Verbal Ability :: Comprehension
Peter did not want to shoot the elephant. He watched him pulling branches with his trunk and eating the fresh green leaves, with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that an elephant has. It seemed to him that it would be murder to shoot him. He never shot an elephant and never wanted to as it feels worse to kill large animals. Besides, he had to consider the elephant's owner. But he had got to act quickly. He turned to some tribe people who had been there and asked about the elephant. They said, "The elephant will not harm you if you leave him alone, but he might charge if you went too close to him.
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what does the phrase 'preoccupied grandmotherly air' signify?
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From the passage, it seems that Peter was
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The Peter did not want to shoot the elephant because
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What did the tribe people tell Peter?
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What was the elephant doing?
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the elephant is very dangerous; don't go too close to him |
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give elephant some grass to eat, he will give you a ride |
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the elephant will not harm you if you leave him alone, but he may charge if you went too close to him |
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You can't kill the elephant if you don't have experience of shooting large animals |