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The elephants the largest animal walking on Earth．An elephant can carry aloud Of 1。200 pounds． 1             Elephants can be trained to Carry logs(圆木)with their trunks． 2        There are two kinds of elephants：the African elephant and the Indian elephant． African elephants can be identified(识别)by the larger ears． 3         Another Name for the Indian elephant is the Asian elephant． The greatest threat(威胁)to elephants is the ivory(象牙)trade．From 1979 to 1989 was a bad time for African elephants． 4                In 1989 an international agreement Limited(限制)the trade in ivory，protecting elephants from being killed，but elephants are still Being killed for ivory． 5              Don’t even buy anything that looks like ivory!

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E．They also use their trunks for drinking water，bathing，eating and communicating．

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Your Nose is Busy and Important

Your nose has many important jobs, and is always busy.

Smelling

Smelling helps you gather information about the world around you. A good scent (气体),like flowers, brings you pleasure. A bad scent, like smoke or sour milk, warns you of danger. Most things around you release scent particles (微粒) into the air. These invisible chemicals enter the nose when you breathe. Nerves in the nose send information to the brain to identify a smell. You are able to recognize thousands of smells.

Breathing

Most of the air you breathe enters through your nose. The nose uses hair and mucus (粘液) to clean dust and germs (细菌) out of the air. The air that enters your nose contains oxygen. Your body uses oxygen to unlock the energy in the food you eat.  Even when you sleep, your body needs energy to keep your heart beating and your brain working.

Tasting

Your nose helps you enjoy food. Flavor is a mixture of taste and smell. The smell of the food helps you identify what you are eating. The sense of smell contributes more to (贡献) food flavor than the sense of taste .When you are sick and have a stuffy nose, your food doesn’t taste as good because without smell, food loses most of its flavor.

Smell memory

Smells can bring back memories. Your brain uses a process to create a picture in your mind from the odors(气味)you smell. Smells can affect your feelings because the part of the brain that helps you identify smells is close to the area that affects your emotions, mood and memory. More smell memories are collected as you get older.

Your nose has many important jobs, and is more than just a smeller!

1.How many important jobs does a nose do according to the passage? What are they?

2.Smelling helps you recognize thousands of smells, doesn't it?

3.What does the nose use to clean dust and germs out of air?

4.What happens to your food if you are sick and have a stuffy nose?

5.How do smells bring back memories?

6.What do you think of your nose? Why do you think so?

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The elephants the largest animal walking on Earth．An elephant can carry aloud Of 1,200 pounds． 1.         Elephants can be trained to Carry logs(圆木)with their trunks．

2.        There are two kinds of elephants：the African elephant and the Indian elephant． African elephants can be identified(识别)by the larger ears．3.    Another Name for the Indian elephant is the Asian elephant.The greatest threat(威胁)to elephants is the ivory(象牙)trade．From 1979 to 1989 was a bad time for African elephants．4.         In 1989 an international agreement Limited(限制)the trade in ivory，protecting elephants from being killed，but elephants are still Being killed for ivory．5.      Don’t even buy anything that looks like ivory!

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A．They eat 300 pounds of food a day．

B．Please don’t ever buy anything made from ivory!

C．About 70，000 wild elephants were killed for ivory each year．

D．Indian elephants are easier to identify because of their smaller ears．

E．They also use their trunks for drinking water，bathing，eating and communicating．

The elephant is the largest animal to walk on Earth. An elephant can carry a load of 1,200 pounds（磅）. They eat 300 pounds of food a day. An elephant baby can weigh 200 pounds at birth. Elephants can live up to 70 years.

Elephants can be trained to carry logs with their trunks（象鼻）, and have been used in the forestry industry in Asia for many years.

Elephants use their ears as a cooling system. Blood  flows through veins (静脉) in the ears and as the elephant flaps (拍击) his ears, the blood cools and flows through his body to cool off other parts.

There are two kinds of elephants: the African elephant and the Indian elephant. African elephants can be identified(识别) by the larger ears. The African elephant grows up to 10 feet tall and weighs as much as 12,000 pounds.

The Indian elephant grows up to 9 feet tall, and weighs up to 8,000 pounds. It’s easy to identify because of its smaller ears. Most circus (马戏团) elephants are Indian elephants. Another name for the Indian elephant is the Asian elephant.

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1.Elephants can live up to _______ years.

2.Elephants use their _______ as a cooling system.

3.There are two kinds of elephants: the African elephant and the ______ elephant.

4.The ________ of the African elephant is as much as 12,000 pounds.

5.It’s not ________to identify the Indian elephant from its smaller ears.