It’d be hard to look at pictures of Fenghuang Ancient Town without feeling drawn to the place. Lying in the southwest of Hunan province, the scenic town     1     (regard) as one of China’s most attractive places.

Fenghuang Ancient Town is     2    exceptionally well-preserved ancient town and it features unique ethnic(民族的) languages, customs, arts and many     3     (impress) architectural remains of Ming and Qing styles. The careful     4     (select) of the town site, layout (布局) planning and construction have made wonderful use of the mountain landscape and the water flow    5     (create) a harmonious relationship between human residence and nature. Over 200 ancient residential buildings, some 20 large or small streets and ancient town gate towers are well preserved there. They have given a full display of the intelligence and wisdom of those ancient    6     (architect).

Another element    7    makes Fenghuang unique is its ethnic makeup. Many local residents, both historically and in the present, belong to either the Miao or, Tujia minority. As such, the local architecture, like the typical stilt houses (吊脚楼)    8    (be) unique within China.

Fenghuang Ancient Town has also received modern additions. Every night, the town’s buildings are    9    (beautiful) lit it up, with tourists wandering through the streets    10     fun.

An old man called Li Yubao living in a remote rural area asked his grandson on the phone what gifts he wanted for     1     Spring Festival. His grandson said a word. He     2     (hear) the word “Pegga” for the first time, when he talked with his grandson through the cellphone. He didn’t know what Pegga was. So grandpa Li began an interesting journey     3     (discover) what Pegga was.

Grandpa Li asked his neighbors,     4     nobody around knew the answer. Grandpa Li didn’t give up. He continued     5     (ask) more people in the village     6     (patient). He got a brief answer from a local woman,     7     used to work in the city. She explained to him that “Pegga” was a pink pig in the cartoon. With     8     (imagine), he created a pink “Pegga” model made     9     irons and steels. It amazed his grandson. Although the Pegga made by grandpa Li was not the exact one, his family     10     (member) were moved deeply. They all loved the gift “Pegga”.

The concept of “gap days”     1     (appear) on a variety of social media platforms recently. Unlike a gap year, a gap day means an     2     (extreme) brief period of relaxation and escape from everyday routine. After resting, people will continue to devote     3     (they) to the busy pace of normal life.

Apart from “gap days”, other similar expressions have made     4     hit on the Internet, such as “city walk”, “da zi (activity partner)” and so on. This growing trend of creating new phrases or euphemisms (委婉语) for something otherwise ordinary and common has caused     5     (heat) discussion.

Some people think that these kinds of new phrases better cater to (迎合) people’s mindsets,     6     (show) their optimism. For example, the common expression “taking a walk” is neutral (中性的). But “city walk”     7     (be) the positive version of it, meaning “to explore the city with a curious mind”.

Others disagree, however, and think that it’s simply just a kind of “sugaring up”, satisfying one’s need for showing off. For example, “city walk” is the same as “taking a walk”     8     general. But by calling it a “city walk”, people feel like they are doing something fancier than it actually is.

But no matter how we think of these phrases, they have taken root in our daily lives and have already gained wide     9     (recognize) among the younger generation. So     10     we need to do is not make them out to be bigger than they actually are.

A book on China’ s war survivors    1    (release) capturing the tales from witnesses in World War II in 2015. Li Genzhi, the author of the book entitled “Wartime Civilian Workers in Tengchong”, said it is a race    2     time before they are all gone.

The book draws its interviews from Tengchong,    3     county-level city in southwest China’ s Yunnan Province, which was home to one of the    4    (bad) battlefields in the Chinese People’ s War of Resistance Against   Japanese Aggression seventy years ago.

The book tells stories of civilians     5    voluntarily transported rice and other supplies along a dangerous mountain path for the Chinese Expeditionary Force (中国远征军) in 1944 as    6    planned to reclaim the China-Myanmar border town     7     (occupy)by invading Japanese troops during the war.     8    (continue) rain made it impossible    9    (deliver) food to the Chinese troops by air. So almost 30,000 local people, mostly women,     10     (old) and children, served as porters and took around 300, 000 kilograms of rice from a village on the other side of the mountain, which is 3,000 meters high.

Machu Picchu is an ancient city in Peru, South America. It     1     (build) many hundreds of years ago by the Incas, an ancient South American civilization (社会文明).

Machu Picchu is high up in the Andes Mountains of Peru. There are 3,000 stone steps     2     connect the city’s many different levels. This special stone city is very difficult     3     (get) to because it is so high in the mountains. It has only one way in and a stone wall to protect it.

Millions of people visit every year to see the stone city. The development of nearby towns and damage     4     the environment continue to destroy Machu Picchu. In 2017 the Peruvian government laid down some rules of     5     number of people who can visit Machu Picchu every day and even closed some sections to the public to protect the stone city.

Peru is taking     6     (it) protection of Machu Picchu one step further by starting a program to plant one million trees all around the protective zone that surrounds (围绕) the city. Apart from     7     (be) a really great environmentally friendly idea, the trees around Machu Picchu will     8     (certain) help to protect the historical landmark in many other     9     (way). The trees would help prevent mudslides (泥流) which can be very     10     (danger) and can destroy the site as well. It will also protect the area’s unique animals and plants.

