1 . It was about 5 am on Saturday when Amanda Tanner and her husband were suddenly awakened by their dog, Axel. When the ________ couple was slow to respond, the dog kept trying to get their ________. Her husband finally went downstairs and opened the door to let the dog outside, but Axel didn’t ________. Instead, the dog stopped in front of the door of the couple’s 17-year-old son, Gabriel, and wouldn’t ________: Inside, their son was having a stroke (中风). When Gabriel’s dad ________ the teen, he quickly realized something was wrong. The boy was slurring (说话含糊不清) his speech and couldn’t ________ his right side. The family rushed their son to the emergency room ________.

By waking the parents up and leading them to the boy, the dog made a “massive” ________ in Gabriel’s outcome, says Dr. Sabih Effendi, who treated the teen. “It’s very ________ that their dog alerted and started this whole process of getting everyone ________ and going downstairs,” Effendi says. “When somebody’s acutely having a stroke, the neurons (神经元) are dying. If he was not found and another three or four hours went by, there would have been more and more brain ________.”

“I am beyond ________ for whatever sensitivity Axel has to tell us what’s going on and to have moved that so fast, Amanda said. Tanner ________ to make a little medal of honor for him to go on his collar.” He’s now ________, with following Gabriel everywhere,” Amanda says. “He’s now sleeping with Gabriel, and Gabriel’s door is open so he can go in and out. He’s always been very sensitive to everything and everybody’s ________ at home.”

2 . A year ago, Hialeah Gardens High School student Wendy Chai met Snowball, the American Eskimo dog. Chai, who is 16 years old, was________with anxiety and depression when she was 13, but thanks to an________started at her high school in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, she has relied on Snowball to help her________the day.

The program, S. A. F. E. (Support Animals for Everyone), was_______ by students at her school in 2022. It   _____certain students to bring support animals to school and also makes support animals________to students and staff during school hours. The students presented their project to the Aspen Challenge in Miami. The initiative won the third place.

S.A.F.E President Naomi Gallardo, 17, explained that________to animals helps students relax after exams. “We bring different types of animals — dogs, cats, rabbits, snakes—according to our________and fancies,” Naomi said. “We host annual occasions________at addressing mental health.”

For many, talking about mental health is________due to the negative stereotypes and social________surrounding the issue. The presence of a trained animal as emotional support________helps to break down that psychological________.

By providing students with various support animals and________dialogue, S.A.F.E. continues to create a safer and more________environment for all.

3 . When Caleb was eight, he adopted his first rabbit Snickers. They were inseparable. But Snickers died less than a year later, and Caleb was ______. He went online looking for another rabbit and was ______ to see hundreds available, abandoned after Easter. He made a presentation to his parents about ______ more rabbits. “It really ______ me that people couldn’t commit to a rabbit’s 10-year life span (寿命),” he said. “So I ______ as many as I could.” There wasn’t room at his family’s house. ______, a farm family nearby let Caleb keep his rabbits in their barn (谷仓).

By the time he was 14, Caleb knew he wanted his rabbits to not only live out their lives in a ______ place but also help others. One day, he discovered a deserted island on the Missisippi and ______ the owner to allow him to raise his rabbits there for a few months. It was the perfect ______ to train these rabbits-quiet, and safe. After securing an investor to help him buy the ______ online, Caleb needed to ______ money for the rabbits’ care plus other costs. So Caleb started the Peacebunny Foundation to ______ donations and hosted educational activities.

Now Caleb’s rabbits are ______ for short stays by families with children who have mental health challenges, He also visits senior centers with his rabbits to stop the elderly feeling ______. “It takes a lot effort,” said Caleb, who still can’t believe he’s guardian to hundreds of rabbits. “But rabbits bring so much ______ into the lives of others-and into mine as well.”

4 . When I was young, we lived in an area known as Fruitland for the apple trees that grew there. Since my father was a _________ carpenter(木匠), our house was elegantly built. A porch(门廊) wrapped around the front and side of it. Past the soft green lawn, the _________ was surrounded by forest. During the hot summers, my brother, Curtis and I spent our days outside with old Belle, our father’s _________. We loved to play on a large pile of _________ that was left over from the construction of the house.

One morning when we went outside to play, we couldn’t _________ Belle. We searched everywhere, but useless. _________, we found her standing near the pile of rocks that was our playground. As we _________ the rocks, Belle growled(咆哮) at us. It seemed something _________ happened there. Feeling strange, we went back to the house, and told our mother about Belle’s _________.

