Jane Goodall was born in London in 1934. She became interested in animal stories when she was a very young child. She always dreamed of working with wild     1     (animal).   When she was eleven years old, she decided that she wanted     2     (go) to Africa to live with and write about animals. But this was not the kind of thing young women usually did in the 1940s. Everybody was laughing except her mother. “If you     3     (real) want something, you work hard, you take advantage of the opportunity, you never give up,and you will find a way,” her mother said to her. The opportunity     4     (come) at last. A school friend invited her to Africa. Jane worked as     5     waitress until she got enough money to travel there.

In 1957, Jane Goodall traveled to Africa. She soon met the well-known scientist Louis Leakey and began working for him as an assistant. He later asked her to study a group of chimpanzees     6     (live) by a lake in Tanzania. Very little was known about wild chimpanzees at that time.

Jane spent many years studying chimpanzees     7     this area of Africa. It was no easy work. They were very shy     8     would run away when she came near. She learned to watch them from far away using binoculars (双筒望远镜). Over time, she slowly gained     9     (they) trust. Watching the chimpanzees, she made many discoveries. They ate vegetables and fruit. But she found that they also ate meat. A few weeks later, she made an even more     10     (surprise) discovery. She saw chimpanzees making and using tools to help them catch insects.

Bird-watching has been included in a public benefit program “Park Classes” in Wuhan schools.     1    (bury) in books and having little access to the outside world, many students don’t have the     2    (little) idea of what nature really is.

This program is designed     3    (raise) the awareness of environmental protection among school kids,     4     often feel greatly refreshed by appreciating the grace of the adorable creatures through cameras.

Among the selective courses     5    (be) the restoration of small and micro wetlands. As for this course, what     6    (need) is a lot of hands-on practice. Under the     7    (guide) of their teachers, students are required to conduct research on a 500-square-meter wetland in the city parks. Focusing their attention     8     the wetland’s physical condition, they have recorded the number of plant and animal species to create a restoration plan. Thanks to their efforts, the biodiversity of the wetland has been     9    (significant) improved.

“It’s very meaningful,” said Li Chenliang,     10     eighth grader from this project. “I have gained a lot of knowledge that cannot be directly got from books. I should make full use of the city’s ecological advantages and get more chances to get closer to nature.”

Environmentalists are getting more     1     (worry) about the effects of fast fashion on the environment. Fast fashion is the mass     2     (produce) of clothes at a low cost. They are put in shops and online quickly     3     (create) a high demand. Factories make 100 billion items of clothing every year. The fast fashion business model is having     4     bad effect on the environment. Many of the clothes end up in landfills and are not recycled. Another bad effect on the environment     5     (cause) by the chemicals used to make the clothes. These cause health problems for people     6     (work) in clothes factories. The way people buy clothes is adding to the problem of clothing waste. Many years ago, people went to stores and tried clothes     7    . People took more time and thought more     8     (careful) before they bought clothes. They also wore them for longer. Today, people order cheap clothes on the Internet and if they don’t like     9     (they), they throw them away. Every year in Europe, four million tons of clothing ends up in the trash, less than one percent of     10     is recycled.

Dujiangyan is the oldest man-made water system in the world, and     1     wonder in the development of Chinese science. Built over 2,200 years ago in     2     is now Sichuan Province in Southwest China, this     3     (amaze) engineering achievement is still used today     4     (irrigate) over 6,000 square kilometres of farmland, take away floodwater and provide water for 50 cities in the province.

In the Warring States Period of ancient China, Li Bing, the     5     (govern) of Sichuan, found that the floods, happened frequently in the rainy season, and water storage was short during the dry season. Therefore,     6     (base) on the geographic features of the MinJiang River, and without doing any damage to the     7     (nature) environment, he built a special structure dam known as Dujiangyan to direct water and divert floods and sand. Thanks to the dam, the region would no longer be     8     (flood) during the rainy season, and water supply would be sufficient in the dry season.

Dujiangyan     9     (function) for more than 2,200 years. Even the earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8     10     the Richter scale (里氏震级) in 2008, which happened near the dam, didn’t destroy it. Dujiangyan reflects the idea that the land water and people can live in harmony.

Eco-wildlife tours are becoming increasingly popular with tourists. The opportunity to see whales and dolphins swimming in their    1    (nature) habitat is so much better than seeing these great mammals in zoos and aquariums. It is amazing to interact with these animals. But is it possible that this kind of human activity is putting their survival    2    risk?

A recent study has shown that the behaviour of whales and dolphins    3    (change) greatly when they are close to boats. Interpreting the boats as    4    possible danger, they start to breathe more quickly. The boats drive them away from the places    5    they feed and interrupt their routine of resting and taking care of their young. All of these factors could have a very negative effect on their general health. Another factor is the effect of human attention on the animals. Up to now, there    6    (be)several cases of tour boats    7    (run)into dolphins or whales and causing their    8    (death).

Perhaps the best way to protect these animals is    9    (reduce)our interaction with them. Keep a minimum distance between the animals and the boats and limit the number of boats out on the water at a time. Most    10    (important), instead of disrupting these animals’ routines, we should try to adapt to them. In this way, we could learn to exist in harmony with these wild animals and ensure our continued co-existence on the planet that we all share.