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
One spring afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I parked the car by the roadside and waited for her.
As I looked outside the car window, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running freely on the grass as his mother _____ from a short distance（距离）. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been set free out of ______. The boy would then fall to the grass, ______ up quickly, even without looking back at his mother, run as ______ as he could again, still with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened.
At that moment, I thought to myself, “Why aren’t most adults this way?” Most adults, when they fall down ,make a big deal out of it and don’t even ______ a second try for fear of failure(失败).
However, with kids, when they fall down, they don't consider their falling down as failure, instead, they treat it as a ________experience. They try again and again until they ____. The answer must be that they have not connected “falling down” with the word “failure”. As a_____, they are not discouraged in any way, Also they _______ think to themselves that it’s quite OK to fall down and that it’s not wrong to so . In other words, they _______ themselves to make mistakes, so they remain energetic.
I was deeply impressed by the boy’s persistence and the manner in which he did.
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阅读下面的短文，从短文后所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
One day, a boy found the cocoon(茧) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small _____in the cocoon. He sat and watched for several hours as a butterfly struggled to make _____body through that little hole. Suddenly it stopped.
So the boy _____to help the butterfly, thinking the butterfly might be _____. He took a pair of scissors(剪刀) and cut the hole ______. The butterfly came out of the cocoon, but it __ a little different. It had a weak body and small, thin _____. The butterfly didn’t start to fly. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling(爬行) around with a weak body and thin wings. It was never able to fly.
The boy acted with_____but he didn’t understand why it could be like this. When a butterfly crawl out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of _____out of the cocoon makes the fluid(液体) from the butterfly’s body into its wings. It helps the butterfly be _____to fly. If the butterfly never has to squeeze(挤压) itself out of the cocoon, its wings will never get the fluid and it can never fly.
_____struggles are what we need in our lives. If we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be ____ we could have been and we would never fly.
In our lives, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, and sometimes even _____ growth, without it, there’s no way of life. We can’t avoid _____ or problems. So, next time you are _____ a problem or difficulty, remember the butterfly. Struggle a little–then fly!
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阅读下面的短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可填入空白处的最佳选项。
Once there was a girl who could do everything she wanted in the world. All she had to do was to choose and focus on it. So one day she sat down and began to paint. When she finally finished painting, she looked proudly at her and smiled.
It was clear that she was . And she knew it, too. But a few moments after she finished painting, she got anxious and quickly stood up. she thought that there was so much more in the world to see and do, and she would face so many . If she finally decided to do something else with her life, then all the time she painting would be a waste. So she looked at her work for the last time, and walked out of the door.
She had to choose thing to reach a higher goal. Should she practice medicine? Or buildings? Or teach children? She was quite .
Twenty-five years later, the girl began to cry. Because she she had been walking for so long, and that over the years she hadn’t done anything at all. She learned that life isn’t about possibility. Anything is possible. The truth of is to get down on one thing, but does not aim too high and changes the goal freely.
The girl was no longer a girl. She knew she wanted exactly. So she bought some painting materials and began to paint. She smiled and painting through day and night, because she had finally made a decision. And there was some time left to enjoy the magic that life is all about.
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Every day we have a math class. We always show interest in it. Some sleep, some daydream, others read something else. listens to our math teacher. To this problem, our clever math teacher found a out at last.
Mr. Black thought since everyone liked candy, the only way to 0ur attention was to give us candy. A clever came upon him’.He put a lot of candy inside a big ball that any-one could . In class he asked us some questions. When anybody answered one question . Mr. Black would throw the ball to the student and the student could some of the candy out of the ball. Then, the student would have to throw the ball to the with the right answer, and as that.
The idea us all sit up and pay attention for a while but soon almost all of us went back to . We all ate too much candy. The only person in our math class who liked the idea was a fat boy named Ward. He just eating and eating until finally even Mr. Black had to say, “I’m . Ward, but I just don’t have enough money to buy you candy. “
A. great B. much C. little
A.Everyone B.Someone C.Nobody
A. do B. solve C. make
A. ball B. question C.way
A.get B.pay C.give
A. advice B.idea C. head
A. keep B. eat C. open
A. quickly B. calmly C. correctly
A. take B. send C. receive
A. student B. teacher C. next one
A.made B.called C.forced
A.listen B.sleep C.eat
A. never B. also C. still
A. stopped B. helped C. kept
A.sorry B.glad C.excited
阅读短文，并从各题所给的选项中，选择最佳选项。
When I was young, I liked to play jokes on people I knew, especially on my parents and friends. One day my mother was and I was playing with my younger brother Tony.
Suddenly I ran to my mother and said, “Tony fell from the open window!” She was very and ran out of the kitchen. Then I said, “Don’t worry, I’m just .” And my mother shouted at me, “If you do it , I’ll hit you.”
One day I went swimming with my in the sea. I wanted to play a joke on them. In the beginning, I went swimming alone, and I called out, “Help!” All my friends came to help , only to find that I was joking. But the next time I wasn’t joking. I was so that I swam in deep water. I tried my best to call my friends for help, but this time came to help me.
, they found I was telling the truth. They came and saved my life. They took me to the hospital. This is the best in my life. From then on, I haven’t joked on anyone.
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