Elephant

An elephant is the largest and strongest animals. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tall, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a long noise, the trunk.
The trunk is the elephant’s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and puts them into its mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long am and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy and yet it can move very quickly.
The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength makes it a very useful servant to man and it can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight.

1. The text tells us about…. *
a. the Elephant’s peculiar feature
b. useful servant
c. strange looking animal
d. an elephant

2. The third paragraph is mainly about the fact that…. *
a.elephants are strong
b. elephants can lift logs
c. elephants are servants
d. elephant are very useful

3. The most distinguishing characteristic of an elephant is….. *
a. its long nose
b. its large body
c. its thick legs
d.clumsiness its clumsiness

4. Which of the following is NOT part of the elephant *
a.It is heavy
b.It looks strange
c. It has a trunk
d. It is wild

5. It is stated in the text that the elephant uses the trunk to do the following, EXCEPT …….. *
a.to eat
b.to carry things
c.to push
d. to squirt water over the body.

Elephant