We have three lovely dogs. On the National Day of one year, we drove to my mother’s home for 【小题1】 holiday. We brought all three dogs 【小题2】 us so that they wouldn’t be alone back home when neighbors’ fireworks (烟花) went off. They were all 【小题3】 (terrible) afraid of fireworks.

When night fell that day, we had the dogs 【小题4】 (lock) in the laundry room of my mother’s house, and we went to the lake to set off fireworks. My mother’s house was far away from the place 【小题5】 we would light the fireworks. So we thought the noise might not 【小题6】 (notice) by dogs.

After enjoying the fireworks, we went back to the house 【小题7】 (check) on the dogs. Try to imagine our 【小题8】 (shock) faces when we saw a huge mouse hole in the laundry-room door. The dogs were all lying there, looking very innocent (无辜的) .

Now all these years later, the three dogs are gone, and all we have are 【小题9】 (memory) of them. But none is as memorable as how they celebrated this holiday by 【小题10】 (cut) through that laundry-room door with their teeth.

Already famous at home, now China’s wandering elephants are becoming international stars. Major global media are recording 【小题1】 group more than yearlong, 500-kilometer walk from their home in a wildlife reserve in mountainous southwest Yunnan province to the outskirts of the provincial capital of Kunming.

The fifteen elephants 【小题2】 (catch) at night trotting(疾走) down urban streets by security cameras over the past months, followed by those 【小题3】 (seek)to minimize damage and keep both elephants and people out of harm’s way. 【小题4】 no animals or people have been hurt, reports put damage to crops at more than $1 million.

【小题5】 exactly motivated them to make the epic journey remains a mystery, although they appear to be especially attracted to corn, tropical fruit and other crops, tasty and 【小题6】(plenty) and easy to obtain in the lush tropical region. Others have speculated their leader may be simply lost.

Asian elephants, the continent’s largest land animal, are 【小题7】 decline overall. Habitat loss and resulting human-wildlife conflict 【小题8】 (be) their biggest threats. Elephants are given the top level of protection in China, allowing their numbers to   【小题9】 (steady) increase even as their natural habitat shrinks, and requiring farmers and others 【小题10】(exercise) maximum restraint when encountering them.