1 . We are so used to the beauty of trees, plants and flowers that we may even take it for granted without realizing how much inspiration it has given us. For instance, an open flower might make us think how _______ it resembles an umbrella. It’s natural to think in this way, but actually it is the flower that inspires the umbrella.

Nature has inspired many of the most fascinating designs around us, those in architecture included. Today, architects continue to _______ ways to capture the beauty of natural forms, to mimic the way nature _______ or even to make natural organisms part of a building.

People whose interest is exploring the _______ between art and science will enjoy Singapore’s ArtScience Museum. It is _______to resemble a lotus flower whose floor collects rainwater and then recycles it through the plumbing system. Visitors are often _______ to find themselves in an urban building that so _______ captures the beauty of natural form.

Watching a nature documentary in which termites were constructing their nests inspired Zimbabwean architect Mick Pearce to create the Eastgate Centre. The design _______ the need for traditional air conditioning and heating systems, so the building uses less energy and costs _______to run.

The world’s first algae-powered building is in Hamburg, Germany. The ________ of the apartment building is covered in panels containing algae, which capture ________ from the sun and change it into energy that powers the building. Therefore, the building not only ________ its environment and uses less energy, but also reduces ________ to the environment.

Creating buildings such as these enables us to live ________ our environment. To meet the needs of today while protecting the world of tomorrow may be a challenge, but even the ________organisms can help teach us how to achieve this.

4 . Dr. David Sullivan, pediatric dentist（儿科牙医）, is just wild about teeth. So are some of his_________. Wild, that is. Really wild.

You see. Dr. David, as many people call him, has some_________patients. They aren’t the children he_________sees each day. They’re, well, big and hairy and sometimes weigh more than four hundred pounds. They’re_________animals.

On most days, Dr. David tends to his human patients, teaching them how to care for their_________.On some days, however, the Cincinnati Zoo calls with some special work for him to do. Since 1982, Dr. David has volunteered his time performing_________surgery on many of the animals. This would be a_________experience for most.

_________, Dr. David feels differently. “I’m not_________of the animals,” he says, “I have been around them so much that I'm used to them.” How does a children’s dentist find himself__________the teeth of a black rhino or a monkey? For Dr. David, it was a matter of__________

“When I was a kid in school, the only thing I ever__________to be was a veterinarian（兽医）,”says Dr. David, “I even applied to veterinary school in college.”

But Dr. David soon__________that veterinary work was__________for him. “I volunteered at a veterinarian’s office to get some experience,” he says, “I was__________I couldn’t breathe. My eyes were swollen shut. I had allergy symptoms（过敏症状）.”_______Dr. David tried pediatric dentistry and found he loved it.

After he became a dentist, Dr. David__________at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. While there, he was asked to help with dental work on some of the__________in the hospital’s research lab. It wasn’t long before he began a dental program for the animals.

Word of Dr. David’s work with animals__________, and soon King’s Island Amusement Park and the Cincinnati Zoo were calling to ask for his__________. Now he regularly gets calls from the zoo.

5 . A woman and her dog walked through the airport, passing by dozens of people. Suddenly the dog _______ without making a sound, it sat like a statue (雕塑) and stared at a man carrying a suitcase.

The woman _______ the man carefully, waiting until he put down the suitcase. Then she shouted, “Police. Don’t make a move!” Other _______ moved in. They quickly _______ the suitcase. The man had been carrying a bomb (炸弹) in it! On the TV news that evening, the _______ was a hero. Thanks to this police dog, something terrible had been _______. Lucky, the police dog, had found the bomb in a way no human ever could. The dog had not _______ or heard the dangerous device inside the suitcase. _______, the animal had found it with its _______. Lucky had smelled the bomb.

A dog can sense odors (气味) that are thousands of times too ________ for people to smell. The part of a dog’s brain that deals with odors is much larger than that ________ part of the human brain. People depend on differences in ________ in order to tell things apart. A dog on the other hand, depends on differences in ________.

Everything and everyone has an odor. That’s why highly trained dogs are often used by the police to ________ people or find drugs. They have been taught to ________ specific smells. The animals’ sense of smell is so powerful that they can even tell if a person has recently touched a certain object.

