[单项选择]Of course they could not look at the elephant with their eyes, but they thought they might learn what kind of animal it was by touching and feeling.______, you see, they trusted their own sense of touch very much.
A. Moreover
B. For
C. Nevertheless
D. Because

[单项选择]We could not even look at the sun, for otherwise we______.
A. should be blinded
B. be blinded
C. were blinded
D. blind

[单项选择]Although she did not look back she could tell that he was still following. Let ______ streetcar, she thought, and really there was one.
A. there were
B. there be
C. there being
D. there has been

[单项选择]Before she could shout "look ______" to the old man, he was run ______ by a car coining from his left.
A. back, on
B. out, over
C. up, down
D. ahead, at

[单项选择]Man: Look, the view is fantastic．Could you take a picture of me with the lake in the background Woman: I'm afraid I just ran out of film. Question: What do we learn from the conversation

[单项选择]When I saw his funny look, I could not help ______.
A. think
B. cried
C. laughing
D. laughs

[单项选择]Ruby was an Asian elephant （）
A. who was sold for a price as high as $ 5,000
B. who was famous for being the first painting elephant
C. whose paintings sold for as high as $ 5,000
D. who started painting in the late 1980s

[单项选择]The passage mentions the African Elephant, the Indian Tiger, and the American Eagle as example of which


A. Endangered species.
B. Sea resources.
C. Land animals.
D. Food supplies.

[单项选择]When a female elephant dies, other elephants would ______.
A. forget it quickly
B. carry the dead body with them
C. never stay with the dead body
D. take a bit of the dead body away sadly

[单项选择]This may have preserved the elephant from being wiped out as well as other animals ______ in Africa.
A. hunted
B. hunting
C. that hunted
D. are hunted

[单项选择]What happens to a male elephant when it grows up


A. He often lives together with his wife.
B. He leaves the family.
C. He tries to form a new family.
D. He lives with other male friends.

[单项选择]What would the elephant family do when a male elephant is born


A. They send it away.
B. They keep it for some time.
C. They teach it to live alone.
D. They stay with it for a long time.

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The elephant is the largest four-legged animal in the world. It is also, perhaps the gentlest, but not always!
Elephants are similar to human beings in some ways. They live for a long time --fifty or sixty years. They are emotional, too. They never forget great sadness or great happiness. When a female elephant dies, her daughters and her granddaughters are sad for several months. They stay with the dead body and then carry a bit of it away with them. They never forget a dear friend.
Elephants are like us, but they are also different. They also live in families, but only in families of females. There will be a few young males -- a few "baby boys". But the females will soon send them away. An elephant family keeps only its daughters, mothers and grandmothers, and its great-grand mothers.
The females stay together for fifty, sixty ... a hundred years. The older animals look after the young ones. The mothers teach their daughters and set a g
A. he only lives with other bulls
B. he can form a new family
C. he sometimes lives with his old families
D. he must live alone