Most ants have two compound eyes.Compound eyes have many parts called lenses(透镜)that help insects 1 well.Other ants have three simple eyes, with one lens in each.Some ants that live underground are blind.
Ants do not have ears 2 they can feel sound vibrations(震动).Some ants 3 by drumming on the ground.They also “talk” by touching each other with their antennae(触角)
Tasting, smelling, and touching are how ants find out what is around them.They have two thin antennae on their 4 that help them do this.Each antenna is shaped like a human arm 5 at the elbow.Ants tap the antennae on the ground to find food.They can 6 move their antennae around to smell.An ant is always moving its antennae every inch way.
Ants “talk” to each other with smells, too.Ants give off smells to 7 other ants of danger or to show them where to find food.Sometimes you can see long lines of ants.These ants are following a smell!
Army ants live in forests in Central and South America.Huge swarms of army ants hunt for insects such as 8 .Driver ants are army ants that live in Africa.Harvester ants live in deserts.They eat seeds.
After the queen mates with a male ant, she makes or finds a 9 .She then lays eggs.The first group of eggs to hatch become worker ants.The queen's only job after that is to lay more eggs.The worker ants 10 the job of caring for the nest.Males come from some of the eggs, queens and more workers come from other eggs.
When the egg hatches, a wormlike larva appears.It does nothing but eat and grow.When it gets big enough, it becomes a pupa.The pupa grows legs and antennae.It becomes an adult ant.
Tennis is its second life.Its first 1 began in France.The name of the game comes from the French 2 “tennez”, the command to play.The English, 3 the French 4 800 years ago, 5 the game“tennez”.
The English liked the French game.Tennis courts were built in every 6 , in every city, just 7 today.The two countries played 8 each other.At first they played for 9 .Then they wanted money.Later people began 10 to get money.Three hundred years ago the game was 11 to stop the cheating.All the 12 courts were abandoned(废弃)or 13 to a new use.The game 14 disappeared.
Americans who went to 15 100 years ago found the old court.They 16 what they could do about the game.They liked tennis as the English 17 before. 18 home, the Americans built tennis courts.The sport 19 off.Tennis is spreading like wild fire through all the United States.Now it is one of the most 20 games in the world again.
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money
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playing
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introduced
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Cloze
Different systems of ballet training have developed, named after countries(Russia, France)or teachers(Italian dancer Enrico Cecchetti, Danish choreographer(舞蹈指导)August Bournonville).These systems, 1 , differ more in style and emphasis than in the actual 2 taught.
The best 3 to begin a serious study of ballet is eight to ten for girls; boys may begin somewhat later.Younger children may be harmed by the strenuous 4 demands of a ballet class, and older children gradually lose the 5 required to attain good results.Girls usually begin pointe(足尖舞)work after three years of training. 6 training is begun after the late teens, it is probably unrealistic to hope for a professional career.
7 dancers, no matter how experienced or proficient, take daily class to keep their bodies easy to bent and strong.Most ballet classes begin with exercises at the barre, a round horizontal bar that the dancer holds onto for support.These exercises 8 and stretch the muscles, work the tendons(腱,筋)to make them easily bent, and loosen the 9 .The second part of the class is done without the support of the barre and is called center practice.It usually begins with slow, sustained exercises that develop the dancer's sense of 10 and fluidity of movement.Slow exercises are followed by quick movements, beginning with small jumps and beats and progressing to large traveling steps, turns, and leaps.Class generally lasts an hour and a half.