People already know a lot about animals. However, there are still some things about animals that may surprise you. Here are {#blank#}1{#/blank#}about animals you probably didn't know.

    Cows do have best friends and feel stressed when they are separated. Scientists have found that cows are very social animals and that a cow always {#blank#}2{#/blank#}other cows. When a cow is with its friends, it feels relaxed, compared with when it is alone.

    During a breeding season, a male penguin will offer a small stone to a female penguin as a gift. If she takes it, they will become partners. When the female penguin lays an egg, she and her partner may carry it {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, because some penguins don't build nests.

    Crocodiles (鳄鱼) swallow (吞) stones. Crocodiles always swallow their food instead of eating it like other animals. They swallow stones which break the food into very small pieces in their stomachs. These stones may stay in their stomachs {#blank#}4{#/blank#}.

    Elephants use plants to treat pain or other illnesses. Scientists once found a pregnant (怀孕的) elephant in Africa who ate a kind of plant which was not part of her normal food. Four days later, she {#blank#}5{#/blank#}a baby elephant. The same plant was used by the local pregnant women.

    Lydia is 14 years old. She lives in a small house with her parents and two brothers, Daniel and Henry. Daniel is 12 years old, and Henry is 9 years old. Daniel and Henry often complain about the small house. They want to live in a big house. Their dream house is very big. In the house, they each have a bedroom, a desk and a computer. In front of the house, there is a big beautiful garden. In the garden, there are some fruit trees. They like eating fruit very much. Behind the garden, there is a swimming pool. They like swimming, too. They can ask their friends to come to their house on weekends. They can play computer games, swim and do their homework together. They say they will have a lot of fun that time.

Cai Xuzhe dreamed of flying high when he was young. He was a new face on the Shenzhou-14 team. He spent 12 years as an astronaut（宇航员） getting ready for his first trip to space.

"I am happy and proud but feel more about my duty（责任）," Cai told reporters. Cai and other two team members, Chen Dong and Liu Yang, left the earth on board the Shenzhou-14 spaceship in June of 2022, for a six - month stay in space. They finished the work of building the Tiangong space station.

Cai was born in 1976 in the countryside of Shenzhou City, Hebei Province. He showed interest in planes as a child. When he heard a plane flying past, he ran out and looked at it till it flew away.

Cai went to an Air Force flight college（空军飞行学院）. After finishing college, he began to work at an airport. The airport was in poor condition. However, he studied and trained his flying skills there carefully. InMay 2010, Cai became a Chinese astronaut and underwent（接受） hard training. He did best in his training and finally became a Shenzhou-14 team member. He tried his best to make his dream come true.

1.端午节的时间及意义。

2.端午节的活动(至少两点)。

3.你最喜欢端午节的理由。

作文要求：1.不得在作文中出现学校真实的名称和学生的真实姓名。

2.语句连贯，词数80个左右。作文的标题和开头已经给出，不计入总词数。

My favorite Chinese festival is the Dragon Boat Festival.

Tani moved away from his home town with his family years ago. When they got to the United States, a churchman {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(warm) helped place them in a homeless shelter(收容所) in New York. Tani's dad worked as a driver {#blank#}2{#/blank#} his mum studied hard to become a nurse. Tani started going to the primary school. There, he learnt {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(play) the game that would change his life: chess. 

At the age of eight, Tani {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(win)a state champion(冠军) for his age. He beat other 73 players. Some had practised with private chess teachers, but Tani had practised on {#blank#}5{#/blank#} floor of the homeless shelter alone. 

A reporter wrote an article about Tani. In three weeks, thousands {#blank#}6{#/blank#} people gave away over $250, 000 to Tani and his family on GoFundMe. Some also left {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(message). One person wrote, "Tani,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} as uperstar you are!"

Recently, Tani and his family {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(decide) to give away all the money. "Thanks to others' help, we live a much {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(happy) life than before, "Tani's father said. "Now we want to help poor people. "

A young man went to an expert on gems(宝石)and wanted to learn from him. The expert shook his head He worried that young men wouldn't have the patience to learn. In his opinion, they were always in a hurry. 

The young man asked the expert many times to let him have a try. Finally the expert said, "Be here tomorrow. "

The next morning, the expert put a jade(翡翠)stone in the man's hand and told him to hold it. The expert then went about his work, cutting, weighing and setting gems. The man sat and waited excitedly. The following morning the expert again placed the jade stone in the man's hand and told him to hold it. On the third, fourth, and fifth day the expert repeated the action. 

On the sixth day the young man still had to hold the jade stone, but he could no longer stand the silence. "Sir, "he asked, "when am I going to learn something?"

"You will learn. "the expert replied. 

Several more days went by. The man became more and more impatient. However, when the expert placed a stone in his hand one morning, the young man shouted without looking at it, "This is not the same jade stone!" "You have begun to learn, "the expert said with a smile.