound of the ocean, the smell of a forest and the way sunlight dances through     1     (leaf) help us to relax and think more clearly. The idea     2     humans own a deep biological need to connect with nature has been called "Biophilia",     3     (mean) "love of life and the living world". Yet, according to the United Nations Population Division, so far the number of us going to urban areas     4     (grow) sharply. By 2050, it is estimated that a shocking sixty-eight percent of the world's inhabitants will live in cities. Cities are wonderful places — full of     5     (excite), innovation and energy.    6     living in a city can be stressful. And the more we live in them,     7     more stress we have, leading to increases in mental illnesses     8     depression and loneliness. The good news is that the global science community continues to explain the medical benefits of nature on the brain. Through conducting research and sharing information with different organizations, new ideas are being carried out that encourage us     9     (step) out of the fast street and reconnect with nature in a     10     (rapid) changing world.