2 . At around 9 a. m. on Friday, Bonnie Raitt stopped at a picnic area along a highway. She began walking her two-year-old sheepdog, Cady, along a path when a mountain lion ________ and attacked Raitt, injuring her left shoulder. She screamed, and Cady, who had been wandering ahead, immediately returned to ________ her owner. The mountain lion then turned its ________ to the dog and bit onto the bodyguard’s head. Raitt attempted without success to fight ________ the lion with stones, so she ran up to the road to get help.

Lindsey Stirling, who was driving by, saw Raitt and ________. After learning about the mountain lion attack, without ________, Stirling jumped out of, her car with her pepper spray (喷雾剂) and also grabbed a stick. The two women ________ to the scene in the forest, where, the struggle was going on, with the mountain lion still refusing to ________ the dog. They both started hitting it and yelling loudly ________ it finally set loose the ________ dog.

Cady eventually ________. Stirling pepper sprayed the mountain lion in the face, and it immediately turned away and ________. Cady was ________ injured, and Raitt hurriedly drove Cady to a vet (兽医). After spending several days there, the dog was released. Now Cady, lying on her own bed, with her favorite toys, is on the road to ________. “My dog is my, hero, and I ________ her my life,” Raitt said.

4 . On 20 December, in Newdale, a series of huge waves caused by an undersea Earthquake raced across the ocean near Goldshore. Worse still, it _______ thousands dead. Goldshore Beach was the only local beach to _______ the disaster without any loss of life. A10-year-old girl, Sabrina Andron, helped around100 people escape danger with her _______ of tsunamis.

The day began like any other on Goldshore Beach. People were walking, running or simply sitting on the sandy beach, _______ the warm sea air and enjoying the soft _______ that brushed their hair. Sabrina was one of the happy tourists until she noticed something _______ . “The water was like the bubbles (气泡) on the top of a beer,” she later explained. “It wasn’t _______ and it wasn’t going in and then out. It was just coming in and in and in.” It struck her that these were the _______ of an upcoming tsunami, which Sabrina had just learnt about in a Geography lesson.

Sabrin a was _______ , but she soon kept her head. She warned her parents of the ________ , though at first they just thought she was ________ . However, Sabrin a was certain that a terrible disaster was ________ and kept asking her parents to talk to a safety officer. To her great relief, the officer ________ realized the coming danger. The beach was rapidly ________ of people, just before the huge waves ________ into the coast.

6 . A little penguin, named Mercy afterwards, arrived at the Bonorong Wildlife Hospital. He was in really bad condition. “The penguin was ______ , not doing so well and needed fattening up,” said Petra Harris, the hospital manager. Little penguins were the smallest species of penguins on Earth but sadly in ______ numbers.

______ , with the help of a team of wildlife keepers, Mercy regained full health and was ______ back into the wild. Mercy’s story has now been made into a video and was ______ on social media platforms on World Penguin Day on April 25. In the ______ , Ms Harris said a man ______ Mercy looking unwell and contacted them through their rescue line. Rescuers went to ______ Mercy and brought him back. The vet(兽医)team did a full ______ on him. “We X-rayed him to check for any injuries that weren’t ______ . To their ______ , it turned out that Mercy was just a little underweight.

Mercy was ______ to fatten up at the hospital until he could swim. Then he was released at dawn so that he could spend the day fishing before returning to his burrow(洞穴). ”It’s a comfort for us to see animals go back where they ______ ,“ Ms Harris said. ”Mercy was the lucky one that gets to have a second ______ at life, and it’s certainly very ______ for us to make it.“

7 . Ann’s neighbour Tracy found a lost dog walking around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if she could keep an eye on it. Ann said that she could _________ it only for the day.

Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers and put them in mailboxes. _________, Ann bought some pet foods in the dollar store nearby, and _________ her two sons not to fall in love with it. At the time, Ann’s son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was _________ from a heart operation, was 21 years old.

Four days later Ann was still _________ the dog, whom they had started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog _________ itself against the screen door and barked madly at her. As soon as she opened the door, Riley _________ into the boys’ room where Ann _________ that Jack was suffering a heart attack caused by the operation. Riley ran over to Jack, and as soon as Ann bent over to help him, the dog went _________.

“If it hadn’t come to get me, the __________ said Jack would have died, ” Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to claim the dog, so Ann decided to __________ it.

The next morning Tracy got a call. A man named Peter __________ his dog and called the number on the flier. Tracy started __________, and told him, “That dog __________ my friend’s son.”

Peter drove to Ann’s house to pick up his dog and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After a few moments Peter said, “Maybe Odie was supposed to __________ you: maybe you should keep it.”

9 . In our backyard there was a big pond with lots of trees and bushes. Both my grandparents were fond of our so-called garden.

One morning our new neighbor, an aggressively ambitious businessman, saw my grandfather _________ two rare deodar(雪松) tree saplings on both sides of our gate. _________, he said he had planted the same tree saplings in his garden. My grandfather _________ gave his plants adequate amount of water and didn’t give them full _________, while our neighbor interested in better _________looked after them too well. His plants were much _________ and greener. 

Normally in summer, we have fierce thunderstorms._________ the extreme damage, these storms also bring _________ from the terribly hot climate. After a thunderstorm, we came out to _________ the damage to our garden and saw the neighbor in his garden, too, but he looked __________ as his plants had been uprooted. Ours were standing __________ on the ground. Surprised to see this, he came up to us and said with embarrassment,“My trees __________ from the roots while yours didn’t. Why?” 

My grandfather said, “You gave your plants more attention, water and manure(肥料), __________ they didn’t need to work for anything. I gave mine just some, letting their roots do the__________; thus their roots went deeper and became stronger.” Our neighbor nodded in __________. Hearing the words, I realized that anything easily given could be taken away much more easily and we would not understand the hard work it took to earn those things.

10 . Five years ago, a friend asked me to look after his cat while he went on holiday, and I realized the idea had potential on a bigger scale. So I moved to London and decided to ________ cat sitting.

For me, cat sitting is about ________ two groups of people who need what the other can offer. I get to stay in people’s ________ without rent while they’re on holiday. The owners get ________ cat sitting. It also means that there is someone to keep an eye on their homes while they are away. It seems a fairer ________than just watering plants or walking dogs—I’m more of a cat person.

I have always loved cats, and their gentle temper makes them ideal ________for someone working from home. Cats have such different personalities, so it’s not surprising that I ________ more with some than others. An owner once told me not to ________ her cat to sit on me, as it had happened only once. But just four days later, the cat came over and sat on my lap. I sent her a photo!

Cat sitting helps me with my ________ anxiety disorder, too. I want to be around people, but sometimes I can’t. Sometimes, this anxiety even ________ me from leaving the house. But since becoming a cat sitter my mental health has ________ . Having my own ________ gives me the power to plan my day. I can recharge when I need to and can go out and meet people when I want. The cats have ________ helped.

Now I have stayed in 25 houses, ________ 30 cats and saved more than 10,000 pounds that would have gone on ________ . One day I want to save up for a flat so I can have a cat of my own.