It had been a few years since I had last volunteered in an old people's home, and this time I was looking for a new assignment. I decided to go to my local animal shelter because I love animals, especially dogs. After printing off the application, I remembered clearly ticking off (勾选) the "dog" box before I posted it.
A few weeks later, a lady called to ask if I was still interested. Then she told me they had an opening (空缺) for a cat reader. My mind started to race. What did she say? A cat reader? Did I hear her correctly? "There has been a mistake," I explained. "I checked the dog box."
I was familiar with children reading to dogs to improve their reading skills—but why would I read to a cat? The woman explained that the cats had been rescued from abusive situations, and they needed socializing before they could be adopted. Having a person read to them allowed them to share a space with someone who was non-threatening. They were free to walk in the room and do what they liked while I was reading. I had had some reading experiences as a volunteer before. So I decided to take on the task.
The first four weeks were uneventful. Most weeks, there was just one cat in the room. On one occasion, there were three，and another time two, but that was because they were found together. I did my thing, and the cats did theirs. Beyond saying "Hi" when I entered, I made no effort to touch them. If they wanted my attention, I assumed that they would let me know.
Then I met a cat named Selena. The first time I entered the room, she rushed towards me. She sat next to me. And when I read, she acted like she wanted to put her head on my lap. I thought she liked me and both of us enjoyed the time.
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Paragraph 1: The next week, when I read, Selena sat on my lap.
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Paragraph 2: With new knowledge learned from the videos, I went back to read to Selena.
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It was a pleasant Sunday as John wandered the garden of his uncle’s house. His parents had gone to Delhi.
“Your final examination is just a few months away.” John’s father had said. “We want you to stay with Uncle Tim, complete your exams and join us in Delhi.” Uncle Tim was John’s father’s cousin. He had a little dog called Oliver.
From the first day John realized that Oliver was unhappy in the house. He was not given his meals on time, nor was he taken for a walk. Oliver was shouted at and abused all day. “Your uncle bought Oliver so that the dog could protect his house from thieves but actually he doesn’t love him”, the gardener told John one day.
John felt sad. At night he could hear Oliver whimpering in the cold. “Why don’t you make a coat for your pet?” John paused and said, “He feels cold”. His uncle answered, “I have much better things to do”.
One day John went out for a walk with Oliver, when a fierce storm started. John ran to take shelter in a sweet shop. It was only after a few minutes that he realized that Oliver was not with him. “The storm separated us”, John was sad, telling his uncle. “I searched the entire place with the help of the sweet shop owner but I couldn’t find him.” John’s uncle posted an advertisement in the paper. After all he had spent a lot of money buying Oliver and did not want to lose him.
It was a half-hour ride by bus. The middle aged lady who greeted Oliver was a motherly sort of a woman. She and her husband had answered John’s uncle’s advertisement in the paper. Since John’s uncle was out on an official tour, John had been sent to check on the dog. “He is asleep,” the lady said. “Come and have a look, we love him so much that he is just like our dead dog, Sheela.”
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John looked at the dog. Yes it was Oliver.
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“I am sorry to have bothered you, but this is not our Oliver.”
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My name’s Don Ball. I’m fifteen and I go to Blueway Comprehensive School, Mike is the same age and goes to the local grammar school, but we’ve been friends since junior school, We both live in the village of Saltley, which is in the Midlands. We’ve been birdwatching together since we were 11. I suppose we’re quite good at it now, because we do it regularly, read about it, use the Net to find out about birds, and we’re members of a club for birdwatchers, too.
We have a secret place, named RP, to watch birds. RP is the name we gave to a set of three small lakes surrounded by woods. They are called Redman’s Pools on large maps, but lots of people don’t know they are there because they are hidden by trees.
One day, Mike told me that he saw osprey(鱼鹰) there, which surprised me. There weren’t any in Britain because they’d been hunted too much. They were protected by the RSPB, because lots of people wanted the eggs for their collections.
By now the ospreys had finished building their nest at the top of one of the pine trees on the island in the middle of Big Pool, Of course, we still went to watch them every weekend, and a couple of nights after school, now that the days were getting longer.
One Saturday we were surprised to find a white car parked on the roadside near the track, and as we wheeled our bikes down the track to Redman’s Pools we saw a middle-aged man walking along the side of the pools with a large blue plastic bag over his shoulder.
