Puzzles
Who is it? Write the right person.

a)
b)
c)

rode all round the village on his bicycle.
said, ‘I saw some elephants about two years ago.’
sat down to think.

2. Look at the pictures. Write the right words.
Luke lived in a big a) _ _ _ _ e. One afternoon Luke saw
a poster on the b) _ _ I _ . Luke c)_ _ _ _e _ home. ‘Can
I see the d) _ _ _p _ _ _ _ _ ?’ he asked his mother. The
e) _ h _ _ was in a_ big tent. Luke and his mother f) _ a
_ _ _ _there. There was a rock beside the g) _ _n _. ‘That rock looks like an elephant,’ Luke h) _ _ _ _ t _ _.
3. Write the red letters above in the boxes. Read the word.


　　They all sat down inside the tent. A band played and clowns ran round the tent. The children all laughed loudly.
After a few minutes Mr Wonder walked into the tent. He said,
‘Welcome to Mr Wonder’s elephants.’ The elephants walked into the tent. There were lots of big elephants and some small baby elephants. They did lots of tricks. They stood on two legs and they danced
to the music. All the people clapped.
　　‘This is a good show,’ said Luke. ‘The elephants are very clever.’ He smiled, but his mother did not smile.
After the show Mr Wonder smiled and waved at the people. Luke
saw him outside the tent. ‘The show was very good!’ said Luke.‘How
do you teach the elephants to do tricks?’ Luke asked.
‘They do tricks because they love me,’ Mr Wonder answered.
Luke’s mother frowned. She looked at Mr Wonder. ‘Elephants
shouldn’t do tricks, and they should live in grasslands and
forests,’ she said.
Mr Wonder thought for a minute. ‘But the elephants are
happy,’ he said.
‘They’re not,’ Luke’s mother said. She was angry.
That night Luke lay in bed, but he did not sleep. He thought
about the elephants. ‘Mum was right. The elephants weren’t very happy,’ he thought. ‘And the elephant rock was sad, too.’
　　It was dark, but the moon shone. Luke looked out of his bedroom window and saw the elephant rock. The rock moved! Luke rubbed his
eyes and looked again. The rock moved again. ‘I can’t understand
it,’ he thought. ‘Rocks can’t move!’ Luke ran outside and went
to the elephant rock. The rock was different. The elephant was happy
now.

Puzzles
1. Write the right words.
a) A band played and (snowcl) ran round the tent. b) The elephants did lots of (strick)
c) Luke’s mother (worfden)
d) That night Luke lay in bed, but he did not (spele)

e) Luke (burdbe)

his eyes.

f) ‘Rocks can’t (voem)

,‘ he thought.

2. Write the right words under the pictures.
Lay a band love a tent clapped smile


‘This evening you were a rock. Now you can move. Are you a rock or an elephant?’ asked Luke.
　　‘I’m the Elephant King,’ said the elephant. ‘Mr Wonder’s a magician. He’s a bad man. He stole the elephants from India. He’s afraid because I’m the Elephant King. So he touched me with his magic wand, and I became a rock. Now I can only talk and move when
　　
he’s asleep, and he only sleeps for a few hours every night. When
he wakes up, I become a rock again.’ ‘How can I help you?’ Luke
asked. The Elephant King thought for a minute.
‘I need Mr Wonder’s magic wand,’ he said. ‘Mr Wonder sleeps
in that tent, but I’m too big to go inside to get the wand. Can
you get it for me?’
Luke frowned. ‘Mum said: You must never steal,’ Luke thought,
‘but Mum wants to help the elephants.’ Luke smiled.‘Yes,’ he said.
‘I’ll creep into Mr Wonder’s tent when he’s asleep. I’ll bring
you the magic wand tomorrow night.’
The next night, Luke waited until his parents were asleep. Then
he crept out of his house and ran to Mr Wonder’s tent. He wanted
to get the magic wand. Luke looked round. There were no people near
the tent, as it was iate. Luke tiptoed into the tent.
Mr Wonder was asleep. Luke saw the magic wand on a table, so
he walked to the table slowly and picked up the wand. The wand moved
in his hand, and Luke dropped it! Mr Wonder moved in his bed. Luke was very frightened, but the magician did not wake up! Luke ran outside very quickly.

Puzzles
1. Put the sentences in the right order. Write the letters in the boxes below.
a) Luke tiptoed into Mr Wonder’s tent.
b) ‘Can you get Mr Wonder’s magic wand for me?’
c) Mr Wonder moved in his bed but he did not wake up.
d) ‘I’m the Elephant King.’
e) The wand moved in Luke’s hand, and he dropped it.’
f) ‘Yes,’ said Luke and the next night he crept out of his
house.
g) He picked up the wand.
h) ‘How can I help you?’ Luke asked.
2. How will the story end? Tick one of the pictures.


