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Animals are important in Indian culture and are treaded 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?

    In the past there lived a man in a small town called Zheng. One day he {#blank#}1{#/blank#}to buy himself a new pair of shoes. He measured (测量) his feet with a ruler first and wrote down his {#blank#}2{#/blank#} on a piece of paper. Then he went shoe shopping.

    When he arrived at the shoe shop, he reached into his pocket (口袋), but he {#blank#}3{#/blank#}the paper was not there. So he said to the salesman, "I have left the measurement at home and don't {#blank#}4{#/blank#}the size. I'll go back home to take it."{#blank#}5{#/blank#}these words, he ran out of the shop.

    He ran back home, found the paper and then ran to the shop {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. But it took him a few hours and the shop was closed (关闭). He{#blank#}7{#/blank#}the afternoon on the way and did not buy his shoes at last.

    Someone asked {#blank#}8{#/blank#} "Did you want to buy the shoes for yourself?"

    "Of course," he answered.

    "Then {#blank#}9{#/blank#} don't you try the shoes on by yourself?"

    "I trust (相信) the ruler {#blank#}10{#/blank#} than my feet," he said.

Dear basketball,

    When I rolled(使成球形)my dad's socks as a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, I knew one thing was real: I fell in love with you. The love was so deep that I gave you my all {#blank#}2{#/blank#} my body to my soul(灵魂).

    As a six-year-old boy, I loved you deeply. I {#blank#}3{#/blank#} stopped loving you. I only saw myself running for you every court(场)all the time. You needed my effort, I tried my {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, because it asked for so much more. I played through me sweat(汗水)and the hurt, not because the challenge called me, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} because you called me. I did everything for you, became you made me feel alive.

    You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker(湖人)dream, and I will always love you for it. But now I can't love you any {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. This season is the last one for me. My {#blank#}7{#/blank#} can still best, my spirit can also fight, but my body' knows it's time to say, goodbye. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} of us accept it. And it's OK. I'm ready, to let you go.

    I want you to know now, then we can {#blank#}9{#/blank#} each other every moment we have left together.

    The good and the bad, we have {#blank#}10{#/blank#} one another all that we have. And we also know, whatever I do next, I will always be that kid with a basketball in my hands.

    Love you always.

Kobe