Question

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The elephant is the largest animal walking on earth. An elephant can carry a load of 1, 200 pounds.__71__

Elephants can be trained to carry logs(圆木) with their trunks(鼻子).__72__

There are two kinds of elephants: the African elephant and the Indian elephant. African elephants can be identified(识别) by the larger ears.__73__ Another name for the Indian elephant is the Asian elephant.

The greatest threat(威胁) to elephants is ivory(象牙) trade. From 1970 to 1989 it was a bad time for African elephants.__74__ In 1989 an international agreement limited the trade in ivory, protecting elephants from being killed, but elephants are still being killed for ivory.__75__ Don’t even buy anything that looks like ivory!

A.It eats 300 pounds of food a day.

B.Please don’t ever buy anything made from ivory!

C.About 70, 000 wild elephants were killed for ivory each year.

D.Indian elephants are easy to identify because of their smaller ears.

E.They also use their trunks for drinking water, bathing, eating and communicating.

71._______    72._______    73._______    74._______    75._______

Answer 1

71. A      考查上下文理解，根据上句，可选A。

72. E      上句介绍了"大象可用鼻子搬圆木"，下句应介绍其他用途。

73. D      非洲大象有较大的耳朵，那后句应介绍印度大象耳朵小。

74. C      考查上下文逻辑关系，上句"大象的厄运"后句应选C。

75. B      根据后句不要买像象牙的东西，推断前句应选B。