题目内容
根据短文内容补全下列句子。
The elephant is the biggest four-legged animal in the world.It is also the gentlest, but not always! It has a harmonious(和睦的)one-parent family.
Elephants live in families, families of females.There will be a few young males-a few “baby boys”.But the females will soon send them away.Elephant family keeps only its daughters, mothers and grand-mothers, and its great-grandmothers.The females stay together forever.The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example.
Elephants can live for a long time-fifty or sixty years.They can remember things very well.They never forget great sadness or great happiness.When a female elephant dies, her daughters and her granddaughters are sad for many months.They stay with the dead body.Then they carry a bit of it away with them.They never forget her.
And what happens to male elephants? Well, the young males stay with their family.The females send them away after some time.A bull(雄的;大的)elephant does not often have a friend.He loves to be away from the family, and often away from other bulls.
Sometimes the females call a bull.He can visit them then and stay for some time.But soon his “wives” and sisters will send him away again.What do the bulls think about it? We don’t know.
1.Elephants are usually ________ towards other animals.
2.Elephants are very sad when ________.
3.When a female elephant dies, the others will ________.
4.In the elephant family, there are ________.
5.A bull elephant often ________.
解析:
1.答案:friendly
点拨:从第一段的第二句话可知。
2.答案:they lose a female in the family
点拨:从第三段的第四句话可知:当一只雌象死时,她的女儿和孙女会难过好几个月。
3.答案:take a bit of the dead body away sadly
点拨:见第三段的第六句。
4.答案:females and sometimes a few young males
点拨:见第二段第一句和第二句。
5.答案:lives alone
点拨:见第四段的第四句和第五句。一只雄象通常没有朋友,也不和家人或其他公象呆在一起。