Wildlife Lessons

The elephants stood face to face. Their big ears fanned out. A group of school kids looked at the elephants from a_______ . They came from a village just outside Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, in Botswana, Africa. “Are the elephants fighting? Someone asked.

“No, it’s a_______,”another child said. “ They’re playing.”

Kolobetso, 13, was a bit nervous. “She’d grown up with a fear that elephants are _______.” Walona Sehularo told reporters. He was also in the truck. He works with Elephants for Africa(EFA).The group is trying to_______ elephants and help people live peacefully alongside them.

In parts of rural(农村)Africa, elephants_______ freely . They often connect with people. Many people fear them, and they regard them as animals that can cause_______. Fight between people and elephants is_______.EFA wants to change that. It hopes to encourage young people to become protection leaders. Threatened(威胁)by poaching(偷猎)in other parts of Africa, _______ have log found safety in Botswana. The country has about 130,000 elephants. That is more than any other country in Africa. Many can be_______along the Boteti River.

But elephants also hang out onto farms. Botswana’s elephants attract(吸引)tourists to Makgakdikgadi Pans.________few local children can afford to visit. By leading them on trips there, EFA wants to teach kids to love the park and its wildlife so that kids might be ________working as park officers, guides, or researchers in the future.

When Kolobetso and her classmates toured the________ , an elephant headed straight for the truck, protecting its group. Then it walked away. The kids were________ .” It was one of those moments you cannot explain,” Schularo says. “It ________ you with a great joy.”

Researchers say the threat of poaching in surrounding(周围的)countries has driven________elephants to Botswana. Much of the land is protected. For now, the country may be the safest place on Earth for elephants.

1.A.car B.bus C.truck D.train

2.A.game B.subject C.fight D.work

3.A.friendly B.comfortable C.dangerous D.careful

4.A.protect B.compare C.control D.change

5.A.turn out B.hang out C.make up D.take in

6.A.peace B.surprise C.trouble D.disease

7.A.common B.excellent C.famous D.important

8.A.lions B.tigers C.monkeys D.elephants

9.A.helped B.killed C.forgotten D.found

10.A.And B.But C.So D.Or

11.A.worried about B.interested in C.surprised at D.tired at

12.A.country B.city C.zoo D.park

13.A.amazed B.bored C.tired D.stressed

14.A.helps B.compares C.fills D.covers

15.A.little B.less C.fewer D.more

Have you ever complained(抱怨) why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes_________dark to you? Are your lessons sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and_________all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find the whole world smiling to you.

On a sunny morning, you plan to have a walk to relax yourself. Just before you go out, it_________starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the weather. But dear friends, why_________ sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature bring you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and farmers will have a good harvest(收成).

_________everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, life isn’t a bed of roses. It’s very common to meet difficulties on the way to success._________, difficulty isn’t terrible. The real terrible thing is that we are afraid of it. Difficulty is_________a spring(弹簧). If you are_________, it will be strong. So when you meet difficulties, don’t give up. Instead, you should face them with a smile.

Attitude_________everything. With an optimistic(乐观的)attitude, life is easy and__________. If you want to be happy, try to remember these five easy rules. Free your heart from hate; Free your mind from worries; Live an easy life; Give more; Expect less. The quickest way to receive happiness is to smile, the fastest way to lose it is to complain.

1.A.seem B.seems C.seemed D.to seem

2.A.cry B.smile C.complain D.laugh

3.A.suddenly B.finally C.hardly D.quickly

4.A.don’t B.not C.didn’t D.no

5.A.But B.For C.So D.Although

6.A.In fact B.From early on C.For example D.On time

7.A.unlike B.likes C.dislike D.like

8.A.powerful B.weak C.confident D.strong

9.A.decides B.deciding C.to decide D.decided

10.A.please B.pleased C.pleasant D.pleasure

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