Animals are important in Indian culture and are treated in a special way. For example, a lot of elephants aren't {#blank#}1{#/blank#} . they are domesticated(驯养). They aren't kept as pets, but as working animals. Every working elephant {#blank#}2{#/blank#} its own keeper. An elephant and its keep meet for the first time when they are both young, and they grow up together. In fact, their relationship continues for the rest of the elephant's {#blank#}3{#/blank#} perhaps 40 years. Lots of elephants work in the forest, moving heavy {#blank#}4{#/blank#} when they are cut down. Some give rides to tourists, or {#blank#}5{#/blank#} people during celebrations and festivals. Keepers take excellent care of their elephants , feeding them {#blank#}6{#/blank#} and giving them a bath at the end of the working day.

{#blank#}7{#/blank#} special animal in India is the cow. Cows are protected animals, {#blank#}8{#/blank#}    they aren't kept on farms or killed for food, although people do use their milk. So in India you can often see cows walking around towns and cities, and nobody tries  {#blank#}9{#/blank#}   them. If they sit down in the middle of the road, people  {#blank#}10{#/blank#}  drive around them! Do you think it's interesting?

Henry: Hi, Emily. The May Day holiday is coming. What's your plan for it?

Emily: Well, let's have a trip together, OK?

Henry: Good idea! Where shall we go?

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Henry: I'm afraid that's not a good idea. Qingdao is not suitable for travelling at this time of year.

Emily: I see. Then how about Beijing? There are many{#blank#}2{#/blank#}

Henry: But I{#blank#}3{#/blank#} there a few times.

Emily: Then what's your idea?

Henry: I hear Jiuzhaigou is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to the public recently. And it's much more beautiful than before.

Emily: Yeah. It's really a place of nature. And our government spends much money rebuilding it.

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Henry: OK. Turn on the computer and find more information about it.

    Chess is called the game of kings. People have been playing it for hundreds of years. The chess we play today is believed to first {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in Asia.

    Some people think that chess is more than a game. They think that it can make the mind stronger. Good chess {#blank#}2{#/blank#} use their brains. They take their time and think about what will happen next. These skills are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in life too.

    You don't always have lots of time to think when playing chess. There is a kind of chess with short time limits(限制). It's {#blank#}4{#/blank#} blitz chess. In blitz chess, each player gets ten minutes to play a whole game. Your clock runs during your turn(机会). You hit the time clock after your move. This {#blank#}5{#/blank#} your clock and starts the other player's clock. If you run out of {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, you lose. Games of blitz chess are fast - paced( 快节奏的)

    Chess is not {#blank#}7{#/blank#} for people. Computers have been playing chess since the 1940s. At first they did not play well. They made {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. As time went on they grew {#blank#}9{#/blank#}. In 1997, a computer beat the best player in the world for the first time. It was a computer called Deep Blue. Deep Blue was {#blank#}10{#/blank#}, which took up a whole room. By 2006 a mobile phone could beat the best players in the world. Chess sure has come a long way.

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