Question

Ruby , the artist , is an Asian elephant . She is 17 years old. She lives in the zoo. Ruby has produced about 100 paintings since last year. She has made more than $40,000 for the zoo. Zoo leaders say Ruby first showed the talent（才能） about four years ago. Zoo workers watched her make the marks （线条）in the sand with her trunk象鼻）. She rubbed（擦掉） out the marks, then made the new ones. The zoo worker gave her brushes and paints（颜料）. Soon Ruby was painting pictures. Newspaper reporters wrote about Ruby, then people asked about buying her pictures. And in this way she made a lot of money for the zoo by painting.

This is how Ruby does the paintings. A zoo worker hold different colour paints. Ruby touches the colours she wants. Then the worker gives her brushes with the chosen colours in her trunk and Ruby begins painting.

(    ) 1. We can most probably read this story in ______

A. a dictionary of the world of animals

B. newspapers   C. a book on art   D. history textbooks

(    ) 2. Ruby first learned to draw pictures______

A. when it was very young

B. with brushes and paints

C. to sell them to the people

D. in the sand with her trunk

(    ) 3. People asked about buying Ruby’s pictures because______

A. newspaper reporters bought her pictures

B. her pictures were better than those of real artists

C. they just wanted to have fun

D. zoo workers would let them have a free visit to the park

(    ) 4. Ruby rubbed out the marks she had drawn in order to ____

A. made other ones        B. clean her trunk

C. dig a hole in the sand    D. ask for brushes and paints

(    ) 5. From the story we can know that _____

A. Ruby can paint a picture all by itself.

B. Ruby can draw better pictures than the other animals in the zoo.

C. Ruby has to finish a painting with the help of zoo workers

D.      Ruby will ask for money if she finishes a picture

Answer 1

 1B  2D  3C  4A  5C