One day, a young elephant wants to have some _________. He sees a monkey in a tree. “_________ you be my friend?” asks the elephant.

“You are too heavy. You can’t _________ me in the tree.” Then the elephant sees a white rabbit. “Could you please be _________ friend?” he says.

“Sorry, Mr. Elephant. You are too big _________ strong.” The elephant isn’t happy. Then he goes home.

The next day, he sees all the animals running（跑）. But he doesn’t know _________. The monkey tells him a big tiger is near here. He will come to _________ the animals. The elephant goes to the _________. “Please, Mr. Tiger. Don’t eat the small animals.”

“Go away（走开）!”says the tiger. The elephant is not happy and kicks（踢）the tiger _________ his legs. Then the tiger goes away. All the animals think the elephant is __________. So they all want to be his friends.

【推荐2】It was on a snowy cold Monday morning. A young man and a young woman got into a car _____ at a street corner, and it's a bad one. Both of their cars were totally destroyed, but amazingly neither of them was hurt. God works in mysterious ways.

After they crawled out of their cars, the woman said, “So you're a man, that's     ______. And I'm a woman. Wow! Just look at our cars. There's nothing left, but ______we are unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should meet and become friends and   ____together in peace the rest of our days.”

Pleased, the man replied, “I agree with you completely and this must be a sign from God!” The woman pointed to the bottle on the ground and continued , “And look at this—here's another______. My car is          ______destroyed but this bottle of wine from my back seat didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine and     _____our good fortune.”

So she handed the bottle to the man. The man nodded his head in _____, opened it and took a few big swallows from the bottle, then handed it back to the woman. To his surprise, she didn’t drink the wine. She took the bottle, immediately ___the cap back on, and handed it back to the man.

The man took the bottle and asked in puzzlement, “Aren’t you having any?” The woman replied “ I think I will just   _____the police...”

One day, a baby snail (蜗牛) found that he had to carry a big and heavy shell at any time. He was ________, so he went up to his mother and asked, “Why was I born with a shell that grew so hard and heavy?” His mother said, “Because we don’t have bones to hold us up. We can only move ________, so we need a shell to protect us.”

The baby snail asked again, “The caterpillar (毛毛虫) has no bones either, ________ she can’t move quickly. Why can she live ________ a shell?” The mother snail answered, “That’s because a caterpillar will become a butterfly. She can fly high into the sky. The sky can protect her.”

The baby snail had one more ________, “But the earthworm (蚯蚓) moves like us. He has no bones and he won’t turn into a butterfly. Why doesn’t he carry a hard and heavy shell?” His mother said, “He can dig a hole and hide in the ground, and then the ________ can protect him.”

The baby snail then ________, “We are so poor! We have no ________ from the sky or from the ground!” His mother smiled at him, “That’s why we have a shell. My dear, imagine that if we don’t have the shells what will happen to us? Hot sun will dry out our bodies and we’ll have ________ to sleep. What’s worse we’ll die in the heavy rain. How terrible it is! We don’t ________ the sky or the ground for protection. We should try our best to protect ourselves.”