A girl 【小题1】(name)Dina was born in California in 1932. After 【小题2】(graduate) from university in 1954, she worked at a children’s hospital in Kentucky for several years. However, her interest in animals inspired her 【小题3】 ( take)her first step towards her future work. In 1966, she went to Africa to study rare mountain gorillas

Even though some of the gorillas were quite dangerous, this didn't not discourage her. She showed great 【小题4】 (devote) to her work and loved to tell people about gorillas. Dina was an outgoing and kind person and had the ability to gain valuable data about their lives by becoming a 【小题5】(company)to them. She wrote a book about the gorillas she had lived 【小题6】 It is thanks to her research 【小题7】we now know more about mountain gorillas. Her love for the gorillas teaches people about dangers these animals 【小题8】(face)with. Now they are protected by governments and various organizations. 【小题9】her work, there would be very few mountain gorillas left today. She has received world’s 【小题10】(famous)around the world and is now regarded as one of the heroes of the 20^th century.

More than 70 percent of king penguins could 【小题1】 (wipe) out by rising ocean temperatures, according to a recent survey.

Their total population of 1.6 million today could be reduced by more than 1.1 million by 2100. 【小题2】, many people are optimistic because these statistics show that the birds are not endangered at present. 【小题3】(rate）as “of least concern”, they occupy the lowest category of extinction risk.

But that could change as their fish 【小题4】 (supply) move further into the Southern Ocean, where there is only a 【小题5】 (hand) of islands to provide a home for the birds.

King penguins require remote islands 【小题6】 are not too cold, have no winter sea ice and no fierce animals. If they have to swim more than 435 miles on a round trip to hunt for fish, their waiting children can starve to death as their fat reserves become steadily 【小题7】 (few). It can take a parent three months 【小题8】 (deliver) fish to its young.

The scientists, from the University of Strasbourg in France, whose study 【小题9】 (publish) in the journal Nature Climate Change so far, warn that the effects of fish population moving further south could give rise 【小题10】 a large population crash of the penguins.

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I fell in love with rhinos when I worked in a zoo in the 80s, and spent much of the next 20 years as the keeper of the largest captive (圈养的) group of rare black rhinos.

Being aggressive and stupid is 【小题1】 impresses urban residents about rhinos, but I discovered a group of sensitive, affectionate animals. 【小题2】 (weigh) over a ton, black rhinos are unexpectedly alert and have an unpredictable nature. However, 【小题3】 care and reassurance (安慰), they can be very trusting.

In the past few years, the number of rhinos has dropped dramatically, during 【小题4】 time I have helped look after rhinos being moved to reserves. Last year, I helped on a project to fly five black rhinos to the Serengeti National Park, where they had to be kept captive for a few weeks before 【小题5】 (release) into the wild. They lived in “bomas” wooden enclosures with “bedrooms”.

A couple of weeks before their planned release, the sky was filled with smoke and the flames were blowing over it. 【小题6】 (make) sure everything was fine, we rushed toward the bomas. I was terrified that the rhinos 【小题7】 (catch) fire, so my initial response was to release them. But I couldn’t, because they 【小题8】 (not fit) with transmitters (发射器). If I let them out, we would have great difficulty tracking them down. So I dashed back to the bomas and called the rhinos to their “bedrooms”. To my surprise, they moved without hesitation and were 【小题9】 (panicky) than I had thought. After half an hour, the wind changed direction and the fire began to die down.

That we and the rhinos had escaped unscathed (未受伤的) was a miracle. The relationship we had built with those lovely animals proved crucial. 【小题10】 it, all our work would have been for nothing. The teamwork of everybody there played a large part too and the rhinos were very much part of that team.