2 . Ronald Handel lived on a farm in California. He owned two Great Pyrenees mountain dogs who ______ his eight goats. It was their ______ to protect the goats from wolves in the California mountains. In 2017, when the wildfires in the distance were ______, Handel hurried to get his ______ and the dogs into the car so they could evacuate (撤离).

One of the dogs, Odin, ______ to ignore his doggy duty. He ______ down with the goats, and stared at Handel, as if to say, “I'm not _______.” Handel waited as long as he could for Odin to come around, but they had to go, because they ______ that parked cars a few yards behind them were filling with flames, and heard explosions from oil tanks.

After the flames were put out, Handel and his young daughter did not ______ to find anything when they returned to their _______. But to their surprise, Odin was ______ there. He and the goats were slightly _______. Odin managed to bring them all to _______, despite the fact that everything else around them was completely destroyed by the fire. Odin was limping (一瘸一拐), and very ______ , so Handel knew that Odin had been on an adventure of his own to save his ______. If only dogs could talk.

3 . 5-year-old Maggie is truly a magical dog. It can be called a Strong Dog, like the famous Strong Pig (Zhujianqiang) in China, which _______ the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008, and lived until 2021.

It all started in Lebanon when Maggie was found _______ treated, with one ear cut off and a broken jaw (下颌). With a baby in its body, Maggie was beaten and then shot 17 times with a gun, _______ the total loss of her sight.

A person in Lebanon discovered the _______ dog and wrote a post asking for _______. A woman in London saw the _______ and got help from The Wild At Heart Foundation. Maggie was _______. However, she had to receive _______ and other treatments before she was placed for adoption and before finding her _______ home in Brighton, England.

25-year-old Kasey Carlin, working at a dog-care center, is the owner of Maggie, who is now a(n) ________ on the Internet, with over 248,000 ________ on her Instagram. Her success was so great, so Kasey ________ her job and devoted her time to ________ Maggie’s Instagram account full-time.

“She has taught me and others so many lessons. Everyday she ________ me to try to be better and do better” — Kasey told Bored Panda.

Maggie has recently become a therapy (治疗) dog, ________ hospitals, nursing homes and universities where everyone can feel the ________ and joy in her.

“Happily, I’m ________ everyday that so many people are interested in her ________. For so long, no one cared about her, when I agreed to ________ her it was because no one else wanted to! I’m glad she can ________ such a positive message with the world” — finishes Kasey.

5 . YosDive is on the waterfront. Next to it is a village with a beautiful sandy beach, with the ________ 100 meters out. We often dived there. One time, however, something ________ struck me. While diving the house reef, I was ________ by the trash and plastic in the water and on the beach.

As I was considering ways to ________ the trash that month, I suddenly hit upon a(n) ________ then. I decided to ask several children to ________ a plastic bag with garbage from the beach in ________ for cookies. The kids were cooperative, and their bags were full — my plan ________. When the dive boats returned, the village children came aboard and we gave them________.

Days later, more helpers ________ my plan. A young couple took over the distribution of bags for the garbage gathering and the cookie________. Plenty of children were soon________, with this simple system at place.

Then I realized this project might have a(n)________. Ronnie told me there was a trash removal group called Trash Heroes in Bali, whose members are given yellow ________ with a black “Trash Heroes” on the front.

So we also bought some and ________ them to the children. The T-shirts have gone over in a big way: The beach, once covered with garbage, now looks ________. It is a small beginning, yet it certainly will grow and ________. A team of volunteers soon formed________. People of all walks of life make their ________. Even the mayor of our city ________ support. Now the project still grows fast. What fun!

6 . On a cold November night, Layton was on his way home when he got an urgent call from his mother. “The mountain’s on fire.” she _______, “and many rental guests were up there.”

Layton’s family _______ a dozen rental cottages on Shields Mountain. At the thought of this, Layton _______ the gas on the dirt back road.

