China's icebreaker Xue Long will set sail from Shanghai to the Antarctic. Its captain Zhu Bing said that the icebreaker would first travel to the to－be－built new station before 【小题1】(make) a short stop at Zhongshan station. One of its main tasks is to build another research station in the Antarctic.

Once 【小题2】(complete), the new station would be the country's third year－round station in the Antarctic and the first to be lying 【小题3】 the border of the Pacific Ocean. 【小题4】 other two stations, the Great Wall Station and the Zhongshan Station, 【小题5】(build) in the 1980s. “This time around, we will build a 206－square－meter temporary base, which includes rooms for workers and a platform for large engineering 【小题6】(machine), to improve future construction work，” said Zhang Tijun of the Polar Research Institute of China, 【小题7】 is the assistant leader of the expedition.

Sun Bo, the deputy director of the institute, was 【小题8】(confidence) to say that the construction of the station, which will 【小题9】(certain) meet international criteria for environmental 【小题10】(protect), will be finished as early as 2022.