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中考英语复习-七年级短文阅读2Show the Beauty of China Through Music Gilad Segev is a famous musician. He loves China and he is working on a project to show the beauty of China. The project is called Project 34. Segev lives in Israel. Over the past ten years, the musician has visited China over 20 times to perform across the country. Z/The more I travel there, the more I like it. I want to tell the story of this beautiful country/7 he said. In June 2020, Segev started Project 34. He planned to write a song for each of the 34 provincial-level regions in China. Now he has written 17 songs and shared videos about them online. Most of his songs in the project are in English. For each music video, he works together with a Chinese musician. For example, in the song about Hubei Province, a Chinese musician plays the guqin, and Segev plays the piano. Thousands of people have watched his music videos. Many people say that they are moved by the songs and want to visit these places. uThrough my music, many people in other countries discovered a side of China that they didnt know before/ said Segev. \ hope the project will help them know more about China and love it as I do.The First Rain On August 14, 2021, it rained at the highest point of Greenlands ice sheet. This is normally the coldest part of the ice sheet, and it had never rained there before. Scientists say it may have something to do with global warming. Greenland s ice sheet is a layer of ice about 3.2 kilometers thick and it covers a huge area. It s one of the planet? s two ice sheets. Normally, it is a very cold place. The temperature there is usually below 0℃. Although scientists have been working there for over 40 years, they have never seen rain there. However; the temperature went up to just above 0℃on August 14, and it rained for several hours. The event was astonishing to everyone. The scientists didn t even have the right tools to study how much rain fell. The reason for this rain is: warm air comes to the area and stops t