— Of course, here you are.

—         him alone, he can make up his mind.

    There are wild elephants in Malaysia, Thailand and several other countries but most people {#blank#}1{#/blank#}them. Elephants dislike the hot sun. They {#blank#}2{#/blank#} in the cool shelter of the jungle, coming out at night to feed on the vegetation on the fringe of the jungle.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}they are big animals, elephants can move silently when necessary. When there are no hunters(猎人)near them, elephants often make a lot of noise. They tear up young bamboo shoots and eat noisily. But as soon as hunters appear, the elephants {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. A big bull elephant stretches out(伸展)his sensitive trunk and moves it round slowly, searching for the scent of his enemy. His large ears protrude from the side of his head and he listens for the slightest sound. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}he detects(察觉)any danger, the bull taps on the ground with his trunk. Tonk! Tonk! This is the danger signal(信号).{#blank#}6{#/blank#}the elephants disappear into the protection of the jungle.

    {#blank#}7{#/blank#}an elephant will attack(攻击)human beings, particularly if it is defending(保护)its young or it has been wounded. An angry elephant can trample an enemy to death or pick him up with his trunk and smash his hated enemy on the ground. Sometimes hungry elephants damage

(毁坏)crops but usually they {#blank#}8{#/blank#} human beings. In recent years, poachers have killed huge numbers of elephants in Africa to get their ivory tusks.{#blank#}9{#/blank#}, many countries have banned(禁止)trade in objects made of ivory.{#blank#}10{#/blank#}, elephants are still in danger of disappearing completely from many countries where they have lived peacefully for thousands of years.

    On December 14, 2017, the famous Chinese poet (诗人) Yu Guangzhong left this world in Taiwan. The news made many people sad. "Mr. Yu's poems often {#blank#}1{#/blank#} my heart when I read them...,"Mai Luoluo, a famous writer for{#blank#}2{#/blank#}, said on Sina Weibo.

    Yu was born in 1928 in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Then he moved to Taiwan{#blank#}3{#/blank#} his family in the 1950s. After that, he lived and worked there{#blank#}4{#/blank#} he died.

    Xiangchou (Nostalgia) is Yu's famous poem. People{#blank#}5{#/blank#} the poem easily if they open Chinese textbooks in senior high school. It was written from Yu's {#blank#}6{#/blank#} experience. In it, he showed how much he missed the Chinese mainland when he was in Taiwan. The poem came out in 1971. It {#blank#}7{#/blank#} became popular with all Chinese around the world. Yu is also a great translator (翻译家). And he once translated English poet Siegfried Sassoon's poem In me, Past,

    Present, Future Meet into Chinese. Most of people think it is the{#blank#}8{#/blank#} translation of all. The famous line “心有猛虎，细嗅蔷薇” just comes from his translation.

    You spent all {#blank#}9{#/blank#} life on the things he liked. Once he said, "Just because of my passion (热情) for the Chinese language, I always try my best {#blank#}10{#/blank#}something." He then added that his love for his mother and his motherland made this passion forever. Let's remember this great man.