My first insight into the Myanmarese people’s respect for elephants came from Ma Lwin, a shopkeeper in a farming village in the western Bago Mountains. It was late afternoon when I arrived,
61 (cover) in sand after a long motorcycle ride. Inside Ma Lwin’s bamboo house, she offered me hot tea and scolded me for traveling through 62 (danger) elephant territory（领地）.
Back when the mountai
ns were covered in forest, she told me, elephants and people had lived 63 harmony. But now that their habitat（栖息地）was being cut and burned down for rubber plantations, the elephants were forced 64 (walk) long distances searching for food, sometimes threatening farmers in the fields. Even 65 , the farmers told me they loved the elephants.
That was the beginning of months spent 66 (journey) through forests and villages to document the 67 (connect) between people and elephants. During my time there, children in camps played alongside elephants used for logging（采运作业）; one day park rangers（护林员）led me to 68 elephant giving birth.
Development often 69 (give) us the excuse to destroy the environment. As a result, the elephant population has dropped 70 (great). But observing so many people’s high regard for elephants in
Myanmar gives me hope that they won’t be left behind.
答案
61.covered 62. dangerous 63.in 64.to walk 65.so 66.journeying 67.connection(s) 68.an 69.gives 70.greatly
