【正文】 ound and found that she was being watched by an elephant. “H ave you e to take my photo?”it asked. In relief Daisy burst into laughter.“Don’t laugh,”said the elephant,“We used to be an endangered species. Farmers hunted us without m ercy. They sai d we destroyed their farms, and m oney from touri sts onl y went to the l arge tour pani es. So the governm ent deci ded to hel p. They al owed tourists to hunt onl y a certai n num ber of anim al s i f they pai d the farm ow the farm ers are happy and our numbers are increasing. So good things are being done here to save local wildlife.” Daisy smiled. “That’s good shows the importance of wildlife protection,but I’d like to help as the WWF suggests.”The carpet Rose agai nst and alm ost at once they were in a thi ck rai nforest. A m onkey Watched them as it rubbed itself.“What are you doing?”asked Daisy. “I’m protecting myself from mosquitoes,”it replied. “When I fi nd a m il pede i nsect, I rub it over m y body. It contai ns a powerful drug whi ch affect m osqui toes. You shoul d pay more attenti on to the rai nforest where I li ve and appreci ate how the animals live together. No rainforest,no animals,no drugs. ” Daisy was amazed. “Flying carpet, pl ease take m e hom e so I can tel WWF and we can begi n produci ng this new drug. Monkey,please e and help,”The monkey agreed. The carpet flew home. As they landed,things begin to disappear. Two minutes later everythi ng had gone the m onkey,too. So Dai sy was not abl e to make her new drug. But what an experi ence!She had l earned so m uch!And there was always WWF …… (2)Anim al exti ncti on Many anim al s have di sapeared duri ng the l ong hi story of the earth. The m ost fam ous of these anim al s are di nosaurs. They l i ved on the earth tens m il li on of years ago, l ong before hum ans cam e i nto bei ng and thei r future seem ed secure at that tim e. There were m any di fferent ki nds of dinosaur and a num ber of them used to l i ve i n chi na. The eggs of twentyfi ve speci es have ben found i n Xi xi a County,N anyang,H enan provi ot l ong ago a rare new speci es of birdli ke di nosaur was di scovered i n Country,li aoning sci enti sts i nspected the bones, they were surpri sed to fi nd that these di nosaurs coul d not onl y run l i ke the others but al so cli m b trees. They learned this from the way the bones were joi ned together. Dinosaurs di ed out suddenly about 65m il li on years ago. Som e sci enti sts thi nk i t cam e after an unexpected i nci dent when a huge rock from space hi t the earth and put too m uch dust i nto the ai thers thi nk the earth got too hot for the di nosaurs to l i ve on any obody knows for sure why and how dinosaur disappeared from the earth i n such a short ti m e. We know m any other wi l d pl ants, anim al s,i nsects and bi rds have di ed out m ore recentl y. Accordi ng to a UN report , som e 844 ani m al s and pl ants have di sappeared i n the l ast 500 years. The dodo i s one of them. It li ved on the Isl and of Mauri ti us and was a very fri endly anim al. Pl ease li sten to a story of the dodo and how i t di sappeared from the earth. (3) The return of the m il u deer My nam e is Li nhui . I li ke to tel stories about peopl e who work together. What i s even better i s when countri es help each other and bui l d a good fri endshi p. An excel ent exampl e of thi s happened when Bri tain and China worked together to bri ng the Mi lu deer back to Chi na. The Mi l u deer, a speci es wi th l arge horns, used to be m on in Chi na l ong ago. Like other deer they l i ve together and eat grass and the soft parts of trees such as sm al branches. Mil u deer were often hunted for fod or sport i n the past. The , Mi ng and Qi ng dynasti es di d not protect them and m any were kil l ed. That i s how the Mil u deer di sappeared from Chi na. Luckil y before al of them were kil l ed, som e were taken to Bri tai n to im prove the envi ronm ent of the beautiful park whi ch bel onged to the Duke of Bedford. He l i ked them so m uch that he tok them al the way from Chi na to Britain. The Mi l u deer li ked the cool, wet weather i n Engl and and thei r num ber i ncreased year by year. As a resul t, when i n 1985 the governm ent of China wanted to rei ntroduce the Mil u deer,the Duke of Bedford was happy to hel p. The fi rst deer cam e back to Chi na to the N anhai zi Mil u Park 20 kil om eters south of Bei jing and the centre i n Dafeng, Ji ngsu Provi nce. The der centainl y seem happy to be back i n China because their num bers have grown rapi dl y. There are now so m any of them that a new park has been opened for them i n H ebei Provi nce. At the m om ent the Mil u deer l i ve in centres where they are bei ng wel protected and care for . It i s hoped that one day there wi l be enough ani mal s to l et them li ve i n the wi l d agai n. So Bri tai n hel ped Chi na by bri ngi ng back an anim al that had di sappeared from its hom el and. Thi s is a good exam pl e of fri endshi p and understandi ng between these two countri es. Uni t 5 The band that wasn’t H ave you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous si nger or m usi ci ans? H ave you ever dream ed of pl ayi ng in front of thousands of peopl e at a concert, at whi ch everyone i s clappi ng and appreci ati ng your m usi c? Do you sing Karaoke and pretend you are a fam ous si nger l i ke Song Zuyi ng or Liu H uan? To be honest, a l ot of peopl e attach great im portance to be i ng ri ch and fam ous. But just now do peopl e form a band? Many musi ci ans m eet and form a band because they li ke to wri te and play thei r own m usi c. They m ay start as a group of highschol students, for whom practisi ng thei r m usi c i n som eone’s house is the fi rst step to fam e. Som etim es they m ay pl ay to passersby in the street or subway so that they can earn som e extra m oney for them sel ves or to pay for thei r i nstrum ents. Later they m ay give perform an