A: Hello, Kate! You look so happy. What happened?

B: Hi, Paul. I've got good news for us!

A: What is it?

B: Our teacher said she {#blank#}1{#/blank#} take us to go on a school trip tomorrow.

A: Really? Where shall we go?

B: To the lake in the south of our town.

A: Oh, no. That's not a good place for a school trip.

B: Why do you say that?

A: Because the water in the lake {#blank#}2{#/blank#} terrible. I went there last weekend.

B: I can {#blank#}3{#/blank#} believe it. It used to be a beautiful place with flowers and grass, and the water in the lake was very {#blank#}4{#/blank#}.

A: But now everything has changed. There is only rubbish {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

B: How terrible! Let's tell our teacher about it.

A: OK. Let's go.

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Hello, everyone!

    Welcome to Enshi. I'm your guide, LiXia. I'm glad to serve you. I'm sure that you will have fun{#blank#}1{#/blank#}the beautiful city surrounded by green mountains. Today, you will have a walking {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. You'll enjoy not only the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}of nature but also all kinds of delicious food. From now on, You will have four {#blank#}4{#/blank#}time to play and take photos. Attention, please! Pay attention to{#blank#}5{#/blank#}when you lose yourselves in lovely scenery.

    "Oh, poor{#blank#}1{#/blank#}tree!" a bird said," You shouldn't have asked the man to cut down the trees. The tall trees protected you{#blank#}2{#/blank#}you didn't worry about heat or wind and rain. Time went by and you have{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. When you get tall and strong, you can have enough strength to fight against the Sun and the storms. So I don't think you should do that."

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As you walk down the street, an object falls from a tall building and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}you. Who should be responsible for this? Or maybe you try to help someone in danger, but you accidentally hurt the person. Will you get in trouble for this? China's Civil Code(《民法典》) will give you the  {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

On May 28, the National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) agreed China's first-ever Civil Code. With 1,260 articles, it is a collection of laws that is about personal issues, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}property (物权), marriage, family, personality rights, and inheritances (继承). It's like an encyclopedia (百科全书) for social life.

China does have laws that cover these issues. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} , all kinds of these laws are not unified. The Civil Code gathers them into one unified document and makes improvements. With the Civil Code, China hopes to set up a country under the rule of law with {#blank#}5{#/blank#} protection for civil rights.

One special thing about the code is the part about individual (个人的) rights. It's a major innovation (创新) to form the individual rights into one part alone. This part includes laws{#blank#}6{#/blank#} relate to one's body, health, name, image (肖像), and fame.

Some of the laws in this part deal with how new technology is{#blank#}7{#/blank#}.For example, people who use AI face swap (调换) tools to make videos may go against {#blank#}8{#/blank#} image rights. The laws also provide data protection rights relating to possible data leaks by tech companies.

As we know, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were several attempts to draft (起草) a civil code in 1954, 1962, 1979 and 2001. But the conditions {#blank#}9{#/blank#} not good enough. In 2015, China started to work on the present code and{#blank#}10{#/blank#} it after 5 years. This year, the code took effect on Jan. 1.