As a whale researcher, Nan Hauser has been awarded the international title of “Earth Ambassador”. While many local people had heard of this ______ , it was an encounter(邂逅)that would make her known worldwide.

One day in 2017, Nan was shooting some videos with the whales, when the most remarkable thing ______ . As she swam alongside them, they began to display ______ signs that danger was near. Suddenly, she saw a whale swim towards her at full speed. Just as ______ hit, one of the whales used its fin to push Nan onto its back and out of range of…not a whale but a tiger shark.

After the shark disappeared, the whale ______ accompanied Nan back to her boat. She climbed aboard and yelled her appreciation to the ______ . After a few minutes, the whale disappeared, and Nan said goodbye, feeling ______ for this lifetime encounter.

Almost a year later, Nan received a call from a fisherman saying that he ______ whales in the harbor. Could her whale friend have ______ ? She jumped onto a boat quickly. Nan instantly ______ her fiend, and dived into the water to swim with him.

After Nan’s encounter, she ______ with how best she could thank the whale. After all, its ______ to hug something much larger than you. So what’s the most ______ way to thank a whale? It’s by caring, learning more about them, and ______ their habitat. As for us, we can help in small ways. For example,   ______ single-use plastics will make a difference.

The sun was beginning to sink as I set off into the Harenna Forest. I was on my way to _________ a unique honey harvest. Here, in south-east Ethiopia, hand-carved beehives (蜂房) are placed in the _________. Reaching them to get the honey is difficult and often _________.

I followed beekeeper Ziyad over a wide stretch of grassland _________ entering a thick jungle. Ziyad began preparations. He gathered _________ of damp tree leaves, wrapped them with string, and _________ the bunch to create a torch (火把). Then, with one end of a rope tied to his waist and the other end around the trunk of a tree, Ziyad began _________. He stopped every few minutes to move the _________ higher up the tree trunk.

_________, Ziyad got close to the hive which was around 20 meters above the ground. Sitting on a branch, he __________ towards it and blew smoke from his torch into a tiny hole in the hive. Suddenly, Ziyad __________ a sharp cry. Within seconds, he’d __________ the trunk and was back on the ground.

It was too __________ to collect the honey. A cool summer had delayed __________. Baby bees were still in the honeycombs (蜂巢). The angry adult bees kept attacking as Ziyad escaped from the tree. He had to wait for the right __________ to go back up.