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Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be t__1__ to do a number of simple jobs .They s__2__ that in a film or on TV we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs, bears, or other animals doing a lot of things .If you w__3___ carefully, you may find that those animals are given something to eat in return for d__4__ them. The scientists say that many d__5___ animals may be taught to do a number of simple jobs if they will get something to eat.
Of course, as we know, dogs can be used to guard a house, and elephants can be used to do some heavy j_6__. And we can also teach animals to work in f__7__ .Apes, for example have b__8__ used in America to help make cars and scientists b__9___ that these monkeys may one day get in crops and e__10__ drive trains.
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Only mother love is true love. It gives e____1_____ everything all his life.
When you are still a baby, mother takes good care of you as much as possible. In your waking hours she always holds you in her arms. When you are ill, she stops her work right now to look after you day and n______2____ and forgets about herself. When you are growing up day by day, she feels very happy.
When you are old e_____3_____ to go to school, mother still looks after you all the t___4____ . On cold winter days, she always tells you to p___5____ on more clothes. She always stands in the wind waiting for you back from school every day. When you hurry to leave home for school with little b___6______. She always feels worried about you at home. She u____7____ knows about you study and spend much money on your school things. When you do well at school, you will see the brightest s____8______ on her face. Mother can do everything for you day after day.
Mother is always ready to give everything she has to her children, not to receive. What true love that is in the w____9____! We will r_______10_____ Mother Love forever!
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When I was walking down the street one day , I s___1___ a small bag on the ground . I picked it up and opened it to see w___2____ I could find out the owner’s name . There was n___3____ inside it except some dollars and a picture of a woman and a young girl about twelve years old . I put the photo back and took the bag to the police station . Before I left , the policeman wrote down my name and my a___4____ . He thought the owner might want to thank me .
That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and uncle . They had also asked a young woman to have dinner with us . Her face was familiar , but I couldn’t r___5____ where I ha
d seen her . D____6____ our talk , the young woman happened to say that she had l____7___ her bag that afternoon . All at once I remembered w___8____ I had seen her . She was the young girl in the photo . though she looked now much o___9___ than the girl in the picture . She was very s____10___ , of course , when I told her about the bag . After dinner we went to the police station and got back her bag . The policeman said to me , “It’s a wonderful thing . You found not only the bag , but also the owner of the bag .”
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Tim spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a good s____1____, no assistant will come near to you and say, “Can I h__2____ you?” You needn’t buy a____3____ you don’t want. You may try to find out where the book you want is. But if you w____4___, the assistant will lead you there and then he will go away. It seems that he is not interested i___5__ selling any books at all.
There is a story which t___6____ us about a good shop. A medical student found a very useful book in a shop, but it is too expensive for him to b___7___. He couldn’t get it from the library, e___8____. So every afternoon he went there to r___9___ a little at a time. One day, however, he couldn’t find the book from its usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing to him. To his s___10_____, the assistant pointed to the book in a corner, “I put it there so as not to be sold out.” said the assistant . Then he let the student go on with his reading.
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Let me tell you a story. A good friend of mine lives with six hundred animals on an island. Ever s___1___ he left school, he has travelled all over the world l___2___ for animals for his own zoo. He writes books about his travels, and about his wonderful a___3___. The mo
ney for his books helps him to p___4____ for all the animal food. My friend told me that when he was looking for water last week (There is not enough water on the island, though there is a lot all around it), he f___5___ oil. He n___6___ money for his travels and for his zoo , and a little oil would buy e___7___ water for a long time , but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it , it will be the e___8___ of his zoo and his life’s work . So I think he will not tell anybody e ___9___ you and me about what he found — because oil and water can’t be p__10____ together. Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water. Do you think so?
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