
Listening&Speakup.docx
3页Some call me nature._________ call me “Mother Nature.”I've been here for over _______ _______ years.22,500 _______longer than you.I don't really need people. But people need me.Yes, your future_______ _______ me.When I thrive(繁盛), you thrive. When I falter(衰败), you falter. Or worse.But I've been here for eons(万古).I have fed _______ greater than you. And I have starved species greater than you.My _______. My _______. My flowing _______. My _______.They all can take you or leave you.How you choose to live each day, whether you regard(注意) or disregard(无视) me, doesn't really matter to me.One way or the other. Your actions will _______ your fate. Not mine.I am nature. I will go on. I am prepared to _______.Are you? I am the _________.I watched them grow up here.They've left. But they always come back.Yes, they always come back.For my trees, their _________.My plants, their _________.For my beauty, their _________.I've always been there for them and I have been more than _________.Sometimes I gave it all to them. Now gone forever.But humans, they're so smart. So smart.Such big brains and opposable thumbs(灵巧的双手).They know how to make things. Amazing things.Now, why would they need an old forest like me anymore?Jungles? Trees? Well, they do _________ air.And I make air.Have they thought about that?Humans, so smart. They'll figure it out.Humans making air. That'll be fun to watch. How come you're so smart?Kid, I've been around a really long time.As a matter of ______, our kind has been around longer than just about anything.I've seen just about everything.Really? Like what?Well, I've seen weather. ______ ______ ______weather.And lots of critters(小动物)? -Yeah.At first there were just some bugs and spiders, then some mice and rats, and some rabbits and bears, and skunks(臭鼬).Then, ______ ______ ______ ______, there were humans. And all hell broke loose.Why? What did the humans do?Well, they changed wolves into dogs, rivers into lakes, and us into wood.They started using the planet like it was put there just for them.Act like they've got an extra one laying around.Why do they do that? Why don't they understand?I don't know.If they don't figure out that they're part of nature ______ ______ just using nature, they probably won't be around to see you grow up.。
