Creating a Welcoming Society for Guide Dogs
The four-and-a-half-year-old guide dog named Heimengmeng is more than just an assistance dog for Chen Yan — it is her companion as well as her family member.
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Teng Weimin, former vice chairman of China Association of the Blind, said that, there are 17 million blind people in China.
According to international standard based on the above figures, China currently has a requirement of 500 guide dogs, but only approximately 200 are there in the country for the reason that he concept of a guide dog is fairy new, Teng said.
Over the past decade, Chen has been trying to create more public awareness of guide dogs through her books, painting and social media platforms.
The number of guide dogs in China has grown from zero to hundreds, with a many-fold increase in guide dog training centers. A guide dog handler hopes that there will be more supporting facilities to make it easier for blind people to travel around.
“If the society is more tolerant of guide dogs, blind people can walk around more freely.
| A．I feel very grateful. |
| B．My job requires me to travel frequently. |
| C．Of them, about 9 million are in employment. |
| D．Guide dogs are known to be loyal to us humans. |
| E．Her short videos have drawn tens of thousands of followers online. |
| F．So all those who live with total blindness should be allowed to have a guide dog. |
| G．This will bring great benefits to their health, employment, education and family life. |
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【推荐1】On a cold and clear day in February, Wes, his brother Jeff, his assistant Jordan, and I were following the GPS from the bear’s collar( 项 圈 ) up a steep and into a red earth canyon. The temperature dropped to zero as we cleaned the snow, trying to locate the black bear’s entrance.
The radio signal was so weak that as the sun set, we considered turning back. Then a curtain of snow collapsed, revealing a sandstone cave. It narrowed to a dark tunnel, and the musky(麝香味)smell of wild animal steamed from within. Wes didn’t hesitate. Armed with an expandable six-foot stick with a tranquilizer syringe(镇定剂喷射器) on its tip, he dived in headfirst. His brother crawled after him.
Thirty seconds later, they came flying backward out of the tunnel. The bear they’d collared a year and a half ago now weighed about 350 pounds— and he was awake! Wes had managed to jab him with the syringe, so we waited for the drug to take effect. But when we rounded the tunnel bend, wide eyes flashed at us. He was STILL awake!! Wes told me not to move while he backed out and jabbed another dose of tranquilizer.
The bear started crawling toward us. We desperately blocked the exit with backpacks and sticks as Wes jabbed him again— but he powered through our barriers with groggy(头晕眼花的) steps and began to crawl down the snowy slope. Jeff and Jordan held his back paws, managing to hold on to him; Wes jumped on his back and grabbed his collar. The bear pulled them down the hillside together. The tranquilizer had taken effect— he was asleep. Wes and his brother changed the batteries of the collar and checked his health, but we had one more difficult task: getting a 350-pound bear up the snowy path and safely back to his cave before he awoke. We pushed and pulled with every muscle. Before the drug wore off, our effort paid off.
When spring came, signals from the bear’s new radio collar showed he’d continued his everyday life—avoiding any more contact, we hope, with humans.
1. Why did the author and his friends go to the canyon?| A．They wanted to conduct a radio experiment. |
| B．They expected to hunt for a bear for fun. |
| C．They wished to explore the nature in winter. |
| D．They planned to maintain the bear’s radio collar. |
| A．The bear’s unique smell reminded them. |
| B．A hunter led them to the bear’s habitat. |
| C．The strong sunlight revealed its cave. |
| D．A curtain of snow showed them the way. |
| A．Kick. | B．Inject. |
| C．Cure. | D．Assist. |
| A．The bear was more than pleased to see them again. |
| B．The drug took effect immediately after the bear took it. |
| C．They made it to send the bear back to its cave. |
| D．They gave the bear tranquilizer 4 times in the end. |
| A．The Bear Wearing a Collar | B．Danger in Nature |
| C．An Encounter with a Bear | D．A “Little” Adventure |
【推荐2】Shopping online make it easy for pet seekers to choose more pets, which was once largely limited to cats and dogs. Today, one should not feel surprised if someone steps out to show off their uniqueness with a rope on a salamander(蝾螈), just as others walk their dogs. However, the owners might cause a challenge to the nation’s biological security(生物安全).
