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【正文】 y cried,“I’m sorry I didn’t know that. I wonder what is being done to help you. Flying carpet,please show me a place where there’s some wildlife protection.” The fl yi ng carpet travel ed so fast that next mi nute they were i n Zim babwe. Dai sy turned around 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 mercy. 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 num bers 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 disappeared from the earth. (3) The return of the mi lu deer My name i s Li nhui .I like to tel stori es about peopl e who work i s even better is when countries hel p each other and bui ld a good friendship. An excel l ent exam pl e of thi s happened when Bri tai n and Chi na worked together to bri ng the Mi l u deer back to Chi na. The Mi l u deer, a speci es wi th l arge horns, used to be m on i n Chi na l ong ago. Li ke other deer they l i ve together and eat grass and the soft parts of t rees such as sm al l branches. Mi l u deer were often hunted for food or sport i n the past. The , Mi ng and Qi ng dynasti es di d not protect them and m any were ki l l ed. That i s how the Mi l u deer di sappeared from Chi na. Lucki l y before any longer. However, thi s reali ty al so worri ed m y desi gners. As ti m e went by,I was made sm al l er . Fi rst as a PC(personal puter)and then as a laptop, I have been used in ofi ces and hom es si nce the 1970s. These changes onl y becam e possi bl e as m y m em ory im proved. Fi rst it was stored i n tubes,then on transi stors and later on very smal chi ps. As a resul tI total y changed m y shape . As I have grown ol der I have al so grown sm al l er .O ver tim e m y m em oryhas devel oped so m uch that ,l i ke an el ephant, I never frt anythi ng I have been told !And my memory became so large that even I couldn’t believe it!But I was always so lonely standing there by mysel f, until i n the 1960s they gave m e a fami l y connected by a work .Iwas abl e to share m y knowl edge wi th others through the Worl d Wi de Web. Si nce the 1970s m any new appl ications have been found for m e . I have be e very im portant i n m unicati on, fi nance and trade I have also been put i nto robots and used to m ake m obi l e phones as wel as hel p wi th m edi cal operati ons. I have even ben put i nto space rockets and sent to expl ore the Moon and Mars . A nyhow, m y goal i s to provi de hum ans wi th a l ife of hi gh quali ty. I am now trul y fi l ed wi th happi ness that I am a devoted fri end and hel per of the hum an race ! AN DY—TH E AN DRO ID I’m part of an an android football team . About once a year we are allowed to get together to play a game of footbal. I’m as bi g as a hum an . In fact ,I look like one the footballteam I’m a striker so I have to be able to run very fast . My puter chips help me to mova and think l i ke a hum an . For exam pl e ,I have l earned to signal to my teamm ates i n puter l anguages to gi ve m e the bal l when I am open and have a good shot for a goal . My firat footbal l peti ti