　　Luke went to the Elephant King, and gave him the magic wand. The Elephant King held it with his trunk, and waved it in the air.
‘Thank you,’ he said. ‘Now I will never be a rock again. I will
walk and talk when Mr Wonder’s awake. I will remember you, Luke.’
The Elephant King was very happy.
‘What will you do now?’ asked Luke.
‘I can’t tell you,’ the Elephant King said. ‘Go home now. You
need to sleep.’
Luke ran home and went to bed. He fell asleep quickly
The next day Luke woke up and looked out of the window. The
Elephant King and the tent were not there. He ran downstairs.
‘Mum,’ he shouted. ‘The elephant rock moved. It wasn’t a rock.

It was the Elephant King. I gave him Mr Wonder’s magic wand and...’
‘You dreamed about the rock,’ Luke’s mother said. She smiled
at Luke.
Luke sat down and frowned. ‘But I saw him, Mum,’ Luke said.
‘He talked to me.’
‘Rocks can’t talk,’ said Luke’s mother. ‘Perhaps Mr Wonder
and his elephants have moved to a new place.’
Luke looked out of his bedroom window every night but he never
saw the Elephant King again.
　　A month later, Luke got a postcard. It was from India. There was a photograph of some elephants in a forest on the front of the postcard. It was from the Elephant King! There were only two words
on the back: Thank you!
‘Look at this, Mum,’ shouted Luke. ‘I told you about the
Elephant King. It was true!’

Puzzles
1. Find these words in the word square.
India postcard dreamed awake sleep quickly Wonder later rock
back window
　　2. Make this word square yourself. Use some of these words from the story. Circle the words you use in the square.
trunk look only woke steal creep rock king sleep about mother got

Elephants
　　Elephants live on land. They are the biggest animals on land. The biggest elephant in the world was about 3.96 metres tall and weighed more than 12 tonnes!
Every elephant has a trunk. This is the elephant’s nose, but
it has no bones in it. Elephants use their trunks to smell, to touch
and to breathe. They also use their trunks to suck water up and then blow the water into their mouths. Elephants use their trunks

to spray water or dust over themselves to keep cool, too.
　　Sometimes elephants flap their ears to keep cool. Elephants have very big ears!
　　Elephants also have two tusks. Most of the tusk is made of ivory. The tusks grow all the time, so old elephants can have very long tusks. The longest tusk was 3.49 metres! Some people kill elephants
to get their tusks and make things, for example, jewellery.
　　There are two different elephants: African and Asian. African elephants are bigger and have longer tusks. African male and female elephants both have tusks, but only Asian male elephants have tusks. African elephants have bigger ears, but a smaller forehead. An
African elephant’s ear can be more than one metre wide.
Most elephants live in forests or grasslands. They do not eat
meat. They eat leaves, twigs, bark, grass and fruit. An elephant eats about 150 kilograms of food every day They have strong teeth
at the back of their mouths. They grow new teeth all the time until they are about 55 years old.
　　Elephants also need to drink a lot of water. They are good swimmers and they like to splash in water, too.

Puzzles
1. Match the two parts of these sentences.

2. This is a picture of a female Asian elephant. There are two mistakes. Put a cross over each of them.

　　Elephants live for 60 or 70 years. We call male elephants bulls, female elephants cows, and baby elephants calves. Elephants do not usually have twins. The calf grows inside the mother elephant for about twenty-one months! This is the longest time for any baby animal to grow inside its mother. A new calf is about one metre tall, and it weighs about 90 kilograms. It has a lot of hair. A calf drinks milk from its mother until it is about four years old.
Elephant families live together in a herd. 30 or 40 elephants can live in a herd. The leader is an old female elephant. A
herd can walk many kilometres in a day to find food and water.
　　When people or animals frighten an elephant, it runs very fast towards them. This is a charge. Elephants can run at 40 kilometres
an hour!
Elephants are very strong. They can lift and pull heavy things,

for example, tree trunks, so people use elephants to work in forests.
In India there is a god, Ganesh. Ganesh has an elephant’s head
and a man’s body
People in India say, ‘Ganesh helps you when you do something
new.’ They often tell the story about Ganesh. This is the story.
Ganesh’s mother asked him to stand outside her room. She said,
‘Don’t let any people come into my room. I don’t want to see
anyone.’ One day her husband, Shiva, came to see her when she was
in the bath. Ganesh said to Shiva, ‘You can’t go in.’ Shiva was
very angry. He cut off Ganesh’s head. Ganesh’s mother was very sad,
so Shiva put an lephant’s head on anesh’s body!

