1 . The sun was beginning to sink as I set off into the Harenna Forest. I was on my way to _________ a unique honey harvest. Here, in south-east Ethiopia, hand-carved beehives(蜂箱)are placed in the _________. Reaching them to get the honey is difficult—and often _________ .

I _________ beekeeper Ziyad over a wide stretch of grassland before entering a thick jungle. Ziyad began preparations. He _________ handfuls of damp tree leaves, wrapped them with string, and _________ the bunch to create a torch(火把). Then, with one end of a rope tied to his waist and the other end around the trunk of a tree, Ziyad began _________ . He stopped every few minutes to move the _________ higher up the tree trunk.

_________ , Ziyad got close to the hive which was around 20 metres above the ground. Sitting on a branch, he __________ towards it and blew smoke from his torch into a tiny hole in the hive. Suddenly, Ziyad let out a sharp cry. Within seconds, he’d __________ the trunk and was back on the ground.

It was too __________ to collect the honey. A cool summer had delayed __________ . Baby bees were still in the honeycombs(蜂巢). The adult bees were __________ and kept attacking as Ziyad escaped from the tree. He had to wait for the right __________ to go back up.

2 . 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.

3 . Milo is a rescue dog, adopted by 20-year-old Makayla Swift. One morning in November 2021, Swift opened her front door in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Milo _______ running. Milo ran to the house across the street. He seemed unsatisfied with this house, so he ran to the one next door, Swift on his _______.

“He started _______ on the front door,” Swift says. “I’m thinking, ‘Why is he literally trying to _______ the house?’” She was _______. Not everyone wants a strange dog on their _______. But as she tried to drag Milo away, she could hear a sound coming through an open upstairs window. It was a voice yelling “Help!”

Hours earlier, around 4 a. m., Sherry Starr had _______ from her bed. “All of a sudden, standing there between the toilet and the bathtub, I _______,” she says. “I went down hard on the floor.” Starr is 85. “I could not move at all,” says Starr, who was stuck between the toilet and the bathtub. Starr was _______. “I’m thinking: I’m just going to die here,” she says. Her best ________, she decided, was to listen for the letter carrier in the afternoon and scream at the top of her lungs.

“Her voice was very ________,” says Swift. “You had to be right at the front door to hear Mrs. Starr yell for ________ unless you were Milo who ________ heard Starr when I opened my own front door.”

Swift called 911. The rescuers thought they’d have to remove the toilet, but they gave one last pull and out she popped. Though injured, Starr ________ a trip to the hospital. Swift has known her share of pain. Two years ago, her mother died. She says Milo has helped her with her grief. “That dog is a ________,” she says.

4 . Typhoons and hurricanes are the same weather phenomenon: tropical cyclones (热带气旋). However, they go by different names _________ where they occur.

Typhoons develop in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. They most _________ occur from late June to December. When winds blow into warm seawater, a lot. of warm, moist air evaporates and _________ rapidly, while colder air moves in below. This creates_________     causing the winds to move very quickly. The more warm air and moisture there is, the more_________ the winds. When the winds move faster than 119 kilometers per hour, a typhoon is formed. If a typhoon _________ 241 kilometers per hour, then it becomes a super typhoon.

The _________of a typhoon is called the “eye”. This is right in the middle of a typhoon and is _________ . In the “eye”, the wind does not move so fast. Around the “eye” is the _________ of clouds. This is where the strongest winds and hardest rains are found. The rain bands are the outer part of a typhoon that _________ with it.

Typhoons do bring water to people, but they also can be very _________ . They _________   houses and cars, and even kill people. For example, tropical storm Megi hit the Philippines in April. More than 220 people died from _________ and flooding caused by the typhoon.

China is also one of the countries most affected by typhoons. The _________ time for typhoons landing is from July to September._________ , China’s coastal residents face 10 typhoon landings each year.

5 . John Owens is a hunter. One day, he had been out with his Dad in the wilderness of Wisconsin. While he had been checking the _________ he put in place, the unbelievable happened. It caught something _________ than he expected, a huge wolf!

John was in a _________ situation. He did not want to leave the wolf on its own. The animal could die from bleeding. The wolf howled (怒号)，and John felt nearly as _________ and terrified as the wolf itself! He needed to reach a(n) _________

John began to take action. He carried a wooden board and _________ for the wolf. _________, the board could _________ the wolf if it attacked. His dad was there with a gun _________ the wolf decided to attack. They prepared themselves for all __________.

There was a helpful hole on the board. Their plan was to put that over the paw (爪子) of the wolf. John then operated the board and then lowered it over its paw. The hole fitted perfectly over the paw. The wolf was __________ and ready to attack. Would it __________ that John was trying to help?

With only the board __________ them, John used his free hand and __________ the trap. Finally, he managed to free the wolf’s paw! The wolf stayed for a moment and then walked away.

What a __________!

6 . Laura encourages her two kids to make crafts and drawings from old bits of packaging. She began _________ her family’s waste when she moved house and decided that she would leave all single-use _________ behind.

“It’s cheaper and you know that the item will _________ being used instead of being set aside — so it’s just perfect! Each of us play a big _________ in taking care of the environment. It’s _________ to try to help rather than just keep complaining about the current situation.”

Any glass container is _________ and repurposed for something else. This means that the family only send a piece of _________ to landfill every two weeks on average. She tries not to buy any plastic at all, but when she does, she will get it _________ washed and recycled.

