【正文】 l y a certai n num ber of anim al s i f they pai d the farm ers. N ow the farm ers are happy and our num bers are i ncreasi ng. So good thi ngs are being done here to save local wildlife. ” Daisy smiled. “That’s good news. It shows the importance of wildlife protection,but I’d l ike to help as the WWF sugests. ”The carpet Rose agai nst and alm ost at once they were i n a thick 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 i pede i nsect, I rub i t over my body. It contai ns a powerful drug whi ch affect mosqui toes. You shoul d pay m ore attenti on to the rai nforest where I l i ve and appreci ate how the animals live rainforest,no animals,no drugs.” Dai sy was amazed. “Flying carpet, pl ease take m e hom e so I can tel l WWF and we can begin producing this new drug. Monkey,please e and help,”The monkey agreed. The carpet flew home. As they landed,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)Ani m al exti nction Many anim al s have di sappeared duri ng the long hi story of the earth. The most famous 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 their future seem ed secure at that tim e. There were m any di fferent ki nds of di nosaur and a num ber of them used to li ve i n chi na. The eggs of twentyfive speci es have been found i n Xi xi a County,N anyang,H enan provi nce. Not l ong ago a rare new speci es of birdli ke di nosaur was discovered in Country, li aoni ng Provi nce. When sci enti sts i nspected the bones, they were surprised to fi nd that these di nosaurs coul d not onl y run l i ke the others but al so cl im 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 enti sts thi nk i t cam e after an unexpected i nci dent when a huge rock from space hit 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 li ve on any m obody knows for sure why and how dinosaur 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 bi rds have di ed out m ore recentl y. Accordi ng to a UN report , som e 844 anim 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 Island of Mauri tius and was a very fri endly anim al. Pl ease l i sten to a story of the dodo and how i t di sappeared from the earth. (3) The return of the mi lu deer My nam e i s Li nhui. I l ike to tel l stori es about peopl e who work together. What is even better i s when countri es hel p each other and bui l d a good fri endshi p. An excel 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 der, a speci es wi th large horns, used to be m on i n 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 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 many were ki l ed. That i s how the Mil u der 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 beauti ful park whi ch bel onged to the Duke of e l i 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 i n 1985 the governm ent of Chi na wanted to rei ntroduce the Mil u deer, the Duke of Bedford was hapy to hel p. The fi rst deer cam e back to Chi na to the N anhai zi Mi lu 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 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 Provi nce. At the m oment the Mil u deer l ive i n centres where they are bei ng wel l protected and care for . It i s hoped that one day there wil l be enough anim al s to l et them l i ve i n the wil d again. So Britai n hel ped Chi na by bri ngi ng back an anim al that had disappeared from i ts hom el and. Thi s i s 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 fam ous si nger or m usi ci ans? Have you ever dreamed of pl ayi ng i n front of thousands of peopl e at a concert, at whi ch everyone i s clappi ng and appreci ati ng your m usic? Do you si ng Karaoke and pretend you are a fam ous si nger li ke Song Zuyi ng or Li u H uan? To be honest, a lot of peopl e attach great im portance to bei ng ri ch and fam ous. But just now do peopl e form a band? Many m usici ans m eet and form a band because they li ke to wri te and pl ay thei r own m usi c. They m ay start as a group of hi ghschool students, for whom practi si ng their m usi c i n som eone’s house i s the fi rst 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 some extra m oney for them sel ves or to pay for thei r i nstrum ents. Later they m ay gi ve perform ances i n pubs or cl ubs, for whi ch they are pai d i n cash. O f course they hope to m ake records i n a studi o and sel l m il li ons of copies to be e m il li onai res! H owever, there was one band that started i n a di ferent way. It was cal ed the Monkees and began as a TV show. The musi ci ans were to pl ay jokes on each other as wel l as pl ay m usi c, most of whi ch was based l oos