4 . My daughter has been crazy about raising a pet for a long time.

Last spring I bought two small chickens for her. She got _________ and took good care of them._________,a few days later, both chickens died. She _________ into tears because of their death. I helped her _________ the two chickens under a tree behind our house. I thought it would be the _________ of her idea. 

However, I was wrong. Children are children after all. The failure hasn’t _________ my daughter in any way. She still tried to keep a small animal or even a snail. 

One day last winter, I _________ under the eaves (屋檐) of the house a family of sparrows. My daughter and I could _________ the sparrows as our “pets”, but we didn’t. 

So I told her to _________ the grains on the windowsill (窗台). A few minutes later, the sparrows came to land on the windowsill __________ and pecked (啄) at the rice. Suddenly my daughter asked me, “Mum, can we catch and cage the sparrows, and let them live with us in the room? How __________ it is for them to live outside!” 

“Oh, my dear, I do not think it’s a good idea. You know,” I explained to her. “The sparrow is a bird who loves __________.No one can keep them in a cage. If they are caught, they will die quickly. They are __________ to living outside. Moreover, they have a warm nest under the eaves.” 

From then on, we have set up a kind of relationship with the sparrow family. We feed them and __________ them as pet birds. However, we do not need to possess them. We __________ seeing these little birds flying and jumping among branches, leaves and flowers in the spring morning.

5 . Many animals move from one place to another at certain times of the year. This _______ movement is called migration (迁徙). They migrate to _______ food, or in search of warmer weather. One of the most wonderful migrations in nature is that of the North American monarch butterfly.

Every _______, millions of these beautiful insects with fine black and orange wings begin a long and _______ journey. Somehow they manage to _______ around 4,000 kilometres _______ and find their way to California or Mexico. _______, until recently no one knew how they did this. A team of scientists led by Professor Eli Shlizerman at the University of Washington has now found the _______. They have found out that the monarch is able to _______ the time of day. It uses its eyes to measure the ________ of the sun. These two pieces of information allow the ________ to determine the way to go. ________, it manages to reach where it will spend the winter.

The solution to the mystery of the monarch’s amazing ability comes at a time when it is in serious trouble. Its ________ has crashed by as much as 90 per cent in the last few years. ________, human activity is the main reason why the number of monarch butterflies is falling. The research on the monarch’s ________ has however led to a greater awareness of this creature.

7 . I shall never forget the day when the earthquake happened. It was about 5 in the afternoon and I was _________ along the road to my daughter’s school. Our plan was to go_________ together. I stopped at a_________ to get some fresh fruit. We liked to have some fruit to eat after our swim. I was driving along a high_________ on my way to the school. _________ my road was another road which was built like a_________. I was_________ so I put the bag of apples_________ me and started to eat one. Suddenly I saw the cars in front of me start to_________ from side to side. I slowed down. Then my car started to shake! I didn’t know what was happening. Perhaps something had__________ wrong with my car. I drove a little more slowly and then I__________ the car and at the same moment the road__________ onto the cars in front of me. I found myself in the__________. I couldn’t move. My legs and feet were hurt badly and I couldn’t move them. All around me was__________. But below me I could hear shouts and a lot of noises.

Then I realized what had happened. I had been__________ an earthquake. For about two hours nobody came. Luckily I could reach the bag of__________，so at least I had plenty to eat. Then I heard people__________ towards me. A team of people had come to__________ if anyone was under the__________ road. I called out, “I'm here！” I heard a shout. Soon a stranger climbed to my car. “How are you__________？” he asked. “Not too bad,” I said. They didn’t get me out until the next morning.

9 . Bill Shaver took a fishing trip in Missouri. On the way back home, he had to ________ for a bathroom break at a rest stop, with his car________ and the driver’s side door open.

When Bill returned to his car, he found that he had a special________. A pup jumped into the car and was________ him when he returned. The female pup was obviously________，so Bill gave her the only thing he had left to eat and she finished it________.

Bill made sure the pup had no________ looking for her in the rest stop area. Then, he took a picture of her and sent it to his ________, Angela, letting her know that the pup was coming home with him. The couple had often taken care of________ animals, so Angela instantly agreed to________ the dog. After a few hours, Bill and his________ partner were back home. Angela gave her a good meal and________ her a bed on the floor in their room.

They named her “River”, because she met Bill near a river. The day after Bill brought her home, River started________ her new surroundings and soon________ to it. She was also taken to the veterinarian (兽医). There was nothing ________, and, after taking some________, it didn't take long before River became fully________.

River now loves her new life, and she certainly loves all the loving________ she receives. And her entire life was________ when she decided to catch a________ with a stranger.

10 . In October 2015, Shah began picking up rubbish from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began _____ others to join in. Word spread and with help from social media, more volunteers got involved.

Shah hasn’t stopped since. He’s now spent 209 weekends _____ this mission inspiring more than 200,000 _____ to join him in what’s been called the world’s biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was _____ clean and Shah’s cleanups expanded to another _____ as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

For Shah, the work has always been a personal journey, but it has earned _____ attention. After he was honored as a “Champion of the Earth” by the United Nations in 2016, Bollywood celebrities and politicians _____ his mission and joined in his cleanups.

Today, Shah is also working with coastal communities to _____ plastic pollution at one of the sources. In areas lacking waste management systems, _____ often end(s) up in streams and rivers that empty into the ______. Shah and his volunteers ______ and assist villagers in reducing, managing and recycling their plastic waste.

“This world ______ too much. I think you must talk less and do action more,” he said. “Every citizen on this planet must be in for a long pull. I feel the ______ to do something for my planet, so this will ______ for life. If each one could start, this journey could become ______. Can we do it together?”