D. Few children in Canada attend public schools

11. Lessons in Canadian school are taught in__________.

A. English B. neither English nor French

C. French D. English and French

D

A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Malayalam, a nearby village. They lived with the man's big family-his parents, his brothers, their wives and children. The family kept an elephant, in which the young woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.

Three months later the woman went back to her parents' home, having quarreled with her husband . Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heart-broken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.

It went to the woman's home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk(鼻子) and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved by the act of the animal that she returned to her husband's home.

12. The writer wrote the story in order to .

A. show that elephants are very clever

B. tell how a woman trained a wild animal

C. show that women care more for animals than men do

D. tell how an animal helped a husband and wife get along well again

13. The woman left her new home .

A. to visit her own parents in Maliyuwa

B. to see if the elephant would follow her

C. because she was angry with her husband

14. After the young woman left her husband's home, the elephant .

A. returned to the forest

C. went to look for a new home

D. was sick because nobody fed it