1 . Please read the following passage and fill in the blanks with the correct forms of 5 words or phrases out of the 7 given in the box, according to the context. 请阅读下面的短文,并根据其内容提示,从方框中所给的7个词语中选出5个,并用其正确形式填空。
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Do you like elephants? They are the biggest land creatures alive today.Some people think that elephants will 1 if they see a mouse.This is untrue. In fact, elephants have such poor eyesight that they would not usually see a mouse, even if one came very near them.“Elephants Never Forget” is another fallacy ( 谬论). There is no evidence that 2 elephants have a better ability to remember things. Finally, it is also a fallacy that when the time comes for an elephant to die, it goes to some kind of elephant graveyard (墓地)----no one has ever found such a graveyard. What the animals probably do when they are old and sick is to find a cave and stay in it, so they will be safe until they either get better 3 die.
In Thailand, when the country was still 4 Siam (暹罗), if someone found a white elephant, they would dedicate (献给) it to the king because it was rare ( 罕见的). The king had no choice but to keep and feed it, 5 it had no use for him. From this practice, we get an expression,“a white elephant”,which means something that is not useful for us.