文章大意：这是一篇说明文。主要说明了大象爱好者孙晓写了一本儿童读物《桑布鲁，我回来了》，讲述的是一只19岁的母象被猎人杀死。 然后，她的两只幼崽开始前往它们的母亲被杀害的地区。
2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The story started with the killing of a 19-year-old female elephant at the hands of hunters in northern Kenya in 2016. Her two calves (幼崽) then started a journey to the area where their mother 1 (kill). They were too young to deal with the hidden danger in the wild 2 the protection of adults.
According to that sad but inspiring true story, elephant-lover Sun Xiao wrote a children’s book Samburu, I’m Back. Sun is 3 witness to the story told in his book. He was, at the time, in Kenya working for Save the Elephants, a UK charity 4 (base) in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. When he and his peers found the two calves wandering in the wild, they tried to change their course. 5 (lucky), through great efforts they managed to transport them to an elephant reserve.
In the past decade, Sun 6 (devote) himself to spreading knowledge of elephants via a 7 (various) of methods, such as writing children’s storybooks 8 (feature) the elephants, sharing photos he took of elephants 9 posting hundreds of articles he wrote on social networks. He intended to raise public awareness of the urgent need to protect the creatures from hunters, 10 kill them for their ivory tusks.
