The Beijing Daxing International Airport is located 46 kilometers directly south of Tian’anmen Square in Beijing. It looks     1     a phoenix (凤凰), and is in the list of Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the Guardian (《卫报》). From 2015 to 2019, it     2     (take) only four years for this great project     3     (complete) ,     4     demonstrates the amazing “Chinese speed”.

The airport covers an area of about 150 square kilometers,     5     the terminal building (候机楼) alone covering 780,000 square meters, equivalent to 100 standard football fields. It is worth     6     (mention) that the clever design takes passengers     7     (little) than eight minutes to walk to any gate from the center of the terminal.

The airport is also an “intelligent airport”, with thousands of intelligent devices and tens of thousands of sensors. The airport     8     (inform) center is run with cutting-edge technologies including cloud computing and 5G, contributing to passenger comfort and     9     (convenient).

With the help of face check-in, self-service check-in, mobile phone query luggage location... in Beijing Daxing International Airport, you can feel the new travel experience     10     (bring) by high technology. More Chinese miracles are happening in this land.

Nowadays, many people are trying to lead more energy-efficient (节能的) lives     1     (protect) the environment. One particular     2     (use) thing people can do is buy an electric car. Most people are aware that electric cars are far more energy-efficient than traditional fuel-burning cars. However,     3     they may not realize is that once they have bought an electric car, the music they listen to while driving also     4     (affect) their energy consumption (消耗).

An experiment     5     (conduct) by a South Korean car maker in 2022 invited a number of drivers to drive their new electric cars. The company asked the drivers, who were all new     6     electric vehicles, to drive their cars over an 18-mile distance, covering a traffic jam, country roads, and expressways. Some of these drivers     7     (require) to listen to Beethoven as they drove, while others were told to listen to a range of pop artists. The results showed that the     8     (relax) nature of Beethoven’s music resulted in those cars less battery power than the cars     9     drivers listened to pop music. This is because pop music tends to have a higher tempo (节奏) and heavier beat.

So, if you own an electric car but still want to make a greater environmental     10     (contribute), you can listen to your favourite piece of classical music. However, if you don’t care about power consumption and want to drive faster, just put on some fast-paced pop tracks!

Lying near mountains and Taihu Lake, Li yang    1    (consider) an important place in the Yangtze River Delta region with an    2    (impress) environment. But places with excellent natural scenery are often hard to reach due to geographical barriers (障碍). Therefore, Li yang No. 1 Road was built as a way for citizens and tourists to get close     3    nature.

The 365-kilometer road     4    (connect) 98 villages, over 220 rural tourist attractions, and seven neighbouring counties and cities.    5    (view) platforms, campgrounds, cafes and other facilities (设施) were built along the road to make it    6    better experience for tourists. In the first half of 2021, despite the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, Li yang still received 4.8 million tourists and tourism revenue (收入) hit 5.7 billion yuan.

Li yang No. 1 Roadis also called “Rainbow Highway” because of the red, yellow and blue lines    7    (paint) in some sections,    8    is the first road in China with three colored dividing lines.

Not only has Li yang No. 1 Road helped with the     9    (grow) of tourism for local business owners and farmers, but     10    (it) iconic (标志性的) rainbow lines have made it an attraction in its own right.

As the world’s longest man-made canal, the Grand Canal is a vast waterway system in the north-eastern and central-eastern plains of China,     1     runs from Beijing in the north to Zhejiang Province in the south.

The Grand Canal (大运河) is one of the greatest hydraulic (与水利系统有关的) projects in human history,     2     (stretch) 1,794 kilometers. Constructed in sections from the 5th century AD onwards, it was built as a unified means of communication for the empire for the first time in the Sui Dynasty. By the 13th century it consisted of more than 2,000 km of artificial waterways, linking five of China’s main river     3     (basin). The canal was     4     important factor for the economy, social     5     (stable) and government functions in ancient China. It also helped the evolution of Chinese culture by enhancing communication     6     the south and the north.

It is widely acknowledged     7     the Grand Canal is precious heritage passed down to us by our ancestors and is flowable culture that should     8     (preserve). China will continue to carry out     9     (integrate) regional development strategies for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Yangtze River Delta region, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and draw up a new national policy for environmental protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin. The purpose is     10     (seek) greater cooperation of opening-up among different parts of the country.

The Silk Road was a network of trade routes     1    (connect) the East and the West in ancient and Medieval times. In addition to silk, varieties of other goods     2    (trade) along the Silk Road, and the network was also important for migrants and travellers, and for the spread of religion, philosophy, science, technology, and     3     (art) ideals. The Silk Road had a significant impact on the lands     4    which the routes passed, and the trade played a significant role in the development of towns and cities along the Silk Road routes.

Many merchants along the Silk Road were involved in relay trade,     5    an item would change owners many times and travel a little bit with each one of them     6    reaching its final buyer. It seems to have been     7    (high) unusual for any individual merchant to travel all the way between China and Europe or Northern Africa. Instead, various merchants specialized in transporting goods through various sections of the Silk Road.

The Silk Road established     8    (early) connection between the East and the West. It was of great significance in the promotion of world     9    (civil) and the progress of human society. Research and development of the Silk Road today continue to have     10    incredible impact.

The Grand Canal of China was first dug in 486 BC, and well developed through the late 6th to early 10th century. From the late 13th until 19th century, with the highest section built and the overall length     1    (shorten), the Canal was turned into a main passage between northern     2     southern China as well as the economic lifeline of the country. Consisting of the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, the Jing-Hang Grand Canal and the Zhedong Canal, the Canal     3    (stretch) over 2, 700 kilometers, crossing eight provincial-level administrative regions and     4    (link) five major water systems. The Grand Canal also connects with the Eurasian Silk Road to the west and extends the water trade route to the east.

The Grand Canal was     5     notable achievement of the ancient Chinese people. Its connection of the political and economic centers played a     6    (centre) role in the political unity, economic     7    (grow) and cultural prosperity of China, and contributed to the livelihood, exchanges and integration of the population along its route.

The Grand Canal     8    (announce) by the State Council as one of the seventh batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level in March, 2013 and registered     9     the UNSECO World Heritage List in June, 2014. This large-scale, living cultural heritage spreads like a huge dragon across the vast territory of China,     10    (it) ripples shining golden scales (鳞片) in the new age.