第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
One day an old man is selling a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it. Then I will give you twenty dollars.” “All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “Now, can you tell me how you found the elephant’s bad ears?” “I didn’t find the bad ears,” says the young man. “Then why are you looking at the elephant slowly?” asks the old man. The young man answers, “Because I have never seen an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”
1. _____________ the elephant.
| A. The young man sells | B. The old man buys | |
| C. The two men sell | D. The old man sells |
2. The young man is looking at the elephant slowly. He wants to find out _______.
| A. what it looks like | B. how heavy it is | |
| C. which ear of the elephant is bad | D. which foot of the elephant is bad |
3. The young man _______.
| A. knows the elephant has bad ears | B. gets some money from the old man | |
| C. looks after the elephant | D. wants to buy the elephant |
4. Hearing what the young man said, the old man will probably be ______
| A. dangerous | B. happy | C. angry | D. hungry |