It's necessary for parents to teach kids how to cook from an early age. I believe you will {#blank#}1{#/blank#} with what I say. However, you also need to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} that part of teaching your kids how to cook is teaching them about the ingredients(材料).

    One of the best ways you teach them about ingredients is to take them to go shopping with you. I know it won't always be {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to do so. Maybe you have to spend some money {#blank#}4{#/blank#} your crying kids the big model car, because you don't want {#blank#}5{#/blank#} people to look at you.

    For one thing, it's great to let your kids see what food looks like in its {#blank#}6{#/blank#} state(状态). I don't mean seeing cows and chickens {#blank#}7{#/blank#} around (though that is good, too). I mean that they can see fruit, meat and vegetables before you {#blank#}8{#/blank#} them up or make them become dishes.

    In fact, if you live near a farmer's market, you can take your kids shopping with you there. At the farmer's market, your kids can talk to the people who grow the food. At {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, it will make your kids see whole(整个的) pineapples(菠萝), but not {#blank#}10{#/blank#} yellow rings with the hole in the middle.

    Pablo and I were walking home from playing football. On the way, I told him that our school needed {#blank#}1{#/blank#} football team. At once, Pablo suggested," Why not run for(.竞选) class president so that you can set one up ?"

    "Who would want {#blank#}2{#/blank#} ？"I asked, surprised at the idea.

    Pablo made a list of reasons: I was the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} student of all in sports and lessons; I was {#blank#}4{#/blank#}to everybody. When I told him running for president would be much work, he {#blank#}5{#/blank#} that he would help me.

    I did run, and Pablo did help me. First, we made posters to hang in the hallway. Next, Pablo helped me {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a speech about why I'd make a good class president.

    The big day came. I gave my speech in front of the whole grade, promising my {#blank#}7{#/blank#}that if they chose me, I'd start a football team.

    As Pablo and I nervously waited {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the results, I was told that my speech was so successful {#blank#}9{#/blank#}I was the right person to be class president.

    Now we went {#blank#}10{#/blank#} to Coach Simpason and asked how I could start our new football team.

    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.