【正文】 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 thei r farms, and m oney from touri sts only went to the l arge tour pani es. So the governm ent deci ded to hel p. They al lowed touri sts to hunt onl y a certai n num ber of ani mal 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 news. It 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 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 mosqui toes,”it replied. “When I find a milipede insect,I rub it over my body. It contains a powerful drug which affect mosquitoes. You shoul d pay m ore attenti on to the rai nforest where I l i ve and appreci ate how the anim al s l ive together. No rai nforest, no anim al s, no drugs.” Daisy was amazed.“Flying carpet, pl ease take m e home so I can tel WWF and we can begin producing this new ,please e and help,”The monkey agreed. The carpet flew hom e. As they l anded, thi ngs begi n to di sappear. Two 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 ncti on Many anim al s have di sappeared during the l ong hi story of the earth. The m ost fam ous of these anim al s are di nosaurs. They l ived on the earth tens m il i on of years ago, long before hum ans cam e into bei ng and thei r future seem ed secure at that ti m e. There were m any di fferent ki nds of di nosaur and a num ber of them used to l i ve i n chi na. The eggs of twentyfi ve species have been found i n Xi xi a County,N anyang,H enan provi ot l ong ago a rare new speci es of birdl i ke di nosaur was di scovered i n Country,l i aoni ng Provi nce. When 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 clim b trees. They l earned thi s from the way the bones were joi ned together. Di nosaurs di ed out suddenl y about 65mi l i on years ago. Som e sci entists think i t cam e after an unexpected i nci dent when a huge rock from space hi t the earth and put to m uch dust i nto the ai r. O thers thi nk the earth got too hot for the di nosaurs to li 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 wil d pl ants, anim al s,i nsects and birds have di ed out m ore recently. Accordi ng to a UN report , som e 844 anim al s and pl ants have disappeared i n the l ast 500 years. The dodo i s one of them . It l i ved on the Isl and of Mauriti us and was a very fri endl y anim al .Pl ease l i sten to a story of the dodo and how it di sappeared from the earth. (3) The return of the mi l u deer My nam e i s Li nhui .I l i ke to tel l stori es about peopl e who work i s even better i s when countri es hel p each other and buil d a good fri endshi p. An excel l ent exam pl e of thi s happened when Bri tai n and Chi na worked together to bri ng the Mil u deer back to Chi na. The Mil u deer, a speci es wi th large horns, used to be m on i n Chi na l ong ke other deer they li ve together and eat grass and the soft parts of trees such as smal 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 kil l ed. That is how the Mi l u deer di sappeared from Chi na. Lucki l y before al l of them were ki l ed,some were taken to Bri tain to im prove the envi ronm ent of the beauti ful park whi ch bel onged to the Duke of Bedford. H e li ked them so m uch that he took them al l the way from Chi na to Bri tai n. The Mil u der l i ked the cool , wet weather i n Engl and and thei r num ber i ncreased year by year. As a result, when in 1985 the governm ent of Chi na 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 ki l om eters south of Bei ji ng and the centre i n Dafeng, Ji ngsu Provi nce. The deer 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 m any of them that a new park has been opened for them i n H ebei Province. At the mom ent the Mil u der l ive i n centres where they are bei ng wel l protected and care for . It i s hoped that one day there wi l l be enough ani m al s to l et them l i ve i n the wi l d agai n. So Bri t ai n hel ped Chi na by bri ngi ng any longer. However, this reali ty al so worri ed m y desi gners. As ti me went by, I was m ade sm al er . First as a PC(personal puter)and then as a l aptop, I have been used i n offi 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. First i t was stored in tubes,then on transistors and l ater on very sm al chi ps. As a resul tI total y changed m y shape . As I have grown ol der I have also grown sm al l er . Over tim e m y m em oryhas devel oped so much that ,like an elephant,I never frt anything I have been told !And my memory became so large that even I couldn’t beli eve it!But I was al ways so l onel y standi ng there by m ysel 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 appli cati ons have been found for m e . I have bee very i mportant i n m uni cati on, fi nance and trade I have al so been put i nto robots and used to m ake m obi le phones as wel l as hel p with m edical operati ons. I have even be