Puzzles
1. Read the sentences. Write the right words in the blanks. a) Some elephants work in them.
b) Ganesh’s mother was in it when
Shiva came to see her.
c) A baby elephant has a lot of it.
d) It is a god in India.
e) 30 or 40 elephants live in it.
2. Put the right words on the picture.
a tree trunk a calf a cow a bull

Ticks
　　People have taught animals to do tricks for thousands of years. Bears can walk on two legs, so people taught them to dance. Monkeys walk along branches, so people taught them to walk on a tight- rope. Seals throw fish in the air so people taught them to throw balls in the air.
　　Sometimes people give animals food when they do a trick. The animal wants the food, so it does the trick, and it is happy. Sometimes people are unkind to animals. Some people hit animals when they do not do tricks. Some people keep animals in very small cages.
　　People have done tricks for thousands of years, too. In India there is an old trick: the boy and the basket. A boy gets into a basket and a magician pushes a long knife through the lid many times. The boy is lying round the sides of the basket! Then the magician
takes the knife out. ‘The boy is dead!’ people think, but then the
boy gets out.
　　Magicians often hide things. They hide handkerchiefs in a hat and then pull them out. They hide rabbits, too. In 1991 in the United States a magician did 225 different tricks in two minutes!

Bicycle

　　Bicycle means two wheels. The first bicycle was the hobby- horse. A man made it in Germany in 1817. It did not have any pedals! The rider pushed it with his feet. In 1839 a man from Scotland made
a bicycle with pedals.
　　People made bicycles with bigger and bigger front wheels. In about 1860 people made a bicycle with an enormous front wheel and
a tiny back wheel, and called it a penny- farthing. A penny was
a big coin and a farthing was a little coin. Then in 1885 there was the safety bicycle with smaller wheels. All these bicycles were only for men!
　　Soon there were bicycles for women, too, and in 1886 bicycles had tyres with air inside.
People cycle to get to places, and because they like it. Now
millions of men, women and children have bicycles all round’ the world, but the most bicycles are in China.
　　There are bicycle races, too. There is a very big race every year in France. It is 3,267 kilometres long and it takes 23 days!

Puzzles
1. Read these sentences. Write True or False.
a) Animals have done tricks for hundreds of years.
b) People taught seals to walk on a tight-rope. c) Sometimes people are unkind to animals.
d) In India there is an old trick: the rabbit and the

basket.


e) Bicycle means two wheels.
f) In about 1860 people made the penny-farthing.
g) In 1886 bicycles had tyres with water inside. h) Now there are most bicycles in China.

2. Look at the bicycle below. Two things are missing. Draw them in.

Questions
Page 109 a) Luke lived in a big small / enormous house.
b) Luke saw a picture poster / postcard on the

wall.


c) Mark saw some elephants about two / three / four
years ago.

Page 110 a) Luke’s mother said, ‘It’s to have animals
in a show.’

b) ‘I’ve

seen an elephant,’ said Luke.

c) Luke was very .
Page 111 a) How long did it take to walk to the show?
b) What was outside the tent?
c) What was beside the tent? Page 113 True or false?

a) They all stood up inside the tent.
b) There were lots of big elephants and some small baby elephants.
c) Luke’s mother did not smile.
Page 114 a) When did Luke talk to Mr Wonder?
b) Who said: ‘But the elephants are happy’?
Page 115 a) Luke thought about the .
b) It was dark, but the moon .

c) The elephant was
Page 117 True or false?

now.

a) ‘I’m the Elephant King,’ said the elephant.
b) Mr Wonder bought the elephants from India.
Page 118 a) What did the Elephant King need?
b) What did Mum say?
Page 119 a) Luke ran / crept / tiptoed out of his house.
b) There were few / many / no people near the tent.
c) Luke saw the magic wand on a table/ desk/ chair.
Page 121 a) What did Luke give the Elephant King?
b) What did Luke do at home?

Page 122 a) ‘The elephant wasn’t

’a said Luke.

b) ‘Rocks

talk,’ said Mum.

Page 123 a) What did Luke get a month later?
b) What did it say?
c) Who was it from? Page 125 True or false?
a) Elephants live on land.
b) There are no bones in an elephant’s trunk. c) Elephants have small ears.
Page 126 a) Why do some people kill elephants?
b) How many different elephants are there?
c) Which elephants are bigger?
Page 127 a) An elephant eats about 510 / 105 / 150 kilograms of food every day
b) Elephants like to splash in mud / water / sand.
Page 129 a) We call male elephants .
b) Elephants do not usually have .
c) A calf grows inside a mother elephant for about
months.139
Page 130 a) Who is the leader of a herd?
b) How many kilometres an hour can an elephant run?
c) Are elephants very strong? Page 131 True or false?
a) Ganesh has a man’s head and an elephants body.
b) Ganesh’s mother asked him to stand outside her
room.
c) Ganesh’s mother cut off his head.

