The elephant is the biggest four-legged animal in the world. It is also, perhaps, the gentlest, but not    1___   

    Elephants   2   for a long time --- fifty or Sixty years. They never forget sadness or great happiness. If a female elephant dies, her daughters an6 her granddaughters are   3    for many months.

    Elephants live in families -- families of female(母系家族), There will be a few young                                                                                                                males --- "baby boys". But they will soon    4    their families when they grow up. An elephant family     5    only its daughters, mothers and grandmothers.

    The females stay together a11 their _  6     . The older ones   7    the young ones. The mother teach their daughters and set a good example. And   8    happens to male elephants? A bull (雄) elephant doesn't often have a friend. He lives  9    . Sometimes the females call a bull. He can   10    them then, but soon his "wives" and sisters send him away again.

1. A. never          B. always         C. at times        D. at all

2. A. live            B. work          C. sleep          D. walk

3. A. excited         B. happy         C. sad            D. angry

4. A. stay with        B. leave for      C. protect         D. leave

5. A. hopes          B. keeps          C. allows         D. serves

6. A. times          B. life           C. lives           D. term

7. A. look at         B. look up        C. look forward to  D. took after

8. A. how           B. what          C. which          D. when

9. A. sadly          B. hard           C. alone          D. strongly

10. A. visit          B. beat           C. receive         D. trouble