A theme park in France started a new and environmentally-friendly way【小题1】 (deal) with litter. It has trained six rooks (白嘴鸦) to pick up rubbish. Rooks are members of the crow family. The birds have been trained to pick up cigarette 【小题2】 (end), paper and other things 【小题3】 (throw) on the ground. The birds pick up the litter and put it in a trash can. This gives the crows food as a reward. The more litter the birds put in the trash, the more food 【小题4】 get.

The head of the park 【小题5】 (give) several reasons for using the crows. He said: “The goal is not just to clean up... but also to demonstrate 【小题6】 nature itself can teach us to take care of the environment.” Crows are sociable and 【小题7】 (intelligence). They may be as smart as a seven-year-old child. The theme park head said: “In   【小题8】 affectionate, supportive atmosphere, they like to communicate with humans and 【小题9】 (establish) a relationship through play.” The crows are quick workers. They can fill a bucket 【小题10】 rubbish in less than 45 minutes.

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them 【小题1】（fall）into a hole．All the other frogs looked down．When they saw how deep 【小题2】hole was，they told the two frogs that they would die soon．

At first, both of the two frogs didn't care their words and tried【小题3】best to jump out of the hole. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, because they thought there was no chance 【小题4】(jump)out of such a deep hole. Finally, one of the two frogs believed these words and gave up. He fell down and died．

The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again，the crowd of frogs shouted at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even【小题5】(hard)and finally succeeded. When he got out, the other frogs asked, "Didn't you hear us?"【小题6】their great surprise, the frog turned out to be a deaf. He thought they were helping him all the time, not【小题7】(stop) him．

This story teaches us two lessons: There is power of life and death in the tongue. Well-meant words can help people in trouble. But, evil words sometimes can kill them. Be careful of【小题8】you say．

Remember the power of words. Anyone can speak words 【小题9】are likely to make people give up in difficult 【小题10】(time).

Animal-rights activists often complain that cute beasts get more sympathy than ugly ones. If so, one would think a lovely creature like the mink (貂) would be easy to protect. Yet in the Netherlands, mink is the only animal 【小题1】 can still legally be farmed for their fur. That is about to change. On August 28th the government brought forward to this year a ban 【小题2】 mink-farming that had been scheduled to take effect in 2025. The timetable was sped up not because mink had become more adorable, 【小题3】 because they can contract COVID-19 and spread it to humans.

Dutch farmers normally raised about 2.5 million minks a year, 【小题4】 (make) the Netherlands the world’s fourth-largest producer after Denmark, China and Poland. In April, a couple of minks and the farm hands who tended them 【小题5】 (diagnose) with COVID-19. Genetic tracing showed that at least two workers had probably been infected by mink, rather than the other way around. The affected animals were destroyed and stricter hygiene rules were imposed, but by summer the virus had spread to a third of the country’s farms.

That was a win for the Netherland’s Party for the Animals, which has four seats in the 150-member parliament. In 2013, 【小题6】 helped pass the law that gave mink farmers until 2025 to get out of the business. Some members of parliament claim that the compensation 【小题7】 (pay) for destroying the infected minks was higher than the market price for their fur.

Fur farmers say modern standards allow minks to be raised humanely, and 【小题8】 they are not a big reason for the spread of the virus. But minks tend to live by themselves instead of living in groups; animal-rights advocates say they cannot be raised humanely in small cages. As for COVID-19, the worry is 【小题9】 mink could serve as a medium for it to attack human immunization (免疫) programs. The industry’s value is modest, and polls show the public overwhelmingly opposes it. “In a democratic country, that widespread belief 【小题10】 translate into a political decision to ban fur farming,” says Esther Ouwehand, leader of the Party for the Animals. The farmers accept they are shutting down. The remaining argument is over money.