[单项选择]______ is the only animal that can speak.
A. Man
B. A man
C. The man
D. Men

The elephant is the only animal in the world with a trunk (the very long nose of an elephant), It uses its trunk (21) many ways. It (22) leaves off trees with its trunk and then puts them into its (23) . It can even uses its trunk to pull up trees when it wants to make a path through a jungle (热带丛林). It also uses its trunk to get (24) . The trunk can hold a lot of it, (25) an elephant needs to drink more than three hundred pints(品脱) of water every day. It has been easy for men to train elephants. All the elephants are considered useful in India (26) for white elephants. They are used to carry things for long distance in Indian forests. Many people say that some ancient Indian kings used to give white elephants to people they did not like. These white elephants were regarded as (27) animals. They could not be gave (28) to work. A person who owned a white elephant had to (29) a lot of money to keep it properly. After a
A. up
B. in
C. away
D. off