The elephant is the biggest four-legged animal in the world. It’s also, perhaps, the gentlest ,   1 not always.

Elephants are like us in some ways. They   2  for a long time—fifty or sixty years. They can  3  things very well. They never forget great sadness or happiness. A female elephant   4 , her daughters and her granddaughters are sad for many months. They stay with the dead   5 . Then they carry a bit of it away with them. They never forget a  6 friend.

Elephants are like us, but they’re also  7 .They live in families; families or females. There will be a few young males-a few “baby boy”. But they will soon be   8 away by their mothers or sisters. An elephant family   9  only its daughters, mothers and grandmothers and its great grandmothers.

The females stay together for fifty, sixty or a hundred years.The older animals   10 the young ones. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example.And   11  happens to male elephant? Well, the young males stay with their mothers for a time. Then they must   12 the family. The females just send them away. A bull elephant does not often have a friend ,He lives  13 ,away from the family, and away from other bulls.

Sometimes the females call a bull. He can   14 _them then, and they stay for a time. But soon his “wives” and “sisters” send him away again. The females have a very   15   

family life. What do the bulls think about it? We don’t know.

1.                A.and            B.but            C.so   D.yet

 

2.                A.play           B.work           C.live  D.sleep

 

3.                A.remember      B.practice        C.talk D.change

 

4.                A.is hurt          B.is caught        C.loses D.dies

 

5.                A.head           B.legs            C.body D.feet

 

6.                A.terrible         B.dad            C.young    D.dear

 

7.                A.different        B.same           C.special   D.popular

 

8.                A.thrown         B.sent           C.kicked    D.posted

 

9.                A.hopes          B.keeps          C.Allows    D.frightens

 

10.               A.look at         B.carry out       C.look after  D.take away

 

11.               A.how           B.who           C.which D.what

 

12.               A.leave          B.stay           C.hear  D.walk

 

13.               A.sadly          B.hard           C.alone D.noisily

 

14.               A.visit           B.beat           C.hide  D.receive

 

15.               A.dangerous      B.happy          C.beautiful  D.clever

 

 

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