1 . In the vast ocean, nature wonders never stop to amaze us. On October 18th, in Australia, some beach goers _________ a mother humpback whale (座头鲸) and her kid too close to the beach, letting out loud screams, possibly getting _________. They reported it to the rescuers _________.

Malcolm Smith and his rescue team _________ soon. They found the report was true — the two were far from their _________ route. During this time of every year, Antarctica _________ plentiful sources of food. The humpback whales _________ along the Western Australian coast, heading for _________ food in Antarctica. Smith tried a lot to guide them back but in vain. Suddenly, a group of dolphins came _________ through the water. They took the task upon themselves to __________ the hopeless situation.

The amazing __________ was caught on video and shared on social media, leaving hundreds and thousands of viewers __________ the cooperation between these beautiful animals. In the video, as the dolphins __________, the two whales follow willingly, gracefully swimming straight out, to their __________.

The remarkable sight reminds us of the unbelievable __________ that exist in the animal kingdom. “The clever dolphins must have heard the whales’ helpless calls.” Smith said, “It is the __________ day of my life.” Smith said. The Dolphin Discovery Centre expressed their heartfelt __________ on social media to those who reported the __________ whales. This kind __________ is a reminder of the importance of working together in __________ the sea ecosystem and its brilliant animals.

2 . Better starve free than be a fat slave. There is nothing worth so much as liberty.

There was once a Wolf who got very little to eat because the dogs of the village were so wide awake and _________. He was really nothing but skin and bones, which made him very_________ to think of it.

One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog who had _________ a little too far from home. The Wolf would gladly have eaten him then and there, but the House Dog looked so_________. So the Wolf spoke very humbly to the Dog,_________ him on his fine appearance.

“You can be as well﹣fed as I am if you want to,” suggested the Dog. “Leave the woods; there you will live miserably _________ you have to fight hard for every bite you get. Follow my _________ and you will live a beautiful life.” “What must I do?” asked the Wolf. “Chase people who carry walking sticks and _________ at beggars. _________ you will get delicious food of every kind — chicken bones, meat, sugar, cake and much more, besides, not to speak of kind words and care.”

The Wolf had such a beautiful vision of his coming happiness that he __________ wept. But just then he noticed that the hair on the Dog’s __________ was worn and the skin was red and sore.

“What’s wrong with your neck?” “Nothing at all,” replied the Dog. “What? Nothing?” “Oh, just a trifle!” the Dog added, “Perhaps you see the mark of the collar __________ which my chain is fastened.”

“What? A chain!” cried the Wolf. “Couldn’t you go wherever you want to go?” “Not always, but what’s the __________?”refuted the Dog.

“All the difference in the world! I don’t care about your feasts and I wouldn’t take all the tender young lambs in the world at that __________. ” insisted the Wolf. And __________ ran the Wolf to the woods.

3 . Rico, a friendly and caring cat, has become an unexpected _______ of comfort and support for injured kittens (小猫) in a veterinary clinic in Casablanca, Morocco.

While resident cats in veterinary clinics are not _______, Rico’s devotion goes above and beyond. He can often be found curled up (蜷缩) next to young patients, purring (发呼噜声) softly and offering them a sense of _______ during what can be a stressful time. The clinic’s staff has _______ that the injured kittens seem to relax and _______ more quickly when Rico is _______.

It seems that Rico _______ the needs of these tiny patients better than anyone else. His caring nature shines through as he _______ interacts with them. His _______ is truly comforting in a place that can be filled with ________ for both animals and their human ________.

Rico’s story is a reminder of the incredible ________ that can exist between human beings and animals and the comfort they can ________ to one another, even in unexpected places like a veterinary clinic. It also proves how ________ being caring is and that kindness knows no bounds, not even ________.

4 . One day a little mouse was thirsty. She looked everywhere for water to drink. She climbed up onto a table. And she saw a bottle on the table. The mouth of the bottle was _________.The little mouse looked inside the bottle. “Aha, there is _________milk in it. That’s great!” She went into it and began to drink.

