The total floor area of Chain’s green buildings has been over 6. 6 billion square meters with the country’s efforts to promote high-quality development in urban and rural areas.

    1     (note)China’s achievements of green development in urban and rural areas, Zhang Xiaohong, vice minister of housing and urban-rural development,     2     (stress)the difficult task of saving energy and reducing carbon emissions in urban and rural construction at a press conference on Monday.

The ministry will make continuous efforts     3     (increase)the proportion of green buildings, raise building energy efficiency standards and popularize buildings with extra-low energy     4     (consume)in regions with suitable climate conditions. It will also promote green renovation of existing buildings to improve energy efficiency and make     5     (low)carbon emissions.

China issued a guideline     6     supports green development in urban and rural areas recently. Institutional mechanisms and policy systems for green development in urban and rural areas will be     7     (basic)established by 2025, while green development will cover urban and rural areas     8     a comprehensive way by 2035, with     9     increased cut in carbon emissions, said the guideline.

The ministry will state a 14th five-year plan on urban and rural living environment planning and take     10     (measure)to bring eco-environment, construction and social and cultural environment into line while promoting green development of regions and cities.

Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, wants to clean the Seine,     1    (make) the river swimmable by 2024 when the city will host the Olympic Games. Unfortunately, the Seine has a lot of pollution, which is the addition of harmful materials     2     the environment. Around 360 tons of plastic     3    (find) in the Seine every year.

Lucky for Hidalgo, 11-year-old Raphael is on the case. For nearly two years, he     4    (spend) nearly every weekend with his dad, fishing debris (垃圾) out of almost     5     whole stretch of water. It all started when Raphael saw a YouTube tutorial from someone doing something similar. So Raphael asked his parents for     6     (supply). “I was initially taken back by his request.    7    , once he showed me the YouTube video I ended up being quite impressed,” Raphael’s dad said.

Raphael feels     8    (encourage) by his progress in the last two years. A section of the Seine, he said, is noticeably     9    (clear) than the rest of the river. That’s     10     he started fishing and he hopes he’ll be one of the first to swim in the water once it’s declared safe.

In the southern Turkish city of Antakya, a pregnant woman under the rubble (碎石) of a collapsed building     1     (pull) out to safety by Chinese and local rescue teams on Thursday, three days after the catastrophic magnitude-7.7 earthquake and its aftershocks     2     (strike) the country and northern Syria.

People who lost their homes looked for temporary shelter and food in freezing winter weather and waited by piles of rubble     3     family and friends might still lie     4     (bury). The death toll in Türkiye     5     (rise) to 14,351 so far.

The Chinese rescue team, consisting of 82 members rushed to one of the worst-hit     6     (area) in Türkiye as soon as they landed at the Adana international airport on Wednesday.

    7     (arrive) at the scene, the Chinese rescuers immediately joined their Turkish partners to carry out     8     rescue plan and saved the woman, according to Zhao Yang, deputy leader of the Chinese rescue team.

The team sent by the Chinese government set to join the international rescue effort. As of midday Thursday, 10 Chinese civilian teams     9     places including south China’s Shenzhen and Wenzhou have already departed for or arrived in Türkiye     10     (help) with the rescue work.

Mount Qomolangma is the     1     (high) mountain in the world, but     2     (unfortunate) it is one of the messiest, too. About 4,000 people have climbed Mount Qomolangma since Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay from Nepal first     3     (reach) the summit (山顶) of Qomolangma in 1953. But, unlike Hillary and Tenzing, these tourists have been dumping ( 丢 弃) tonnes of used equipment on the mountain.     4     (bury) under snow in the winter, the rubbish is revealed in the summer when the snow melts.

However, 15 Nepalese artists are taking action. They have worked hard and turned eight tonnes of rubbish into 75 sculptures,     5     are being shown at a hotel in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.

The rubbish used in the artworks was collected by     6     (climber). It includes old ropes, tent poles, oxygen cylinders, drink cans, and even the remains of a helicopter. Kripa Rana Shahi, the project organizer, was looking for a way     7     (spread) awareness about keeping Qomolangma clean when she had the bright idea of     8     (change) the rubbish into works of art. The sculptures range in price from $15 to $2,300. According     9     the report, a part of the money has been given to the artists and     10     rest to environmental organizations to turn the rubbish into gold.

Global warming is pushing the population on polar bears to     1     (it) limit. According to a new study, they could have     2     (few) than 100 years left before extinction.

Polar bears live by hunting seals in the Arctic Ocean, but as more and more ice     3     (melt) in that region, their habitat continues to shrink. Since amounts began to be     4     (precise) measured at the end of the 1970s, sea ice that lasts for more than a year in the Arctic has decreased at a rate of 13% per decade.

Studies show that     5     (decline) sea ice will lead to a reduction in polar bears. They will be unable to bear the effects of climate change over the next several decades, the scientists believe, and will be wiped out by 2100.

“What we’ve shown is that, first, we’ll lose the       6     (survive) of bear cubs. Although cubs will be born, the female bears won’t have enough body fat to produce milk     7     (bring) them along through the ice-free season,” said Dr. Steven Amstrup, chief scientist of Polar Bears International, to the BBC.

The study comes     8       a conclusion that, even in a situation     9     countries achieve a moderate reduction in greenhouse gases, several populations of polar bears will disappear. But Amstrup said, “The animal can still continue to survive if we have     10     urge to keep climate change little.”

Forests, which cover nearly one-third of the world’s land area, are a vital and    1    (price) gift from nature to humanity. Forests have been regarded as a limitless source of many different types of raw materials since ancient times. From food to cooking wood, from clothing to housing, the forests benefit us directly or indirectly in every way.

In the early 1990s,    2    (approximate) 17% of India’s land area    3    (consider) forest land. However, in 1987, the actual forest cover was 64 million hectares (公顷). In the 1980s, the growing population,    4    is in high demand for forest resources, fueled the destruction of forests. Every year, the topsoil    5    (lose) in forest is estimated (估计) to reach six billion tons.

People have become more interested in    6    (conserve) since they realized deforestation threatened (威胁) not only the ecology but also livelihood in a variety of ways. The Chipko Movement is the most famous activist movement of all. In India, local women decided to fight the government in order to save the forests. If a sporting goods company attempted to cut    7    ash trees in their district, the    8    (woman) of Chamoli District, declared that they would “stick to” trees. Since 1973, it    9    (spread) and developed into an ecological movement, inspiring similar actions in other forest areas.    10    movement has slowed deforestation, raised environmental awareness, and showed people’s power.