1 . When things got hard for Gary Rosheisen who lived alone in a wheelchair, he thought it would be a good idea to get a pet. ______ he brought home Tommy, an orange cat that would soon become his best ______.

Because of his ______ problem, which included epilepsy (癫痫), Gary ______ kept the phone in the living room on the floor. The phone also had a speed dial button (快捷键) programmed to call 911. Gary spent some time attempting to ______ Tommy on how to use that button in case of ______. But his friend -Tommy never really seemed interested. Then one day, while in his bedroom, Gary had a seizure(发作) which ______ him to fall out of his wheelchair and onto the floor. Once the seizure passed, Gary couldn’t ______ or even move. Gary soon realized his life would end.

Meanwhile, the police received a ______ from Tommy’s home. No one said anything. The line was ______, and then it rang again. And so the policeman called back hoping to get an ______. The police were sent to investigate and they ______ the location when the phone just rang and rang. Officer Patrick ______ the home, which was empty except for Gary and his faithful cat, Tommy. Tommy was lying next to the phone in the living room, while Gary was ______ on the floor in his bedroom. And so, the only ______ seemed to be that Tommy’s training had been far more ______ than Gary thought to be.

If it weren’t for the call that was made to the police, there’s no telling how long Gary would have been ______ alone on the floor and he would probably have ______. Now both he and the police consider Tommy a hero. And it just shows that we have to care for ______, which also can care for us … and ______ sometimes save a life!

2 . Jack is a retired worker from Rio de Janeiro. Now he is sharing a close relationship with a penguin which is ______ to South American’s Patagonian region. For the past five years, the penguin seems to have ______ his natural migrating route just in order to be able to ______ Jack several times a year.

The unusual ______ began in 2011, when Jack found the bird, nicknamed Jinling, trapped in oil on the beach near his house. He brought the penguin home, ______ him up, and offered him a good meal and a shady spot to ______. Since then, the penguin has ______ stayed away from Jack for too long.

The kind man tried to get the penguin to ______ to the open sea after he got better, ______ the bird just kept coming back. He even took him out in a boat, far from ______ and let him loose in the ocean, but by the time he got back home, with ______, he saw Jinling was already waiting for him.

______ penguins migrate thousands of miles between Patagonia and Rio de Janeiro, Jinling doesn’t stay away from Rio for more than four months at a time. He always runs back to Jack’s little ______ by the sea, sometimes ______ as long as eight months to a year with the old man. And he is a little ______, too – it seems that he can’t stand other animals getting anywhere close to his ______.

The local fishermen show their kindness to the penguin and they think it is a great ______ not only for Jack himself but also for all the villagers. Jinling has been regarded ______ the village mascot (吉祥物) since 2012. However, some are ______ about this unusual relationship thinking about Jinling’s identity. But good friendship will last for long regardless of the ______, isn’t it ?

3 . While a lot of undergraduates live with loud roommates, 24-year-old Nikolai shares his home with over 600 noisy animals. It is no_______he is continuously getting interrupted.

Twenty years ago his parents bought a zoo in Denmark and started the first zoo and rescue centre for animals. Two years ago his dad unfortunately_______cancer and he was out on his own as a game developer. So he_______came home again to his mother to _______the zoo and attend to the 600 animals.

Owning a zoo is busywork with Nikolai taking on many _______: feeding, cleaning and playing with the animals. 600 animals may sound like _______but Nikolai actually wants the zoo to_______. He hopes to_______his parents’ goal and make it the greatest rescue centre for _______animals in all of Europe.

“As it is a rescue zoo, everything________a little bit differently than it did in the ________zoos. Because in general zoos, it usually has ________animals. We feel a need and a(n)________to help where we can. Thus, we ________the zoo into a rescue zoo instead,” Nikolai once said. And that means taking in animals that has been treated________or has been in laboratories. And some of our animals may have some scars and some________that we have to deal with or treat.

