In the middle of the night in India, a herd (群) of elephants wandered out of the forest and into a farm looking for food. The elephants came to a deep, muddy ditch (沟). _________, a small baby elephant slid into the ditch. She tried climbing up the sides of the ditch to get out, but, _________, she wasn’t strong enough to _________. She cried out in _________. Her mother and the other elephants _________ to help, but the ditch was too deep for them to _________ her with their trunks (象鼻). There was nothing they could do, but they _________ nearby to accompany her.

In the morning, farmers _________ the elephants, and soon they grabbed sticks and rushed at the animals, trying to scare them away. The elephant herd was _________ and ran off, leaving the baby alone in the __________. Then the farmers heard the cries of the baby elephant. They immediately called for help from the Forest Department, which __________ with a bulldozer (推土机) to dig away the dirt around the baby elephant. As the little elephant kicked and __________, workers from the Forest Department finally were able to pull her out. When a vet (兽医) __________ the baby elephant, he found she was tired and thirsty and scared, __________ not badly hurt.

The forest workers tried to find the __________ and the baby’s mother, but they were__________. The workers understood that the baby wouldn’t be able to __________ in the wild on her own, so they__________ her onto the back of their truck and drove her to the Wildlife Rescue Centre in Assam, India. At the rescue centre, the baby elephant had carers, __________ her several times a day. The carers took the baby along with other young rescued elephants, for walks together so they could learn how to find food and water in the __________. When these elephants were older, they were all released back into the wild to live together as a herd.