Toby, an 11-year old boy, is playing with a ball. The ball goes into the street and Toby runs for the ball.
A car hits (碰撞) Toby. An ambulance (救护车) takes Toby to the hospital in 30 minutes. The doctors at the hospital tell Toby's parents, "Toby is in a coma."
Every day, Toby's parents visit him at the hospital. They sit next to Toby's bed and talk to him. But Toby never talks to them. He just sleeps.
One day Toby's father says, "Wake up, Toby. Wake up, come home and play with Rusty." Rusty is Toby's dog.
When Toby's father says "Rusty", Toby moves his arm. "Rusty!" Toby's father says again. Again. Toby moves his arm.
Toby's parents have an idea. They tell the nurse,
"We want to bring Toby's dog to the hospital." The nurse says "OK".
The next day, Toby's parents bring Rusty to the hospital. When they put the dog on Toby's bed, Toby opens his eyes and hugs the dog.
Toby's parents bring Rusty to the hospital every day. One day, Rusty jumps onto Toby's bed and scratches (抓) his arm. Toby says his first words. "Bad dog!"
After eight weeks. Toby is well. He leaves the hospital and goes home.
MISSING CAT We cannot find our cat! We miss him very much. Please help us!
| HOW HE LOOKS He is brown and white. His front pews (爪子) are white like boxing gloves. His name is Boxer. |
HOW HE SOUNDS Boxer is big. but the cries are like a kitten (幼猫). If you hear a tiny (微小的) meow and see that it is coming from a big, strong cat, then you have found Boxer! | |
IF YOU SEE HIM Please call 555-5555 or bring him to our house at 10 Cherry Lane. We will give you a reward (奖励). |
Hi, boys and girls. My name is Gina and I am an (America) girl. I am twelve years old now. Please look at the photo. is the girl in it? Oh, she is my sister and(she) name is Amy. She is eight years old. She can do a lot of things. She can play the piano and the violin. She can also sing and dance. And she wants to be a musician when she (grow) up. She is also good at drawing pictures, she doesn't do well in math. So I often help her it. Amy is a good student. She never gets up late in the morning. She goes to school on foot every day and it takes her about ten minutes (get) there. She has seven(lesson) at school every day. At about half past five, she goes back home. She usually does her homework first.
She sometimes practices playingguitar in the evening. Now it's half past eight; she (study) for a math test next Monday.
I like my sister very much. Do you want to make friends with her?
The tiger is the largest wild cat in the world. It is the king of animals. Tigers often eat 5kg of meat for a meal. Tigers can see very well in the dark. They often hunt at night. Sometimes they can eat 27kg of meat at one night. Most members of the cat family dislike water, but tigers enjoy water. They are good at swimming. Many animals live in groups, but tigers live alone (单独地)，except for (除了) mothers and their young babies. A mother tiger usually has two or three babies at one time. She takes care of them by herself.
There were eight kinds of tigers in the world, but three of them died out (灭绝). There are only about 3200 wild tigers in the world now because people kill tigers and destroy the places where they live.
These days, the Puy du Fou theme park in Westerm France welcomed six very special cleaners—Boubou, Bamboo, Bill, Black, Bricole and Baco. They are six crows (乌鸦)！As part of the daily show, the theme park has already trained the crows to pick up roses and bring them to a "princess" in a castle (城堡).
Workers at the park have taught the crows to pick up small pieces of rubbish. The crows move the rubbish (垃圾) into a small box. After belping to clean the park, they get bird food for their hard work.
"The park is very clean." Nicolas de Villiers, the head of the park, said, "The purpose of the crows is to teach people to open up their minds to think."
As a regular (定期的) visitor to the park, Simons, ever said after watching it, "OK! The birds are able to do something that we are much more able to do than them. It shows that we humans cannot throw rubbish everywhere."
Earlier this year, Josh Klein taught the crows to collect money and drop it in a special machine. After six months of training, he found that the crows could remember how to get food by working.
