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The elephant is the largest animal walking on earth. An elephant can carry a load of 1, 200 pounds.__71__

Elephants can be trained to carry logs(圆木) with their trunks(鼻子).__72__

There are two kinds of elephants: the African elephant and the Indian elephant. African elephants can be identified(识别) by the larger ears.__73__ Another name for the Indian elephant is the Asian elephant.

The greatest threat(威胁) to elephants is ivory(象牙) trade. From 1970 to 1989 it was a bad time for African elephants.__74__ In 1989 an international agreement limited the trade in ivory, protecting elephants from being killed, but elephants are still being killed for ivory.__75__ Don’t even buy anything that looks like ivory!

A.It eats 300 pounds of food a day.

B.Please don’t ever buy anything made from ivory!

C.About 70, 000 wild elephants were killed for ivory each year.

D.Indian elephants are easy to identify because of their smaller ears.

E.They also use their trunks for drinking water, bathing, eating and communicating.

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Most People want to find a faster and e  4   way to take off fat, and books of this kind are very popular．These books tell people how to lose weight．Each year a lot of new books like these are w  5  ．Each one says it can easily help people take fat away．

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  About 70,000,000 Americans are trying to lose weight. That is almost 1 out of every 3 people in the United States. Some people eat ___36__ food and they hardly(几乎不) have any fats or sweets. Others do running ,exercise with machines, take medicines, or even have operations(手术). ___37___ you can see losing weight is __38___ work, and it will also cost a lot of money. But ___39__ do many people in the United States want to lose weight?

Many people in the United States are worried about their look of the body. For many people， looking nice also means to be____40____ . Other people worry about their health as many doctors ___41____ overweight is not good.

Most people want to find an____42___ way to take off  fat，and books of this kind are very popular. These books tell people how to lose weight. Each year a lot of new books like these are ___43___. Each one says it can easily help people take fat away.

Losing weight can be ___44___ . Some overweight people go to health centres， like La Costa in California. Men and women ____45____several hundred dollars a day at these health centres. People live there for one week or two，____46____ exercise， eating different foods. Meals there may be just a little. All these work for losing weight. ____47___ 4 days on the programme， one woman called Mrs. Warren lost 5 pounds （2.27kg）. At $ 400 a day， she spent $ 320 to lose each pound. But she said she was still ____48____ to do so.

Health centres， books， medicines， operations， running and exercise machines all ___49__ a lot of money. So in the United States， losing weight may mean losing ___50__ too.

  36. A. less            B. more         C. nice           D. fast

  37. A. For            B. So           C. Or             D. And

  38. A. good           B. useful        C. hard           D. easy

  39. A. why            B. what         C. how           D. when

  40. A. high           B. short         C. thin            D. fat

  41. A. talk            B. say          C. speak          D. tell        

  42. A. dearer          B. harder        C. shorter         D. easier

  43. A. taken          B. given         C. written          D. copied

  44. A. cheap          B. expensive      C. easy           D. safe

  45. A. pay           B. cost          C. take            D. have

  46. A. making        B. taking        C. playing         D. using

  47. A. Before        B. In            C. After           D. At

  48. A. sorry          B. angry         C. sad            D. glad

  49. A. need          B. have          C. use            D. get

  50. A. health        B. time           C. food           D. money