Living in a city can be 【小题1】 (stress). But some people in Bogota, Colombia have found a place to help ease stress and get 【小题2】 peaceful break from busy life. The place is a protected park for hummingbirds.

The park 【小题3】 (sit) at the top of Monserrate Hill, east of the city, in a place 【小题4】   (know) as the Paramuno corridor. The area contains a forest that has turned into a peaceful place for both people and birds. As the hummingbirds fly from flower 【小题5】 flower, some people study the animals through binoculars (望远镜). Others capture pictures with cameras or phones.

“Sometimes it doesn't seem real because we are close to a city of eight million inhabitants (居民) 【小题6】 make noise every day,” said Camilo Cantor, a caretaker in the park. His job is 【小题7】 (mix) water and sugar that is put in bird 【小题8】 (feeder) along a 300-meter path.

“Visitors to the park can see between 25 to 35 different species of birds,” Cantor said. Ten years ago, the hill was completely deforested, 【小题9】 (mean) there were not any trees left on it.   

But workers began to replant local trees and flowers to bring the forest back to life. 【小题10】(Present), there are 115 species of birds, including 18 kinds of hummingbirds and some migratory ones

Whales have been facing serious danger for a long time.

First, due 【小题1】 the greenhouse effect, glaciers are melting, and some living creatures in the Antarctic and the Arctic 【小题2】 (be) on the edge of extinction. With global warming, life in other parts of the ocean has also been seriously affected, whales 【小题3】 (include).

Secondly, whaling activity is another killer. Historically, whaling has been popular in some overseas countries, such as England, Japan and Norway. On the one hand, some people’s desire for money can’t 【小题4】 (meet) easily, and they regard whales as a money-making machine. A kilogram of whale meat can fetch about $100 in Japan. On 【小题5】 other hand, advanced technology has increased the efficiency of whaling and 【小题6】 (great) reduced the number of whales. What’s more, some countries are still on whaling in the name of science, 【小题7】 (seem) curious about this creature.

The fact 【小题8】 whales are on the edge of extinction is alarming us. Some 【小题9】 (organize) have begun working hard to save them. The international community has made a strategy against commercial whaling. In my opinion, governments should also make tough laws 【小题10】 (protect) whales.

Gorgeous Rare White Grizzly Bear Sighted In Canada

With less than 55,000 grizzly bears left in the wild across North America, the sighting of even one is a cause for celebration. Hence you can only imagine 【小题1】 delighted Cara Clarkson and her family were when they spotted two young grizzlies —【小题2】 with rarely seen all-white fur— wandering alongside the Trans-Canada Highway near Banff, Canada.

“We knew we were so lucky because white grizzly bears are unheard of,” Cara told St. Albert Today. The Director of Operations at the Rimrock Resort Hotel in Banff, who shared her images and video 【小题3】 social media, said the sighting was a real treat given that the family was out celebrating two birthdays — her husband Tyler's on April 26 and her three-year-old son Beau's on April 24.

Mike Gibeau, a carnivore (食肉动物) specialist for Parks Canada, says 【小题4】 Clarksons and other motorists who have encountered the white bear — now called Nakoda, which means “friend” in the native language — are truly lucky. For, 【小题5】 there are a few variations of white bears to be found, such as the Kermode bears in British Columbia and the polar bears in the Arctic, white grizzly bears are extremely rare.

Though this is the first time that the world 【小题6】 (see) the white grizzly, park rangers have known of Nakoda's existence since 2018. Jon Stuart-Smith, a Parks Canada wildlife management specialist says his team first spotted the bear and its sibling traveling with their mother, who they tracked from 2012 to 2017 as part of a Canadian Pacific-Parks Canada research project 【小题7】 (analyze) the mortality rates of the region's grizzly bears. The park officials never publicized the unique bear 【小题8】 fear that it would be chased by fans eager to catch a glimpse. “They're just young bears trying to figure out how to make a living on the landscape, and haven't had enough time to know they 【小题9】 avoid the highway and people. These unusual-looking animals get hunted mercilessly by photographers, and so 【小题10】 (little) we talk about them, the better.”