3 . On Monday, May 9, James Givens, a police officer in Cincinnati, Ohio, was sitting in his panda car. Just at that moment he heard what sounded like a _________. He turned around only to find a goose pecking （啄）at the car door. This was highly_________given that the birds typically preferred to observe _________from a distance.

But on this day, the goose appeared to be determined to get his_________and kept pecking until Givens opened the car door and _________. The police officer says that though the bird then began to_________, it kept turning around to make sure he was _________. When they finally stopped, Givens_________why the mother goose had been so — She wanted him to_________her gosling （幼鹅）that had been trapped in some balloon string.

____________ that the mother goose would____________him if he got close to the baby, Givens called the local SPCA （保护动物协会）. ____________, they were unable to send anyone to help right away. Therefore he had to call his fellow police officer Cecilia Charron, who was nearby and soon ____________Givens. Concerned that the gosling would not survive the ____________, Cecilia decided to take on the task herself.

As it turned out, there was ____________to worry about. The mother goose appeared to understand that Charron was trying to help and watched____________from a safe distance as the officer untied the trapped bird. As soon as the little gosling was ____________, it ran as quickly as possible to its____________, and they took off shortly after. Charron, a 24-year soldier of the police force, said this would probably____________to be the most memorable incident of her____________!

4 . Molai grew up in a tiny village in India. The village lay near some wetlands which became his second___________. He learned the value and beauty of _________ there from a very young age.

When he was 16, Molai began to notice something _________ happening around his home. A flood had hit the area earlier that year and the _________ it caused had driven away a number of birds. _________, the number of snakes had declined as well. He _________ that it was because there weren’t enough trees to protect them from the _________. The solution, of course, was to plant trees so the animals could seek _________ during the daytime. He turned to the _________ department for help but was told that nothing would grow there. However, Molai went looking on his own and __________a nearby island where he began to plant trees.

________ young plants in the dry season was ____________for a lone boy. Molai built at the __________ of each sapling(幼树)a bamboo platform, where he placed earthen pots with small holes to____________ rainwater. The water would then drip(滴落)on the plants below.

Molai __________ to plant trees for the next 37 years. His efforts have resulted in 1,360 acres of naturally-grown land that has become home to many plants and animals.