A city without cars would be strange right? But Venice is such a city.

Venice is in the northeast of Italy. It wasn't built on land Beijing or Shanghai, but on more than 110 (island). Seawater is everywhere around the city.

    Even so, travel isn't that difficult. The waterways have always been the best way to get around. There are 117 waterways and more than 400 bridges can guide you where you want to go. People in Venice move from place to place by (boat).

    Water makes the city special, it is also a big problem. Sometimes tourists will have such strange (experience): One moment they walk across the Rialto Bridge, and there is nothing special. But when they come back to the bridge an hour later, it's underwater and everyone is wearing rain shoes.

    Once people used too much underground water. This made the city get (low) little by little. Now the city has gone down by 23 centimetres. Another problem is the rising seawater. The temperature (rise) over the years. This has made ice of the Arctic Ocean(北冰洋) melt. Every year, high waters hit the city autumn and winter. When a lot of water comes， more than half of the city is underwater.

    Scientists are trying different ways (stop) the city from getting even lower. The Italian government has asked some of Italy s biggest companies to build the MOST project, which was planned to be built under the seawater to stop the rising water. Anyway, this project is helping solve the problem.

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    China successfully launched its new heavylift carrier rocket(重型运载火箭) Long March V at 8:43 pm Beijing time, on Nov. 3, 2016. It is the second launch from the Wenchang Launch Centre.

    The rocket, which looked much "fatter" than other Long March rockets, was launched from the Wenchang Launch Centre in south China's Hainan Province, About 30 minutes later, it was successfully sent into an orbit(轨道) about 2, 000 km above the earth.

    The major purposes of the task are to check the design and performance of the new rocket and test the rocket's flight program. The successful launch has made China from a major player in space to a major power in space. The successful launch shows that China has become a real space power in the world.

    The Long March V is a large, two-stage(二级的) rocket and one of China's largest carrier rockets. Its carrying capacity is about 2. 5 times that of the present Long March rockets, which is up to 25 tons.

    The rocket is about 57 metres long. It has eight liquid oxygen rocket engines in four boosters(助推器), two liquid oxygen engines in the first stage and two small liquid oxygen engines in the second stage.

    The new rocket is of great meaning as China's space program. With the heavy lift carrier rocket, China can send more astronauts to the space station and get prepared for exploring the Moon and Mars.