Page 133 a) Can bears walk on two legs?
b) What do some people do when animals do not do tricks?
Page 134 a) Magicians often hide / steal / hit things.
b) In 1991 a magician did 225 different tricks intwo
/ three / four minutes.
Page 135 a) The first bicycle was the
b) The first bicycle did not have any

c) A farthing was a

coin.

Page 136 a) Do women ride bicycles now?
b) Millions of people have bicycles all round the
village / world / garden.
c) There is a very big bicycle race every year in .

Page112 练习
· 答案
1．这是谁？写出正确的人名来。
a）Luke
b）Mark
c）Luke's mother
2．看图画，写出正确的单词。
a）h o u s e e）s h o w
b）w a l l f）w a l k e d c）c y c l e d g）t e n t d）e l e p h a n t s h）s h o u t e d 3．把上面的红色字母写在方格里，读出这个单词。




Page 116 练习 答案
1．写出正确的单词。
a）clowns d）sleep
b）tricks e）rubbed
c）frowned f）move
2．在图画下面写出正确的单词。
a tent smile a band love lay clapped


Page120 练习
· 答案
1. 按正确顺序排列句子，把字母填入下面的方格里。


2. 故事会怎么结束？勾出其中一幅图画来。
（学生可以勾出任何一幅图画。）

Page 124 练习
· 答案
1．在字母方块中找出左边这些单词，把它们圈起来。
India postcard dreamed awake sleep quickly Wonder later rock
back window
2．用故事里的这几个单词，自己动手做个字块。圈出你在字块里用 的词。
（学生们应该尽可能多地用这些单词，但每个字块都会不一样。）

Page128 练习
· 答案
1．把这些句子的前后两部分用线连起来。










2．这是一幅亚洲母象的图。图上有两处错误。在每个错处画一个叉。 Page 132 练习
· 答案
1．读句子，把正确的单词填在横线上。
a）forests d）Ganesh
b）bath e）a herd
c）hair
2．把正确的单词写在图上。

Page137 练习
· 答案
1．读这些句子，写出“对”或“错”。
a) False e) True
b) False f) True
c) True g) False
d) False h) True
2. 看下面的自选车。有两样东西漏掉了，把它们画上去。


Pages 138 - 140 问题
· 答案
Page 109 a) Luke lived in a big house.
b) Luke saw a poster on the wall.
c) Mark saw some elephants about two years ago.
Page 110 a) Luke’s mother said, ‘It’s wrong to have animals
in a show.’
b) ‘I’ve never seen an elephant,’ said Luke.
c) Luke was very excited.
Page 111 a) About five minutes. b) A queue.
c) A rock. Page 113 a) False.
b) True. c) True.
Page 114 a) After the show. b) Mr Wonder.
Page 115 a) Luke thought about the elel2haits. b) It was dark, but the moon shone.
c) The elephant was @ now. Page 117 a) True.
b) False.
Page 118 a) Mr Wonder’s magic wand. b) You must never steal.
Page 119 a) Luke crept out of his house.
b) There were no people near the tent. c) Luke saw the magic wand on a table.
Page 121 a) The magic wand. b) He went to bed.
Page 122 a) ‘The elephant wasn’t a rock,’ said Luke.
b) ‘Rocks can’ttalk,’ said Mum.
Page 123 a) A postcard.
b) Thank you.
c) The Elephant King. Page 125 a) True.
b) True. c) False.
Page 126 a) To get their tusks. b) There are two.
c) African elephants.
Page 127 a) An elephant eats about 150 kilograms of food every day.
b) Elephants like to splash in water.
Page 129 a) We call male elephants bulls.
b) Elephants do not usually have twins.

c) A calf grows inside a mother elephant for about twenty one months.
An old female elephant.
40 kilometres an hour.
Yes, they are.
False.
True. c )False.
Yes, they can.
They hit them.
Magicians often hide things.
In 1991 a magician did 225 different tricks in
two minutes.
The first bicycle was the hobby-horse.
The first bicycle did not have any pedals.
A farthing was a small coin.
Yes, they do.
Millions of people have bicycles all round the
world.
There is a very big bicycle race every year in
France.

Save the Animals!

