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　　The elephant is the largest living land animal and one of the cleverest, and yet people can easily catch elephants. Elephants cannot see anything clearly if it is not close to them.

　　Man can get near elephants when he wants to catch them. When the elephant finds man, it would be angry and kill him. But man can run away easily from it.

　　There are two kinds of elephants in the world, the Indian (印度的) elephant and the African elephant. They have different ears and teeth. We can't easily catch the African elephant.

　　After we catch Indian elephants, we easily teach them how to work. They seem to become pleased and even happy when man is kind to them. An Indian elephant quickly learns to know the man's voice. They even know whether the man is pleased or angry by his voice.

A．Choose the best answer.

1．The story is about ________.

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A．catching elephants

B．some facts about elephants

C．teaching elephants to work

D．how elephants learn to understand man

2．The elephant is ________.

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A．the cleverest living animal

B．the largest living animal

C．one of the largest living animals

D．larger than any other animal

3．Which is not true? ________.

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A．Indian elephants are useful work animals

B．Indian elephants can soon learn to understand man's voice

C．African elephants are not easily caught

D．It is hard to get an Indian elephant to work

4．To get out of danger, why can man run away easily from the angry elephant?

Because ________.

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A．elephants cannot see far

B．elephants run much more slowly than man

C．elephants are too big to run

D．elephants are not so clever as man

B．Fill in the blanks.

5．The elephant is the largest living ________ animal, but it isn't the largest ________ ________the living animals.

6．The man's ________ can make an Indian elephant know ________ the man is happy or angry.

7．Everyone has seen an elephant at the ________, in a ________ or on TV programmes.

　　One day I went to a restaurant to sing karaoke with an American friend of mine. There is a rule in the restaurant that customers have to order dinner or drinks there. Therefore, we ordered drinks that day.

　　After we sang for quite a while, all the others at the same table with me got the bills of their own that the waitress gave them except me. Then I pepped(偷看) at the bill of my friend, but his bill did not include(包括) my charges (收费), Just then the waitress passed by, and I called her but she didn't hear me and still went straight ahead.

　　Then my friend said with a smile, “It's on the house.” I opened my eyes wide and wondered why he mentioned house to me since I asked for my bill, that had nothing to do with the bill completely.

　　Later, my friends explained that“on the house” meant free of charge, that is to say, the owner of the house would pay the bill.

　　Nobody on earth could eat free lunch, So, I paid my bill, too.

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