The elephant is the biggest four-legged animal in the world. It’s also, perhaps, the gentlest ,
1 not always.
Elephants are like us in some ways. They
2 for a long time—fifty or sixty years. They can
3 things very well. They never forget great sadness or happiness. A female elephant
4 , her daughters and her granddaughters are sad for many months. They stay with the dead
5 . Then they carry a bit of it away with them. They never forget a
6 friend.
Elephants are like us, but they’re also
7 .They live in families; families or females. There will be a few young males-a few “baby boy”. But they will soon be
8 away by their mothers or sisters. An elephant family
9 only its daughters, mothers and grandmothers and its great grandmothers.
The females stay together for fifty, sixty or a hundred years.The older animals
10 the young ones. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example.And
11 happens to male elephant? Well, the young males stay with their mothers for a time. Then they must
12 the family. The females just send them away. A bull elephant does not often have a friend ,He lives
13 ,away from the family, and away from other bulls.
Sometimes the females call a bull. He can
14 _them then, and they stay for a time. But soon his “wives” and “sisters” send him away again. The females have a very
15 family life. What do the bulls think about it? We don’t know.
| 小题2: | | A．play | B．work | C．live | D．sleep |
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| 小题3: | | A．remember | B．practice | C．talk | D．change |
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| 小题4: | | A．is hurt | B．is caught | C．loses | D．dies |
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| 小题6: | | A．terrible | B．dad | C．young | D．dear |
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| 小题7: | | A．different | B．same | C．special | D．popular |
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| 小题8: | | A．thrown | B．sent | C．kicked | D．posted |
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| 小题9: | | A．hopes | B．keeps | C．Allows | D．frightens |
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| 小题10: | | A．look at | B．carry out | C．look after | D．take away |
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| 小题12: | | A．leave | B．stay | C．hear | D．walk |
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| 小题13: | | A．sadly | B．hard | C．alone | D．noisily |
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| 小题14: | | A．visit | B．beat | C．hide | D．receive |
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| 小题15: | | A．dangerous | B．happy | C．beautiful | D．clever |
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