3 . In November 2020, a polar bear named Suka gave birth to several little ones, including Laerke. Laerke and her brothers and sisters were the first polar bears successfully born and _______ in the Detroit Zoo since 2004.

Days after her _______ , Laerke became significantly inactive and appeared increasingly _______. She was sent off to the zoo’s health complex for _______ , but by the time she returned home, her mom no longer _______ Laerke as her cub (小熊).

Without having any other polar bear who would _______ her, she would have to go without a _______, or so they thought. _______, that’s right when Jebbie needed a new home! Jebbie, the baby grizzly bear was _______ all by himself helplessly in Tok, Alaska, when he was ________ and taken to the Detroit Zoo, where he and Laerke had been gradually getting to know each other.

After some time, Jebbie and Laerke became best ________! The zookeepers have since posted pictures and videos of them playing, showing just how ________ they are. Together, they’re able to wrestle in the grassy tundra (苔原), splash around in the freshwater or saltwater pools, and play with toys ________.

“We’re excited that we are able to give Jebbie a home and ________ a much-needed friend for Laerke,” said Scott, chief life sciences officer of the Detroit Zoo. “This social development is critically ________ for both Laerke and Jebbie.”

4 . Many years ago, we came across a dog at an animal shelter ( 收 容 所) while looking for a companion (同伴) for our dog, Bear. This dog seemed to be meant for us and we _______ him, so we took him home. We thought the _______ name for the new dog was Bear Junior, and so it was.

Bear Junior would wake me up every morning at 4: 30 a.m. to go for a _______. He’d touch my face with his nose and I would soon _______. I once had to _______ for two days after an illness. My wife got up to _______ him for his morning walk. He held a sit-down strike (罢工) next to me and _______ to move. It worked.

Bear Junior felt it was his _______ to help all who needed it, no matter where he went.

One day, I took Bear Junior to the dog park. We had just started our walk when a small dog was barking (吠叫) for _______. We could see a big dog cornering him. Bear Junior went into ________, placing himself between the two, facing the big dog. I shouted, “Bear Junior! This is not your ________!” But he refused to let anything ________ until the owners were able to take control.

One winter, I was playing with Bear Junior in the snow. Across the street, an elderly lady ________ on a block of ice. Bear Junior ________ me, ran across the street, and sat right against her side. She used his collar (项圈) to pull herself up. Two days later, she came to our door with dog goodies to ________ Bear Junior.

6 . Ten years ago, the Italian area of Cinque Terre was ______ by a deadly flood. Paradisi at that time ran a hotel. Just a month earlier, he had got a dog, Leo, on September 25, 2011. A month later, although dogs were ______ from his office, he decided to take his new pet to work. A storm was already brewing (形成) in the area, and he was ______ leaving the dog at home.

“It was the fault that saved my ______,” he says. By the time the pair got to La Spezia, the storm had already ______ — heavy rain, thunder and hail. Paradisi decided to leave early, ______ the weather would only get worse. “Even in the first mile, it ______ —I’d never seen it worsen like that before,” he says. “There was a tornado of water that hit the mountains, and I couldn’t even see a meter ahead. I had ______ of about 30 centimeters, so was driving extremely slowly.”

Paradisi had put Leo in the back of his car for the 17-mile journey, and for most of it, the dog had ______ there in silence. Until, getting closer and closer to Prevo, as the car wound round the cliff, Leo made his move.” He ______ into the front and onto my knees, so I had to stop,” says Paradisi. “I was angry — I said, “Leo, I’m driving.” At that moment —just as he was trying to ______ the dog off his lap, and get going again — the cliff fell away in front of them. “The rocks just came down. It almost ______ the car. A meter further forward, and we’d have been ______ ,” he says.

In ______, he says, he managed to turn the car around and make it as far as Manarola, another of the Cinque Terre villages. “It was only then that I understood what was happening. It was ______ Leo that I’m alive. ”

7 . The polar bear was a tiny point in a frozen white world. A film crew began to follow at a distance, gradually getting_________, hoping to get a good picture. However, the bear came to a rest at a hole in the ice and started to_________. So did the crew.

For 12 hours the bear lay half asleep, half ________ without a move. It was too long; the crew had been working for 22 hours ________ on the sea ice. Cold and exhausted, they ________ defeat.

Hours of waiting for little reward is not_________. “It’s the price we pay to get unique images,” says award-winning photographer Florian Ledoux. “It is a ________ for us to get each shot in Arctic — we push our limits.” The battle is intense especially during winter:_________ darkness affects your mood, the lack of routine_________ your body clock, you are forever fighting the bitter cold, and everything you touch with_________ hands sticks to your skin. However_________ your clothes are, the cold bites through.

An Arctic photographer for years, Ledoux has witnessed the significant ________ there. It is heating up, causing ice to melt and ________ the whole ecosystem. “Am I just photographing? No,” he says. “I try to catch some unique beauty of ________, to give a voice to the one that cannot ________.”

9 . An orphaned (孤儿的) deer named Afra and a rabbit named Alice have formed a friendship that’s straight out of a Disney movie. Workers at Chase Sanctuary (保护区) and Wildlife Conservancy in Webster, Florida, have seen many interspecies friendships_______ over the years, but this one is, by far, the cutest!

Alice and Afra were_______drawn together when landing in the sanctuary since they were both alone. Afra lost her _______ at an early age and couldn’t _______ herself in the wild. Around the same time, Alice’s former owner made the_______ and sent her to the shelter, where he felt she would be_______ “Her owner came here for a tour, and saw we have this big, open habitat. He _______   her to run all around in the grass,” said sanctuary founder, Nina Vassallo.

These days, they’re always_______   Afra follows Alice and eats the green grass in the day, and they sleep curled up together at night. “They_______ each other,” Nina explained with _______   “They watch out for each other, just like human friends. It’s so amazing!”

Visitors_______ seeing the two friends together, and the sanctuary says they don’t plan to_______   them. Watching their friendship grow up makes the_______   business of rescuing animals very_______. As is known, rescuing them often faces challenges.

“It always brings us joy to_______ to make an animal’s life better,” said Nina.

10 . Dexter lives in Ouray, Colorado, where, for the past few years, the two-footed dog has been turning heads wherever he goes. His owner, Kentee Pasek, says _______ on two legs isn’t a trick she taught him. Rather,it’s a(n) _______ he made after a near-death experience.

When Dexter was a puppy, he escaped his yard, dashed into the _______ and got hit by a car. He lost his front legs. Everyone _______ he would need some kind of adaptive equipment to get around. He did use a _______ for a while until one day when Pasek set the dog at the foot of her porch (门廊) without it.

Pasek ran in to get a cup of coffee, came out and_______found that her dog had climbed the stairs.She _______her cellphone, put Dexter back at the bottom of the stairs and_______ him walking up the stairs on two feet without the wheelchair.

In the six years since, Dexter has become a full-blown celebrity,_______ in parades and building a group of social media ________ , who now come to the dogs hometown just hoping for a glimpse of Ouray’s most ________ “citizen”

The whole thing isn’t considered as a________ for many people. People praise Dexter for his option to stay________. He shows where humans see ________ ,dogs sometimes beg to differ. And Dexter’s action has proven that sometimes getting ________ is the only way to see how tall you stand.