了解动物:同学们,我们一起来阅读一则小狗捡瓶子的故事。阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的词,或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。
Scruff, a 13-year-old dog, is helping people with the cleaning by collecting bottles when he walks.
David and Yvonne got the dog 1. a farm many years ago. In 2021, David and Yvonne first 2. (find) on their walks that he had a love of picking up bottles. He would pick a bottle up, play with it, and then drop it.
"But soon we started 3. (feel) sorry about dropping the bottles," said Yvonne. "So we taught 4. (he) to bring the bottles to us. Then we put them in 5. bag and counted them up at the end of the walk."
After a 6. (slow) start with just 40 in January 2022, now Scruff has collected over 1,000. David and Yvonne help him 7. (put) the bottles in the garden.
"Sometimes he collects 15 bottles 8. sometimes it's only one—it depends on how dirty the 9. (street) are that day," said David. "Someone has said to me that he 10. (real) thinks Scruff is an environmental hero!"

1. from 2. found 3. feeling/to feel 4. him 5. a 6. slow 7. (to) put 8. but 9. streets 10. really

走近动物:同学们,让我们在阅读中走近动物,和动物来一次亲密接触吧!
阅读下面短文,完成下列各题。
Chen Rundan is an 11-year-old birdwatcher from Fujian. The sixth grader knows about a lot of different birds. She can tell their different sounds.
Chen started watching birds in early 2020. The bad weather changed the travel plans for her family, so she set her eyes on the birds flying outside her window. Later, birdwatching became her hobby and took up her weekends. She would carefully write down information on the birds.
During her summer vacation in 2022, she went with her father on a birding tour to Guizhou. There she took many pictures of birds. "When the birds you are waiting for appear in front of you, you will hold your breath and feel like you are one of the birds, chasing one another," Chen says.
▲ Sometimes, she even waits for hours to watch a bird. "From birdwatching, I have learned to never give up," Chen says.
() 1. At first, Chen started to watch birds because .
A. she couldn't go out to travel
B. she didn't know much about birds
C. she was usually free on weekends
D. she was influenced(影响) by her father
() 2. Which of the following can be put in the "▲ "?
A. Chen learned a lot from birdwatching.
B. So she decided to keep on developing her hobby.
C. Chen wanted to call on more people to watch birds.
D. It's not easy to see the birds you're looking forward to.
() 3. What is the best title for the passage?
A. A lucky girl
B. A beautiful bird
C. A girl and her hobby
D. A student and her tour
4. Do you like birds? Please try to use some sentences to describe them.

1. A 2. D 3. C
4. One possible version:
I really like birds, because they can freely fly in the sky. When I watch them, I feel like I'm one of them. And there are many kinds of birds in the world. It's interesting to learn how different they are!