【推荐1】My daughter has been crazy about raising a pet for a long time.

Last spring I bought two small chickens for her. She got excited and ________ good care of them. ________, a few days later, both chickens died. She burst into tears because of their ________. I helped her bury the two chickens under a tree behind our house. I thought it would be the end of her idea.

However, I was ________. Children are children after all. The ________ hasn’t upset my daughter in ________ way. She still tried to keep a small animal or even a snail.

One day last winter, I noticed a ________ of sparrows (麻雀) under the eaves (屋檐) of the house. So I told my daughter to put some rice on the windowsill (窗台). A few minutes ________, the sparrows came to land on the windowsill one after another and pecked (啄) at the ________. Suddenly my daughter asked me, “Mum, can we catch and cage (圈养) the sparrows, and let them live with us in the room? How cold it is for them to live ________.”

“Oh, my dear, I do not think it is a good idea. You know,” I ________ to her. “________ is important for sparrows. No one can keep them in a cage. If they are _________, they will die quickly. They are used to living in the open air. Moreover, they have warm nests under the eaves.”

From then on, we have ________ a kind of relationship with the sparrow family. We feed them and treat them as pet birds. ________, we do not need to possess them. We enjoy seeing these little birds flying and jumping among branches, leaves and flowers in the spring morning.

【推荐2】Many children may be fond of animals, but few ever think of making the study of animals as their career. Even fewer will be ________ by the whole world, enjoying the title of United Nations Messenger (使者) of Peace.

But one woman has ________ all that. She has lived with chimps in the African forest for many years and made great ________. Jane Goodall’s lifelong interest in animals began at an early age. By the age of 10 or 11, Goodall ________ going to Africa to live with animals. This was quite a strange dream in those days, as young ________ didn’t think of having such “wild” actions. But she was ________ by her mother. She told her that if she really wanted something, she should work hard, take advantage of ________ and never give up looking for a way.

When a close friend invited Goodall to Kenya in 1957, she readily ________ it. Within a few months, she met the famous anthropologist (人类学家) Dr Louis Leakey, who decided that Goodall was the special person he was looking for to begin a ________ of wild chimps on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania.

In the beginning, studying the chimps was not ________ for her. The animals fled from her in fear. With a strong ________, she searched the forest every day, trying not to get too close to the chimps too ________. Gradually the chimps became used to her presence.

In October 1960, she observed a chimp making and using ________ to fish for termites (白蚁). This discovery threw ________ on the popular idea at the time that man was the world’s only toolmaker. The longer Goodall’s research continues, the more it becomes obvious that chimps are very ________ to humans.

【推荐3】One day, Debbie’s doorbell rang out of the blue. It was 16-year-old Amy from next door: “help, my brother Dylan is _________”she shouted.

Debbie and her sister Ellen ran to their house to find 8-year-old Dylan bleeding heavily from a huge _________ in his arm. Amy had been _________ Dylan while their mum had popped out to the shops. Dylan had fallen while running through the house,_________thrusting (猛推) his arm through a glass door panel.

Debbie had some _________ knowledge of first aid and knew what to do “I knew I needed to apply pressure to stop the bleeding. I _________ a towel from the bathroom and used it to press on the wound.” she said.

Dylan was crying and shaken so Debbie spoke _________ to him while pressing on the towel to stop the blood flow. She told Ellen to _________ an ambulance since she knew the cut would need medical treatment. Amy was so upset by the _________ of Dylan’s blood that she had to go and __________ in another room.

Just as the ambulance pulled up, Dylan’s mum came home. She was deeply __________ but immediately hugged Dylan and held his arm, then the two of them travelled to the __________ together in the ambulance.

After 8 few weeks, the wound had healed and Dylan was __________ the scar on his arm to local children. Dylan’s mother thanked Debbie and Ellen the day after the incident. “All of us __________ it to ourselves to learn first aid,” Debbie said. “I never __________ I’d need to use my first aid skills so soon, but I’m very glad I knew what to do.”