Listen and fill in the missing wordsMyanmar officials are making plans for a $6 billion hydropower dam in Shan State. The hydropower dam project has fierce critics, including Shan state residents. They say the project will flood an area nearly the size of Singapore and destroy 100 communities.Ethnic Shan ......(1)..........(2)........and environmentalists are appealing for help to fight the "Mong Ton" project. It is just one of fivehydropower projects ......(3)......(4)... the Salween River.About 16 Shan organizations released a statement in Bangkok this week. It said Myanmars government would ...(5)....(6).........(7) ... troops to secure land for the dam project. The groups warned that an increased ....(8).......(9)...... could restart civil war. The statement noted that the area is already unstable.The proposed 241-meter high dam ....(10)......(11)........ more than 7,000 megawatts of electricity. Almost all ...(12)....(13).....(14)..... to be exported to China and Thailand.Mong Ton would be Myanmar's largest hydroelectric dam and the tallest dam in Asia, except for China and India.Pianporn Deetes is with the Thai office of the ....(15).....(16)....... International Rivers. In his words, "Not ....(17)....(18)..... are on this river ...(19).Dam Project Involves Australian FirmThe Shan ethnic group has been involved in several civil wars with Myanmars central government over ...(20).....(21)....... The Shan held several protests in April and May ....(22)....(23)...attempt to halt work on the project. At the time, a large Australian company was ...(24).....(25)... and...(26) .....(27) ..... studies. The company is Snowy ....(28).... Engineering Corporation, or SMEC.The statement from Shan groups criticized SMEC's study process. It said the process ...(29).....(30)........ and that the company planned to support the project from the ...(31).The statement criticized the actions of ..(32)...(33)..... last month. It said they "angered local villagers by only explaining the ...(34).....(35).... of the dam, giving them gifts' which they saw as bribes, and ...(36)... them to sign documents they didn't understand."This ...(37)..... happened a month after Australian Federal Police ...(38).... International headquarters in New South Wales. The police were said to be ...(39).........(40) of foreign bribery.Australian investigators have not said whether the ...(41)......(42)...... involves the project in Myanmar. SMEC has not answered questions from VOA about the ....(43)...... made by dam ...(44)..China, Thailand Back $6 Billion ProjectThe $6 billion project involves China's Three Gorges Corporation, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, Myanmar's Ministry of Electric Power and International Group of Entrepreneurs, or IGE. Local media say the sons of a powerful ....(44).....(45).... minister control IGE.Myanmar, also known as Burma, has long planned to build a dam in the area. A Japanese company did the first ....(46).....(47)... in 1981. There was a ceremony in 2007 to open the project. But, little work has been done ..(49).The dam is expected to take ....(50)....(51).... to build. Separate ethnic armies in Shan state have ...(52) .....(53)..... against the central government. The state also is home to most of Myanmar's opium ...(54)....(55)..Local environmentalists say Chinese workers ....(56).........(57).... the dam project have been in the area for ...(60). Some of the Chinese workers were ...(61)...in May 2011 and later rescued by a Shan army. Since then, thousands of Myanmar ...(62)....(63)....... and police have guarded in the area. They sometimes fight with ethnic....(64).Shan community groups say the security forces ....(65).......(66)..... along a 32-kilometer stretch of the Salween. The groups say the security forces ....(67).....(68).... not involved with the project.Few people live in the area that activists say ....69).....(70).. A government campaign against rebels in the late 1980's forced about 300,000 Shan ...(71).... to (72)..The Shan statement from Tuesday says, "The remaining (rural) communities continue to suffer from ...(73)..... committed with impunity by government troops.The Salween is one of the longest free- (74).....(75)...... in the world. It runs 2,800 kilometers from the mountains of Tibet through China, Myanmar and Thailand. Its waters ...(76)...(77).... the Andaman Sea.Myanmar's government has not ...(78)....(79)..... the villager's objections to the project. Officials in the past have praised the Salween dam projects as helpful to the ...(80).......(81)..... populations. They have said the dams will help make electricity for Myanmar and lead to ..(82).But, critics say the dam will help only ...(83)... and ...(84).... people in Thailand and Myanmar. They say those people will profit from selling electricity around a region of fast-...(85).....(86)..Im Caty Weaver.