The lion is one of the most fierce (凶猛的) animals in the world. Lions can be 1 in Africa and India. Lions in Africa can live without water for about one month. Lions are also popular animals in the 2 . Almost every zoo around the world has a few lions.
It is very 3 for people to tell male and female lions from each other. You can judge (判断) simply by their appearance. A male lion has mane while female lions do not have. Male lion 4 than female lions. A male lion usually weighs about 200 kilograms which is always heavier than a female lion. Both male and female lions have very 5 mouths. They can break the backs of other animals 6. Lions feed on other animals and one lion usually kills between ten and twenty large animals each year for 7 .
It's unusual for lions to kill people. However, in 1898 two lions 8 and ate over one hundred people in Kenya before they were shot by a British man named P.J. Patterson. This 9 became the subject (主题) of a 1996 Hollywood movie called The Ghost and the Darkness. Now the Indian lions are endangered. It's really necessary for us to 10 the animals, or we won't see them again. Animals are our friends. It is our obligation to protect them.
Lately, people have entered the forests where chimpanzees (黑猩猩) live. The chimpanzees have been getting sick because of people's diseases. In addition, people are hunting chimpanzees. Their number is becoming smaller and smaller.
Chimpanzees live in the plains and forests of Africa. They eat many kinds of food, from plant leaves and seeds to insects and even other small animals. Chimpanzees' favourite food is fruit.
Chimpanzees are very clever and they can use tools well. They can catch bugs using sticks, and break nuts using rocks.
The world's forests are much smaller than they were before. Roads were built in deep forests, so people start to enter forests where chimpanzees live. That may lead to many problems. One problem for chimpanzees is that they can easily catch people's diseases and die. Chimpanzees are much closer to people than monkeys.
As it's easier for people to enter forests, they hunt more often. Young chimpanzees are caught to be pets or for scientific researches. The young ones are taken away from the forests, and the adults are killed. Chimpanzees are likely to disappear in the future.
Jane Goodall is a famous scientist. For more than 40 years, Goodall lived mostly in Tanzania in East Africa, studying chimpanzees.
As a young child, Jane Goodall was interested in animals. She grew up in the English countryside and was always climbing trees or riding horses.
When Jane was 23, she got a chance to go to Africa even though she had never been to college，she got a job with a famous scientist named Louis Leakey.
One day Louis Leakey said he needed a volunteer. He needed someone to go to a lake in Tanzania to study a kind of chimpanzees. Jane was excited.
On July 16,1960, she began her exploration（探索）. At first, the chimpanzees ran away from Jane. But with time passing，they got used to her being around.
Every day，Jane would follow the chimpanzees，taking notes on their behavior. She learned many new things about chimpanzees. She watched how a chimpanzee made a tool. She learned how some chimpanzees became good leaders. She watched how mother chimpanzees raised their children. She watched animals get angry and get upset. She wrote everything down so others would understand animals as she did. She learned that if you pay really close attention to animals，you will understand what they are “saying”.
a. Jane went to Africa.
b. Jane started her exploration.
c. Jane worked with Louis Leakey.
d. Jane was born in the countryside.
e. Jane followed chimpanzees.
There are many wetlands in China and some of them have become the world's important wetlands. The Chinese Yellow Sea Wetlands are among them. They are in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. They are home for many different kinds of animals. The world's largest Milu Deer Nature Reserve is in them. More than 700 Milu deer live freely there. There are not many red-crowned cranes in the world, but every winter you can see some in the Red-crowned Crane Nature Reserve in the Yellow Sea Wetlands.
The temperature in the wetlands is usually neither too high nor too low. There is a lot of rain and sunshine, too. They are really good places for wildlife. Offering(提供) food and home for some special kinds of animals is not the only reason why we need to protect wetlands. Wetlands are important because they also prevent flood. But some people want to change the wetlands to make more space for farms and less space for wildlife.
Luckily, more and more people are beginning to realize the importance of wetlands and wildlife. Every year, on February 2nd, many activities are held to tell people more about wetlands.
Animals are (people) friends. But many wild animals are (face) the danger of(die) out. There're many reasons. First, their living environment change a lot because of the (develop) of many cities. Also, (pollute) becomes worse and this make wild animals lose homes. Second, some people are killing animals getting their fur, skin, teeth and meat.
People should do something to help protect (endanger) wild animals. For example, people can build some nature reserves to save wild animals' homes. Animals can live (free) there. Besides, people are not allowed kill wild animals. If we start protecting our animal friends, our world will become much better.