Many of the different kinds of materials used in bombs give off exactly the same odor. A dog learns to search for it. If the dog finds a bomb, however, it must never ________ it. It must not let the person who is ________ the bomb know. Instead, the dog has been trained to ________. Police officers watch for this ________. Then, when the dog has finished ________ job, police can make their move.

7 . I was suddenly awakened at about 4 a.m. by a strange experience which I did not understand at first. I was _________ for a few seconds, as though I was in a cradle (摇篮). I heard _________ sounds in which I could identify the tinkling of pots, the rattling of windows, and certain deep rumbling noise _________ from the earth. After a few moments I realized, to my _________, that it was the earthquake.

Others too in my house and neighborhood must have _________ it at the same time or a little earlier, because we all jumped up from our beds in a second and _________ out of our houses. The quake of the earth had stopped; yet we stood in the open for an hour, extremely _________ about another quake. There was nip (寒冷) in the air that early morning, and the electric lights had _________. People stood in darkness, talking about the earthquake and praying (祈祷) to God that it might not be _________.

The quakes of the earth caused no damage in Mumbai. For several hours next morning we thought, with __________ to Nature, that the disaster had been __________ on the whole. But at about noon, bad news came that all the houses in parts of Latur had been __________ to the ground and hundreds of human lives __________.

The destruction caused by the earthquake at Latur proved the __________ of man in the face of an unexpected natural disaster. He still has much to achieve in dealing with Nature. Isn’t it a(n) __________ that he is wasting away the natural resources and energies?

8 . Minnie Blumfield believed that with age came a true appreciation of life — all life. That’s why, at the age of eighty-six, Minnie became the ________ of a flock of chickens deserted alongside a California freeway after a truck accident. The chickens ________ residence in the roadside bush, becoming ________ to locals as the Hollywood Freeway Chickens.

Like many seniors, Minnie lived alone and ________ on a pension (养老金). But to her, life was precious and not to be ________— not even the lives of little animals. Minnie simply saw creatures ________ and without hesitation, stepped into________. For nine years, while others sped past ________, Minnie provided food and water for the deserted chickens, using what little money she had ________. As the years passed, she worried about the day when she would ________ be able to care for her ________ chicken. Who would look after these poor ________ creatures if she couldn’t make her journey?

At ninety-five, just when the ________ of time began to ruin Minnie’s body, Jodie Mann, Minnie’s neighbour, ________. Jodie had noticed that the older woman also ________ many of the homeless cats in the neighborhood. A quick and lasting friendship ________. Learning of Minnie’s concern for the fate of her flock, Jodie ________ to find the chickens a new home.

Minnie is ________ now, but her concern for her fellow creatures lives on. Her courage and ________ continue to be a source of inspiration and ________ for me, for Jodie and for everyone else, as we continue our work of caring for all living creatures who share our planet, our homes and our hearts.

10 . I Still Look for Patches

Aren’t we lucky, when we had a childhood friend willing to be our everlasting, faithful companion(同伴)？I can still remember the day I met my special _________ .

One spring evening, my mother and I patiently waited for my father to come home. His_________ in the doorway made no clear impression on my mind. Suddenly, I heard a_________ “Yip”. “Did I hear something? Daddy, please tell me. What was that?”

As he_________ his pocket he answered, “Nothing. It was only my pocket.” The look on my face must have been a sign of_________.

“Amy!” Softly, daddy called.

I slowly turned around to look at daddy’s_________. There, crawled in his palm was a little dog. _________ several brown spots on her white fur, I named her, “Patches(斑点).”

Patches became a_________ and blame taker. If I was troubled, I could depend on her two ears to listen_________ to everything I had to say. If unfortunately I broke a glass, my trusting companion would willingly__________ responsibility. Her__________ devotion(奉献) only made it hard to separate from her.

When I was about 10, my family moved into a house which wasn’t__________ enough to contain a dog. Sadly, we had to__________ her. My auntie, owning a house with vast pieces of land, __________ her.

I can still remember her eyes__________ at me forlornly(可怜地) as she left. The__________ in her eyes will be with me forever.

I saw her once or twice before she__________. Until my dying day, I shall always expect to see her. I believe that, to this very day, she is still trying to find her way back to her true home. Because I have no__________ that she died, I continue to have faith. The picture is__________ in my mind: a thin white dog comes jumping up, __________ me in loving dog kisses.