The elephant is the largest four-legged animal in the world. It is also, perhaps the gentlest, but not always!
Elephants are similar to human beings in some ways. They live for a long time --fifty or sixty years. They are emotional, too. They never forget great sadness or great happiness. When a female elephant dies, her daughters and her granddaughters are sad for several months. They stay with the dead body and then carry a bit of it away with them. They never forget a dear friend.
Elephants are like us, but they are also different. They also live in families, but only in families of females. There will be a few young males -- a few "baby boys". But the females will soon send them away. An elephant family keeps only its daughters, mothers and grandmothers, and its great-grand mothers.
The females stay together for fifty, sixty ... a hundred years. The older animals look after the young ones. The mothers teach their daughters and set a g
A. They stay around the dead body for a long time.
B. Only females stay together for a long time.
C. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example.
D. The older animals would look after the young ones.
The elephant is the largest four-legged animal in the world. It is also, perhaps the gentlest, but not always!
Elephants are similar to human beings in some ways. They live for a long time --fifty or sixty years. They are emotional, too. They never forget great sadness or great happiness. When a female elephant dies, her daughters and her granddaughters are sad for several months. They stay with the dead body and then carry a bit of it away with them. They never forget a dear friend.
Elephants are like us, but they are also different. They also live in families, but only in families of females. There will be a few young males -- a few "baby boys". But the females will soon send them away. An elephant family keeps only its daughters, mothers and grandmothers, and its great-grand mothers.
The females stay together for fifty, sixty ... a hundred years. The older animals look after the young ones. The mothers teach their daughters and set a g
A. They stay around the dead body for a long time.
B. Only females stay together for a long time.
C. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example.
D. The older animals would look after the young ones.
The elephant is the only animal in the world with a trunk (the very long nose of an elephant), It uses its trunk (21) many ways. It (22) leaves off trees with its trunk and then puts them into its (23) . It can even uses its trunk to pull up trees when it wants to make a path through a jungle (热带丛林). It also uses its trunk to get (24) . The trunk can hold a lot of it, (25) an elephant needs to drink more than three hundred pints(品脱) of water every day. It has been easy for men to train elephants. All the elephants are considered useful in India (26) for white elephants. They are used to carry things for long distance in Indian forests. Many people say that some ancient Indian kings used to give white elephants to people they did not like. These white elephants were regarded as (27) animals. They could not be gave (28) to work. A person who owned a white elephant had to (29) a lot of money to keep it properly. After a
A. up
B. in
C. away
D. off
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