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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