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He spent a few years Europe.

The round shape of the lion's head family reunions.

Because of environmental problems, many animals and plants are in danger of .

If you , you can ask the policemen for help.

A：Hello, Tony. What are you busy doing these days?

B：I'm busy exercising.

A：What for? You're in good health.

B：Thank you. But I want to be much fitter.

A：

B：At Sunshine Sports Center. I'm a VIP of it.

A：Wow, cool! I'd like to exercise there, too.

B：Don't worry. I can help you.

A：Is it far from here?

B：Yes. It's about three kilometers from here.

A：Which bus should I take?

B：You need to take Bus No. 3 to Binjiang Road, and walk along that road to the end. Then you can see Sunshine Sports Center on your left. It's easy to find it.

A：Thank you very much.

B：My pleasure.

A. You'd better take a bus.

B. Why do you go there?

C. You know, I want to lose my weight.

D. But I don't know the way there.

E. It's a wonderful one.

F. Where do you usually do sports?

G. It's between a bank and a theater.

Different languages may have different ways to make idioms. For people who are learning a foreign language, idioms could cause misunderstandings and bring them endless headaches. On the other hand, if things are done right, idioms can also be a fun way of looking into a new culture and understanding how the people think and talk.

Metaphor is often used in idioms. Let's read the following two examples:

·It makes my blood boil (煮沸) when people litter.

·The night was dark and quiet: my blood ran cold when I heard a strange noise outside at dark night.

In neither situation above, our blood can reach the point so high or so low in temperature: Yet, with the situations the two sentences created, it is not difficult to work out the unhappy feelings of really angry in the first example and ________ in the second.

Of course, not all idioms are this easy to understand. When we come to idioms of a foreign language, a good dictionary of idioms is always suggested.

After an asteroid (小行星) hit Earth 66 million years ago, says the study, many plants and animals died. Ants didn't have enough food. They turned to fungi for food.

Fungi are tiny (极小的) living things. They break down dead plants and animals. So there was a lot of food for fungi at the time.

Ants started farming fungi in their nests (巢). They fed the fungi dead leaves so that the fungi could grow. Then they are the fungi.

Today, some ants will do fungi farming. Scientists find around 250 kinds of ants throughout the Americas build Fungi gardens. The ants weed (除草) and water the gardens. They also keep bad things away from the fungi so that they can grow better.

The outside world is full of secrets. And they are so1 that lots of people are busy studying them. All around us are birds, animals, trees and flowers. The facts about how they fly or2 are as interesting as anything could be.

Do you know that one of the US presidents spent hours studying3? One businessman became so interested in insects (昆虫) that he began to collect them. He now has over 1,000 different kinds of insects kept in the4.

Come with me and I will help you find some secrets and watch the secrets together. "Hush!" Don't alarm (使惊吓) the animals. Let's go5 through the woods and fields. Here we shall find how a6 tells other rabbits that there is a danger. We shall follow a mother bear and her young ones as they7 food and get ready for winter sleep. We shall watch a bee8 in air to let other bees know where they can find food.

How wonderful the outside world is! Just keep your eyes and9 open when you go out. Nature tells her10 only when you look and listen carefully.

—________. I'm going to visit my grandparents this weekend.

—Great. Let's go.

—Right. The best way of learning a language is through using it in real life.