1 . A teenager encountered a helpless bumblebee (大黄蜂) and _________ it. It’s now a loyal _________ of hers.

It all started two weeks ago when Lacey Shillinglaw, 13, found the large bumblebee _________ in the road while walking her dog. She _________ the bee and noticed it had a broken wing.

She tried to put it in a _________   spot, on some flowers in a nearby park, but it _________ to stay put. It buzzed back over to Lacey and crawled all over her, and after an hour she _________ and headed home with the creature on her shoulder.

Despite repeated _________ to leave the insect outside, it has refused to leave Lacey’s side. At night Lacey puts it in a little pot beside her bed, and while there is no lid, the animal stays put until morning when Lacey is _________. Lacey takes it into the __________ to feast on nectar (花蜜). However, as soon as the teen goes back inside, it is right beside her. “It’s completely lovely. It’s on her 90% of the time during the day. We have all the doors open a lot and it just never __________,” said Lacey’s mother.

“I’m so happy and I just __________   spending my time with her,” said the girl. “It’s so lovely and I love our   __________.”

Though Lacey’s story is very touching, female bumblebees may attack if they feel they are __________. So next time you see a (n) __________ bumblebee, make sure you’ll not get attacked if you want to help.

2 . Our dog Bree is a Staffy cross. She ________ more like a cat than a dog. Unlike other dogs, she will very happily eat up her dinner ________ what is being offered. She does not hang around us waiting for pieces to fall her way.

That is, of course, unless I am making toast (烤面包) for my breakfast. She always makes her way to the ________ and sits very straight and tall at my feet as though to say “Look at what a good girl I am!” as soon as she catches a ________ of bread toasting. I ________ her, broke off a little bit of crust (面包皮) and fed it to her before ________ some spread to my toast. This became our “thing” — if I was having toast she’d join me for breakfast. She seemed ________ and I didn’t think a little crust would ________ her. Unfortunately, the day came when I fed her a piece of toast with a generous ________ of butter and jam. Clearly, she thought it was ________ as she now turns her ________ up at dry crusts and will only eat toast topped with a tasty spread.

This incident ________ me of a smart Chinese proverb: It is ________ to pass from a poor life to a rich one, but difficult to go back in the other direction. When it comes to ________ children, we should watch out for this. ________, they might be spoiled (宠坏) easily.

3 . Many years ago, we came across a dog at an animal shelter ( 收 容 所) while looking for a companion (同伴) for our dog, Bear. This dog seemed to be meant for us and we _______ him, so we took him home. We thought the _______ name for the new dog was Bear Junior, and so it was.

Bear Junior would wake me up every morning at 4: 30 a.m. to go for a _______. He’d touch my face with his nose and I would soon _______. I once had to _______ for two days after an illness. My wife got up to _______ him for his morning walk. He held a sit-down strike (罢工) next to me and _______ to move. It worked.

Bear Junior felt it was his _______ to help all who needed it, no matter where he went.

One day, I took Bear Junior to the dog park. We had just started our walk when a small dog was barking (吠叫) for _______. We could see a big dog cornering him. Bear Junior went into ________, placing himself between the two, facing the big dog. I shouted, “Bear Junior! This is not your ________!” But he refused to let anything ________ until the owners were able to take control.

One winter, I was playing with Bear Junior in the snow. Across the street, an elderly lady ________ on a block of ice. Bear Junior ________ me, ran across the street, and sat right against her side. She used his collar (项圈) to pull herself up. Two days later, she came to our door with dog goodies to ________ Bear Junior.

4 . For the past four years I had been having up to 30 seizures (癫痫发作) a day. It made me _________ a lot.

Despite _________ visits to hospitals, no doctor could tell me the cause of it. At night, my family had to check on me just in case I wasn’t _________. So I could never be in a room alone and as a 21-year-old young man, I was finding the lack of _________ getting me down.

One day, my friend Kerri asked if I wanted an assistance dog. I knew there were guide dogs for the _________, but I wasn’t sure how a dog could help me. A few days later, Kerri told me she’d done some search and found a company “Dogs For Life”. From the website of the company, I _________ that they teach dogs to smell a chemical change in the body and _________ people when a seizure is about to _________.

Soon after, I _________ Baloo, a dog trained by Dogs For Life. It sat silently in the corner. As I sat down, Baloo suddenly __________ and jumped on me. Minutes later, I had a seizure. It had __________ the chemical changes in my body and tried to warn me. It was by my side until the __________ came. Instantly, I knew it was a good __________ for me, and I took her back home.

