Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a health care system in which patients     1     (treat) with natural plant, animal, and mineral remedies (药物). It is believed, for a person to be healthy,     2     yin and yang forces should be in balance. Imbalance causes illness or injury. TCM is about     3     (restore) the balance between yin and yang forces in patients. It has been a major part of traditional Chinese culture and continues to play     4     vital role in medical treatment in China today.

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 80 percent of the world’s population depends for its primary health care needs     5     , medicines from plants and animals. This is especially true in countries where traditional medicines are     6     (wide) used.

Increasingly, however, modern medicines also contain substances from animals and plants. Given growing populations, increasing wealth, and the     7     (spread) popularity of natural remedies around the world the demand for these medicines and remedies     8     (rise) now .The rising demand,     9     (combine) with reduced habitat, has put a number of plant and animal species used for medicinal purposes at risk for many years.

For instance, TCM uses about 1,000 plant and 36 animal species, including the tiger, rhinoceros (犀牛), and sea horse,     10     are all in danger.

Save Us — South China Tiger

We are called South China Tiger, and we are     1     (处于灭绝的危险). It’s     2     (alarm) that there are only 30-80 living in the zoo. Our skin and fur are regarded as expensive traditional medicine. (For this reason we are being illegally hunted)     3     (用强调句升级加黑体部分). Even worse,    4     (由于) the fact that trees are being cut down by human beings, 5.    5     (我们的自然栖息地——森林，正受到威胁). However,    6     (人们正采取有效措施增加野生虎的数量).

Please refuse to buy our fur or other tiger products!

Herds of elephants used to live on the plains of Africa and in the forests of Asia. But today, hunters are a serious threat     1     them. The number of these large animals     2     (reduce) at an alarming rate due to     3     (legal) hunting. To save them, some     4     (reserve) have been established where they can live in peace and safety. However, the attacks on them will continue as long as interest in buying elephant products exists. To make humans and animals live     5     harmony, measures must be taken     6     (protect) these beautiful creatures from becoming     7     (endanger).

10 . A homeless man rescued all the animals at a shelter after it caught on fire, which made a local headline news. Hamlin, the _______ of the W-Underdogs shelter, told the local media.

Keith Walker, 53, a homeless man, _______ his life to save several cats and dogs _______ at an Atlanta animal shelter after it caught fire, the facility’s founder said.

“I was nervous as hell. I was really _______ to go in there with all that smoke. But God put me there to save those animals and I _______ into the shelter after a fire engulfed (吞噬) its kitchen.” Walker told the media. “If you love a dog, you can love anyone in the world. My dog is my best friend, and I wouldn’t be here _______ him, so I knew I had to save all those other dogs.”

_______ the shelter was not completely destroyed, the fire left it uninhabitable, according to W-Underdogs founder Gracie Hamlin.

“He is my guardian angel (天使),” Hamlin told the media. “Even the firefighters didn’t want to _______ the dogs. They called animal control, but Keith was already in the building _______ the cats and dogs until they were all safe.”

Hamlin ________ knew Walker, who has been homeless since he was 13 years old, because she lets him ________ his dog, a pitbull (斗牛犬) named Bravo, at the shelter every night.

Walker was on his way to ________ Bravo and take him for a walk when he saw the fire. He was able to rescue all the animals-six dogs and ten cats.

“________   the great loss, I’d like to thank him for saving my animals,” Hamlin said. “To my ________, all my animals are safe and sound. Homeless man as he is, Walker is truly my ________ .”