Having to support his mother and the zoo, Nikolai has come up with a________way to collect extra money: a mobile app game about the zoo. The game’s________will go to various charities. Nikolai believes the money ________will surely help realize his family’s ________of making their rescue centre the biggest.

6 . When I was 13, I climbed my first mountain near my home. I was overweight then and ________ when I reached the top. But I loved the ________.

Two years ago, my friend Mel Olsen and I drove to Oregon to climb 11,240-foot Mount Hood.

As we went higher, the trail (山路) grew ________ and steeper. At around 9 a.m., we reached an ice step. Confident I was safe, I put my full ________ on it. Suddenly, I heard a ________, and the ice broke off the step, right under my foot.

In a second, I fell backward. Soon, I came to a stop on a flat slope. I ________ my whole body, feeling ________ that I was fine, except that I was suffering from a sharp pain in my left ________ and couldn’t move.

I ________ for help, and immediately Mel and other climbers came to assist me and called Mountain Rescue. Then I was loaded into a(n) ________ and taken to a hospital, ________ I stayed for four days. The doctors told me it would be a year before I could ________ again, but I was back on the trails within six months.

The fall has made me more ________. One slip (滑倒) on a mountain can change everything. But the experience also made me ________ as a person. Since the accident, I’ve climbed another 60 mountains. I’m not going to let one fall ________ me from doing my favorite thing.

7 . Growing up in Mauritius, I love nature. Behind my house, there is a mountain named Le Pouce, where I spent much time _________the forest as a kid. However, my instinct (天性) for exploration _________at the water’s edge. Even though Mauritius is an island country _________ by the Indian Ocean, the thought of entering the ocean made me scared.

When I was about 10, this started to _________. I began learning about the _________ climate change presented to island countries, and I started_________ an interest in protecting the environment. I watched nature documentaries,_________ the steps I could take to change the world,_________ I still didn’t know how to effectively achieve it. Later, I took the National Geographic Society’s Exploring Conservation courses, which set me on a path to helping start and_________, The Oceanic Project, an organization dedicated to helping people understand the ocean and enhancing people’s__________ of protecting the ocean.

Gradually, I realized how much humans __________ the ocean for its natural resources and that it was not as __________ as I had imagined. My fear was rooted in a(n) __________ of falling into a river in my childhood. Determined to__________ it, I became a certified diver last year.

Diving plays a big part in my life now, and I work to__________ the protection of the underwater environment. I helped run a summer camp for young divers. During that time, I led a beach cleanup to help the participants understand how human litter could end up in the ocean. I got encouraged by the__________ of the activity when a parent told me her son insisted on __________ plastic items in their home with bamboo alternatives after returning home.

Protecting the ocean is very__________ and I’ll keep dedicating myself to it. And I__________ hope more people will join me. Only with everyone’s effort can we make the world a(n)__________ place for human beings.

8 . Ten years ago I adopted my dog Rudy from a shelter just days before they were going to euthanize(使安乐死) him. We’ve had a special______ever since.

I’ve found his______really meaningful. Every night I get in my bed and he gets in his doggy bed right next to mine. But a year ago suddenly Rudy______. Every night when I got in bed he’d jump up on my bed and start licking(舔) my face. I’d get______and make him get off but the next night he’d do it again.

I was considering taking him to obedience(驯服) school when I suddenly______that he was licking the same spot on my jaw over and over again. I felt my jaw and it seemed okay but it was so______for my dog that I decided to just trust him. I made an appointment with the______and felt silly telling her why I came in but she agreed to do some______. It turns out I had a tumor(肿瘤) in my jaw. It couldn’t be felt from the outside but somehow Rudy knew it was there.

I’m feeling much better now but the doctors said if I’d______until the tumor was big enough to be felt, it’s likely I would have______. I saved my dog’s life and now he’s saved mine!

9 . Telescope Searching for Space Treasure Unearths Giant Planet

A giant planet shrouded(遮盖)in clouds, in orbit(轨道)around a star 385 light years from our sun, has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope in images described as a “_________ moment for astronomy.”

