【推荐1】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2】A dog named Nanuq is back with his Alaskan islander family after going missing for over one month. Nanuq was found over 200 kilometers away across sea ice.

Nanuq _________ in March when Iworigan and her family went to visit friends on another part of St. Lawrence Island. She believes Nanuq together and another dog ran out onto the ice to _________ food. The other dog, Starlight, stayed away for a number of weeks but came home. Nanuq did not come _________.

About one month later, Iworigan said people in the town of Wales began posting _________ of a dog they had found. Her father _________ her the photos and said they looked like Nanuq. Iworigan looked at the photos and yelled(叫着说), “That’s our dog. What is he doing in Wales?” If you look at a map, you can see that the town of Wales and St. Lawrence Island are _________ by a lot of water. But in the winter, most of it is _________. This might have permitted Nanuq to _________ 241 kilometers either floating or running on the ice.

The trip is being _________ as a miracle(奇迹). But no one will ever know everything about Nanuq’s story or how he __________ for so long.

“I have no __________ how he ended up in Wales,” Iworigan said. “Maybe the ice __________ while he was hunting.” Iworigan said the dog probably ate the remains of other animals such as a seal or caught and ate a seal. “He’s smart,” she said.

Nanuq came home to his family on an airplane last week and Iworigan’s daughter, Brooklyn, yelled with __________ when she saw him. The dog had been __________ by another animal leaving scars(伤疤) but was otherwise in good __________ after his longtime away from home.

【推荐3】Chris was born in a cardboard box with three other kittens. He was in a smaller cardboard box marked “free kittens” when Emily found him and took him home. After that, he loved boxes.

He would be ________ a box to sleep in. Chris slept in different boxes, even in Emily’s sock drawer, if she left it ________. He didn’t just sleep in boxes, though. He also enjoyed sleeping in the bedroom of Emily’s dollhouse with toys everywhere. Emily’s mother suggested Chris need a(n) ________ house of his own, but Emily thought little of it.

One day, Emily came home from school and she searched everywhere, but no Chris. ________ , she found the big cat hiding himself inside her mom’s new glass vase. His fatty body almost ________ the vase. “We have to ________ the vase to get him out!” Emily cried. “No,” said her dad, “If the vase is broken, the glass pieces might hurt Chris, maybe we can ________ butter (黄油) to the inside of the vase and pull him out.”

Emily’s mom buttered a lot inside of the vase and her dad tried to ________ the unhappy cat out, but they ________ . Realizing the awkward situation, Emily suggested visiting a ________ . Soon they were at his office with a(n) ________ and buttery cat in a vase. The vet had Emily and her parents ________ in the hall while she gave Chris a shot to make him sleepy.

An hour later, Chris was brought out to his ________ family. Not only Chris, but the vase was still in one ________ ! The next day, Emily brought home a refrigerator box and made it into a rocket ship. Now Chris sleeps in it and dreams of ________ spacemice.

One day, I was walking with my daughter, and we saw a man picking bottles out of garbage cans(垃圾箱). He did not ask us for spare _______, like others had before him. My 10-year-old daughter asked _______ he was doing that, as he appeared to be unclean and possibly _______. I told her he had his dignity(尊严), and was doing what he could to help _______ . My daughter had a 2-dollar _______ I had given her, and she told me she _______to give her money to this man_______ she thought he needed it more than she _______. I agreed. We are on welfare(福利救济), _______we have a place to live, and food to eat. So we followed the man ________ the local store, where he sold his bottles and cans. My daughter walked up to him and gave him the coin. He ________ us loudly as we left the store, and asked God to bless us.

The kindness was repaid to my daughter. When she got to the ________ a couple of months later, she realized she had left her ________ at home and it happened that I had not taken my purse along, either. Then a lady noticed us and saw how ________ my daughter was. The lady gave her the money to go swimming. Surprisingly, it was two dollars, which was the ________ amount as that she had given to the man on the street.

【推荐2】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_____.”