He _______ first to Layton’s rental cottages to make sure whether his guests were _______. Fortunately, all his guests were. At that point, he made up his mind to _______ his cottages to rescue tourists _______ other cottages nearby.

Over the next two hours, he travelled through the _______ mountain, knocking on doors and leading _______ people to safety. Knowing the mountain so well, he drove one after another family down the mountain on roads ________ in smoke in his pickup. When one family was ________ from the fire, Layton would take the pickup ________ up the mountain in search of another ________ person. He helped one elderly woman flee barefoot ________ hot road surface to reach his car and found a man unconscious in a burning cottage and ________ him to his car. Thankfully, he helped 14 people out of danger despite that he had ________ escaped the burns.

________ his brave and immediate action, the fire didn’t ________ a single life on Shields Mountain. And though his business were destroyed, Layton remains ________ “I wasn’t worried about the property ________, not when I saw those families trapped on the mountain.” he says, “I knew I was gonna help them.”

7 . People hold general belief that birds will fly south in winter. But not all birds do so to escape the _______ and settle somewhere nice and warm. Many of our feathered friends actually _______ and try to live through the hard time.

They will face greater _______ when temperatures drop well beyond the freezing point. It was against this background that a _______ about rescuing a little sparrow took place.

The poor bird was caught off-guard by the freezing temperatures and had itself _______ on the metal piping next to a water heater.

_______,a man by the name of Nelson Wilson _______ the frightened bird. When he hurried to see what was happening, he saw it _______ desperately and decided to do something to help it out.

“When I went over, I _______ the bird which was glued down to the pipe and couldn't fly away,”Wilson ________ . “The little bird most likely ________ to drink some water because it is not ________ for birds to drink from the heated tank in winter. But unfortunately , its feet got ________ from the water and froze into the metal piping. So I ________ to warm the feet of the frightened bird by pressing my palm (手掌) against both the ________ and the bird's feet.”

But the ________ did not give him what he wanted. Then, Wilson started ________ blowing warm air on the bird to ________ its fragile feet and make them get warm earlier. After several minutes, his warming the bird's feet with his warm ________ brought success. The bird was finally able to ________ its previously frozen feet. It was saved!

10 . In the deepest dive in a manned submersible(潜水器), US explorer Victor Vescovo spotted and video-recorded a plastic bag and a pile of candy wrappers on the seabed.

His _________ of plastic waste 11.2 kilometers below sea level in the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean, the deepest known point in the Earth’s oceans, means there is _________ on this planet plastic waste cannot reach, _________ it has been found on Mount Qomolangma and in both Arctic and Antarctic waters.

Since the patent(专利) for plastics was _________ in 1907, 8.3 billion tons of plastic products have already been produced, of which 6.3 billion have been poured into oceans _________ processing.

Most of the discarded(丢弃) plastic products _________ in the ocean. In the Pacific Ocean, plastic garbage and other waste have already formed a(n) _________ that’s 1.6 million square kilometers in size. That is the size of Mongolia.

Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic waste flow into the ocean. It is _________ that the total weight of plastic waste will reach 12 _________ tons by 2050, more than the total weight of oceanic fish.

This plastic waste __________ life in the oceans and on the land alike by filling in their stomachs so they cannot eat, or __________ around their bodies so they cannot breathe. It pollutes the __________ and prevents plants’ roots from digging deep into the ground. Plastic micro-particles(微粒) also join the water __________ and enter the bodies of animals, including humans. As humans are at the top of the food __________ , plastic micro-particles accumulate inside our bodies.

We must do something to __________ the situation. Don’t get plastic bags at the supermarket and take your own reusable one __________ . Give up fast delivery lunches and instead cook or go to the restaurant. Get into the __________ of sorting your garbage.

But that’s so much __________ said than done. Environmentalists have been __________ behavioral changes for at least three decades, yet we __________ to use a growing amount of plastic products.