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?

    If you want to get the most out of the study of a language, you must also read for pleasure: novels, plays, travel books, and so on. And in reading books of this kind the{#blank#}1{#/blank#}thing is to get on with the reading, to try to grasp(领会){#blank#}2{#/blank#}the writer is going to tell you in the book as a whole. This is impossible if you stop and think over the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}of every single word which happens to be unfamiliar. You cannot enjoy a story if you stop lots of times on every page for{#blank#}4{#/blank#}words in the dictionary. You may even prevent yourself from understanding the story as a whole by doing this.