She drank and drank. After a moment she had drunk enough. Her stomach was too big and she couldn’t come _________the bottle. She cried for help. Just then a cat camp up to the table. When the cat _________the cry he jumped onto the table so _________, and said, “You’ll be my nice lunch!” The little mouse was very clever and she _________for a moment and said. “Brother Cat ,you mustn’t roll the bottle.” _________?” asked the cat. “I would get dizzy (头晕目眩的)”， said the mouse. The cat said that he would let her _________soon. So he began to roll the bottle. Suddenly the bottle fell down onto the floor and broke into _________. The little mouse ran __________as fast as she could. When the cat jumped off the table and ran after her, the mouse had already gone into her home.

5 . My dog Chi Chi always has a smile on her face. However, before my family adopted (收养) her, her life was pretty _______. It’s hard to believe this sweet dog was once left in a dustbin (垃圾箱). Her _______was injured and she was in pain. But when the rescuers got to her, her eyes shone with _______and she was trying to get to them. Her rescuers drove her to the closest hospital to get her _______. The vets there _______her by fitting her with a prosthesis (假肢) and shared her _______on the Internet.

That’s how my parents and I first _______her. For weeks, we _______Chi Chi’s story and discussed adopting her. We _______had three dogs. My mom wanted to know who would ____________her, because it might be a lot of work to take care of a dog that was ____________.

We had a lot of ____________about Chi Chi. Her rescuers sent us photos and videos. After we adopted her, we made her try different prostheses so she could move around more ____________. She’s made a lot of progress with her ____________, and now she can even jump up on the sofa.

Chi Chi has a great attitude ____________she’s been through something hard. She’s always smiling and happy. Chi Chi has a lot to ____________about kindness and about ____________little achievements (like making ____________with walking or jumping). She has taught me to care about the   ____________of others and help them. I’ve also noticed that when people meet Chi Chi, they talk about hard things they’ve faced. I think she shows them it’s possible to ____________anything difficult. She sure encourages me to be the best I can be, like she is every day.

6 . I work from home. From the time I kiss my kids _______ in the morning until late in the day, I’m   _______ .For many years, my only _______ was our dog, Sno.

We didn’t agree on everything. However, we both agreed on _______ . At least once a week, we took a long walk to the beach. For him, there were swaths(大片)of tall grass and exciting smells. For me, there were other dog walkers whom I _______ wanted to catch up with.

As a dog with short legs, Sno needed several _______ along the way. The one at the entrance to the beach was his _______ , possibly because he knew we were _______ back home.

When he was old and dying, our walks were _______ . In his final days, Sno still ________ walking. It took twice as long to take even the shortest walk, but we ________ every step. I don’t know if dogs can cry, but if they can, that made two of us in ________ at the entrance to the beach.

After he died, I went for a long walk. I felt like part of me was ________ . I kept looking down as if he were there beside me and enjoyed the sun and fresh air. When I came to the place where we’d ________ for the beach, I chose the other way.

Later, I may be walking by myself, but I’m never alone. Personally, I’m ________ to earn the love of an old dog.

One day, a baby snail found that he had to carry a big and heavy shell at any time. He didn’t _________   why it was, so he went up to his mother and asked, “Why was I born with a shell that grew so _________ and heavy?” His mother said, “Because we don’t have _________ to hold us up. We can only move slowly, so we need a shell to _________   us.”

The baby snail asked again, “The caterpillar (毛毛虫) has no bones, and she can’t move quickly either. Why can she _________   without a shell?” The mother snail answered, “That’s because a caterpillar will become a butterfly. She can _________ high into the sky. The sky can protect her. ”

The baby snail had one more _________, “But the earthworm moves like us. He has no bones and he won’t turn into a butterfly. Why doesn’t he carry a hard and heavy shell?” His mother said, “He can dig a hole and hide in the _________, and then the earth can protect him.”

