【推荐1】Eclipse, an adorable dog in Seattle, leaves her house every day by herself to catch a bus to a downtown dog park, where she stays for a couple of hours to exercise and make friends. When she's done,she___ to the bus stop to catch a ride back to her home using the ticket she has been __ to her collar. It's____that the independent woman doesn't need human ____

It all___ when Eclipse's owner Jeff was taking her to the park one day and he was taking too long to finish his cigarette when the bus arrived. Unwilling to delay the __ any longer,Eclipse left him behind, hopping on the bus and waiting a few ___before thanking the driver and___ off at the park. Ever since then, ___ being led by its owner, Eclipse has travelled to and from the local dog park alone.

In a___ on Face book, which has racked up(累积)more than 290,000 shares, Robbie Lauren said that the dog's owner _____realized that Eclipse knew the _52___ like the back of her paw. Soon he____her enough to go on her own, knowing she would always return a couple of hours later, "All of the bus drivers know her and she makes them______"he wrote, “ and many of the ____ passengers enjoy seeing her every day and will often sit down next to her. Even the police have given their __ as long as the bus drivers are okay with the arrangement.”All of the drivers on the route will __ Eclipse if they see her waiting for a lift, before ensuring the bus pulls over at the park if she forgets to press the stop___. Eclipse has even got her own Face book page, with___ 50.000 fans sharing their photos and experiences of the ___dog.

【推荐2】What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the word “culture”？ Do you think of different groups of people across the world with various ____and clothing? What about animals?

Sam Williams,executive director of the Macaw(金刚鹦鹉）Recovery Network in Costa Rica, helps to ___the impact of the decline of macaw populations by taking birds that were born____and releasing them into the wild. But this process is very___

＂In a cage,you can't____them to know where,when and how to find that food, or about trees with good nest sites," Williams told ecologist and writer Carl Safina for the Guardian. In the wild, the parents would be the ones to teach them this important __

This type of knowledge is known as cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge can be___ from the older generation to the newer one. For many species,cultural knowledge is necessary for ___

Culture helps animals to____different habitats.For example,some crows(乌鸦）have learned to put nuts in the middle of the road for cars to drive over. And in other areas, they have learned to do this at intersections so they can____get the food when the cars stop at red lights.

Other important parts of cultural knowledge include things like group identity, using different tools,taking different____routes and using different socializing methods.

These traditions can especially be seen in chimpanzee communities. Cat Hobaiter,who studies chimpanzees in Uganda,said:"It's not just the____of populations of chimps that worries me.I find____the possibility of losing each population's unique culture. That's permanent.”

Culture isn't just for____.Culture is also an important part of life in the wild from using tools to____.

【推荐3】In 1999, Eve and Norman Fertig, a couple, saved a two-week-old shepherd (牧羊犬) named Shana.

One winter several years later, as the Fertigs, both then 81, ________ the injured and hungry animals housed in one of their buildings, a ________ snowstorm blew in. When the couple went outside to check the weather, several trees fell,________ them in a narrow path between two ________. Eve and Norman couldn’t climb over or duck below the ________. For the next two and a half hours, they crowded together for ________ as the snow piled higher. “We were ________,” Eve said. “I thought we could die out here.”

Around 9:30 pm, Shana , who was outside, began ________ toward Eve and Norman in the deep snow. It took her nearly two hours, but ________ she cleared a narrow tunnel(隧道)about 20 feet long ________ the front door of the main house with the Fertigs’ ________.

When breaking through the snow and ________ the couple, the 160-pound dog barked and caught Eve’s jacket and________ the 86-pound woman onto her back. Norman ________ Eve’s ankles, and for the next two hours, Shana pulled the couple through the tunnel.

Thanks to Shana’s ________, they finally reached the house around 2 am., and the Fertigs ________ to get just inside the front door. Extremely ________, they lay there, still. The storm had ________ the electricity and heat, ________ Shana slept next to them all night to keep them warm until the firemen found them.

After five months, Shana’s feet recovered from the injuries she ________ while digging.

【推荐1】It was a usual day for Kathy. She was walking her dog in her neighborhood when some crows (乌鸦) flew over and one of them ________ a baby robin (知更鸟) to the ground. Kathy rushed over.________ , she carried him back home and ________ him in a box lined with grass. He looked like he was in ________ and the fall had injured his feet. “He was so tiny. He couldn’t fly yet; he needed a________ .”Kathy says.

She ________ the bird wet cat food using a tiny paintbrush. “It was like having a human baby,” Kathy says. A week later, she started bringing Squeaker — ________ for his talkative nature— out to her yard, where he would hop in the grass. Soon his feet healed, and his wings grew________ enough to take him up to low branches in a tree. Within a few ________, he was able to spend the night outside in the tree. For the next couple of weeks, every time Kathy went outside Squeaker would fly over and ________ on her shoulder. When she taught him how to dig for worms, he’d stand on her foot — always as ________ to his rescuer as possible. “I really became his mom,” she says. “We ________. I loved this little creature.”

