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　　Ⅲ.Cloze (20 points)

　　Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

　　The elephant is the only animal in the world with a trunk (the very long nose of an elephant).It uses its trunk 21 many ways. It 22 leaves off trees with its trunk and then puts them into its 23 .It can even uses its trunk to pull up trees when it wants to make a path through a jungle(热带丛林).It also uses its trunk to get 24 .The trunk can hold a lot of it, 25 an elephant needs to drink more than three hundred pints(品脱) of water every day. It has been easy for men to train elephants. All the elephants are considered useful in India 26 for white elephants. They are used to carry things for long distance in Indian forests.Many people say that some ancient Indian kings used to give white elephants to people they did not like.These white elephants were regarded as 27 animals. They could not be gave 28 to work. A person who owned a white elephant had to 29 a lot of money to keep it properly. After a certain time, he usually became very 30 .Nowadays people in England call a useless thing “a white elephant”.

　　21.A.in B.with C.by D.of

　　22.A.pushes B.pulls C.makes D.seizes

　　23.A.back B.mouth C.body D.trunk

　　24.A.leaves B.food C.grass D.water

　　25.A.as B.when C.while D.so

　　26.A.instead B.and C.except D.besides

　　27.A.popular B.religious C.practical D.useful

　　28.A.up B.in C.away D.off

　　29.A.give B.spend C.receive D.beg

　　30.A.poor B.rich C.tired D.disappointed