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We're fortunate to live along a monarch butterfly migration

fall，thousands of them fly through our backyard，headed south

for the always thought that a butterfly with a broken wing was a

sad sight,but one we could do nothing about。We were wrong！ Jeannette

Brandt was bike riding near Hadley，in the southern Adirondacks of New

York，a few weeks ago when she spotted an injured monarch butterfly and

took it home in an empty water and her partner，Mike

Parwana，fed the butterfly rotting pears and water sweetened with

butterfly survived，and fattened what to do about the

broken wing?

The couple found an online video demonstrating butterfly wing repair

which was posted by the nonprofit Live Monarch Foundation of Boca

Raton, cardboard splints and contact cement did the

学必求其心得，业必贵于专精

another week，the butterfly was flying at the couple's home。But by then，

it was too cold in upstate New York to release the monarch into the

hs are known for their 3,000 miles migration from Canada to

this migration is usually finished by the end of October,and it

was mid­November.

About a week ago，the couple put the monarch in a shoebox and

went to Scotty's，a truck stop north of Albany,ally，a good。

natured trucker from Alabama,who was headed to Florida，volunteered to

transport the monarch to the Sunshine State。Last Tuesday,the trucker

called。The butterfly with the mended wing had been released in Florida，

now free to join millions of other monarch butterflies migrating south to

the mountains of central Mexico.

Note：

cardboard splints and contact cement薄纸夹板和接触粘合剂

【语篇解读】 本文记叙的是一对美国夫妇和一位卡车司机救助

一只在迁徙中翅膀受伤的帝王蝶的故事.

1．We can learn from Paragraph One that the butterfly ________.