Paul and Lora were very excited. They were on an aeroplane.
‘Look at the ground, Dad,’ said Paul. He pointed out of the window.
‘Look! There are lots of trees and there’s a lot of grass.’
‘Yes,’ said Dad. ‘That’s Africa - We’ll see a lot of animals
in Africa.’
Dad’s friend Obunga was a vet. He waited at the airport. He
waved at the aeroplane.
Obunga took Paul, Lora and their Dad to a hut near the airport.
‘Can we go and see the animals, please?’ asked Paul.
‘First, let’s go and see the sick animals in my animal
hospital,’ said Obunga.
Now they were at Obunga’s animal hospital. There was a lion,
a baby elephant and a baby rhinoceros. They were sick.
Lora looked at Obunga’s T-shirt. It said: Save the Animals!
‘Why do we need to save the animals?’ Lora asked.
‘Because some animals in Africa can’t find enough food. Some
people kill animals, too. We call these people poachers,’ said
Obunga.
‘We want to help you to save the animals. When can we see them?’
said Paul and Lora.
‘Tomorrow,’ said Obunga.
The next day, they all went to see the animals at Grass Hill
in Obunga’s jeep. They saw a group of elephants. ‘Last month some poachers killed some elephants,’ said Obunga. ‘There were a lot
of elephants but there aren’t many now.’
‘Why do poachers kill elephants?’ asked Lora.
‘Because they can sell the elephants’ tusks,’ said Obunga.
‘They also kill rhinoceroses so they can sell their horns.’
Dad, Paul and Lora took lots of photographs.‘Look over there,’
shouted Paul. ‘I can see some smoke. Someone has made a fire.’
Suddenly there was a loud noise. It was a gun.

Puzzles
1. Look at the pictures. Write the words.
2. Read the sentences. Write True or False.
a) Paul and Lora were in Africa.
b) Obunga shouted at the aeroplane.
c) They went to Grass Hill first.
d) Poachers kill animals.
e) They heard a gun.


Obunga drove near to the fire. ‘I can hear voices,’ Dad said
to the children. Obunga told everybody to hide behind some long
grass. He went to look.

　　Obunga came back and said, ‘There are five poachers. They’ve just shot a rhinoceros. They’re using a big, sharp knife to cut
out its horns. There’s so much blood! Take a photograph of the poachers, Paul. Perhaps we can help the police to catch them.’ So Paul tock a photograph with his camera.
　　Then the men drove away quickly with the rhinoceros’s horns. Obunga, Dad, Paul and Lora all stood up slowly. Lora shouted,‘Look, there’s a baby rhinoceros. It’s bleeding.’
‘The poachers have gone,’ said Paul. ‘Shall we chase them?’
‘No, now we must help this baby rhinoceros. Then we will tell
the police about the poachers,’ said Obunga. ‘You can give them
your film. They can look at the photograph."
　　‘Can we take the baby rhinoceros to your animal hospital?’ Lora asked Obunga.
‘Yes,’ said Obunga.
They all helped to lift up the baby rhinoceros and put it into
the trailer.
‘Can I call her "Baby"?’ Lora asked.
‘Yes, of course,’ said Obunga.
Obunga drove to the animal hospital. They carried Baby into
the hospital carefully They put Baby on the table gently. A vet
looked at Baby’s leg and said, ‘I will try to help her.’
‘I’ll help you,’ said Obunga to the vet.
Dad, Paul and Lora left the hospital and went to the police
station. The policeman’s name was Mr Kuto.
‘We saw some poachers today at Grass Hill,’ said Dad. ‘They
shot a rhinoceros and hurt its baby. Paul took a photograph of the
poachers. It’s on this film.’
‘We must catch the poachers! Give me the film. Now let’s go
to Grass Hill in my jeep!’ said Sergeant Kuto.

Puzzles
1. Fill in the blanks with these words.
the police station a rhinoceros a vet poachers the animal hospital a photo- graph some grass the film
Everybody hid behind a) Obunga saw
five ) They shot c) . Paul took
d) of them. Obunga, Dad, Paul and Lora found a baby rhinoceros. They took it to e) . f) looked
at it. Then Dad, Paul and Lora went to g) . They gave
Sergeant Kuto h)
2. What will happen next? Which sentences is/are right? Tick
(√) it/them.
a) Paul, Lora, Dad and Mr Kuto will catch the poachers.
_________

b) The poachers will kill more animals.
_________
c) A rhinoceros will kill the poachers.
_________
d) The poachers will catch Paul, Lora and Dad.
_________
e) The poachers will save the animals.
_________


