How do you usually get to school? By bus? On foot? Roby Burch, 16, a US student, gets to school a little differently—he goes by horse .
Burch has been riding his white horse 4 miles to and from school since(自从)the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} of the semester. “Every morning, wearing my blue jacket and jeans, I'm on my way at 6 am. ” Burch says, “The streets are mostly {#blank#}2{#/blank#} at this time of morning. It's a nice way to start the day. ”
The idea was his {#blank#}3{#/blank#} . His family were {#blank#}4{#/blank#} their vacation on their farm this summer, “My dad just said, ‘Roby, you {#blank#}5{#/blank#} ride your horse to school every day. '” says Burch. He thought it really was a good idea.
When they got back home, Burch asked for permission from the headmaster (校长), Joe Cox, and surprisingly, he got the green light. Cox {#blank#}6{#/blank#} allowed（允许）Burch to keep the horse next to the headmaster's house. Then his dad helped Burch find the best route to school. It is along back streets and has {#blank#}7{#/blank#} cars than the others.
For the return trip every afternoon, Burch leaves school at 5:45 pm. Even now, as the days grow shorter and colder, he continues to ride his horse. “ I will ride my horse even in the coldest weather. ” he says.
Burch says the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} time he sat on a horse as a four-year-old boy he was afraid. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} now, “it's what I do best. ” It's no surprise that he wants to be a cowboy (牛仔) when he grows up. “I love riding horses more than {#blank#}10{#/blank#} else. ” He says, “It's really a guy thing. ”

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    Frank has some good eating {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. He eats fruit and vegetable every day. He likes {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, but he doesn't often eat them. He says they're not {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

    Frank {#blank#}6{#/blank#} sports very much. And he plays basketball very {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. Every afternoon, he often plays basketball {#blank#}8{#/blank#} his friends. He says he wants to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} a basketball star like Yao Ming.

  Frank {#blank#}10{#/blank#} well and plays sports every day, so he is very healthy.

    Every year in Australia there are crocodile (鳄鱼) attacks (攻击) on humans. Two years ago, a 24-year-old German tourist died when she went {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in a lake. Although there were signs warning people that there might be crocodiles, the girl and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} friends decided to have a midnight swim. The girl {#blank#}3{#/blank#} disappeared and the next morning her body was found. Near it was a four-meter crocodile. And only last month two{#blank#}4{#/blank#} boys watched in fear as their friend was killed by a crocodile. They were washing their mountain bikes in a river at that time. Then, those two boys climbed a tree and stayed there for 22 {#blank#}5{#/blank#}while the crocodile waited below.