1 . When Paul was a child, he and his father rescued a baby squirrel (松鼠) named Suzy. It was an _________ the boy would never forget.

Decades later, another baby squirrel, who he named Stella, found her _________ into Paul’s life, bringing his experience full circle! It all _________ in 2019 when he saw a terrified baby squirrel being _________ by two birds.

The squirrel had _________ its own nest and right into that of a bird’s and the birds weren’t _________ about it. As Paul watched, they knocked the squirrel onto the sidewalk. That was when he knew he had to _________.

“I tried to put her back near her nest, but her mother _________ to take her back,” Paul said. “And after waiting _________ for a long time, I decided to take her to my place. It seemed that she and I were __________ to be together.”

As time went on, Stella gradually became __________. Considering that Stella should live in the __________ Paul attempted to release her many times, but she just __________ coming back! He soon realized she was __________ to be with him because with the house’s window always open, she could __________ at any time, but she didn’t. “I was sure that when she discovered how it felt to be __________, she would just run away,” he said, “But I was __________.”

Stella has become a great __________ of Paul’s life and family, and she __________ gets along well with his two dogs. It seems that she’s just grateful that he __________ her, and she’ll spend her life saying “thank you” in her own way.

2 . For more than a century, fishermen in Laguna, Brazil, have caught fish with the help of bottlenose dolphins.

The dolphins push schools of fish in the _________ of the shore and then jump out of the water, _________ to the fishermen to rapidly cast out their nets. The fishermen make a large catch, and _________, the dolphins look around for the fish that have missed the fishing nets-a quick and _________ meal!

This dolphin-human _________ is especially unique, because it is _________ to both humans and dolphins.

According to a research _________ with underwater sound recordings, dolphins _________ with his relationship with humans are 13% more likely to _________ in the wild. This is because they stay near the shores of the ocean and are less likely to be ______________ when fishing nets are thrown into the open ocean. In Laguna, fishing with fellow dolphins has become a(n) ______________ in many families, though the dolphins are not ______________ trained for this purpose. From their ______________, fishermen pass on their ______________ to their children, teaching them to ______________ with their partners through clicking noises and how to ______________ dolphin behaviors.

Interestingly, this is not the first time humans and other species of animals have ______________ to hunt for food together. In Africa, the honeyguides, a small bird species that ______________ on beeswax, use large noises and calls to communicate, ______________ humans to trees where bees’ nests are ______________.

Researchers hope that future generations will be able to carry on this special tradition.

3 . Sam, the four-legged superhero, works to keep a park in Santiago clean. The dog’s superpower? Collecting garbage as a________for visitors.

Sam, who takes regular________in Santiago’s park with his owner, has become________, wearing a green cape (披风) in a comic (连环画) to work as an educational guide.

It________when Sam and Gonzalo Chiang had to stop again and again in the city’s largest green area to________plastic bottles, cans and food packages. “On Sam’s walks, we began to find a lot of________,” Chiang said. “From there, the________to take away the garbage that we found on each visit became apparent. The walk is a good opportunity to________, rather than litter,” Chiang said.

Park officials were impressed and decided to use Sam’s________in its park care campaign. They turned Sam into a cartoon in Sam: The Parquemet Superhero,________visitors to take their waste with them or use________ points found along the path. “This became much more________than expected,” Aravena said. “It reached different schools and has spread very well on social media.”

The________launched anti-litter campaigns last year urging drink vendors (摊主) to switch from plastic cups to glass ones and started________garbage into separate bins.

“Sam and Gonzalo have________us to accelerate (加快) this education process and structure this garbage classification,” said Eduardo Villalobos, the park’s acting director.

4 . Get a guide dog when I had been afraid of dogs all my life? Crazy! Standing in the famous guide dog school, I was seized by _________. All sorts of questions ran through my mind, and the fear that I was making a(n) _________ was in the forefront (最前面). I wanted to _________ my nails. Finally, my instructor’s voice shocked me out of my own _________, “Shannon! Come and meet your dog, George.”

After our first meeting, I stayed there and was _________ everything about using a guide dog. Learning wasn’t easy and I was always left _________. Whenever I was confused, I thought maybe this guide dog thing wasn’t _________ for me.

Then came the big moment, one that _______ in my memory. I was asked to walk down a sidewalk with George, my instructor right behind us. _________ as the instruction was, it still __________ my confidence: put my life on the hand, ahem, the paws of a dog? I __________ my ability to do it.

Finally, I said, “George, forward.” __________, this seventy-eight-pound dog started pulling me down that __________ sidewalk fast without any hesitation. Several times, I cracked my __________ on the uneven surface and tree roots sticking out. And then… Suddenly, George __________. “You did it!” I heard the __________ words.

I did it! At such a __________ pace I had walked down an unfamiliar sidewalk, and was still __________ to tell the tale. Wait! Right then and there, I __________ myself and knelt (跪着) down on that hot sidewalk. I, who had never hugged a dog in all my nineteen years, threw every __________ aside and wrapped my arms around him.

5 . One day when Bill was walking home from school, he heard a _________ coming from the bushes. He went over to see what it was. Behind a bush, he found a black and white dog _________ in a trap (陷阱). Bill hurried home with the dog and showed his _________. Bill’s dad said the dog had a broken_________. They took the dog to the doctor. On the way, Bill’s parents decided that Bill could keep the dog _________ they couldn’t find the owner. When they arrived, the doctor put a cast (石膏) on the dog’s leg. He _________ told Bill that she was going to have puppies (幼犬)!

The next day, Bill posted _________ around his neighborhood that said, “Found: Dog-Black and White,” and listed his _________ for the owner to call.   

