Endangered Wild Animals in China

Word Box: endangered 濒危 survivors 幸存者 giant 巨大的 mammal 哺乳动物 alligator 扬子  鳄 mussel 河蚌  reptile 爬行动物 

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    Can plants learn and remember? Monica from Australia thinks so.

    Monica and her team members did some tests on mimosas(含羞草). The plants close their leaves quickly when people touch them. They put some mimosas in 56 pots. Every time they dropped the pots from 30cm high, the plants closed their leaves. Monica and her team members did this for a whole day. To their surprise，at the end of the day, the plants didn't close their leaves at all. It seemed that the plants learned that this action wouldn't hurt them.

    Another amazing thing was that the plants might remember things for a long time. Monica dropped the same pots of mimosas four weeks later. The plants still didn't close their leaves.

    Monica wasn't sure how plants learned and remembered. "The plants don't have brains, after all. Maybe they learn and remember with the help of their cells(细胞)," she said.

Why do you open a school? If you ask Nadia Lopez this question, she would simply answer: to close a prison. Lopez is the founder of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a public school in Brooklyn.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}

To set up the school, Lopez faced many challenges. The greatest challenge was to get in touch with children without hope. At first, Lopez only had 45 kids. She once asked some girls,"{#blank#}2{#/blank#}" The answer was,"I don't know if I'm going to live that long." or"I have a lifelong goal of working in a fast- food restaurant nearby." These students had no idea that there were great chances outside their neighborhood.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#} And they have tried their best to keep their students active and hopeful." We call our students‘ scholars (学者)' because they are lifelong learners. I chose the colors purple and black to remind students that they are excellent. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} They can be future engineers, scientists and even leaders who can and will take over this world," Lopez said.

A popular New York blogger heard about the school and wrote a post about it, telling people how the children struggled (挣扎), and why people must make education the most important thing. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} About 1.4 million dollars were raised for the school and its students got to take field trips to colleges and universities.

" Up to now, we have had three graduating classes (毕业班). They have nearly 200 children," said Lopez.

A. The post reached millions of people.

B. Where do you see yourself in five years?

C. It was one of the poorest areas in New York City.

D. Through education, they can have a great future.

E. Luckily, Lopez and her coworkers(同事) didn't give up.

F. Do you want to have lessons at school like kids in other areas?

Should We Keep Animals In Zoos?

 Zoos are popular places in communities around the world. They' re places where people can learn about wild animals by seeing them up close. Some people, though, believe zoos aren't good for animals. They think wild animals should only live in the wild.

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 Wild animals have been kept in cages for thousands years. Over time, people began speaking out about the practice of keeping animals in zoos. The rise of animal rights movement and groups have led many to question whether or not zoos are right.

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 Zoos provide care for animals that they wouldn't receive in the wild. Animals are fed a healthy diet in zoos. Also, zoos have veterinarians who provide medical care for hurt or sick animals that would often be left to die in the wild. In some cases, zoos help animals to live longer.

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 Though many animals live longer in zoos, some mammals live longer in the wild. Elephants live near twice as long in the wild as they do in zoos. Scientists believe the causes for this include elephants in zoos becoming stressed(有压力的) and depressed when they are forced to live in small spaces.

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 It may seem like a good thing that zoos set animals back into the wild, but there are often problems with this practice. Zoo animals don't learn hunting skills since they are fed by zookeepers. They also have no idea to stay away from predators(捕食者)、 cars or hunters in the wild.

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 How much do zoos actually teach people about animals? A 2014 study showed that only 1000 out of 3000 children who visited a zoo learned something new. Groups such as PETA believe the biggest thing children can learn at zoos is that it's fine to keep animals in cages instead of in the wild.