I woke up by my dog barking in the early morning. I went outside to find a koala (考拉) at the yard gate wanting to enter. It was the first time that I had _______ a koala in my neighbourhood. What a welcome _______! 

I was wondering why he was here, as koalas _______ came down from the trees and didn’t like walking, either._______, there was no eucalyptus (桉树) around. Was he hungry or lost? Or maybe the bushfire across Kangaroo Island _______ him here? 

He just sat there, apparently _______, and sort of looked at me with a look, like helping me out of my suffering. At a(n) _______ look, I discovered a long cut at his back with bloods,_______ of attacks or cuts of something sharp in some other way. 

I rushed into my room and came out with some iodophor (碘伏药水). It was not a _______ problems as I was a nurse. This poor soul seemed to quite ________ my kindness when I ________ the cut with the liquid. It ________ me that he came to seek my ________! 

After the treatment, I watched the koala finally ________ in the wild, hoping he was able to ________ the hard time and live his life as he should.

Sea turtles are considered a national treasure in Sri Lanka. However, in recent years, the sea turtles have faced great ________ .

Growing up on the beach, Chamara Indika, 35, was ________ about it. In the beginning, he ________ himself to the protection of sea turtles as a volunteer. He gave his spare time to raise ________ of caring for sea turtles and carried out sea turtle protection and rescue missions.

Later, he decided that this was not a long-term ________. “One person’s abilities are very ________ but I wanted to make real changes, big changes,” said Indika. ________, Jack Xiao, the founder of Chinese YIK International Volunteers (YIKIV), reached out to Indika and offered his help to protect sea turtles. With his assistance, Indika set up the Nil Manel Foundation in Sri Lanka.

The organization ________ professional training and guidance for the volunteers, spreads knowledge of turtle and carries out conservation activities. Volunteers can then work to spread their new knowledge to more people.

At first, the volunteers’ main job was to ________ and care for injured turtles locally. Then they found people and animals eat turtle eggs on the beach. So volunteers started transferring eggs from the beach to a protection center with ________ cultivation (培育), under the professional guidance of zoologists. It guaranteed higher ________ rates.

Thanks to their efforts, the living rate of newborn turtles has reached new highs, and conservation awareness has also been increased. Now straws and plastic bags, which cause many turtles to die ________, are being refused by many volunteers.

“It made me feel that all my work had ________. But it was not enough to rely on myself and the current volunteers. It would be important to ________ this knowledge down to future generations,” said Indika.

With persistence and hard work, Indika firmly believes they will make a(n) ________ to the sea turtles.

It was a Saturday evening in March, just before sundown. I was out walking with my wife, Melissa, and our golden retriever (猎犬), Kira, beside a lake when the _________ was broken by a woman’s voice, calling out two names over and over.

We _________ her, almost immediately, three or four hundred feet away across the _________. Spring had come, but the layer of ice on the water had just started to _________. Two big red Labradors (拉布拉多犬) were walking out across it. As we watched, the ice _________ beneath one dog and then the other, plunging (使...下落) them into the water.       

We arrived at the _________ a few minutes later, but the dogs were already showing the _________ of the cold as they struggled weakly to _________. We realized that calling 911 would be _________ — neither of them would stay afloat long enough for the __________ services to arrive.

Besides, I’m convinced I was __________ to carry out the rescue myself. And I wasn’t __________ —Kira swam alongside me. Having __________ a path, we were able to lead it quickly back to the __________.

The second dog was further out and I had to __________ before I went back in. There was more ice to __________ this time. As we approached, I __________ eye contact with the dog. With Kira’s encouragement, it __________ us back. Back on shore the dogs looked tired but were __________ OK. The owner was emotional and __________, “I’m the luckiest woman alive!”