1 . We've been part of the Lammas project,an eco village in Wales.I was _______ to change my lifestyle after studying environmental science.I wanted to live _______ the land and to provide our own food and _______.We also wanted to live in a community with _______ people around us.It took us 10 years to make it _______

Now I live in a roundhouse made out of straw(柏早）。It is not what I would call low-cost housing.The cost is your_______.You have to have great willpower.We had to _______everything because we had no spare money when we moved here.

I think we've done what I _______to do:grow our own food and provide our own resources.We have hydro(水电）power and solar panels and we feel like we're not _______ the planet's resources.

We________produce such as eggplants,peas and carrots.We have nut trees and apple trees.We have 9.5 acres of land and keep sheep.I earn about20,000 a year.Most of my ________ comes from shearing(修剪）our sheep,and using the ________ to run willow-weaving(纺织）。If we have spare fruit,we ________ them too.But we reinvest(再投资）most of the money in the ________,and animal care.

Organic clothes are very________ but I do choose them when I' can.We might spend about 150 a month on eating out as a family.We always try and shop local-________ it's more expensive.We don't go holiday a lot but when we do we try to travel by train.It takes a long time but for me it's about the ________,not the destination.

Looking back,I'd argue being organic is ________ for anyone.It costs you next to nothing-just time and ________.If people want to be more healthy and ________for themselves,they can do it.

2 . We have two dogs. We took in both after they were abandoned (抛弃) in the country. They will run off at any chance. _________ my yard is fenced (栅栏), I have to keep them chained (拴住) to avoid paying any fines for _________ them from the city pound (流浪狗收容所).

This morning as I was walking the first one out, the second ran past me quickly. I called for her to return, but she chose to _________ my words and headed off. Despite my best _________ at calm and peacefulness, having a dog disobey me did make me mad.

Anyway, when I drove to pick up my daughter from school I just _________ to mention that Cady might be _________. I added that if she was put into the pound, I would not be paying her _________ this time.

“_________?” my daughter asked. “Is it just the money?”

“Well, partly it’s the money. It will be probably over $100 _________ all is done. But mostly it is because I am __________ with her?” I __________ “I will not keep such a dog, never!”

I noticed that my daughter had her head turned away from me and had not said a __________ word for over 5 minutes.

“Why does this __________ you so much?” I wondered out loud.

My daughter said, “Dad, you just don’t __________ . If Cady is at the pound, since she is three years old and not __________ housebroken (训练好的), who would pick her? That means they will kill her.”

Then I __________ that the only reason I kept the dog in the first place was that we could not find a __________ for her and did not want her to be __________ by Animal Control. My __________ softened.

As we __________ the driveway, there stood Cady in the yard, tail wagging and ready for some supper.

Children are such incredible teachers!

3 . Molai grew up in a tiny village in India. The village lay near some wetlands which became his second___________. He learned the value and beauty of _________ there from a very young age.

When he was 16, Molai began to notice something _________ happening around his home. A flood had hit the area earlier that year and the _________ it caused had driven away a number of birds. _________, the number of snakes had declined as well. He _________ that it was because there weren’t enough trees to protect them from the _________. The solution, of course, was to plant trees so the animals could seek _________ during the daytime. He turned to the _________ department for help but was told that nothing would grow there. However, Molai went looking on his own and __________a nearby island where he began to plant trees.

________ young plants in the dry season was ____________for a lone boy. Molai built at the __________ of each sapling(幼树)a bamboo platform, where he placed earthen pots with small holes to____________ rainwater. The water would then drip(滴落)on the plants below.

Molai __________ to plant trees for the next 37 years. His efforts have resulted in 1,360 acres of naturally-grown land that has become home to many plants and animals.

4 . I woke up by my dog barking in the early morning. I went outside to find a koala（考拉） at the yard gate wanting to enter. It was the first time that I had ______ a koala in my neighborhood. What a welcome ______ !

I was wondering why he was here, as Koala ______ came down from the trees and didn’t like walking, either._________ , there was no eucalyptus（桉树）around. Was he hungry or lost? Or maybe the bushfire across Kangaroo Island ______ him here?