In observations led by a British astronomer, the pioneering telescope focused on a “gas giant” planet called HIP65426b. It captured images in infrared light(红外光), which allows astronomers to more _________ calculate the mass and temperature of “exoplanets”—the _________ for planets in orbit around other stars. It should ultimately allow them to detect clouds moving across their surface, _________ alien weather patterns on worlds hundreds of light years from our solar system. The images show the planet as “blobs(斑点) of light” in blue, purple, yellow and   red hues under various infrared wavelengths.

The planet is up to 12 times bigger than Jupiter and orbits about 100 times farther from its host star compared with the Earth’s distance from the sun, making it _________ for astronomers to separate the planet from its star when attempting to capture images of it. The planet is only 15 to 20 million years old, a fraction of the _________ of the Earth, which is 4.5 billion years old. Like Jupiter and Saturn, it has “no rocky surface and could not be _________,” NASA said.

The _________ of an exoplanet is usually detected when the light from a distant star appears to become less _________ at regular intervals, suggesting that a planet is passing across its face once per orbit like a tiny partial eclipse(日偏食). It is extremely difficult to capture a direct image of an exoplanet __________ they are thousands of times fainter than the stars they orbit.

James Webb used an instrument called a coronagraph to __________ light from HiP65426b’ s host star, which lies in the Centaurus constellation(半人马座), “Obtaining this image felt like __________ space treasure,” said Aarynn Carter, a researcher at the University of California. “At first, all I could see was light from the star, but with careful image processing, I was able to remove that light and uncover the planet.”

Analysis suggests that the planet has a red hue and a temperature of 1,300℃. The images could give a clue as to how Jupiter and Saturn looked in their __________ more than four billion years ago.

NASA said, “Webb’s view, at longer infrared wavelengths, shows new details that ground—based telescopes would not be able to detect __________ the intrinsic(本身的)infrared glow of Earth’s atmosphere.”

The telescope has already been used to analyze the __________ make—up of the atmosphere on another exoplanet, WASP—39b, detecting carbon dioxide by analyzing the spectrum(光谱) of light passing through its clouds.

10 . The curious and friendly joey named ‘Dusty’ is now so comfortable living with the couple and their dogs Lilly and Rosie on their farm, having a beautiful _________ on a hill, that the Stewarts are_________he is a dog too.

Dusty rides around the property in the back of Mr. Stewart’s truck along with the dogs, sleeps with them on a dog bed, eats with them, and asks for_________.

His unique_________began when Mr. Stewart_________to drive down to a dam on the couple’s property in Wittenoom Hills, 60 kilometres from Esperance, and_________two dogs named Lilly and Rosie.

“I took the dogs in and he was_________around and looking up at the truck and so I just picked him up and put him in the back with them,” Mr. Stewart told Daily Mail Australia. “I didn’t think too much of it. We_________through the farm and came back together. He was_________sitting on the back, and I didn’t drive too fast because I’d be__________about him jumping off. He didn’t jump in, so I__________him in and out.”

While the__________down to the dam has only happened a few times, Dusty, whom the couple often call ‘Skip’, has also picked up some very canine-like__________.

“He just likes to play with the dogs, probably because he thinks he’s a dog. He eats and sleeps with them, and will wander down to the shed with them and lie around if I’m working there,”Mr. Stewart said.

Dusty also has a collar, like many dogs, as a protective__________to ensure he can be found at nighttime. “When he was little we were__________to let him out during the day and he went off grazing and wouldn’t come back at night, so we had to look for him. We just couldn’t find him as kangaroos didn’t make any noise and were very__________. Once we found him he would always come back with us, so we decided to wrap some__________tape around a collar so when we shone a torch at night we could see him,”Mr. Stewart said.

As a poetry written by Walt Whitman__________it, “I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self﹣contained”. When finished reading this essay, I got a__________and comprehensive understanding of this description. Needless to say, the canine-like kangaroos brought happiness to the Stewarts and enriched their life. And that’s what make me__________that we should treat animals well and live harmoniously.