Mike lived in a small village near New York two years ago. He had a big brown dog. He liked the dog very much because once it saved a boy.

    One day, his dog stood next to an old well(井)." It stayed there for about half an hour," Bow-wow-wow," barked the dog. It barked and barked. Mike heard it and ran over to the well." Why do you stay here, my dear?" Mike asked. "And why are you barking?" The dog looked at him and looked at the well. "Bow-wow- wow ,”he barked even louder. Mike asked his friend Jim for help." Come here, Jim," he said." The dog wants to tell us something.”

    They looked down in to the well .They saw a. boy there. The boy couldn't speak. He was too scared(惊恐)。Mike went to get a rope( 绳)at once. He climbed down to save the boy with the help of the rope. The dog was really clever.

    China covers large areas and has a great population. Different living habits have always been an interesting topic in the country. Recently, another difference between southern Chinese and northern Chinese became a hot one: the way people shop at markets.

    People from southern China say that they always buy what they need for just one or two meals. It is normal for them to buy half of a Chinese cabbage, two potatoes and 0.25 kilogram of beef at a time.

    However, one may be laughed at if he does this in the north. Instead, buying vegetables and meat enough for a week is usual. Also, you can buy a small amount (数量) of fruit, such as a single apple or pear, each time in the south. Shop owners even help you peel and cut them. But shop owners in the north hardly offer such service. And many fruits are sold in baskets and boxes.

    The difference could be due to the different weather.

    Food can be kept for a long time in the north, as it is usually cold and dry there. Many northern Chinese have the habit of storing food, especially for the long winter. But the hot and wet weather in the south makes southern Chinese buy just enough food for one meal or one day, or else the food may go bad.

    A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Maiyuwa, a small village. They lived with the man's big family—his parents, his brothers, their wives and children. The family kept an elephant, in which the woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.

    Three months later, having quarreled with her husband, the woman went back to her parents' home. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heartbroken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.

    It went to the woman's home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved by the act of the animal. So she went back to her husband's home.

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下面材料是五则新闻报道。阅读这些新闻，从A-F选项中为每一条新闻选择一个恰当的标题，有一项是多余选项。

{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Drivers to Dapeng for the Qingming Festival holiday between Saturday and Monday will not have to order in advance. However, they will still need to ask for a spot for their vehicles to Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, police warned Thursday.

{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Drinking strong coffee — half an hour before exercise can increase fat-burning, according to a new study published in the Magazine of the International Society of Sports Nutrition(营养).

{#blank#}3{#/blank#}According to meteorological（气象学的） methods for calculating seasons, summer in the city likely began on, what might be the earliest date in this city's history, March 25, the Shenzhen Meteorological Observatory said yesterday.

{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Tokyo 2020 organizing committee(主委会) said that unlike the Olympic torch relay, which covers Japan's all 47 local governments, the Paralympics(残奥会) torch relay will only pass the four hosting regions of Tokyo, Shizuoka, Chiba and Saitama between Aug. 17 and 24.

{#blank#}5{#/blank#}Chinese musician Lyu Kanzhe will give a night of chiba music at the theater in MixC World. The chiba is one of the oldest Chinese woodwind instruments. It is a type of xiao, or flute. The shakuhachi is a Japanese chiba which was originally introduced to Japan from China in the eighth century and grew in the early Edo Period (1603-1868).