The baby snail then cried, “We are so _________   ! We have no protection from the sky or from the ground!” His mother smiled at him. “That’s why we have a shell. My dear, imagine that if we don’t have the shells, what will happen to you? Hot sun will dry out our bodies and we’ll have nowhere to sleep. What’s more, we’ll die in the heavy rain. How __________ it is! We don’t depend on the sky or the ground for protection. We should depend on ourselves.”

8 . A dog named Russ ran away from his owner’s vehicle as the Caldor Fire roared toward South Lake Tahoe. His owner was forced to_______ during the fire, leaving him unable to _______ his dog. It was assumed that Russ had been lost for good. _______ on Dec. 16 2021, a man skiing west of Tahoe _______ Russ, who was unable to _______. The skier posted photos of the animal trapped in deep snow online.

That _______ caught the attention of Wendy Jones, the executive director of Tahoe PAWS and TLC 4 Furry Friends. Although in the middle of another _______ she gathered a team of _______.“Because the dog had been out in the snow all day, we knew _______ was of importance”, Jones said.

It was getting ________. The dog was tracked up the mountain, and finally located under a tree. “I got really________ ,” said Allen, a 61-year old volunteer, “for he was not moving. I ________ he was dead. Luckily, he opened his eyes and lifted his head.”

Russ was very scared, so Allen spent some time winning his ________ before attempting to move him onto a sled (雪橇). It was a ________journey back down the mountain by moonlight, since there was such deep snow and the sled kept trying to fall over. It’s certain that Russ has a (n) ________ to tell.

9 . Once upon a time, there was a small boy called Kunta. One day, when he was walking along the riverbank, he found a crocodile _________ in a fishing net. The crocodile asked the boy for _________. The boy was cautious about the crocodile because the crocodile was able to move its _________.

“Come nearer, please,” _________ the crocodile. “I _________ not to eat you.”

The _________ boy decided to be helpful to the crocodile. _________, the boy took a step towards the crocodile. As he _________ to pull the net off the animal, the crocodile instantly seized its _________ by the arm with its teeth.

“Is this how you __________ my goodness? With evil?” protested the boy.

With its teeth still holding on to the boy’s arm, the crocodile spoke __________ that that was the way of the world. The boy did not __________ the crocodile’s view of the world and asked the crocodile not to eat him. After some thought, the crocodile agreed not to __________ him without getting two __________ from passers-by.

First, came an old donkey. When the boy asked the donkey, he told them that his master had driven him out from the farm for the lions to eat as he was old and had lost the __________ to work in the fields anymore.

“See?” said the crocodile.

Then along came a mouse deer. The crocodile asked the mouse deer for its opinion.

The mouse deer __________ that he could not understand what the crocodile was asking and had him __________ his question clearly. In order to do that, the crocodile opened his mouth to speak. That was when the boy __________ the jaws of the crocodile. The boy was __________ to the mouse deer for helping him and brought it back to his village, promising to __________ it for as long as it lived.

10 . One day, a small boy named Johnny was walking to school. Suddenly he heard a _______ in the tall grass along the side of the road. He _______ to see what it was. He pushed the grass apart and there he saw a green frog _______ him. And to his great _______ , the frog began to speak. It asked Johnny for a _______ so that it could turn back into a beautiful princess. After _______ for a while, Johnny put the frog into his pocket and continued to go to his _______ . He thought that he couldn’t do anything with a princess but a talking frog was so _______.

When he arrived at school, he showed his new _______ to his friends. Johnny told them ________ that the frog could talk. But no matter how hard the boys tried, the frog just wouldn’t ________. After all the other boys left, Johnny asked the frog why it had________that way. The frog explained that it________wanted to be turned back into a princess by a kiss. Then Johnny had to kiss the frog, but to his anger,________happened. “I did as you said, but you’re still a frog,” Johnny said. The frog, having made fun of Johnny,________loud, jumped out of his hands and went away.