1 . When Judy, Susan’s daughter, took her first steps in life, Susan was in tears. The disease that had developed ________ left her blind, and Judy’s ________ of the world around her could be held back by Susan’s shortage of confidence in her mobility. “I even felt unsafe to do something as ________ as take her to the park,” Susan said. “I have the courage to get across streets alone but the thought of doing it with my baby was ________ to me.” So Susan decided to ________ a guide dog. “I expected by having a guide dog I’d feel safe to ________ the streets to take Judy to the park. I had no idea that having a guide dog would ________ me to do so much more and how it would ________ my life.”

Susan’s first guide dog, Hero, ________ 17-month-old Judy’s safety as her job, though Susan knew Hero’s only job was to safely ________ her. “Sometimes Judy would walk beside me and when we ________ Hero would laid herself across my body to ________ Judy between us.” With Hero at her ________, Susan took Judy to the park, restaurants and stores. “Having Hero made me ________ to take Judy out, so being able to do these things gave me a sense of ________ that I didn’t think I’d have again.”

Susan advised other blind people preparing for parenthood to hug the chances that having a guide dog can ________. “Having a dog teaches children to respect and ________ animals. There was ________ that I couldn’t do with my daughter ________ Hero. The connection between us was so deep and so strong that words can’t ________ what the dog meant to me.”

2 . Life hadn’t been too kind to Luna, a beautiful five-year-old husky (哈士奇狗). She was found in a ________ box, suffering from late-stage glaucoma (青光眼) by the Florida shelter Tallahassee Animal Services. On arriving at the shelter, she ________ the hearts of the staff and volunteers,________offering kisses. Staff knew that due to her special needs, Luna would ________ well in an adopting (领养) home, so they quickly went to find a ________ family.

The Senay’s, who have been ________ older, special needs dogs for many years welcomed Luna into their home, working ________ to guide her. Luna is beyond lucky to have ________ the incredible family (complete with 5 dogs!), who share a home in the mountains. Her kind ________ are amazed she has been able to move about so easily, especially ________ her recent double eye-removal surgery to ________ severe pain from late-stage glaucoma.

They report that before long, this determined pup made her way around their home with surprising ________, even learning how to locate stairs!The Senay’s used spoken instructions to help Luna, saying “step” when she ________ stairs. Luna also learned to use her nose as a guide, tapping stairs to ________ their direction. Always a scene-stealer, Luna enjoyed her 15 minutes of fame when her story was ________ on the social media, run by one of the community partners.

3 . On October 5th, Katmai National Park & Preserve in southern Alaska kicked off Fat Bear Week, when the park’s brown bears are________ with each other in a challenge. Fans use before and after________to vote for the bear they think has gained. the most weight over summer to prepare for hibernation(冬眠). But what began as a contest for conservationists has become a global________where superfans try their best to make their favourite bear be crowned the fattest of them all.

Fat Bear Week began in 2014 as Fat Bear Tuesday. Mike Fitz, a former________guard at Katmai, noticed that live webcams showing the bears generated a lot of online ________ . He and the other guards let people vote for their________fat bear online. Last year’s week long contest________nearly 800, 000 votes.

The contest________two purposes besides showing the lovely bears. America’s national parks are often in________areas. They can be________and costly to travel to. Second, Fat Bear Week________attention to the bears. The 2, 200 bears of Katmai are so________because they feed from one of the healthiest salmon runs in the world.

Creators and fans of Fat Bear Week argue the contest has become________because it is a conservation success story that for one week helps________feelings of depression about habitat loss and climate change. Maybe things aren’t great all the time in the world, but there are some________ fat bears in Alaska.

4 . Joseph Dituri hasn’t seen the sun for days. The biomedical engineer has been underwater, with the goal of spending 100 days there in the name of ________. Dituri is living in Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Florida. The100-square-foot hotel is his intended home until the mission finishes, where he’ll ________ his research.

The submerged stay, if ________, will also break the previous record of 73 days set by two Tennessee educators in 2014.

