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| A farmer was selling a large elephant in the (1)m______. A man came up to the elephant and began to look at it very carefully. Being afraid that the man would find out the elephant was not worth (值) much, the farmer went up to him and said in a (2)1______ voice, "Don't say anything about that elephant (3)t______ I have sold it, and I'll give you a present. " "All right," said the man. After the elephant was sold, the man gave him 50 yuan. Then the farmer asked, "Now, will you (4)t______ me how you found out the elephant had a defect (缺陷) in its left leg?" "I've never found any defect," said the man. "Then why did you look so carefully at every (5)p______ of it?" "Because I had never seen an elephant before, and I wanted to know what it was like. " |