　　Sergeant Kuto drove his jeep to Grass Hill. ‘Which way did the poachers go?’ he asked.
‘That way,’ they pointed.
‘Yes, you’re right. Look at the tyre marks. We can follow them
and we will find the poachers,’ Sergeant Kuto said.
Mr Kuto drove his jeep for a long time. Soon it was night. They
saw some smoke. ‘Let’s go and look,’ said Dad.
They all got out of the jeep. They walked slowly and hid behind
some trees. Paul said, ‘Look, the poachers are there. They’re cooking some meat on the fire.’
　　They watched the poachers. Suddenly Lora sneezed. The poachers heard the noise and stopped cooking. They pointed guns at Sergeant
Kuto, Dad, Paul and Lora.‘Come here,’ shouted the tallest poacher.
‘Why are you here?’
‘We want to save the animals,’ said Sergeant Kuto.
The poacher was angry. He said, ‘You want to catch poachers,
too, but we’ve caught you!’
The other four poachers got some rope. They tied Paul, Lora,
Dad and Sergeant Kuto to a big tree.
　　‘Tomorrow we’ll kill more rhinoceroses and elephants,’ the poachers said. ‘We’ll get more horns and tusks. We’ll be rich!’
All the poachers laughed.
The next day, Obunga went to see Baby. Baby had a bandage on
her leg. ‘Baby’s all right now,’ said the vet. Obunga was happy.
He went to see Dad, Paul and Lora but they were not in their hut.
　　Obunga went to the police station. ‘Where are Paul, Lora and their Dad?’ he asked the policeman.
　　‘They went with Sergeant Kuto to look for the poachers,’ said the policeman.
　　"Let’s go and look for them,’ Obunga said to the policeman. Obunga drove to Grass Hill. He saw the tyre marks. He followed them and found the poachers’ fire, but no one was there.


1. Put the sentences in the right order. Write the letters in the boxes.


2. Who said these? Write the right letters in the boxes.
a) ‘Tomorrow we’ll kill more rhinoceroses and elephants.’
b) ‘Which way did the poachers go?’
c) ‘They’re cooking some meat on the fire.’
d) ‘Where are Paul, Lora and their Dad?’
e) ‘Baby’s all right now.’

The poachers were in their cave. The horns and tusks were in
a big box. The poachers all laughed. ‘We’ll be rich,’ said the fattest poacher. Sergeant Kuto, Dad, Paul and Lora were in the cave, too. They were frightened.
‘Perhaps the poachers will kill us,’ Paul whispered.
Now Obunga and the policeman were outside the cave. They saw
the poachers’ jeep near the cave. ‘The poachers must be in that cave. Perhaps Sergeant Kuto, Paul, Lora and their Dad are inside, too,’ Obunga said. ‘Let’s go in and help them.’
‘Don’t move,’ a voice shouted. It was Obunga. He pointed a gun
at the poachers. The policeman untied Sergeant Kuto, Dad, Paul and
Lora.
‘You’ve saved us,’ shouted Lora.
Sergeant Kuto and the policeman tied up the poachers.
‘Now the poachers can’t kill any more animals,’ said Paul.
‘We’ve saved the animals!’
Sergeant Kuto and the policeman put the big box into their jeep.
‘I’ll take the poachers to prison,’ said Sergeant Kuto.
‘Baby’s not sick now,’ said Obunga. ‘Do you want to see her?’
‘Yes, please,’ shouted Paul and Lora.
Today was Paul, Lora and Dad’s last day in Africa. They were
at the airport. Obunga gave everybody a T-shirt. The T-shirts said:
Save the Animals!
　　Paul said, ‘I don’t want to go home. I want to help Obunga to save the animals.’
　　‘No,’ said Dad. ‘We must go home now. Obunga and his friends can save the animals.’
‘You can help to save the animals when you go home,’ said Obunga.
‘Tell your friends about Africa. Tell them about the animals. Tell
them not to buy rhinoceros horns and elephant tusks.’
‘We will,’ said Paul and Lora. ‘Goodbye, Obunga!’


