Once regarded as a geographical disadvantage, Shantang village in Zhejiang province has now become an     1     (attract) tourism destination. It     2     (locate)in the northeastern tip of Guangchen town. It was off the beaten track when the road was not in good condition. However, with transportation improved, the village is connected to Shanghai by a stone bridge     3     a river.

Tourists can enjoy     4     (they) by walking among trees and grasslands, taking in the view of the lake and getting a look at the past through old items such as     5     (sew) machines, radios and photos which are preserved in a museum converted (改造) from an old house. Buses connecting the village to neighboring provinces are up and running in     6     endless stream. Over the past few years, dragon boat competitions and local festivals have been     7     (regular) held to enrich visitor experience. Local authorities have also restored a street     8     dates back to the Qing Dynasty to promote rural tourism in the village.

Shantang now offers sightseeing, leisure and shopping     9     (activity). Favorable policies have been introduced to encourage locals     10     (set) up shops on the streets. Last year, the historical street had 400,000 tourist visits, earning more than 20 million yuan in tourism income.

Young Chinese are increasingly making their voices    1     (hear) and influencing world opinion as they take on more important roles in international organizations and     2    (globe) projects.

At a ceremony in Beijing in April, 2018, singer and actor Wang Junkai     3    (make) the national goodwill ambassador (大使) for the United Nations Environment Programme.

“We young people have a responsibility to protect the environment and secure our future, and I am looking forward to learning from     4     working with the UN family on key environmental issues,” Wang said in    5    (he) speech after the appointment.

“The youth are no longer merely onlookers     6     it comes to environmental action, nor should they be. I will spare no effort in doing everything I can     7    (take) care of our Earth, and I invite everyone to join me in generating a wave of positive action,” he said.

Wang Junkai, or Karry Wang, best known     8    one of the TF Boys group, is one of the leaders on environmental protection and other public welfare topics among the Chinese youth. In 2016, Wang widely shared the online Wild for Life campaign,    9     gained 400 million views. A year later, he publicly spoke out on the urgent need to protect endangered wildlife, calling the animals the “superstars of the planet.” He stresses that young generation’s     10    (participate) will help achieve the sustainable development goals.

The Colombian black spider monkey is among dozens of animals whose live cells and tissue right now     1    (preserve) as part of a new project. Nature's Safe, a charitable     2    (organize) in the UK, is creating the first living biobank in Europe     3    (save) animals that could one day be at risk of dying out. A biobank is a store for biological materials. Nature's Safe takes samples of animals' cells and body tissue and     4    (store) them in the hope that they can revive a species if it disappears.

Tullis Matson, who started Nature's Safe, said, Time is ticking by — there are a million endangered species and some of them have reached a point     5     conservation experts believe they might soon become     6    (extinction)”. So far, the Nature's Safe biobank has stored cells of species     7    (include) black rhino, the pied tamarin, a small monkey native to Brazilian forests,     8    the mouse deer.

It costs around £100 to keep one sample from one animal. The bank aims to store around 50 samples for each species,     9    (take) from separate animals. Matson says that this means "as little as £5,000 could save     10     entire species”.

The 15 wild Asian elephants left their habitat in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in Southwest China's Yunnan province and     1    (move) to the north. 41 days later, the herd traveled to Hongta district, Yuxi city neighboring with the south of Kunming. The     2    (locate) was only 20 km away from Kunming's Jingning district and less than 100 km away from the capital s downtown area. The herd,     3    (original) consisting of 17 elephants in total at their departure time,     4    (report) to leave Xishuangbanna last year.     5     May 24th, a young elephant found alcoholic food at a villager's home and got drunk. Luckily, the baby elephant,     6     overslept, rejoined the unit the next day. The 15 elephants continued their journey. The Asian elephant,     7    (include) on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species as endangered, enjoys Class-A protection in China, the same level as that of the giant panda. Yunnan     8    (be) the only habitat of wild Asian elephants in China. Before the 1970s, the species was threatened due to many reasons, such as an increase in the human population, reduced forestry areas     9     illegal(非法的) hunting. The number of elephants dropped significantly. However, due to determined protection efforts in recent     10    (decade), the Asian elephant population in China has risen from 170 in the 1970s to 300.

Marine (海洋的) creatures have long attracted scientists. Recently, researchers described remains discovered in northeastern Spain,     1    belonged to a turtle named Leviathanochelys aenigmatica. Living during the Cretaceous Period, the ancient turtle nearly matched the largest turtle     2    record.

Leviathanochelys swam in     3     (risk) waters. Its enemies included mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, large water creatures up to 15 meters in     4     (long). Other nearby enemies were sharks and rays. “    5     (attack) an animal of the size of Leviathanochelys possibly only could have been done by large creatures in the marine context. At that time, the large ones in the European zone were     6    (main) sharks and mosasaurs,” said Oscar Castillo, the lead writer of the study that     7    (publish) in the Southern in Scientific Reports.

Scientists found the Leviathanochelys remains near the village of Coll deNargo in Catalonia’s Alt Urgell area.    8    hiker in the Southern Pyrenees saw the bones covered by the ground. To date, researchers     9    (find) parts of the back of the shell (壳), and most of the pelvic (骨盆的) area, but no skull or tail. The bones suggest the creature had a smooth shell similar to leatherback turtles, with the shell     10    (measure) about 2.35 meters long and 2.2 meters wide.

10 . Every year, more than 13 billion plastic bottles are sold in Britain. All of them     1     (use) only once, and only half of them are recycled.

Some think plastic bottles should be banned (明令禁止).     2     think they should be recycled. Others think a returning plan should be brought in to avoid the     3     (pollute) of rivers and seas. That is to say, people will get up to 20 pence back every time they return     4    bottle. A returning plan for bottles is already     5     (success) in Germany, where 98.5% of plastic bottles are returned.     6     (lucky), there are already signs that things are changing for the better. Last year, Selfridges stopped     7     (sell) single-use water bottles. London Zoo announced that it would also ban them. It sold 155,000 plastic bottles,     8    can be filled by visitors from taps. Families visiting beaches this summer are being asked to take part in a plan called “Return To Offender”. The idea is     9     (post) plastic bottles and other litter they find back to the     10     (company) that made them, using their freepost addresses.