先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的单词，所填单词在短文下面的横线上必须完整写出。
A little monkey is p   1   by the lake. He sees some fish swimming i  2  the lake.
How i   3   they are! Now some frogs are j    4    into the water and o   5  are swimming h    6    in the lake. The monkey t   7   it’s easy to swim. So he wants to jump into the lake. The fish and frogs all say, “You c   8  swim. Don’t come d  9   or you’ll be dead.” But the monkey doesn’t believe that. The monkey is in the water now. Of course he can’t swim and he is going to be dead. The fish and frogs are p   10  him out of the water and saving him.
Remember: “It’s easy to say, but hard to do.”

The hippo(河马) is the most dangerous animal in Africa, but that hasn’t stopped a South African animal lover from making friends with one.

   Marius Els is 40 years old. He ______ around 20 different kinds of animals on his ranch(饲养场),in South Africa. He has a real soft spot for Humphrey, a 6-year-old hippo that’s like a son to him. While all of his friends are too ____ to go near the animal, and his wife told him not to get too close, Marius climbs on Humphrey’s back as he swims ______ the lake.

   Marius has kept the hippo_______ he was just five months old. And over the years, the two have________ a special relationship that people just don’t understand. Marius looks on Humphrey as a son, although the 1,200 ton animal could ________ a person with ease. Only sometimes the hippo can throw Marius off his _______ in the water. Humphrey is very friendly to his owner, especially after Marius offers him a dinner of his favorite ________, apples.

Humphrey feels very       in his life. He had another good friend, a goat, but she got eaten by a jackal(豺), so now he’s all by      . Marius says he’s been trying to get a female friend for Humphrey, but there’s no such thing in Africa right now.

1.A. kept       B. swept      C. bought     D. stayed

2.A. worried    B. tired       C. scared      D. excited

3.A. under      B. across      C. along      D. into

4.A. since      B. when        C. after      D. before

5.A. invented    B. found      C. appeared    D. developed

6.A. come up      B. get up     C. eat up       D. look up

7.A. head         B. back      C. front        D. tail

8.A. juice         B. fish       C. bread        D. food

9.A. lonely        B. angry      C. happy       D. funny

10.A. her          B. them       C. himself      D. us

— There used to be lots of fish in the lake.

— Yes, but there are very __________ now.