1 . The most powerful hurricane in the year was crashing into coastlines in Virginia. Lucky Dog Animal Rescue planned to take the 21 dogs, affected by the disaster, to a ________ in South Carolina, which became crowded as people near the coast were evacuating.

Mirah Horowitz is the head of Lucky Dog in Arlington, Virginia. “It’s a double ________,” she said. Her group found it hard to help the dogs as well as drive them from Virginia to South Carolina ________ a seven-hour trip. Then they have to put dogs in wooden boxes and bring them to the Washington, D.C., area. Finally, they had to make sure there were enough families to ________ the dogs.

The group tried to ________ more dogs from South Carolina over the weekend. They were going to hold an adoption (领养) event on September 8 at the shelter in the Washington, D.C., area. Horowitz and her colleagues decided to take some dogs and emailed ________ that night looking for families to adopt the dogs. “We had to find people to take those animals between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.” Horowitz said. ________, they were getting many replies until 2 a.m. from people who were willing to help, after hours of ________ waiting.

Lucky Dog was also talking to an animal shelter on the island of Grand Bahama in the Bahamas. That was where the hurricane had caused the most ________ so far. The workers there did not know the dogs’ situations. ________, they heard reports of heavy flooding that had ________ the shelter. Horowitz’s group also has a helicopter which is ready to offer flights to ________ some emergency supplies.

Horowitz said, “I really ________ the help from those families. It feels nice to save animals from areas ________ by severe weather and it is ________ to make all the efforts.”

2 . Growing up in Scotland’s largest city, Eilidh Malcolm had never really considered a career in forestry. _______, she first choose for a life in rather damp surroundings. But after helping to establish Sea Life Loch Lomond, a career in the wood s soon came _______ the former aquarist (水产养殖者).

“I started to realize I was passionate about _______,   getting people outdoors and into the natural world, _______ for those who are living in urban areas,” the Glasgow native said.

Now based in and around her home city, Eilidh is _______ to working with those who have less opportunity to engage with nature. She said, “I think the last few years have really brought home for many people a _______ of the importance of getting outside for our health and wellbeing. You can see that people _______ it even more because of restrictions in recent years’ pandemic (流行病). That’s even more terrible in our cities, and we have to _______ that, no matter where you grow up, you have access to woodland and forests. We are lucky in Scotland that even in big cities there are green _______ close by for people to take advantage of. I love being able to bring people together and get them ________ about taking care of our forests in Scotland—it’s really energising.”

Working on the new Junior Forester Award has been a stand-out recent ________ for Eilidh. It gives children and young people some ________ into a career in forestry as well as the ________ ability to assist in woodland management in their schools and local communities.

She added, “The award is another way to ________ transferable skills in young people, and even if they don’t go into forestry as a career, they will always have knowledge about ________ the natural world.”

3 . Wearing a caveman mask (面具), Dr. Marzluff walks across the camp at the university. Crows (乌鸦) circle and scream. They dive at him and then suddenly fly away.

Beneath the mask，he smiles. Days before, he and his students had _________ cavemen masks caught crows and _________ plastic bands on to their legs. Then they released the _________ birds.

“We always knew crows _________ us, but could we show it?” says Dr. Marzluff, a professor known affectionately as the Crowman.

When the researchers walked around campus without masks, the crows they had caught and banded didn’t _________ to them. But when the _________ humans walked by while wearing the masks, the crows scolded (责骂) loudly and dived at their “_________”. The birds had remembered their _________!

“Crows are constantly _________ us,” Dr. Marzluff says. “They look, they think, they eyeball you, __________ the situation.”

At first, only the banded birds reacted __________ to the people in masks. But in later tests, an increasing number of crows began scolding them, even when the banded birds were not around. The birds had __________ from one another. Dr. Marzluff and his team followed banded crows for a year and __________ that adults even pass this information to their __________.

Dr. Marzluff’s experiments led him to study how crows’ __________ work.

6 . A single tremble shook beneath my feet. The trees above me began to sway(摇摆) hard. Then came the deadly_________that could only mean one thing, destruction. Every house and object was now_________. My vision blurred (模糊) even more when I saw the remains of my house. The house that used to_________all the happiness in the world was now_________a pile of ruined pieces. I_________all the times I played with my little brother and sister. Images of them were_________in my mind, so I let the darkness sweep over me completely so I could see them vividly one last time. I regained a bit of my_________after lying on the ground for some time. My eyes viewed different things, but I walked on mindlessly, with no_________to anything around me at all.

Years have passed since the disaster that_________me years ago. I never thought I would be okay again after this__________event.

Today I am going on a trip to California to help__________of a recent earthquake. Then, I see her. A young girl is weeping into her arm. I walk toward her. Losing family was__________, but because of my life changing experience, I am strong, and I can__________the lives of those who are suffering as I was. When I reach the girl, she stares at me with sad eyes, and I gently stick out my hand for her to hold to. One day, she may__________others the way I did for her. She holds my hand tightly, and together, we look for a brighter future where we can help those around us and__________the world starting with one disaster at a time.

7 . Shaine Kilyun was scrolling through videos on her phone one night in December 2020. Suddenly she ________ a video of dogs in wheelchairs. “That’s it!” she thought.

Shaine had always loved animals and visited local veterinary (兽医的) clinics often. She was a ________ volunteer there. But Shaine cried when she learned older and disabled animals are often killed painlessly because they can’t walk and require extra ________.

Now, as Shaine watched the disabled dogs in the video moving around in tiny wheelchairs ________ and freely, her heart was filled with ________. “I can make wheelchairs for senior and disabled animals!” she decided.

As Shaine ________ on countless videos showing ways to make tiny mobility “wheelies” for animals, her ________ grew. The next day, Shaine headed to the hardware store and ________ some PVC pipes, foam and wheels and began ________ with designs. She tested out the carts on her own dog and cats. ________ she found a model that worked, she reached out to veterinarians she knew. Seeing Cypress, a disabled 7-month-old puppy, take off in her wheelie, Shaine became even more ________ to her project. She posted pictures of her carts on Instagram, and soon orders started coming in.

Shaine asks for a few ________ of the animals and then custom-makes each wheelchair for the furry friends. She accepts just enough money to ________ costs.

“I’m so ________ that I am able to fill a need,” says the industrious girl, “Helping disabled pets means the ________ to me!”

10 . A teacher in a primary school is doing a science lesson. She asks all the children to do a/an ________ of their own choosing. After the children have been ________ for a few minutes, she gets to the desk of little Johnny. Johnny has a/an ________ on his desk and she asks what he is doing.

“Well, Miss, the spider’s name is Herbert and ________ this,” Johnny says. Then he ________ down to the spider and whispers(低语), “Run, Herbert!” And the spider, as if by magic, moves across the desk. The teacher is a little puzzled. Johnny then takes the spider and ________ one leg. The teacher is ________ but lets the experiment continue. Johnny again whispers, “Run, Herbert!” And the spider moves across the desk again. Johnny then ________ the spider and removes another 2 legs and ________ the experiment. By this time the teacher is getting a little ________.

The experiment ________ in the same way until Herbert, the spider, has one leg left. The teacher at this point is ________ dumbfounded(目瞪口呆). Johnny then bends down to the spider and removes the ________ leg. Again he whispers, “Run, Herbert!” But Herbert doesn’t ________. He repeats the ________ but a little bit louder. After several attempts(尝试), Johnny is now ________, “Run, Herbert!” But still no movement. Johnny then looks at the ________ and she asks, “Well, a ________ experiment, but what are you trying to ________ with it?” Johnny replies, “Well, Miss, spiders with no ________ are deaf.”