The Shanyang tunnel (杉阳隧道) of the Darui Railway has been completed recently. This project is good for the opening and     1     (develop) of Dali and Ruili in Yunnan province. With the tunnel     2     (finish), the Dali-Baoshan section of the railway is expected to open within this year,     3     (put) an end to the Baoshan’s status as a place with no rail links.

So far, the Dali-Baoshan section of the Darui Railway     4     (complete) all the bridge works and 95% of the station building construction.     5     our surprise, there are 21 tunnels in the Dali-Baoshan section in all.

With     6     length of 330 kilometers, the Darui Railway is a major project in the nation’s network construction plan. The Shanyang tunnel is the last part of the Darui Railway,     7     is the toughest part too. The 330-kilometer rail line     8     (cut) travel time to about three hours and thirty minutes from the current seven hours in the future.

Thanks to the efforts of engineers and workers, the project has been completed     9     (successful). It is believed that this project is key to the boom of     10     (west) regions of China.

As we all know, health is very important. Only when we are     1     (health) can we study well and enjoy life.

However,     2     (much) teenagers don’t pay any attention to their health,     3     (especial) during the holiday. And they spend too much time     4     (watch) TV, playing games and chatting on the Internet all night,     5     is bad for their health. First, this may make them get near-sighted. Besides, their     6     (body) become much weaker. Thirdly, they will lose the chance to communicate with others face     7     face as they never go out, which may have a bad effect on their mental health.

In     8     (I) opinion, they should spend less time in front of the TV or the computer. Go out     9     (take) some exercise, play some sports and visit some friends and have     10     healthy lifestyle.

Food shortages have long been disturbing people in developing    1    (country).Yuan Long ping, he famine fighter once said, “My lifetime pursuit is to ensure all people stay away from    2    (starve).

Since the 1980s, Yuan’s team has offered training courses in dozens of countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia,    3    (provide) a strong food source in areas with a high risk of famine.    4    (global), more than 820 million people were hungry in 2018, according to a UN report. And if hybrid rice is planted in half of the world’s paddy fields(稻田), the     5    (add) yield(产量) alone can feed another 500 million people, said Yuan. Yuan’s team    6    (keep) on making new breakthroughs over the past few years. Yuan’s team was invited to make a plantation of     7    saline-alkaline tolerant rice(海水稻) in experimental fields in Dubai in January 2018,    8    achieved a huge success. China’s export of saline-alkaline tolerant rice and its technique has been considered    9    a way to battle for the world’s food security.

In 2019, Yuan was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the country’s     10    (high) honour, for his contribution to China’s food security and scientific development of agriculture, as well as increasing the world’s food output.

In the coming weeks, China Daily will be publishing special reports focusing    1     the ongoing development of the country’s national park system, looking at areas coming under stronger    2     (protect) and the species benefiting from many new    3     (facility).

The Sanjiangyuan National Park, covering 190, 700 square kilometers,     4     (be) China’s largest such facility. It is about 14 times the area of Yellowstone National Park in the United States and 19 times    5     (large) than the Banff National Park in Canada. Standing at an average altitude of more than 4, 500 meters, the sparsely populated park in Qinghai Province is the ideal habitat for many wildlife species,     6     (include) Tibetan antelopes and snow leopards.

Sanjiangyuan,     7     means “source of three rivers”, is home to the headwaters of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Lancang River    8     (know) as the Mekong once it leaves Chinese territory. As such, the parks has been dubbed “Asia’s water tower”. 2% of the total water volume of the Yangtze River, 49% of the Yellow River and 17% of the Lancang River come from the Sanjiangyuan area, with tributaries providing the rest.

Decades ago, climate change and human activity caused serious    9     (environment) degradation in Sanjangyuan, which resulted in a large number of lakes drying out and wildlife numbers falling    10     (sharp). In 2016, the pilot program for the Sanjiangyuan National Park management system was launched, and the area was officially designated as a national park in September in 2021.

10 . Last week, the Memphis Zoo held a farewell party for Ya Ya     1    (wish) her a safe trip home at the end of this month and to celebrate the 20-year partnership between the zoo and the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens, according to the zoo on Twitter.

Another pair of giant pandas, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, living in the US National Zoo in Washington, has also raised concerns, with videos     2    (post) by netizens showing the two pandas are     3     poor condition with suspected health problems.

The giant panda is known as the national treasure of China.     4     is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, ears and on its rotund body. Being one of cutest animals in the world, they are loved by people of all ages. Fat and     5    (fun), the black and white animals enjoy eating bamboo shoots and leaves. Adult pandas, most of     6     live in southwestern China, are about 1.2 to 1.8 meters tall and weigh about 80 to 120 kilograms. They always serve as ambassadors of friendship between China and other     7    (country).

Many people     8    (special) visit China to see the pandas, which is good for the economy of these areas. In addition, they have increased the status of China in the world as people     9    (impress) with the work that the Chinese are doing to save their wildlife.

The Chinese government has always been doing its best to protect pandas from     10    (harm) or killed. We hope that one day we will have enough pandas to set them free and let them live in the wild.