He just sat there, apparently ______ , and sort of looked at me with a look, like helping me out of my suffering. At a(n) ______ look, I discovered a long cut at his back with bloods, ______ of attacks or cuts of something sharp in some other way.

I rushed into my room and came out with some iodophor（碘伏药水）, It was not a ______ problems as I was a nurse. This poor soul seemed to quite ______ my kindness when I ______ the cut with the liquid. It   ______   me that he came to seek my ______ !

After the treatment, I watched the koala finally ______ in the wild, hoping he was able to ______ the hard time and live his life as he should.

5 . Simba lives with his owner Arjanit   Mehana in an apartment building. Despite （不管）how Simba has always been a ____   pup, the neighbors in their building have _____ him to be a pit bull—a small strong fierce （凶猛的）dog, but this pit bull is a perfect example of ____ you should never judge a book by its cover.

One elderly woman who lived on the floor below Mehana and Simba always took particular care to ____ the pup. Simba always tried to ____ her, but she called him mean and looked at him with fear. Her attitudes changed, however, after Simba _____ her.

Mehana and Simba had recently been returning to their apartment from a walk when the pup suddenly started ____ and pawing at the elderly woman's door—and he ____ to leave. As Mehana ____ Simba's leash （牵狗的绳子）in confusion, he heard a ____ voice calling for help from inside.

The elderly neighbor had ____ and broken her hip （臀部）.For two days, she had been ____ on the floor without any way of calling for help. Mehana then called medical ____ and waited with her until an ambulance （救护车）arrived.

“She said, 'Thank you for _____ me.' I thought she was talking to me at first," Mehana recalled. "But then she said, 'No, not you—the nice ______.'"

6 . Sadiman，a 67-year-old man，single-handedly restored an entire forest to save his village from hunger. He is a（n）_______ in Dali village，Indonesia. The Gendol hill was seriously deforested because of widespread logging（伐木）activities and a series of forest fires that took place in the 1960s. The extreme deforestation made the Gendol River. _______，leading to serious water crisis.

He came up with the _______ to restore the hill when he was working there to make _______ meet. Sadiman started to _______ banyan（榕树）trees on about 500 hectares of the forest. He has been doing this for the last 21 years all by himself and his sacrifice is _______ surprising. His poor _______ conditions didn't stop him spending his hard-earned money _______ the seedlings for plantation to restore the forest. A banyan tree seedling _______ about $5. 00，which was much money for him. To meet this __________，Sadiman began to plant clove（丁香）tree seedling in his yards. Ten clove tree seedlings were worth a banyan tree seedling. Sadiman's devotion was beyond. __________，yet he was called a "crazy person" and some of his seedlings were __________ pulled out of the ground by irresponsible people. __________，this didn't stop him from planting the seedlings.

Non-stop since the early 1990s，Sadiman has __________ on planting trees and taking care of them to ensure they grow strong and healthy. __________ his continuous hard work，the forest has started to recover. More and more springs and streams have been __________ to provide a reliable water supply for the area. People are becoming __________of the importance of the forest in the bigger __________. The Gendol Hill，once wild，now returns to its former glory by one man and his action to __________ the whole region from drought（干旱）and __________. He truly is a one man army！

7 . When you take a walk in a town in a western country, you’ll often see people walking ________their dogs. It is still true that a dog is __________ animal in the world, but the reason why people ________ a dog has changed. Once upon a time, a man met a dog and wanted it to help him in the fight _______ other animals and he found the dog ________ him and did what he told him ________. Later people used dogs for hunting _________ other animals, and the dogs did not _________ when they got until they their masters agreed. So dogs were used for __________ sheep and guarding chickens. But now people in the towns and cities ___________ dogs to fight other animals for them. Why do they keep dogs? Of course, they keep them to ________ thieves, but the most important reason is _________ people feel _______ in the city. For a child, a dog is his ____________ friend when he has no friend to ______. For a young wife, a dog is her _____________ when she does not have her own. For old people, a dog is also a child when their _______ children have grown up and __________. Now people do not have to use a dog, but they keep it _____________ a friend, just like a member of the ________.

