One day an old man is selling(出售) a horse. A young man comes to the horse and begins to look at it slowly.
Then the old man goes up to him and says in his ears, “Don’t say anything about the horse before I sell it, then I will give you some meat.”
“All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the horse, he gives the young man some meat and says, “Now, can you tell me how you see the bad ears of the horse?”
“I didn’t find the bad ears,” says the young man. “Then why do you look at the horse?” asks the old man.
The young man answers, “Because I never saw a horse before, and I want to know what it looks like.”
【小题1】What is the old man doing?

How old was I? I can’t remember. Maybe I was only 10. It was the first    16   without my father because he was away for something. He left me to fill that sad place in my mother’s heart. It was the Christmas when I stopped being a    17   and tried to play Father Christmas myself. I really wanted to make it happy and bright again. It was the Christmas of the    18  .
Mom first saw the coat at Tobias, a nice    19   shop in our town’s little shopping mall. It was dark green. And it was a    20  , heavy, wool dress coat. Mom pulled it out from the rack(架) and held it up. “Long enough,” she said in a low voice and    21  .
“I need a new coat,” Mom smiled before the mirror. She looked good on any clothes,       22   this coat suited her much better. She looked at the    23  , then hung the coat back on the rack, standing there once more to    24   
Eighty-seven dollars. But I decided to buy it for her. As we moved on    25  the mall, I found some excuse to return and asked one of the Tobias ladies to    26   the coat.
I helped clean every yard(庭院) in our neighbourhood—some yards twice, and soon I got the coat. The store ladies helped me put it in their biggest    27   with bright blue paper and thick silver ribbon(丝带). I don’t remember    28   I got it home, but I can still feel the wonderful    29   and pride that filled me. I would imagine the big space which the box would take up under our tree. Here it was—joy, peace and    30  —all in the box, waiting for Mom’s surprise.

One day an old man sells(出售) a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins(开始) to look at it slowly(慢慢地). The old man goes up to him and says near(在……附近) his ear.“Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it, then you can get some meat.”“All right.”says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man some meat and asks,“How can you see the bad ears of the elephant?”“I don’t see the bad ears,”says the young man.“Then why do you look at the elephant slowly?”asks the old man. The young man answers(回答),“Because(因为) I want to see what an elephant looks like.”

根据短文内容, 回答下列问题。

1.What does the old man sell?

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2.Does the young man want to buy the elephant?

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3.What does the young man get at last (最后)？

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4.Does the elephant have two bad ears?

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5.Why does the young man look at the elephant slowly?

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