Great white sharks in the Pacific Ocean. Wildebeest in Africa. Arctic terns in the Atlantic. At first, these animals seem 【小题1】 (complete) different. One swims, one walks, and the other flies. But they all have one thing 【小题2】 common. They all migrate.

Some migrating animals move to a place 【小题3】 has a better temperature. Some go to find food or water. The groups travel as one, trying to survive. During the trip, they face 【小题4】 (many) challenges than we can imagine.

One challenge is distance (距离). Some migrating animals take very long trips. They go far away from 【小题5】 (they) home areas. For example, one great white shark swam from Australia to South Africa and back. In nine months, it swam about 20,000 kilometers.

Another challenge is finding enough food and water during the journey. For example, each Mali elephant needs more 【小题6】 200 liters (公升) of water each day. To get this, they need 【小题7】 (go) from one waterhole to another.

In addition, migrating animals have to avoid other animals that want to eat them. For example, the zebra has to stay away from lions. Traveling as a group 【小题8】 (help) keep them safe. All the zebras in the group can watch for danger. When one zebra is in trouble, the other members make a circle around it.

By 【小题9】 (work) as a group, migrating animals can survive some of the world’s most 【小题10】 (wonder) journeys.

The story happened in Japan     【小题1】     a house was redecorated and the wall inside a room was removed. The inside of the wall was hollow. When the owner of the house removed the wall, he saw a gecko (壁虎) inside the wall. Its tail was pinned by a nail     【小题2】(come) through the wall from outside.

The owner was very curious why the gecko was still alive. Then the nail caught his eye. Goodness! It is the nail that was driven here ten years ago when the house was built! How amazing it is     【小题3】     the gecko to have lived in the wall in complete     【小题4】(dark) for ten years!

But on second thought, the curious house owner wondered   how   this   gecko   could   live through 10 years with its tail     【小题5】(nail) down and being unable to go anywhere? So he tried to find out how this small creature could be fed. After a little while, there appeared another gecko with food in       【小题6】       mouth!   What a shocking scene! For ten years, this little gecko had never failed to feed the trapped one.

The story touched me so     【小题7】(deep) that it is useless to find out     【小题8】     relationships they had   between   them.   Parent        【小题9】        child? Friends? Lovers? Brothers or sisters?       【小题10】 last thing we should do is to abandon your beloved in hardship.

The year 2009 is the Year of the Ox, which is a representative of the farming culture of China. In the farming economy, oxen are the major animals【小题1】 (pull) plows (犁). Of course, the good of oxen is not limited to plowing. In fact, they are seen as “boats on land” for their ability to carry loads. Besides, the whole body of an ox is full of treasures, with their meat and milk as food full of nutrition, 【小题2】 their skin used to make clothes and shoes.

In the past, oxen played an important role in the 【小题3】 (spirit) life of the Chinese. Even today, oxen still play a special part in some folk activities. For example, some people who 1ive in southwest China will cook cattle bone soup and share【小题4】among family members when holding a ceremony for children 【小题5】reach 13. They believe that the cattle bone soup represents the blood relationship among family members.【小题6】 (express) their love for oxen, people in some 【小题7】areas will run to shake off diseases on the 16th day of the first month by the lunar calendar, and during their run they will take their oxen along, which【小题8】 (indicate) they regard the creature as human.

Because of the contribution of oxen in their lives, the Chinese people are very grateful to 【小题9】animal. In addition, the use of oxen in ceremonies and the thanks people owe【小题10】 oxen help to develop various traditional customs, which becomes an important part of the folk culture of the Chinese nation.