The Jingju Theatre Company of Beijing,     1     specializes in jingju, is a very important theater group in China. Jingju is also known     2     Peking Opera.

The theater company was started in 1979 by bringing together different jingju troupes (剧团) from Beijing and other opera schools. It wants to keep its rich traditions alive while also     3     (look) ahead to a bright future. It aims to become famous worldwide.     4     (achieve) this, it takes good care of the artists and the art itself by practicing good theater     5     (manage). It believes it has the potential (潜力) to make jingju even     6     (good).

Since the company was set up, it     7     (travel) to many other countries around the world. like the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, and many more. It performs jingju there, making people     8     (interest) in jingju and Chinese culture.

In recent years, it has been invited to perform in famous     9     (theater) in the United States, like the Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, as well as in the Mariinsky Theatre in Russia. This gives people from different countries a chance to see     10     enjoy jingju.

It was a cold February day. Dangwen and his wildlife monitoring team patrolled (巡逻)along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. That day, they     1     (meet) 220 blue sheep and five white-lipped deer. Through the camera, they found a mother and two baby leopards (豹) — and the babies had grown much     2     (big) than three months earlier.

Dangwen comes from Yunta, a village located in Sanjiangyuan, Qinghai Province on the Tibetan Plateau. Sanjiangyuan serves as an important habitat     3     rich and unique species.

Dangwen is neither officially a researcher     4     an activist. But he has taken upon himself the task of monitoring local wildlife with a team of other villagers, as part of a conservation project driven by the Shanshui Conservation Center,     5     Beijing-based non-governmental organization. When the organization brought up the idea of     6     (organize) villagers to watch over wildlife and protect their lands, Dangwen volunteered     7     (immediate). Having grown up in the village, he knows very well the land, the river and the wildlife, and he is especially proud of the sacred mountains     8     are around all of them. This is the fourth year that Yunta villagers have carried out this monitoring, patrolled the village to identify poachers (偷猎者), and managed rubbish     9     (keep) the land and rivers clean.

Monitoring data shows that local wildlife     10     (population), including snow leopards, are increasing.