During the project, Dituri is attempting to ________ the effects of living in a high-pressure environment for a(n)________ period. The human body has-never been underwater that long, so he will be ________ closely. For example, he’ll be ________ to electrocardiograms, which measure the heart’s function. “I ________ there will be improvements to my health,” Dituri said. His assumption is not made ________—a previous study indicated potential ________ of pressure exposure to cell growth. Dituri hopes this journey could ________ the treatment for age-related diseases.

Beyond research, the project is also a chance to promote ocean ________ “The ocean is in a bit of trouble,” Dituri said in a video. “We also want to use the attention that the 100-day mission would draw to________ young people’s curiosity and passion.” Dituri will invite about 40 children to stay with him for 24 hours at a time.

“________ I only stayed 60 days, I eventually would turn a whole bunch of kids on to the exploration of the sea. That would be a ________,” he said in an interview.

5 . At around 3 p.m. on Monday, Erin Wilson stopped at a picnic area along Highway 299. She began walking her two-year-old sheepdog, Eva, along a path when a mountain lion _________ and attacked Wilson, who screamed — catching the _________ of her 2-year-old Belgian Malinois, Eva, who had been wandering ahead, immediately returned to _________ her owner. The mountain lion then _________ the 55-pound dog and bit onto the bodyguard’s head. Wilson _________ without success to fight off the lion with stones, so she ran up to the road, frantically trying to flag someone down.

Sharon Houston, who was driving by, saw Wilson and _________. After learning about the mountain lion attack, without _________ Houston 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 _________ to let go of the dog. They both started hitting it and yelling __________ it finally set loose the bleeding dog.

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

6 . The Sierra Nevada range is incomparable in scale and magnificence. There’s no better way to see it than to appreciate every spectacular view with your own hard _______. My husband, Will, our kids (Herbie, 5 and Artley, 11) and I planned to _______ the northern half of the John Muir trail in two weeks, which _______ along the backbone of the High Sierra, past lakes, and through dusty pine forests.

We set _______ before we started: this would be tough, but worth it. To get our kids more _______, we let them have the map and decide when to stop and rest. In this way, they felt empowered. This _______ also resulted in Herbie nearly standing on a 4-foot snake on our first day, though. _______, it was early morning and the snake was half asleep.

For two weeks, the boys enjoyed the _______. They built dams and bridges across streams, climbed and swam. Sometimes, they refused to carry their packs and _______ about feet hurting. But these moments were far outweighed by extraordinary bursts of ________ and enthusiasm — particularly when we’d been slogging (艰难前行) uphill for hours and a mountain top finally came into view, our kids even decided we needed to ________.

By the time we finished, we had ________ countless mosquitoes, suffered foot pain and had terrible sleep. But we were right to be ________ about our kids’ abilities. Through the ________, they will, I hope, understand what they are truly capable of, how perseverance leads to bigger ________ later on, and what it feels like to be encouraged and supported so that they can achieve something great.

7 . Stephanie rescued Flynn from an animal centre in 2014, after she was found as a puppy wandering the streets alone. “She was super shy and sweet, and absolutely_________of men,” Stephanie recalled. “We_______ and she overcame her unpleasant experience.”

But in May 2020, six-year-old Flynn suddenly_________her back when she jumped on Stephanie’s bed and landed _______ “She became paralysed and her two back legs stopped working,” Stephanie said.

Flynn had to have emergency_______ and a month of recovery before she could put one paw in front of the other again. “Quite a few people told me to_________and said she’d be a lot of work, but I never would. I had_______ and I knew God would help her,” Stephanie said.

One year on, their roles_________when Stephanie was diagnosed with a cancer in September 2021. Flynn became _______from Stephanie and refused to leave her side until she got better. “Flynn was my biggest________. I couldn’t have got through it without her,” Stephanie said. “She________ me every day. When I am tired or unwell, I think about how she________. She never quit. We’ve been through all the highs and lows of life together.”

