填空题 While my family vacationed in Chincoteague, I learned many things about the wild ponies. The Chincoteague ponies come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Because of their diet, these ponies have very round bellies. When the ponies are in the wild, on Assateague. they live a difficult life.
Because their diet is so high in salt, they must drink twice as much water as typicalponies. Though they live on an island, they cannot drink the salty ocean water; therefore, they must find flesh water inland to drink. Although these wild ponies have difficult lives, they have survived many hundreds of years in the wild.

• A. I was so glad 1 was able to see them in person.
• B. She wrote about wild ponies that live on the Island of Chincoteague.
• C. The ponies are a significant part of the history of the islands of Chincoteague and Assateague.
• D. They forage for food in the salty marshlands eating marsh grasses, seaweed and evenpoison ivy.
• E. You too can begin learning about these beautiful, wild horses by reading Misty of Chincoteague.
• F. Because it was so dark, no one in my family realized we had parked next to a paddock that held a herd of horses.