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 sells
C. The two men
sell D. The old man buys
( )2. The young man
is looking at the elephant slowly. He wants to find out _______.
A. which foot
of the elephant is bad B. how heavy it is
C. which ear
of the elephant is bad D. what it looks like
( )3. The young man
_______.
A. knows the
elephant has bad ears B. wants to buy the elephant
C. looks
after the elephant D. gets some money from the old man
( )4. The
young man _______.
A. is not interested in
elephants
B. knows what
an elephant looks like
C. has seen
some elephants before
D. has never
seen an elephant before
( )5. Hearing what the
young man said, the old man will probably(可能) be ______
A.
angry B. happy C.
dangerous D. hungry