Two days later, Bill _________ a call from the owner of the dog. The owner __________ Bill for taking such good care of his dog. When the owner came to __________ his dog, he said Bill could have one of the puppies. Bill was so __________!

Bill __________ a doghouse and even bought some__________ to get ready for the dog. What else? Yes, a __________ for his new puppy. Rosco, that’s it!

6 . More than anything, this is a book about unconditional love—a bond between a caring woman and a loyal dog. Harley’s Harlequin Heart written by Christy Jaeger and_________through the narration(叙述)of the dog Harley, shows why the power of love can overcome the_________that is part of every life journey. It also teaches us how we can make the world a(n)_________place together with dogs.

Harley takes us along on all his_________with his owner Jaeger—from growing up, being trained, to going to dog shows. Then one day, Harley is_________with bone cancer. Fortunately, it appears that there’s enough time to explore_________“Jaeger told me that everyone has a sixth sense, which_________ them when something’s not right. Looking back, I’m glad she paid attention to her_________alarm.” Harley thought.

Through surgery, this smart dog_________. It isn’t easy and he tells us about his pain and fears. But chances of__________look promising. After this experience, Harley__________realizes that when someone has cancer, the entire family will__________. However, all the people playing a part in the__________form a connection that is unbreakable .

Harley’s__________with cancer might concern adults considering reading this book with their children. But Jaeger through Harley’s__________ provides such a friendly, positive perspective(观点) that there is so much more reason to__________this book. Besides, it helps greatly that the book has a(n)__________ ending.

As Jaeger notes, “The book__________love to all who read it. This small element can be__________in the human and animal worlds.” Love can defeat all. That__________couldn’t be any clearer than in this wonderful book.

7 . Xia Boyu is a 73-year-old Chinese mountaineer. He successfully climbed to the top of Mount Qomolangma on two artificial legs. Xia was a professional soccer player before he got into the Chinese national ________ team. During his first ________ to climb Qomolangma in 1975, Xia gave his sleeping bag to one of his teammates,________ he could resist (抵抗) the cold. But in the end the extreme conditions on the mountain ________ his legs from the knees down.

At the beginning, Xia was unable to ________ life in a wheelchair and having to say goodbye to his career as a mountain climber. He was confused and ________, but his passion for life was ________ again when he met a foreign medical expert who told him that artificial legs could help him walk, run and even climb again.

Xia made numerous efforts to climb the mountain again. Since his artificial legs cannot give him a ________ for the land while climbing, Xia relies ________ on his trekking poles (登山杖), which he holds in his hands firmly (紧紧地).

“Sometimes the paths are very slippery and I can easily fall if I don’t notice it right away.”

But Xia has never given in. He ________ that after losing his legs, he did not want to be defeated and that he wanted to ________ himself to continue to climb mountains. In 2018, Xia successfully climbed to the top of Mount Qomolangma, becoming the world’s ________ double amputee (被截肢者) to climb to the top.

With his very life, he ________ the distance between humans and Mount Qomolangma and let everyone see the ________ of never giving up. He is a true ________.

8 . I’d been staying in Punta del Este for a few days, just enjoying the end of a holiday, and the day before I was going to go back to Argentina I was walking on the beach and _______   lots of dead penguins covered in oil and tar. Rather than   _______   round and walking away, I walked on just to get some idea of how many were dead. And while doing that I _______   one of them move.

My first   _______ was to walk away but I thought if I put him out on the rocks, as the waves came in he would _______ and just swim off and he would be fine. So I placed him out on the rocks, went back to _______ , and the wave came in and he disappeared. But while I was saying “ Goodbye and good luck little bird ”, out he came again and came _______   back to me! So I tried again and again and he wouldn’t go. He kept coming back.

_______ I decided if I abandoned him there, if I just left him and walked off the beach and went back, he wouldn’t be able to climb up the wall. So I walked off and I left him. And then he came   _______up the beach after me, like a small child!

Then I __________   him home. I suppose the __________   moment I spent with the penguin was sitting there, with him — doglike-leaning his head on my foot, and __________“I ought to write a book about you.”

And he just looked up, and the shiver (抖动) of __________   that ran from his beak down to his bottom gave me absolutely __________ about what he thought of my idea. That’s the moment I will __________   remember.

10 . When Nihal was eight years old, he went to visit his grandparents who lived near the Krisha river. He saw people _________ rubbish and plastic waste into the water. This was the point at which the ecologist in him _________, and he wanted to do something.

Nihal has always been _________ by environmental issues, but he’s never given them much _________ except reading the relevant novels. _________, one day, after hearing about a large fire _________ by a lithium battery(锂离子电池) at a waste disposal(处置) site in California, he became _________ and determined to do something. He thought, although the problem could be settled, many people who were observing would simply _________ it. That’s when the concept for “ Recycle My Battery ” _________.

Then, Nihal did more research into battery __________ and discovered that many worldwide companies have __________ about batteries. “ Surely there has to be a __________ to keep them out of landfills(废物填埋地),” he remarked. Then he began to __________ batteries at his school and in the neighbourhood. His father would drive him __________ throughout every corner of towns to collect __________ batteries. With so many batteries piled up, he decided to __________ his own non-profit Recycle My Battery.

So far, more than 1.5 million people have __________ Recycle My Battery. Nihal and his strong team of young people have already recycled over 150,000 deserted batteries and taught over 1.5 million people about the __________ of battery recycling.

Nihal, now only 12 years old, has been struggling for three years to __________ the battery pollution, calling on others to raise battery recycling __________ and working towards the aim of zero pollution.