语法填空 At a country house in Belgium, there once lived a young elephant which was

语法填空

At a country house in Belgium, there once lived a young elephant which was a pet to the people．It used to come into the dining room after dinner and asked for 1 from the visitors．One day, when a large party of visitors were sitting at the table, the elephant came round and put its 2 between the visitors, begging for fruit or bread．One gentleman, however, 3 of putting any food into the trunk, took his fork and sent the little elephant away with a stab．The animal left him quietly and went to other visitors, one after another, who 4 it kindly, because they thought a gentleman should not treat an animal in such a rude way．

5 it had finished its round of the table, it went out into the garden, 6(break)a large branch off a tree and returned to the room again．The animal went 7 to the gentleman who had stabbed its trunk with a fork and shook the branch over his head．In a moment he was 8 with ants which came down from the branch．The ants filled his hair, ran down his neck．Hard 9 he tried, he couldn’t get rid of the ants．All the other visitors laughed heartedly when they saw the gentleman in such a difficult situation because they thought he had treated the animal so rudely and should be 10 in this way．

试题答案

答案：

1．food

2．trunk

3．instead

4．treated

5．When

6．broke

7．straight

8．covered

9．as/though

10．punished