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In Western countries, keeping pets (宠物) is very popular. People love their pets very much. In their opinions, pets are not only good friends, but also the members of the family. Most of them think keeping pets can bring them happiness.
They build homes for their pets, clean them and give them food and water. They even buy clothes for them. You can see many pet shops and pet hospitals in Western countries. If you have a pet dog, you also need to take it for a walk in the morning or in the evening.
Do you know what the most popular pets are? Of course, cats and dogs. It is said that the most popular pet dog is the Labrador retriever (拉布拉多犬). People keep different kinds of pets. Some people keep small animals like rabbits and hamsters (仓鼠) as pets. Fishes and turtles are popular, too.
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Have you ever seen a robin (知更鸟)? Robins have dark heads and red chests.
A good place to see robins is in your own backyard. Robins don't mind being around people. You may also see robins on lawns (草坪) or in parks. They are looking for worms and bugs to eat.
Early in spring, robins build their nests (巢). They build them in trees. Robins hide the nests in trees so that they will be safe.
The nests are made from grass, sticks, and mud. The mud makes everything together. The mother robin lays (产蛋) one egg a day for three or four days. She sits on them to keep them warm. The eggs are blue. After the babies come out, both the mother and father feed the babies. The young birds have spots on their chests.
Do any robins live near you? Look around. You may be surprised!
Some visitors to new places take pictures of animals, but other visitors hunt (打猎) and kill them. They do not kill animals for food, but because they like hunting. In many countries people can make a lot of money from animals.
Elephants die because people want ivory. Rhinoceros (犀牛) die because people want to buy their horns.
Pollution (污染) of our land, sea, rivers and sky is getting worse and worse. We are making our world a much dirtier place, so many animals cannot live in it. Pollution is bad for all of us. It's killing animals. Sooner or later it is going to kill people too. We put new buildings on empty land and don't think about animals. We make new roads, move rivers and cut down trees. So we are taking the natural homes of animals very fast. Where can they go? In the end, the answer is often nowhere and the animals die. Animals are in danger from natural accidents. Some animals die because the weather changes and some animals are also in danger from our behaviour (行为). We can not protect animals or people from accidents or changing the weather, but we can think about our behaviour and change that!
①Do you know what animals are in(危险)?
②It's dangerous to (喂养) tigers with food in the zoo.
③Susan, does your mother (允许) you to play computer games?
④Animalsare our friends. We need to (保护) them.
⑤In the past many people hoped tobe a (科学家) when they were young.
⑥Ithink everyone in the world wants to live in (和平).
⑦Now more and more people are (感兴趣的) to collect old paper money.
⑧Our (政府) is working hard to help the poor.
⑨They (研制) a kind of new machine to help the workers in 2010.
⑩Ourschool (筹集) a lot of money to improve the teaching equipment last year.
Betty was sad the bad news.
She decided think about my advice.
we need to do?
to learn English well.
The little boy is not to look after himself.
Toby came back from England yesterday. Two months ago, Toby and his classmate(enter) a robot competition for his school. More than one hundred (school) around the country joined in it, and Toby's school(win) the first prize. As captain of his team, Toby felt very proud. He said it was a wonderful experience. But the prize sounded more fantastic. It was a holiday in England. “When the plane took off, I still (do) think it was real. It was like a dream." Toby said. Someone told Toby that the first prize of the robot competition next time(be) a holiday in America. Toby hoped to enter it then.
