Reading
A. Answer these questions.
1. How was the cassowary bird a stranger per than the baby
elephant
2. How did the baby elephant feel about the cassowary?
How did he behave with it?
3. What did the speaker feel worried about? Why?
...one morning he received an ugly reward. What was the ugly
reward? Why does the speaker use this unusual combination
of words to describe the incident?
5. The bird then marched off, trying to look stately and unconcerned.
a. What had happened just before this?
b. Why does the speaker that the bird was trying
to look stately and unconcerned?
4.
say
Answers
Answer:
There was a clumsy flapping of wings, a tremendous swelling of the bird’s wattle, and an undignified getting up, as if it were a floored boxer doing his best to beat the count of ten.
There was a clumsy flapping of wings, a tremendous swelling of the bird’s wattle, and an undignified getting up, as if it were a floored boxer doing his best to beat the count of ten.Two mismatched animals meet and the result is a hilarious tale of how one got the better of the other. A photographer takes pictures of animals in the wild and writes about the hidden and mysterious world of the jungle. A tiger, used to its habitat, has to keep running from the humans who take up his home, till he has no more place for escape.
There was a clumsy flapping of wings, a tremendous swelling of the bird’s wattle, and an undignified getting up, as if it were a floored boxer doing his best to beat the count of ten.Two mismatched animals meet and the result is a hilarious tale of how one got the better of the other. A photographer takes pictures of animals in the wild and writes about the hidden and mysterious world of the jungle. A tiger, used to its habitat, has to keep running from the humans who take up his home, till he has no more place for escape.Filled with descriptions of animals both in the wild and at home, of jungles and of the people who wander the forests in search of animals, this collection contains stories that are exhilarating and thought-provoking.