8 . Why did the orangutan（猩猩）cross the road? That’s not the start of a joke, but a question being asked by scientists studying these brilliant apes.

Brent Loken, who runs a group called Integrated Conservation, used camera traps to research into orangutans. That group protects ________ animals in Borneo, the largest island in Asia. Camera traps work by taking a quick photo, when something moves in front of them. In Borneo, scientists use the photos to ________ what the rare orangutans do when people aren’t ________?

Scientists have been studying orangutans in the rainforests for decades. And their data had suggested that the animals almost always traveled through the ________. They were ________ seen walking on the forest floor. Yet when Loken looked at the photos from his team’s camera traps, he got surprised that the apes were walking on the ground, ________ using logging roads（运材道路）and paths built by people.

Were these animals simply ________ to walk on the ground because logging had left too many ________? Or did they ________ down logging roads as convenient shortcut? “More ________ is needed,”

People are removing trees for logging, plantations and the building of the cities. The new findings suggest orangutans might be able to learn to ________ with some of these changes in their ________. It doesn’t mean the animals can survive ________ forests. But it does suggest there might be ways to log forests in a way that won’t greatly ________ these apes.

Stephanie Spehar, primatologist at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, agrees. “The new study doesn’t mean they’re fine in areas with no trees,” she says. “Orangutans clearly need the forest to ________.

9 . Environmental protection is everywhere and Christmas is no exception. Going “green” has ___been so festive as in westernmost Canada_____two start-ups are offering an eco-friendly Christmas tree rental service for the holiday period.

For about 100 dollars, Evergrow Christmas Trees and Carbonsync Christmas will drop off a potted tree at your home or business and____three weeks later after all the____have been opened and Santa has parked his sleigh.

Carbonsync plans to donate its trees to habitat restoration groups for replanting, while Evergrow says it will_____them to a nursery to be____until next Christmas when they may be____out again.

Trees normally cost four times less on average, but are usually turned into mulch or sent to garbage dumps after the holidays in most North American cities.

“What (folks) are doing now is that they’re____these hordes of trees everywhere in the Fraser Valley to ship to Vancouver, ” Brad Major of Carbonsync Christmas told public broadcaster CBC.

“These trees grow anywhere from 6 to 12 years to be____one Christmas, and all these trees go to the landfill, and it’s a huge pile of trees, ” he said. “It’s like the biggest____of a resource. ”

The firm’s trees will also continue to____CO2 from the atmosphere, doing their bit to help curb global warming____ending up as waste.

And if a family____, they may even rent the same tree year after year from Evergrow,   ____it has not grown too large to____their living room.

10 . Jaguar （美洲虎）is an endangered animal. It is said that there are less than 20 jaguars in the world currently, one of which is living in the national zoo of Peru. To protect this jaguar, Peruvians _________ a zone in the zoo for it, where there are groups of cattle, sheep and deer for the jaguar to eat. Anyone who has visited the zoo _________ it to be the “Heaven of Tiger”. _______, strange enough, no one has ever seen the jaguar _______the animals. What we could see is it’s lying in its house sleeping and eating the meat _________by the zoo staff.

Some people thought that the jaguar felt too _________, so they collected money and rented a female tiger to accompany it. Nonetheless, it did not make too much sense. “It is _______ for the jaguar to be lazy in this environment. Tiger is the king of forest but you _______ put some small animals around him. That is why the jaguar shows no _______ in going out. Why don’t you put some __________ around him?”a visitor suggested. The zoo __________his advice and put five wolves into the jaguar’s territory(领地). Since then, it either stands on top of the hill roaring __________goes down from the hill running without sleeping all day，totally getting back to its __________.

In our world, one creature __________ any rival(对手) is lifeless. Actually, this principle also ____________to human beings. If a man lives without competitors, he is sure to be satisfied with the present and will __________before all difficulties. Difficult environment tends to __________successful people. Therefore, we need some rivals to push us with strict requirements and standards, leaving us going ahead in all ____________and challenges. Due to our rivals, we can __________the best in us. Due to our rivals, we will continuously __________our capabilities when competing with them!