Rising sea levels are threatening coastlines in China, for example in     1     (city) such as Shanghai, Tianjin and Guangzhou. If sea levels rise by one meter, more than 92,000 square kilometers of China’s coast could be flooded. This could potentially force 67 million people     2     (move) away. Almost two-thirds of the ice in Asia’s glaciers (冰川) could disappear if average global temperature rises beyond 1.5℃ by the end of the century. If that happens, the impacts     3     China will be felt in multiple areas, from water availability, to agriculture, and to biodiversity.

The good news is     4     China is becoming a global leader on climate action. For example, over the last five years, China     5     (use) more solar and wind energy than any other country in the world. China is also the largest clean energy investor in the world —     6     (spend) some $130 billion in new energy in recent years.

The development of electric vehicles is particularly     7     (inspire) in China. More than 50 percent of electric vehicles in the world     8     (sell) in China every year. And China is now a world leader in the     9     (promote) of clean energy technologies.

Ecological civilization has become the cornerstone (基石) of China’s long-term development strategy, much like climate action is     10     important part of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

When Hannah Herbst was in seventh grade, she found out her Ethiopian pen friend, Ruth ,was living in energy poverty(贫困）with fewer electricity, lights, medical     1     (supply) ,or even waste water control systems. “I realized the environment was     2    (importance) at a very young age. I have always been curious, and as a child, I developed my first interest     3    learning about the environment,” she said. So she     4    (create) an ocean energy device(装置）—BEACON，    5     changes the active movement of current energy from any moving body of water into    6     source of usable electricity.

It    7     (make) from 90 percent recycled materials     8     (easy) found throughout the world, including 2-liter plastic soda bottles and recycled spoons.

She is now working on improving the final     9    (invent) of BEACON, and is in the process of running her prototypes(原型）so that others around the world can reproduce her creation, both for fighting energy poverty in developing nations as well as for     10    (encourage)scientific education in classroom worldwide.

Humanity’s ongoing destruction of wildlife will lead to a shrinking (萎缩) of nature, with the average body size of animals     1     ( fall) by a quarter, a study predicts.

The researchers estimate that more than 1,000 larger kinds of animals will die out in the next century. They say this could lead to the collapse (崩溃) of ecosystems     2     are important for humans to get food and clean water.

Humans     3     ( destroy) most large animals from all inhabited (有人居住的) continents apart from Africa over the last 125,000 years. This destruction will speed up     4     (rapid) in the coming years, according to the     5     (late) research.

Animal populations have fallen by 60% since 1970, suggesting a sixth mass     6     (extinct) of life on Earth is under way caused by the ruining of wild areas, hunting and farming. Scientists said this month that human society was     7     danger from the drop of the Earth’s natural life-support systems, with half of natural ecosystems now destroyed and     8     total of a million species at risk of dying out.

The future disappearance can be avoided if complete action is taken     9     (protect) wildlife habitats, and the scientists say the new work can help focus efforts on key     10     (animal).

The world’s largest green initiative turned 40 years this year. The national voluntary tree-planting campaign,     1     (launch) in China in 1981, has seen volunteers plant 76 billion trees across the country since then.

March 12 has been a green-letter day,     2     trees are planted and other activities are held nationwide, boosting the campaign. According to satellite monitoring results, the increase of vegetation in China accounted     3     25 percent of the world’ s total new greenery.

The national campaign has made outstanding     4     (contribute) to the global response to climate change, low carbon development and emission (排放) reduction. It has strengthened desert control and ecological governance. The campaign has become an important way for the Chinese     5     (promote) the concept of ecological progress, boosting common understanding and joint efforts.

However, despite the progress, China is still a country with a low forest cover. Though the green initiative     6     (increase) the forest cover from 12 percent to 23. 04 percent so far, it is still far from     7     (create) the beautiful ecological environment that people are demanding today.

This year marks the beginning of a new journey toward the second centenary goal of     8     ( full) building a modern socialist country in all aspects. Green development and ecological progress     9     (be) the focus of the modernization drive. Therefore, in the 14th Five－Year Plan (2021－2025) period, the campaign will continue to build     10     beautiful China and benefit all humanity.