Mother __________ to see for herself, but when she tried to come close to Belle, the dog again gave a __________ growl. Our mother told us to stay away. All day, Belle __________ by the pile of rocks, without water or food, in the hot sun.

When our father __________, he, too, went to check on Belle. There Belle grabbed his pants and __________ him to the rocks. To our __________, my father found a large copperhead snake there. Our beloved Belle had kept us safe.

5 . Milu is also known as Pere David’s deer. They are herd animals (群体动物) that usually ________ from humans, but when Diandian comes into contact with people at a nature ________ in Yueyang, Hunan province, she is ________.

Eight years ago, one-week-old Diandian was left behind by her ________. When people found her in the reeds of a lake, she looked too weak and thin to ________.

________ by keepers at the East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve, Diandian ________ started treating people as her friends. Today, she is the mother of three milu, thanks to the ________ and care shown to her by ________ members at the reserve. “Most milu run away ________ someone approaches, but Diandian is deliberate (从容的) in her ________ and unhurried,” said Li Zheng, a keeper at the reserve who has taken care of Diandian for years.

With the help of people like Li Zheng from a milu ________ association in Yueyang, 11 deer, including Diandian, have their families. The staff have done many things to help protect and expand the ________ of the animal. Each member has a ________ research role, with some flying drones (无人机), some ________ the number of milu and some estimating the age of the male ________ the shape and size of their antlers (鹿角).

Thanks to their efforts, the past several years have ________ the gradual ________ of the milu population. Once ________ in China, its native land, and with only 18 ________ surviving in the world, the milu deer is now prospering in its home country.

6 . Around a bend (拐弯处) on a narrow trail that runs deep into the forest of Gabon’s Loango National Park, Kamaya comes into view. The huge silverback gorilla (大猩猩) coolly watches _______ arrive, then goes back to his meal.

Seated on a _______ branch, the 150-kilogram beast greedily pulls more _______ from the tree to his mouth with a _______ but powerful movement before slowly climbing down the trunk. Soon he falls asleep calmly.

After two years of a total _______ due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Parks Agency has decided to restart _______ observations of Gabon’s gorillas,_______ the iconic (标志性的) species will serve as a“loss leader” to _______ ecotourism.

That Kamaya and his _______ of about 10 members are so used to humans is the ________ of long labors by a team of scientists who also ________ data.

They work to make ________ to protect a species ________ with extinction and to ________ foreign tourists. Spending one hour with Kamaya and his family costs $500, on top of charges for ________ to the site and accommodation.

Loango Park, which ________ more than 155,000 hectares of the thickly ________ country, offers rich reward for a 4-5-hour road ________ from Port-Gentil, the second city, followed by the track and a ________ stage by boat.

Though expensive, the price is much lower than that paid to see the mountain gorillas in Uganda or Rwanda. It also gets income to manage protected areas that ________ a safe place for the animals.

7 . A mobile(移动的)hospital for treating injured wildlife has just begun a journey to its new base in Byron Bay, on Australia's east coast.

Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital founder and Professor Stephen Van Mil said that Australia's annual disastrous(灾难性的)wildfire season could _______ the animals’variety. Seeing the _______ koalas sitting in baskets waiting for care was _______ .

By now, several charities, and help from animal protection groups have turned the mobile hospital into a _______ .

It is housed in a 16-meter _______ that was partially helped by the World Wildlife Fund, which was _______ by a group of international environmentalists to raise money _______ global efforts. Inside, the truck comes with all the _______ an animal hospital needs, including X-ray machines, ultrasound(超声)facilities, and special cages. To make sure that the mobile hospital can help even in the most _______ conditions, it is 100 per cent self-sufficient(自给自足). It uses solar energy to produce electricity and has its own water collection and management systems so that it can arrive anywhere and be set up and ready to go in ________ .

“Being able to work in a mobile hospital ________ that I can actually help these animals quickly. I can get there and I can concentrate on the ________ that they need," said wildlife specialist Dr. Bree Talbot, who will be aboard the mobile hospital along with a small team of volunteers.

Australia can be a ________ place to live for wild animals. Experts determined that up to a billion wild creatures were ________ by the 2020 wildfires alone. Offering help to these animals in times of crisis is a major challenge, and this amazing mobile hospital seems to have arrived at the ________ time.