Flash floods hit Longcaogou of Pengzhou, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Saturday. Seven people     1     (kill) and eight others slightly injured. Local authorities announced on Sunday, noting that some tourists     2     were camping in the dried-up river were trapped in the flood after failing     3     (escape) in time.

More than 500     4     (rescuer) are conducting a search of valleys and rivers to find lost tourists over the weekend, said local authorities, adding that at least 15 professional rescue teams,     5     (include) mountain rescue and diving rescue teams, are taking part in the rescue work. The rescue work at the scene     6     (draw)to a close.     7     Longcaogou was hit by floods in 2015 and 2017, it has not stopped tourists from visiting the area.

Meanwhile, Longcaogou has been     8     (wide) recommended on social media platforms     9     a “new Instagram-worthy location” and a “nice holiday resort.” Many bloggers posted pictures of the valley’s beautiful scenery and their trips on     10     lifestyle-sharing platforms with captions recommending that people go there.

When the fire alarm woke her up at 6:50 a.m., Cloe Woods immediately took action.     1     5-­year-­old girl jumped out of bed and found herself     2     (surround) with heavy smoke. Remembering     3     she’d learned on a school field trip to the local fire department in Kenner, Louisiana, she went to wake up her blind grandmother, Claudia Arceneaux, 76, who had lost her sight nine     4     (month) earlier.

Cloe told her grandmother to hold her shoulder as they walked out of their home. Once outside, started looking for water,     5     (think) she could put the fire out herself.

The fire was eventually put out. A firefighter praised Cloe for her     6     (brave)．

“Cloe is ahead of my time,” Shone Arceneaux, Cloe’s mom, said     7     (proud). “Who knows what could have happened     8     it hadn’t been for Cloe? Of course, we owe great thanks     9     Cloe’s school for providing Cloe with the chance to learn about fire safety.”

The family is now at a hotel while the house     10     (repair). Meanwhile, Cloe’s school is raising money to help the family recover.

All-out search and rescue efforts     1    (be)underway on Monday, 21st, Mar, 2022, after a China Eastern Airlines aircraft     2     (carry) 132 people crashed in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in the afternoon-ending China’s 12-year air safety record.

Flight MU5735 left Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, at 1:11 pm and was scheduled to arrive     3     Guangzhou, Guangdong province, at 3:05 pm. Air traffic controllers lost track of the plane over Wuzhou, Guangxi. The flight was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members.

In an instruction issued (发布) shortly after the crash, President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said he was     4    (shock) to learn about the accident and asked for the immediate launch of an emergency response.

Premier Li Keqiang also made     5     instruction on Monday, urging that utmost (最大限度的) efforts     6     (make) to search for survivors and treat the injured. He also stressed that efforts be made     7    (comfort) the victims’ families and provide them with necessary help.

Li asked authorities to release relevant information in a     8    (time), accurate and evidence-based manner, find the cause of the accident and take     9     (measure) to strengthen civil aviation safety management.

More than 640 firefighters from nearby Yunnan and Guangdong provinces were dispatched (急遣) to the crash site. Police officers and members of the People’s Armed Police Force were also sent to the crash scene for search and rescue work,     10     was a clear reflection of local authorities’ immediate response to the emergency.

A 30-year-old man was finally rescued from the Alaskan wilderness after his cabin burned down,     1     (leave) him trapped in the snow for almost three weeks.

Tyson Steele had been living alone     2     several months in a small house in Skwentna, a town     3     (locate) 70 miles northwest of Anchorage. He had been burning a fire in    4     (he) woodstove back in December when a piece of flaming cardboard     5     (fly) up his fireplace chimney and landed on his roof,     6     started a slow fire that eventually left the cabin in ruins. Since Skwentna only has a population of about 35 people, Steele’s     7     (near) neighbor lived about 20 miles away. With no means of     8     (communicate) to call for help, Steele endured sub-zero temperatures     9     severe weather conditions wearing long johns (秋裤), boots with no socks, and a heavy wool sweater.

When his family and friends hadn’t heard from Steele for several     10     (week), they requested a welfare check from Alaska State Troopers. As a helicopter flew over the area, they caught sight of Steele waving his arms in the air next to a massive “SOS” sign that he had stamped into the snow.

Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been     1     (find) 45 miles south of London, they were not taken     2     (serious) by experts from the zoo until enough evidence     3     (be) collected. The     4     (describe) given by people claiming (声称) to have seen the puma were similar. A woman     5     (pick) blackberries said she saw “a large cat”. And a businessman     6     a fishing trip also said he saw the puma up a tree. The experts fully     7     (believe) that the animal was a puma     8     was probably owned by a private collector. The hunt went on for several     9     (week) but no one could catch it.     10     is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.