He stopped at the point where the bank was closest to the island and started doing something with the bag. I was horrified by what I saw. The man had taken a small inflatable(可充气的) plastic boat out of his blue bag, and he was blowing it up.
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He was going to row over to the ospreys’ island!
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When I was ten years old, my mother decided she wanted a dog. My sister and I were excited about the idea. We went to the local shelter (收容所) where we discovered a dog who had been hit by a car. His back left leg was badly injured, and he was clearly in terrible pain, dragging it around behind him.
My mother adopted (收养) the dog and took him to the vet (兽医). The vet fixed his leg and said he would be fine. It took him a long time to get well, and he had to be helped up and down the stairs to our second-floor apartment for weeks. The bad leg was always a little shorter than the others, but he got along fine. So, we had a dog.
Now our dog needed a name. My mother couldn’t think of any name except that of a dog on a television show—a smart dog named Kleo. So she named our dog Kleo.
Kleo loved all of us, letting my sister and me put him in dolls’ clothes, cut his hair, and play with him, but my mom was his savior (救星). When she left the house to go shopping, he howled (吠叫) at the top of his voice until she returned. And when she came home, he was beside himself with happiness.
Kleo went with us on vacation each summer, driving from our home in Washington State to our grandparents’ homes in Massachusetts and New York. We never had to worry about Kleo; we just opened the door and he got out, did what was needed and got back in the car.
One day, we stopped at midday for gas and a bathroom break at a station in the middle of nowhere. It had started to rain. Everyone rushed out of the car and took off in several directions. A few minutes later, we were on the road again.
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Hours passed when my mom asked suddenly, “Where’s the dog?”
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We went all the way back to the gas station but couldn’t find Kleo.
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Even before I reached the tent, I knew there would be trouble. My little brother Andy was following me, with a sleeping bag, a flashlight, and his stuffed bear. My friends Wade and Bred think Andy would ruin everything. He would get scared in the middle of the night and have to be taken back to the house. They complained so much you'd think they were hospital patients instead of kids I'd invited for an outdoor sleepover.
Andy promised that he wouldn't ruin anything. He wormed his way into the tent and settled in the far corner. Night was settling in, too, with the woods around us fading toward black. The house, with its porch light, seemed a long way from us.
“Time for ghost stories!” Brad announced as soon as I'd closed the tent. He told a story about vampires （吸血鬼）, but it only made us fall over laughing. When it was Wade's turn, he told a story of three guys who were camping in a tent. He described our situation exactly-except for Andy. When he was describing a terrifying creature, somewhere outside, a branch snapped （发出咔嚓声）。The hairs on my arms shot straight up. “These guys were crawling into their sleeping bags, right?” Wade continued. “When out of the darkness rang this terrible cry.” And out of the woods behind us there was a cry! High-pitched, frightening, and strange. The hairs on my head shot straight up!
“What was that?” Bred asked as the cry came again. We all looked at each other in horror, speechless. Wade suggested someone should go out to check, but no one dared. “What if it's something trapped or hurt?” Andy said anxiously. We focused our flashlights on Andy, whom we'd forgotten, sitting in the corner with his arms around his bear. Andy would adopt every lost or hurt animal in the world if Mom would let him.
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“I'm going to see.” Andy ran out of the tent and disappeared in the darkness.
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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________A man on a rafting (竹筏漂流) trip in Saskatchewan saved a coyote pup(郊狼幼仔) from drowning(淹死) and nursed it back to health during his 10-day outdoor trip.
Justin was in a multi-day rafting trip down the Red Deer and South Saskatchewan rivers“when he heard some noise," the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Saskatchewan wrote in an Instagram post."He said it sounded like a dog fight so he parked his raft to find out what was going on. However, he wasn't able to see anything so he went back to his raft to go fishing.
While he was fishing, he heard something in the water crying out-and that was when he saw some kind of animal swimming in the river! Its nose was hardly above the water and the water was so dark that Justin couldn't tell what kind of animal it was at first. Justin tried to reach for the animal but ended up falling in the freezing cold water as well.Luckily, Justin was somehow able to locate the animal-a coyote pup!-in the water and catch his raft before it was taken away by water for good!