One day, Squeaker decided it was time for him to ________ on his own. He ________, out of sight. Having known that this day would come, Kathy ________ hoped she had done enough to________ the robin for the big world out there.

One month later, Kathy was ________ when Squeaker swooped (俯冲) down on a branch right near her head. “I was so happy to see him and to watch him flying so well. I think he wanted to show me he was okay,” says Kathy holding back tears.

“We don’t think of the common bird as anything ________, but Squeaker taught me so much with his love and his ________ to recover. It was inspiring. It’s a(an) ________ of how connected we all are. ”

【推荐2】I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself. And _________ assigned (指定) a seat by the teacher, I always _________ to sit at the back of the classroom.

All this _________ after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher suggested I _________ for the basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy idea because I didn’t have a good sense of balance, nor did I have the _________ to keep pace with the others on the team and they would tease me. But for the teacher who kept insisting on my “_________ for it”, I wouldn’t have decided to give a try.

Getting up the courage to go to the tryouts was only the _________ of it! When I first started _________ the practice sessions, I didn’t even know the rules of the game, much less what I was doing. Sometimes I’d get _________ and take a shot at the __________ direction—which made me feel really stupid. __________, I wasn’t the only one “new” at the game, so I decided to __________ on learning the game, do my best at each practice session.

I practiced and practiced. Soon I knew the __________ and the “moves”. Being part of a team was fun and __________. Very soon the competitive part in me was winning over my lack of __________. With time, I learned how to play and made friends in the __________—friends who respected my efforts to work hard and be a team player. I never had so much fun!

With my __________ self-confidence comes more praise from teachers and classmates. I have gone from __________ in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call attention to myself, __________ raising my hand—even when I sometimes wasn’t and not 100 percent __________ I had the right answer. Now I have more self-confidence in myself.

【推荐2】I had a student today who got his finger stuck inside a test tube (试管) in science class. It was really quite stuck. This young man’s finger ________ to get whiter and whiter right before my eyes.

Remaining ________ , I suggested he carefully rotate (转动) the tube. It wouldn’t move a bit. He ________ soap and cold water. Still stuck. Meanwhile students were getting ________ in the class. Finally, I ________ the young man to our secretary, who was a miracle (奇迹) worker ________ three kids of her own. With her help, I was ________ that all would be OK.

To get the students back in order, I ________ my own story of getting my ________ stuck between the rails of a balcony (阳台). With same kind of curiosity, I remembered ________ then how far I could thrust (塞) my knee between the rails. Inch by inch, I kept ________ and before I knew it, my knee was stuck and swelling (肿) before my ________ and in front of lots of ________ at a popular Las Vegas hotel!

Hearing my story, many students followed with their own ________ of heads, arms, fingers stuck in places they shouldn’t be. A few minutes ________ , the young man came back, test tube unbroken and finger ________ to a lovely shade of pink.

I just couldn’t ________ this kid. He’s only twelve. I too got my knee unstuck, but not without great _________. The excuse for me, however, was not ________ but plain stupidity. I was ________ fifty years old when this happened.

【推荐3】A young Scottish lady, like a lot of teens today, got tired of home. The daughter objected to her family’s_____lifestyle and said, “I don’t want your God. I am leaving!” She left home. Before long, she was disappointed and unable to find a job, so she took to the streets to do everything she could to_____. Many years passed by, her father died, her mother grew_____, and the daughter became more and more stubborn in her way of life.

No_____was made between mother and daughter during these years. The mother, having heard of her daughter’s whereabouts, went to the poor part of the city in_____of her daughter. She stopped at_____of the rescue missions (收容所) with a simple speech. “Would you allow me to_____this picture?” It was a picture of the smiling, gray-haired mother with a handwritten_____at the bottom: “I love you still … come home!”

One day the daughter wandered into a rescue mission for a hot meal. She sat_____listening to the service, all the while letting her_____wander over to the bulletin board. There she saw the picture and thought, could that be my mother?

She couldn’t_____until the service was over. She stood and went to look. It was her mother, and there were those words, “I love you still … come home!”_____she stood in front of the picture, she wept. It was too_____to be true.

It was night, but she was so_____by the message that she started walking home._____the time she arrived it was early in the morning. She was afraid and_____her way timidly. As she knocked, the door_____open on its own. She thought someone must broken into the house. Concerned for her mother’s_____, the young girl ran to the bedroom and shook her mother awake and said, “It’s me! It’s me! I’m home!”

The mother couldn’t believe her eyes. They fell into each other’s_____. The daughter said, “I was so worried and thought someone had broken in.” The mother replied gently, “No, dear. From the day you left, that door has never been_____.”