The family also grow their own tomatoes, lettuce, and some other vegetables in the garden, and have orange trees outdoors. Laura has also _________ herself in a community of friends who __________ items with each other that they need, like furniture or plates.

She said, “We tried to use the minimum __________ and take over some toys and baby equipment from friends and relatives. If we really had to __________ anything, first we tried at the __________ market.”

To help educate her kids, Laura takes them out on nature walks to the forest where they __________ rubbish as they go. “They enjoy this __________, because they know it’s better for the environment,” she said.

7 . You never know when your life is about to change forever. It can happen any day, at any moment, and for some people, that ________ moment is a life-or-death situation.

When I was 13, I climbed my first mountain — a fairly gentle 3,900-foot peak near where I live in Surrey, British Columbia. I loved the challenge of ________ something bigger than myself.

I often go climbing with my friend Mel Olsen.Two years ago, on December 30, when I was 16, she and I drove to Oregon to ________ 11.240-foot Mount Hood. It’s safer to start winter climbs at night when there’s less risk of the sun ________ the snowpack. After about five hours, we reached Devil’s Kitchen, a plateau at about 10,000 feet, just before the final ________ to the top.

The trails we ________ grew narrower and steeper. At around 9 a.m., we reached a patch of ice called an ice step. It was about three or four feet tall and sloped at a 75-degree angle. I ________ to go first. I placed my left foot on the ice step. Confident I was safe, I put my full ________ on it. ________ , I heard a crack, and a whole piece of ice broke off the step, right under my foot. In an instant, I fell backward. I could hear Mel calling my name as I ________ down, bouncing off the rock face and rolling down the mountain ________ I was a character in a video game. I ________ out my arms and legs, grabbing at anything. I’d fallen 600 feet before I came to a stop. Then I took a(n) ________ of my body to see where I was hurt, starting with my head, then my neck and arms.As Mel made her way down, I yelled for help. Four hours later, rescuers reached me.

The doctors told me it would be a year before I could climb again, but I was back on the ________ within six months. The fall has made me more ________ . One slip on a mountain can change everything.The experience also made me grow as a person.

8 . I was suddenly awakened at about 4 a.m. by a strange experience which I did not understand at first. I was _________ for a few seconds, as though I was in a cradle (摇篮). I heard _________ sounds in which I could identify the tinkling of pots, the rattling of windows, and certain deep rumbling noise _________ from the earth. After a few moments I realized, to my _________, that it was the earthquake.

Others too in my house and neighborhood must have _________ it at the same time or a little earlier, because we all jumped up from our beds in a second and _________ out of our houses. The quake of the earth had stopped; yet we stood in the open for an hour, extremely _________ about another quake. There was nip (寒冷) in the air that early morning, and the electric lights had _________. People stood in darkness, talking about the earthquake and praying (祈祷) to God that it might not be _________.

The quakes of the earth caused no damage in Mumbai. For several hours next morning we thought, with __________ to Nature, that the disaster had been __________ on the whole. But at about noon, bad news came that all the houses in parts of Latur had been __________ to the ground and hundreds of human lives __________.

The destruction caused by the earthquake at Latur proved the __________ of man in the face of an unexpected natural disaster. He still has much to achieve in dealing with Nature. Isn’t it a(n) __________ that he is wasting away the natural resources and energies?

9 . Returning home from a fortnight’s holiday, we noticed there had been a lot of rain in our area. As I was checking out some pole holes that my husband, Peter, had _________, I noticed that they were a quarter _________ with rain. I was surprised to see that a little hedgehog (刺猬) had _________ into one of them.

I am still amazed that he did not _________. Peter put some gloves on, reached in and pulled the _________thing out. It was quite _________ in the evening so we put him on a _________ to keep warm and gave him some vegetables. The next morning when Peter went out to _________ the hedgehog, he was nowhere to be seen.

We didn’t see him again until six months later. It was about 8 pm when I heard a(n) _________ sound and light knocking at the front door. I opened the door, and to my __________, there was the hedgehog.

I had read somewhere that hedgehogs carry worms so I tried to __________ him out. I didn’t want him to __________ on my carpet. The children, on the other hand, were quite __________ because the hedgehogs rolled up into a __________ when they touched him. After sticking around for a few minutes, he slipped off. I came to the __________ that he had come in to thank us for saving him.

10 . It's hard to believe my husband and I will be celebrating our 11th wedding anniversary this year, but I still remember our honeymoon clearly.

After our ________ , we flew to Mexico for our honeymoon. We stayed at a beautiful hotel on the east coast facing a beautiful sea and we had a(n) ________ time! The weather was perfect locals were friendly, and we had plenty of things to ________ while we were there.

At the top of our list of ________ was to swim with dolphins. There was a place down there called Dolphin Discovery and it was included within our honeymoon ________ . We headed over there one afternoon and were ________ with the place. The dolphins looked well kept and happy.

The employees told us that the dolphins ________ interacting with us humans as it entertained them and gave them exercise. They were social animals and loved to play. They spent about 30 minutes ________ us all about these wonderful animals. Then it was our group's ________ .

We ________ clothes and got into the pool. We were given clear ________ so that we could swim with the dolphins as a couple. Gradually. the dolphins ________ us, so it was a great chance for my husband and me to ________ them closer they were so cute and lovely. It ________ let me appreciate dolphins more and made me realize how ________ it was to save and protect them.