Seven-year-old Flynn’s__________doesn’t just inspire Stephanie, but lots of strangers too. Stephanie is__________to her supportive family for helping her through her own health________, and to all of Flynn’s social media followers.

8 . I work from home. From the time I kiss my kids _______ in the morning until late in the day, I’m   _______ .For many years, my only _______ was our dog, Sno.

We didn’t agree on everything. However, we both agreed on _______ . At least once a week, we took a long walk to the beach. For him, there were swaths(大片)of tall grass and exciting smells. For me, there were other dog walkers whom I _______ wanted to catch up with.

As a dog with short legs, Sno needed several _______ along the way. The one at the entrance to the beach was his _______ , possibly because he knew we were _______ back home.

When he was old and dying, our walks were _______ . In his final days, Sno still ________ walking. It took twice as long to take even the shortest walk, but we ________ every step. I don’t know if dogs can cry, but if they can, that made two of us in ________ at the entrance to the beach.

After he died, I went for a long walk. I felt like part of me was ________ . I kept looking down as if he were there beside me and enjoyed the sun and fresh air. When I came to the place where we’d ________ for the beach, I chose the other way.

Later, I may be walking by myself, but I’m never alone. Personally, I’m ________ to earn the love of an old dog.

9 . Five years ago, I was a trail ride leader at a holiday farm in Victoria. My favourite horse was a warmblooded called Holly, a chestnut mare. Aged seven, she was _________, sweet-natured and well-trained; the only _________with Holly was her vivid imagination. I was constantly surprised by Holly’ s ability to be_________ by rabbits, the wind or even shadows - sometimes her own shadow!

One day, as we headed back from a ride on the beach, Holly and I were_________the way over the hilly area. When we got to one particularly long, steep hill, Holly began to twitch (抽动) her ears and step in place. So, when she_________ to sniff(嗅) and give all the _________that she believed the ‘horse-eating monsters’ were close, I became a little worried.

At the bottom of the hill as we rounded a corner, Holly_________with caution, and so I followed her gaze to the path ahead. There, sunning itself in the middle of the track, was a brown_________. This time it was my _________to get scared; I was on a nervous horse, leading a group of eight inexperienced pre-teen riders. Unexpectedly, Holly was firmly__________, ears forward. With the snake in her sight, she was no longer worried.

I have heard that horses have a better sense of__________ than dogs. I hadn't seen it __________ before that moment.__________, while we waited in reality for just a second or two - but for what felt like a century - the snake awoke and glided calmly off into the bush.

Holly then__________, leading the horses with caution and care. She had been alert to danger and had been __________for the safety of us all. Following in the footsteps or their lead mare, not one of the other horses showed any fear.

10 . My 5-year-old daughter Kai walked around a bus stop, picking up candy wrappers and plastic bottles and throwing them in the waste bin. We were a visiting family here, but she was cleaning the sidewalk, which didn’t shock me, nor was I _________ when strangers looked at us.

Our cleanup project began when we drove past an empty field one day and Kai _________ the field was covered by _________ balloons. We had read about how animals could _________ balloons for food. “Stop,” Kai said, and I _________. Surprisingly, we found the field was full of much trash _________ the balloons. “Can we come back and clean it?” Kai asked. Then each Friday, we returned to have a(n) _________ cleaning.

However, it seems we can never _________ the trash completely. I feel something close to _________! Why are we making kids clean up our __________? It has everything to do with the planet we adults are leaving for kids. Plastic pollution is globally distributed and microplastics have even been discovered in human blood. It is not a __________ story that we have created trash but our next generation cleans up them.

Now Kai hopes to become a marine biologist to protect sharks one day. She still has many years to __________, if adults get serious about solving plastic pollution. We shouldn’t leave our next generation a __________ planet and expect them to save it.

The last time our family was at the beach, we still picked up plastic bottles. Most __________, though, we saw an octopus (章鱼) playing around our feet, a __________ of a harmonious habitat worth protecting.