阅读理解。
The elephant is the biggest four-legged animal in the world. It is also the gentlest, but not always!
Elephants are like us in some ways.They can remember things very well. They never forget great
sadness or great happiness.lf a female elephant dies,her daughters and her grand daughters will be sad
for many days. They will carry a bit of it away with them.They will never forget a dead friend.
Elephants are like us in some ways,but they are also different. They live in families-families of females.
There will be a few young males a few"babyboys". But the females will soon send them away. An
elephant family keeps only its great-grandmothers.
The females live together for fifty, sixty or ahundred years. The older animals look after theyounger
ones.The mothers teach their daughters andset a good example to them.And what happens to the male
elcphants? Well,the young males stay with their mothers for some time.Then they must leave the family.
The females justsend them away. A male elephant does not often have a friend. He lives alone, away
from the family,and he doesn't like living with other male elephants,either.
Sometimes the females call a male elephant. He can visit them then,and stay for some time. But soon
his"wives"and sisters send him away again. The females have a very happy family life. What does the
male elephant think about it? We don't know.
根据短文内容回答问题。
l. Is the elephant the biggest animal in the world?
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2. Is the elephant's natural life much shorter than humans?
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根据短文内容，判断下列句子正T误F。
( )3. A female elephant doesn't often have a friend.
( )4. Elephants never forget great sadness or great happiness.
翻译下面的句子。
5. A male elephant lives alone,away from the family, and he does't like living with other
male elephants, either.
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