Standing on the top story of Basantapur Palace in Nepal, Yuan Mengxi is having a hard time connecting today’s reality with     1     she saw seven years ago.

The palace complex, located in the middle of Durbar Square in the country’s capital Kathmandu, was badly damaged in     2     massive earthquake in April 2015. The 9-story palace, a tourist landmark, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979.

The palace not only has great historical     3     (significant), but is also an architectural feat (功绩).

“You can see the whole place from here, and everything is beautiful and     4     order,” says Yuan, a 33-year-old originally from Zhengzhou, the capital of Central China’s Henan province. She is     5     (current) working for the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage and is in charge of a team sent     6     (rebuild) the palace.

She made her first work trip to Kathmandu in October 2015, six months after the earthquake     7     (shake) the city.

She says she was in shock     8     (see) the city after the quake at the time. Heritage buildings in Durbar Square     9     (destroy), with wooden statues buried and spread over a wide area. “Kathmandu Valley was still covered in the dust from the quake,” she recalls.

After the earthquake, both the Chinese and Nepali governments agreed to launch a project     10     (intend) for restoring the nine-story Basantapur Palace complex.

Zheng Chunhui, a wood carving craftsman for nearly four decades, has recently been busy with a new creation—a wood carving 100 meters long     1     2. 6 meters high, depicting(描绘)the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. In his carving, Zheng     2     (hope)to show local traditions and customs of the areas along the canal’s route.

Born in 1968, Zheng     3     (become)a wood carving craftsman in 1983. His birthplace. Putian. Fujian Province, is known     4     Putian wood carving. “I was     5     (real)interested in painting and other arts during childhood, so I chose to become a craftsman,” Zheng said.

His love of painting can     6     (see)in his wood carvings. Similar to the landscape themes of     7     (tradition)Chinese paintings, Zheng’s artworks are also about nature. “I often draw my inspiration from the poems and paintings of ancient     8     (artist), and then express my understanding of them by creating new works with different types of wood,” Zheng said.

    9     (exhibit)his works and promote the craft, Zheng opened a wood carving gallery in Putian in 2015, the first run by an individual artist and free to the public.

Zheng plans to finish the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal wood carving in three years. “     10     will take a lot of time and energy to complete, but I am confident in my skills and experience,” he said.