Puzzles
Write the right words in the boxes.
rhinoceroses giraffes horns poachers elephants tusks a jeep a trailer
Animals in Africa
There are lots of animals in Africa. Some of them only live
in Africa but some live in other countries, too.
　　Elephants are the largest animals on land. African elephants have very big ears. They are very strong and heavy. Some African elephants weigh over 7,000 kilograms.
　　Elephants have two big long tusks and a long trunk. They use their trunks for drinking, breathing, smelling and picking up things. Elephants eat grass, leaves and twigs. They use their trunks to pick up their food.
Rhinoceros means ‘a horn on its nose’. All rhinoceroses in
Africa have two horns. Some rhinoceroses in other countries have
only one horn.
　　Rhinoceroses eat plants. They do not eat meat. Rhinoceroses are very strong and they have short, thick legs. They can run quickly when they are frightened. They are big and fat and they have thick skin. They like rolling about in mud so they are not too hot and insects cannot bite them.
Hippopotamus means ‘river horse’. Hippopotamuses only live
in Africa. They have very thick skin, and short, thick legs. They
are very heavy. Some of them weigh 4,500 kilograms. They often fight each other.
　　Hippopotamuses have enormous heads. Their nostrils, eyes and ears are very small but the can smell, see and hear very well.
　　Hippopotamuses swim in water and walk on land. They eat grass and other plants. They come out of the water every night to find food.

Puzzles
1. Find these words in the word square.
horns plants mud twigs insects
nostrils trunk Africa
hippopotamus rhinoceros

2. Some things are missing on each animal. Draw them.


　　In the past there were lions in many different places in the world. Now we can only find lions in Africa and southern Asia.
　　Lions live in groups. We call a mother lion a lioness and a baby lion a cub. In Africa lionesses hunt zebras and antelopes, and all the lions eat them. They eat two or three times each week. After lions have eaten, they always lie under trees to sleep for many hours.
The cheetah has black spots on its fur. It has long, thin legs,
a long tail, a thin body and a small head. A cheetah is as long
as a lion but it is much lighter. Cheetahs can run faster than any other animals. They can run faster than 80 kilometres an hour. Cheetahs hunt in the day. They like to eat small antelopes.
　　Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world. Some giraffes are over five metres tall and weigh over 800 kilograms. They can see very well. They usually eat early or late in the day and rest
in the afternoon.
There are monkeys in Africa. They all have long arms and legs
so they can swing from tree to tree. Some monkeys also have very long tails. Most monkeys live in trees. Some monkeys live on the ground more than in trees, for example, baboons.
　　Some African monkeys are very beautiful. Some monkeys have a red coat. This one has a white ring on its face and a white chest.

Puzzles
1. join the two parts of the sentences.










2. Write the names of the animals in the boxes.

We Must Save the Animals!
　　Every year many animals die. Some animals die because they are sick. Some die because people kill them and some die because they have nowhere to live.
　　In some countries animals die because there is not enough food. Today there are only about 500 pandas in the forests in China. Pandas eat bamboo but sometimes the weather is very bad and the bamboo does not grow, so there is not enough bamboo for the pandas
to eat. And the pandas die!
In some countries, people kill animals for money.

Poachers kill elephants for their tusks. The tusks are made
of ivory and the poachers sell them to factories for a lot of money.
In the factories people make lots of things with ivory, for example, combs, jewellery and paper knives. Today we must save elephants;
we must not kill them for their tusks. So we must not buy ivory!
Poachers also kill rhinoceroses because people in the Middle
East use the horns to make handles for daggers.
　　People also kill lots of other animals for their skins, their fur or their meat. They kill leopards, crocodiles and snakes for both their meat and skins. People make coats with leopard skins, and bags, purses and shoes with crocodile and snake skins. people also eat crocodiles, snakes, turtles and birds. Sometimes people kill animals and birds for sport, too.
　　How do people help to save the animals? People now keep some animals in zoos or in parks so poachers cannot kill them. We call the parks Wildlife Parks. We can go to Wildlife Parks b car and watch the animals.

Puzzles
What are they? Read the sentences. Write the letters in the boxes and write the words in the blanks.
a) They eat bamboo.
b) People use them to make coats.
c) People make dagger handles with them. d) People use them to make jewellery.
e) People keep animals in it so poachers cannot kill the animals.

Questions
Page 161 a) Where were Paul ‘and Lora?
b) Which country were they in?
c) Who was Dad’s friend?
Page 162 a) Where were the sick animals?
b) What did Obunga’s T-shirt say? Page 163 a) Obunga had a car/ lorry/ jeep.
b) What animals did some poachers kill last month?
c) Poachers killed rhinoceroses for their trunks /
horns / tusks.
Page 165 Who said these? a) ‘I can hear voices.’
b) ‘Take a photograph of the poachers, Paul.’
c) ‘Look, there’s a baby rhinoceros.’
Page 166 a) Did they chase the poachers?
b) Where did they put the baby rhinoceros?
c) What did Lora want to call the baby rhinoceros?
Page 167 a) Who looked at the baby rhinoceros’s leg?
b) What was the policeman’s name?