Many of these unique pets are often caught in the wild, requiring hunters to enter nature reserves illegally to catch these protected species. So when some people pay money in advance to get these rare pets, their crime is no less than that of the hunters. Never thought one could spend a few years in jail for buying a pet, right?
In fact, lots of rare pets were thrown away. The pet owners are likely to throw them away because of a little trouble. Some pet lovers raised crocodile turtles(鳄鱼龟) without realizing that when the animal grows its neck could stretch 40 centimeters long, causing greater challenges. However, when pet owners give up these rare pets, they increase the risks for local species. That is because many of these “pets” are foreign species. They have almost no natural enemies in China. As a result, when they are thrown into the wild, they will destroy the local ecology(生态).
Some of the abandoned “pets” might also be dangerous. In 2014, there were reports that someone had put poisonous snakes into the wild in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.
One way of strengthening monitoring of these rare pets is by strengthening the regulation of online platforms. As most of these rare pets and their food are sold online, it is time the online platform honor their duties and strengthen monitoring, so that the rare pets don’t cause anyone any problem.
There is a reason why humans traditionally pick cats or dogs for pets. Maybe, one should just stick to that simple choice.
1. Why do some people keep rare pets?| A．They dislike the traditional pets. |
| B．They want to show off their uniqueness. |
| C．They feel traditional pets are very limited. |
| D．They try to challenge the biological security. |
| A．Keep rare pets at home. |
| B．Buy pets on online platforms. |
| C．Put a poisonous snake into the wild. |
| D．Throw the foreign species into the wild. |
| A．The ecologists. | B．The sellers of rare pets. |
| C．The online platform. | D．The owners of rare pets. |
| A．Keeping Traditional Pets Is Better |
| B．Walking Rare Pets Becomes popular |
| C．Biological Security Faces Challenges |
| D．The Rare Pets Cause a New Problem |
【推荐3】It was the day before Thanksgiving and Kaleb Benham was wandering around outside his home in Noring California. His 90-pound pit bull, Buddy, was playing around nearby, doing what dogs do: getting into trouble. And this time, Buddy was getting into a whole lot of trouble.
The unmistakable sound that no one wants to hear alone in the woods caught Benham’s attention. It was the deep, strange roar of a black bear. Benham wheeled around to see the beast, which Benham figured weighed around 350 pounds, some 100 feet away. In an instant, the bear fastened on to Buddy’s head and started dragging him away.
Benham, a thin, fit 24-year-old, took off after them. “Honestly,” he told CBS13, “the only thing I could think of was ‘save my baby’.” Sprinting, he lowered his shoulder and plowed into the bear. But it only tightened its grip on Buddy. Benham grabbed the bear by the throat. Nothing. He tried getting its mouth open, but the jaw was locked tight. Benham resorted to street fighting—punching the bear over and over around its snout and eye. It worked. The bear dropped the dog and ran off into the woods.
Buddy was in bad shape. His face was bloodied and ripped up. His ears were dangling. He had a bite mark clear through his lip and one that barely missed an eye.
“My first thought was that I was going to lose him,” Benham said. He scooped up Buddy, put him into his car, and sped off to a nearby veterinarian. Buddy’s surgery took nearly four hours. Benham watched the procedure through a window. “I just stood there,” he said, watching as Buddy’s ears were stapled back on and skin flaps were stitched, and tubes were inserted into his head to drain fluid.
This was the second time Benham had rescued Buddy, says CBS13. The first was from a shelter a few years ago. “If it was your kid, what would you do?” he asked. Nodding toward Buddy, he added, “That’s my kid.”
1. What is the text mainly about?| A．A demanding surgery. | B．A regular routine. |
| C．A fearless pet dog. | D．A daring rescue. |
| A．To show the difficulty of the rescue. |
| B．To indicate the obesity of the bear. |
| C．To prove the excitement of Benham. |
| D．To describe the fear in Buddy’s heart. |
| A．Benham bumped into the beast with dropped shoulder. |
| B．Benham forced open the beast’s mouth with locked jaw. |
| C．Benham crushed the beast’s mouth and nose repeatedly. |
| D．Benham finally conquered the beast by grabbing its throat. |
| A．Complicated. | B．Close. |
| C．Romantic. | D．Healthy. |
