【推荐1】It says that bats (蝙蝠) are almost blind (瞎的), but ________ does the bat find the way? In fact, bats find their ways ________ their ears’ help. Bats ________ a sound, but we can’t hear it at all. They cry when they fly and the echoes (回声) of these cries come back to their ________. In this way they can know where they should go. Bats fly out in the ________. In the daytime, they just stay together in ________ homes.

When the evening comes, they begin to ________ and look for food. The next morning, they come back from work to sleep ________ the evening. Some people ________ that bats are bad animals. In fact, they are very ________. They catch and eat pests (害虫). This is very good for people.

Hey! We are bats! Many of you are now _________ of us, aren’t you? There is corona virus（冠状病毒）all over the world . Many people say the virus comes _________ us and they think we are the killers. Grrr! We are not happy about this.

We bats live on the earth for many years. How about you humans? We have super immunity（免疫力）, so we can _______ with many viruses. But some of the viruses can _________ you. Well, it’s true that we are very dangerous. We know this _________ we try to be far away from you. We go out only at _________ when you are sleeping. But some of you _________ how dangerous we are. You kill our brothers and _________ and eat them. The viruses in the bats can kill these people.

I hope you will _________ a lesson from the coronavirus break. Don’t eat or kill wild __________, please.

Have a nice day!

Bats

【推荐3】Dogs are popular pets. They are smart and _____. People often say dogs are “man’s best friends”. But for some people a dog is more than a friend. A dog can save your _____.

Last month, seven-month-old Lisa Green and her mother were in _____ garden. Mrs. Green heard the telephone ring _____ went back to the house. She didn’t _____ a snake moving near Lisa, but the family’s dog, Joe did.

When the snake moved toward Lisa, Joe _____ the snake. The snake didn’t bite Lisa but it bit Joe. When Mrs. Green saw Joe, she took him straight to the vet’s. The vet gave him some medicine （药） and today Joe is _____. Thanks to Joe, Lisa is fine too.

Peter has a similar （类似的） story. One night there was a fire in his home. Peter _____ get out of the house. His dog, Susie, helped him away from the fire. Then she ran to a nearby house. She barked loudly and woke _____ the people there. They _____ 119, so Peter and his house were saved.

In the 1930s, the Chinese Central Red Army quietly passed across the Yudu River in Ganzhou, Jiangxi. They decided to ____ a long and hard march. It was famously known as the Long March (长征). During the Long March, the Chinese Central Red Army passed many places. They started from Jiangxi, passed through several provinces and ____ arrived in Shaanxi. It is said that they ____ about 25,000 li (about 12,500 kilometers) during the Long March.

At school, you may have learned in books that soldiers went through many difficulties. They lived a ____ life and fought against the enemies. They crossed Chishuihe for four times, ____ many kinds of difficulties. In Sichuan, soldiers spent a hard time creeping (匍匐) across Luding Chain Bridge, in the middle of gun fire. They also climbed ____ the snowy Jiajin Mountain, which was 4,930 meters high. They didn’t have enough food to eat, so they often went ____ for days. And they didn’t have enough clothes to stay away from the cold. Many soldiers ____. About 86,000 people took part in the march, ____ only about 7,000 were left when they arrived in Shaanxi.

Today, we can visit the places that they once passed through. This way, we may truly understand the ____ of the Long March: Never be afraid of difficulties and never give up hope.