A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Maiyuwa, a small village. They lived with the man’s big family－his parents, his brothers, their wives and husbands and children. The family kept an elephant, in which the woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.
Three months later, having quarreled with her husband, the woman went back to her parents’ home. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heartbroken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.
It went to the woman’s home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved by the act of the animal .So she went back to her husband’s home.
小题1:The woman left her new home ______.
| A．to visit her own parents in Maiyuwa |
| B．to see if the elephant would follow her |
| C．because she was angry with her husband |
| D．because she was tired of the large family |
小题2:The word “disappeared” in the reading means “______”.
| A．ran away | B．lost | C．hid | D．remained |
小题3:After the young woman left her husband’s home, the elephant______.
| A．returned to the forest | B．was sad because it missed her |
| C．went to look for a new home | D．was sick because nobody fed it |
小题4:How did the elephant express its feeling when it saw the young woman?
| A．It waved its trunk and smiled. | B．It touched her with its trunk. |
| C．It touched her and cried. | D．It waved its trunk and ran around her. |
小题5:The writer wrote the story in order to______.
| A．show that elephants are very clever |
| B．tell how a woman trained a wild animal |
| C．show that women care more for animals than men do |
| D．tell how an animal got a husband and a wife together again |