It’s __________ my life more than a handful of times and I couldn’t be more __________ for it.

5 . I opened the door of our campervan (房车). My two cats, Gatinha and Jon Snow, ______ down the stairs and onto the grass. In the distance, the sea ______ before me and the sun’s rays danced on the surface, creating a/an ______ display of light and shadow.

A month earlier, Wade, 35, and I thought we were ready for our travel in ______ . So we ______ our office jobs to travel around Australia in our truck that we’d transformed into a ______ on wheels. Besides saving for the trip, we’d set up a website to ______ money while we were travelling, along with renting out our home.

Knowing we couldn’t leave our two rescue cats behind, we decided to bring them with us. After doing some ______, I discovered that seeing cats on the road is ______ but we didn’t let it stop us. To ______ the cats to their new home, we brought them into the van while we worked. Finally, we were on the way to travel.

For the first few days they ______ the inside of the van, but as days turned to weeks, they gradually grew more ______. It wasn’t long before they were curiously sniffing the grass. ______, neither of the cats have ever walked far and we ______ them to wander freely.

Looking back, ______ the city life to travel around was the best decision we ever made, and our cats make the perfect companions!

7 . When Judy, Susan’s daughter, took her first steps in life, Susan was in tears. The disease that had developed ________ left her blind, and Judy’s ________ of the world around her could be held back by Susan’s shortage of confidence in her mobility. “I even felt unsafe to do something as ________ as take her to the park,” Susan said. “I have the courage to get across streets alone but the thought of doing it with my baby was ________ to me.” So Susan decided to ________ a guide dog. “I expected by having a guide dog I’d feel safe to ________ the streets to take Judy to the park. I had no idea that having a guide dog would ________ me to do so much more and how it would ________ my life.”

Susan’s first guide dog, Hero, ________ 17-month-old Judy’s safety as her job, though Susan knew Hero’s only job was to safely ________ her. “Sometimes Judy would walk beside me and when we ________ Hero would laid herself across my body to ________ Judy between us.” With Hero at her ________, Susan took Judy to the park, restaurants and stores. “Having Hero made me ________ to take Judy out, so being able to do these things gave me a sense of ________ that I didn’t think I’d have again.”

Susan advised other blind people preparing for parenthood to hug the chances that having a guide dog can ________. “Having a dog teaches children to respect and ________ animals. There was ________ that I couldn’t do with my daughter ________ Hero. The connection between us was so deep and so strong that words can’t ________ what the dog meant to me.”

9 . For these four English boys, the hardest part about living on their own was their landlord’s (房东) NO-PETS policy. They had just moved into a shared apartment in Bristol, England and were _______ to learn that animals were not allowed.

When they saw an energetic young Labrador in the neighbor’s window, _______, they got an idea. The four friends quickly wrote a letter to the dog’s owner, expressing their _______ to let them play with the dog.

“If you ever need someone to _______ him/her, we will gladly do so,” they wrote. “If you ever get _______, we are more than happy to look after him/her. Our landlord won’t _______ pets, and we’ve all grown up with animals,” the letter read. “The adult life is a _______ without one.”

The roommates left the _______ in the neighbor’s mailbox. Surprisingly, they received a response directly from Stevie Ticks, the dog!

“What a pleasure it was to receive your letter,” wrote Stevie Ticks (as dictated by her owner). “It would be great if we could be friends. I must warn you that the _______ of my friendship is 5 ball throws a day.” To their delight, the neighbor was true to the word and the boys were ________ to play with the friendly 2-year-old dog.

10 . It is quite a challenge to get close to an animal in the wild, so much of our ________of wildlife comes from pictures taken by________professionals that know how to go near to these animals. These professionals are wildlife photographers.

Wildlife photographers depend not only on their photographic skills but also on their knowledge of wildlife. To get good pictures, they sometimes have to ________long waits, awful weather, and even the________of animal attacks.

Once they have become________with a location, photographers can begin to get ________enough to animals to take pictures. Some photographers________in hut-like (茅舍样的) structures called blinds. This method works well with animals such as birds that depend mainly on their sight to________danger. Blinds,________, do not work well for taking pictures of animals with a sharp sense of________. Photographers may get close to these animals on foot, stay downwind and________sudden movements. Food or noises, such as bird calls, may also be used to attract wildlife into ________. For difficult animals, a photographer may even ________a camera in the wild with a trip line (绊脚线). Animals that touch the line start it to take pictures of them. Each or these________requires great patience and knowledge, but the reward can be a ________sight of nature.