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The emperor of Jade , in China , organizes a race to know what animals have to be in the zodiac .
The animals have to cross a river .
The rat and the cat are good friends , but they can ’ t swim well . They are very intelligent and think how to cross the river and they jump on the back of an ox .
The ox is a kind animal and helps the cat and the rat .
The rat wants to win and pushes the cat into the water . So , the cat doesn ’ t like the rat and doesn ’ t like the water .
The rat is the first and the ox the second . The tiger is the third because it is strong . The fourth is the rabbit because it jumps on the logs .
The dragon is the fifth because it can fly . It isn ’ t the first because it stops to make rain and help the people and the animals on the Earth .
The horse runs , but the snake scares the horse and it falls down . So , the snake is the sixth and the horse is the seventh .
The goat , the monkey and the rooster are the eight , the ninth and tenth .
The eleventh is the dog . It likes the water and it can swim very well . He is in the water for a long time and it is late .
The pig is hungry and it stops to eat and later it sleeps .
When the emperor wants to finish the race , he listens to the pig . The pig is the last . It is the twelfth .
In this zodiac we are tigers because we were born in 2010 .
We are adventurous and funny . We have got energy and we like to be leaders .
5 th grade