【正文】 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 against and alm ost at once they were i n a thi ck rainforest. 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 find a milipede insect,I rub it over my body. It contains a powerful drug which affect mosqui toes. You should pay m ore attenti on to the rainforest where I l ive and appreci ate how the animal s l ive o rai nforest, no animals,no drugs. ” Daisy was amazed.“Flying carpet, pl ease take m e hom e so I can tel WWF and we can begin producing this new ,please e and help,”The monkey agreed. The carpet flew home. As they landed,thi ngs begi n to di m i nutes l ater everythi ng had gonethe m onkey, too. So Daisy was not able to make her new drug. But what an experience!She had learned so much!And there was always WWF …… (2)Anim al exti nction Many anim al s have disapeared duri ng the long hi story of the earth. The m ost famous of these ani mals are di nosaurs. They li ved on the earth tens m il i on of years ago,l ong before humans came i nto bei ng and thei r future seem ed secure at that tim e. There were m any di fferent kinds of di nosaur and a num ber of them used to li ve in chi na. The eggs of twentyfive species have been found i n Xi xi a County,Nanyang,H enan ot l ong ago a rare new speci es of bi rdl ike dinosaur was di scovered i n Country, li aoni ng Provi sci enti sts inspected the bones, they were surprised to fi nd that these di nosaurs could not onl y run li ke the others but also clim b trees. They learned thi s from the way the bones were joi ned together. Di nosaurs di ed out sudenl y about 65mi li on years ago. Som e sci enti sts thi nk it cam e after an unexpected inci dent when a huge rock from space hi t the earth and put too m uch dust i nto the ai thers think the earth got to hot for the di nosaurs to l i ve on any m obody knows for sure why and how di nosaur di sappeared from the earth i n such a short tim e. We know m any other wi l d pl ants, anim al s,i nsects and birds have di ed out more recently. According to a UN report , som e 84 animals and pl ants have disapeared i n the last 500 years. The dodo i s one of them. It l ived on the Isl and of Mauri ti us and was a very fri endly anim al .Pl ease l isten to a story of the dodo and how i t disapeared from the earth. (3) The return of the m il u der My nam e i s Li nhui. I l i ke to tel stori es about peopl e who work i s even beter i s when countri es hel p each other and buil d a god fri endshi p. An excel ent exampl e of this hapened when Bri tai n and Chi na worked together to bring the Mi l u deer back to Chi na. The Mil u deer,a speci es wi th l arge horns, used to be m on in China l ong ago. Li ke other deer they l i ve together and eat grass and the soft parts of trees such as sm al l u der were often hunted for food or sport i n the ,Mi ng and Qi ng dynasties di d not protect them and m any were ki l ed. That is how the Mil u der di sapeared from China. Lucki ly before al l of them were kil l ed,som e were taken to Bri tain to im prove the environm ent of the beautiful park whi ch belonged to the Duke of l iked them so much that he tok them al the way from Chi na to Mil u deer li ked the cool, wet weather i n England and thei r num ber increased year by year. As a resul t, when i n 1985 the governm ent of Chi na wanted to rei ntroduce the Mi lu deer, the Duke of Bedford was happy to help. The first deer came back to China to the Nanhai zi Mil u Park 20 kil ometers south of Bei ji ng and the centre in Dafeng, Ji ngsu Provi nce. The der centai nl y seem happy to be back i n Chi na because thei r num bers have grown rapi dl y. There are now so many of them that a new park has ben opened for them i n Hebei Province. At the mom ent the Mil u deer li ve in centres where they are being wel l protected and care for . It i s hoped that one day there wil l be enough anim als to let them l ive i n the wil d again. So Britai n hel ped Chi na by bri ngi ng back an anim al that had di sappeared from its hom el i s a god 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 fam ous singer or m usi ci ans? H ave you ever dream ed of pl aying i n front of thousands of peopl e at a concert, at whi ch everyone is clappi ng and appreci ating your musi c? Do you sing Karaoke and pretend you are a fam ous si nger li ke Song Zuyi ng or Li u H uan? To be honest, a l ot of peopl e atach great im portance to be ing rich and fam ous. But just now do peopl e form a band? Many musi cians m et and form a band because they li ke to write and pl ay thei r own m usic. They m ay start as a group of hi ghschool students, for whom practising thei r m usic i n someone’s house i s the first step to fam e. Som etim es they m ay pl ay to passersby i n the street or subway so that they can earn som e extra m oney for them sel ves or to pay for thei r instrum ents. Later they m ay gi ve perform ances i n pubs or cl ubs, for which they are pai d i n cash. O f course they hope to m ake records i n a studi o and sel mil li ons of copies to be e m il ionai res! H owever, there was one band that started i n a di fferent way. It was cal ed the Monkes and began as a TV show. The musi ci ans were to pl ay jokes on each other as wel as play m usi c, most of whi ch was based loosel y on the Beatles. The TV ani zer had planned to fi nd four m usi ci ans who coul d act as wel l as sing. They put an adverti sem ent i n a newspaper looki ng for rock musi ci ans, but they coul d onl y fi nd one who was god enough. They had to use actors for the other thre m embers of theband. As som e of these