c) What did Dad give the policeman?
Page 169 a) They saw some jeep / tyre / aeroplane marks. b) It was morning / day / night.
c) They saw some sand / shoes / smoke.
Page 170 a) Who sneezed?
b) Who heard the noise?
c) What did the poachers do?
Page 171 True or false? a) Baby was still sick.
b) Paul, Lora and their Dad were in the house. c) Obunga found Paul, Lora and Dad.
Page 173 a) Where were Dad, Lora and Paul?
b) Where were the horns and tusks?
c) Where were Obunga and the policeman? Page 174 a) What did Obunga have in his hand?
b) What did Sergeant Kuto and the policeman do? Page 175 a) What did Obunga give everybody?
b) What did Paul want to do? Page 177 True or false?
a) Elephants are the smallest animals on land. b) African elephants have very big ears.
c) Elephants have tusks.
Page 178 a) What do rhinoceroses eat?
b) How many horns do African rhinoceroses have?
c) Why do they roll about in mud? Page 179 a) Where do hippopotamuses live?
b) Do hippopotamuses have big heads?
c) What do they eat?
Page 181 a) Do lions live in groups?
b) What do we call a mother lion?
Page 182 a) The cheetah can run slower / faster than other


night / in the day.
biggest/ fattest/ tallest
animals in the world.
Page 183 a) Do all monkeys have long tails?
b) Where do most monkeys live? Page 185 True or false.
a) Some animals die because they are sick. b) There are a lot of pandas in China.
c) Pandas eat bamboo.

Page 186 In the

people use rhinoceros horns to make

dagger handles.
Page 187 a) What do people make with leopard skins?
b) Do people eat crocodiles?
Page 188 a) Where do people keep some animals now?
b) Can we drive in a Wildlife Park?


Page 164 练习
· 答案
1．看图，写出单词。
2．读这些句子，写出“对”或“错”。
a）True d）True
b）False e）True
c）False<


Page168 练习
·答案
1．用这些词填空。
a）some grass e）the animal hospital
b）poachers f）A vet
c）a rhinoceros g）the police station
d）a photograph h）the film
2．后面会发生什么事？哪个（些）句子是对的？在句子后的横线上 打“√”。
（学生可以根据自己的猜想回答。）

Page 172 练习
· 答案
1. 按正确的顺序排列句子，并把字母写在方格里。
2. 谁说了这些话？把正确的字母写在方格里。

Page 176 练习
· 答案 选择正确的单词填在方格里。

Page 180 练习
· 答案
1. 在字母方块中找出左边这些单词，把它们圈起来。
horns plants mud twigs insects
nostrils trunk Africa
hippopotamus rhinoceros
2. 每个动物都少了些东西，把它们画上去。

Page 184 练习
· 答案

1. 把句子的前后两部分用线连起来。







2. 在方格里写出这些动物的名字。 Page 189 练习
· 答案 它们是什么？读这些句子，在方格里写出字母并在空格内写出单
词。




Pages 190 - 192
· 答案
Page 161 a) They were on an aeroplane. b) Africa.
c) Obunga.
Page 162 a) At Obunga’s animal hospital. b) Save the Animals!
Page 163 a) Obunga had a jeep.
b) They killed some elephants.
c) Poachers killed rhinoceroses for their horns.
Page 165 a) Dad.
b) Obunga. c) Lora.
Page 166 a) No, they did not.
b) They put it into the trailer. c) Baby.
Page 167 a) A vet. b) Mr Kuto. c) The film.
Page 169 a) They saw some tyre marks. b) It was night.
c) They saw some smoke.
Page 170 a) Lora.
b) The poachers.
c) They pointed guns at Sergeant Kuto, Dad, Paul and
　　　　　　Lora, and tied them to a tree. Page 171 a) False.
　　　　　　
b) False c) False.
Page 173 a) They were in the poachers’ cave.
b) They were in a big box.
c) They were outside the cave.
Page 174 a) The poachers’ guns.
b) They put the big box of tusks and horns into their
jeep.
Page 175 a) A T-shirt.
b) He wanted to help Obunga to save the animals. Page 177 a) False.
b) True. c) True.
Page 178 a) They eat plants. b) Two.
c) So they are not too hot and insects cannot bite them.
Page 179 a) In Africa.
b) Yes, they do.
c) They eat grass and other plants. Page 181 a) Yes, they do.
b) A lioness.
Page 182 a) The cheetah can run faster than other animals. b) Cheetahs hunt in the day.
c) Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world. Page 183 a) No, they do not.
b) In trees. Page 185 a) True.
b) False. c) True.
Page 186 In the Middle East people use rhinoceros horns to make
　　　　　　dagger handles. Page 187 a) They make coats.
b) Yes, they do. Page 188 a) Wildlife Parks.
b) Yes, we can.