Question

Once there was a man traveling in a faraway village. As he was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped. He found that these huge elephants were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains (鎖鏈), no cages. It was clear that the elephants could, at any time, break away from their ropes but for some reason, (A) they did not.

He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and didn’t try to get away. “Well,” the trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they still believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can hold them, so they never try to break free.”

How could it be? These animals could at any time break free from their ropes. But because they always stuck right where they were, they believed they couldn’t.

Just like the elephants, how many of us go through life believing that we cannot do something, just because we failed at it once before?

(B)_________ is part of learning. We should never give up the struggle (掙扎) in life.

1.找出（A）處劃線代詞they所指代的內容。

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2.Why do the elephants never break away from their ropes? (根據短文回答問題)

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3.Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese(將文中劃線句子譯成漢語)

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4.從文中找出一個適當的詞并用它的正確形式填在（B）處。

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5.What do you learn from the passage?(這篇短文給了你什么啟發(fā))

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Answer 1