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 __8_____, apples.
Humphrey feels very in his life. He had another good friend, a goat, but she got eaten by a jackal(), 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.
A．kept B．swept C．bought D．stayed
A．worried B．tired C．scared D．excited
A．under B．across C．along D．into
A．since B．when C．after D．before
A．invented B．found C．appeared D．developed
A．come up B．get up C．eat up D．look up
A．head B．back C．front D．tail[
A．juice B．fish C．bread D．food
A．lonely B．angry C．happy D．funny
A．her B．them C．himself D．us
A special present was given to me when I was 12 years old. It was .
That was the early autumn of my first year at a high school, and my old school was far away. As a result, no one knew who I was. I was very , and afraid to make friends anymore.
Every time I heard the other students talking and . I felt my heart break. I couldn’t talk to anyone about my problem, and I didn’t want my parents to worry about me.
Then one morning, my classmates had fun talking with their friends, but I sat my desk as usual. At that moment, a boy entered the classroom. I didn’t know who he was. He walked past me and then turned back. He looked at me and, a word, smiled. Suddenly, I felt the touch of and friendly. It made me feel happy, lively and warm.
That smile my life. I started to talk with the other students and made friends. Day by day, I became closer to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile my best friend now.
One day. I asked him he smiled and said nothing that morning, but he couldn’t remember smiling at me!
It doesn’t matter all the dark days have gone. Now I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think you are lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back.
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You without doubt sleep every day, but do you have a dream every night? How much do you know about dreaming? “Sleep are than dream. We all need to dream.” some scientists say.
Dreams take up about one quarter of our sleeping time. People have several dreams every night. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in color. Some dreams are like old films. They come to us over and over again. That because the dreamer is worrying about something. Sometimes dreaming is a way of trying to find an answer.
Some people get about their work from dreams. They may have been thinking about their work all day. These thoughts can carry into dreams.
Sometimes we with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can’t remember the dream.Dreams can disappear quickly from memory.
__ dreaming can be harmful. The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at work when we dream. That is why we may have a long sleep and still feel tired.
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The word “duang” is new that it does not even appear in the dictionary. But it has already rapidly across China. It has caused 312,000 discussions 15,000 users. On Baidu， which is the online search engine in China， it has been almost 600,000 times. It has been noticed in the West， too. Foreign Policy， a news Website， regarded it a big event.
But what does it mean? It seems to be an example of onomatopoeia(拟声词). It was started by Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan. He acted in an advertisement in 2004.In it， he said his hair was bright and black the word “duang”. The word appeared again recently after Chan put on his Weibo page. users then began to surf Chan's Weibo page and made comments(评论).
The word appears to have many different ， and there's no perfect translation for it. But you can use it as an adjective to give emphasis(强调)to the word that follows it.
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August 10thSunny
Today is the third day in Florida， the USA. You will never know I went today. I visited the Harry Potter Theme Park! It was really a great for Harry Potter fans.
In the theme park， I saw all the places in the movies， such as the school， the stores and the restaurant. I also went into these buildings and took a lot of pictures. I had lunch in the park， but I didn't in dollar. I used the money in the movies. Wasn't it interesting?
As a Harry Potter fan， I really wanted to Harry Potter and his friends in the park. ， it was a pity that I didn't. But I got a chance to fly like them. It was exciting!
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If you have seen the short play “I’ve got much money(不差钱)”, you must have been impressed by the way Xiao Shenyang dressed . The dress he wore is called the kilt（苏格兰方格呢短裙）. There is a famous in Scotland. It says, “ A man in s kilt is a man and a half.” This saying shows how the kilt is for Scottish people. The kilt is a special dress. Most Scottish men it. Why do Scottish men wear and what’s the history of this special dress?
It’s said that in the 16th century, the Scottish highlands were , so the roads were always full of mud（泥）. The mud made it very difficult for soldiers to around. Slowly people found that the soldiers in kilts could move more than those in trousers because kilts were much more flexible（灵活的）. What’s more, soldiers could use the kilts on cold nights a blanket.
In modern times, the kilt Scottish pride. People wear kilts for events, weddings and traditional sporting events, for example. But that’s not all. The colors of a kilt also show a person’s history. Each Scottish family has a different pattern. So a Scotsman is wearing not only the national dress of his country, the pride of his family.
Today, fashion designers are trying to make the kilt more modern and fashionable to catch more eyes. Besides cloth, the designers are trying some materials such as paper and leather（皮革）.
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