When Justin brought the animal back to his raft, the little coyote pup didn't seem to be breathing, with its eyes closed. The pup was lucky yet again as Justin had first-aid knowledge and was able to do a Heimlich treatment by pushing on its stomach. After a few pushes, water came out of the coyote's nose and he was breathing again! Justin and his new' friend were both wet through so they made an effort to reach land again where Justin made a fire and tried to warm the little guy up.”
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Justin shortened the trip over the next 10 or so days in order to take care of the pup well.
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Finally, Justin was able to find a place where he could get service and call experts for advice.
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One morning, my family and I woke up and went to eat breakfast——until we heard barking and scratching at the door. When my mom opened the door, we saw a puppy(小狗). We looked around to see if we saw its owner, but there was no one. We took it inside and fed it.
Regardless of how badly I wanted to keep the puppy, we decided to look for the owner. We looked all day, but we failed. We talked about whether we should keep looking or if we should look the next day. We all agreed to look for its owner the next day.
So, the next day my family and I looked for the dog's owner. It was so hard looking for its owner. We were looking for flyers(传单)that involved the puppy, but no luck. We wouldn't have quit because it's a puppy.
“We won't stop looking,” my mom and dad said. We were going to take care of the puppy until we found its owner.
When we woke up in the morning, we went to a pet shop to buy the puppy some dog food. After that we went back home to feed the puppy the dog food that we had just bought. After we fed the puppy, we gave it a nice bath. It was so dirty that the fur was black and sticky, but after we gave it a bath, it turned white.And I noticed there was a collar (狗项圈)on him, which said “Coby”. After we gave him a bath, we went to look for the p uppy's owner, but my mom stayed at home, and it was only my dad and me this time.
We continued looking more and more until we found flyers. “We looked at it.”it said.
“Lost Dog: Please Help if Found.” Then we looked at the picture;it looked exactly like Coby. We were all happy we found a flyer that was for Cody.
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There was a phone number on the flyer.
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We found the lady’s house, and then we knocked on the door.
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Finding a Friend
Two years ago, a dog ran into my yard. When he started to wag his tail and bark, I thought he was nice. But when my hand got close to his forehead, he lashed out and bit me. The next day when I woke up I was lying in the hospital bed with stitches on my right arm from my wrist to my elbow. Even though the dog had to go to the pound, the fear and the scares he gave never left.
You can imagine with my fear of something like this I was an easy target for bullies. I didn’t want to become friends with anyone at my school.
I knew the day would come when the teasing would become too much and I wouldn't be able to take it any longer. On a Friday it happened and I ended up running to my house instead of taking the bus home. I went straight into the woods. I listened to the hush of the trees and admired the beauty of the falling leaves, letting all the frustration go.
Suddenly I heard whimpering (呜咽). I saw the last thing I wanted to see, a dog. From instinct I stood up, legs tense, but the dog didn’t move. Even with my fear of dogs, a part of me wanted to go and comfort the wounded dog. Eventually my heart overpowered my conscience. Carefully I reached out my right hand. My scar started to tingle, remembering the last time I was this close to a dog. Then, before I was ready the dog stretched out his neck, pushing his head into my hand. At that point I knew we needed each other.
The dog happily followed me home. Even after a few days with Scruffy (which is what I chose to name him), the statement “Dogs are man's best friend” was proven true.
One day, I was taking him for a walk when I noticed a sign on a telephone pole. The sign read:
Lost Dog
Medium height, brown eyes, male, scruffy light brown hair. Answers to the name Copper. If seen, please call me at 544-0222, or bring him to my house at 18 Sugar Hill Road, Easton, NH.
Thank you,
Annie Samson
Next to the writing there was a picture of Copper.
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Undoubtedly, that was a picture of the dog sitting right beside me.
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The next day I brought Copper to Easton to find his owner.
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| 濒危原因 | 比例 | 例子 |
| 物种自身发展不适被淘汰 | 10% | 大熊猫等 |
| 栖息地遭破坏 | 20% | 鱼类、鸟类等 |
| 人类乱捕滥猎 | 50% | 兽类、鸟类等 |
| 工农业生产污染环境 | 10% | 鸟类、鱼类等 |
| 自然灾害 | 10% | 1998年南方洪灾等 |
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Recently a survey about the reasons for the animals’ dying out has been carried by a wildlife protection organization.
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