Once upon a time, there lived a sparrow with her husband on a tree. She had built a nicenest and laid eggs in it. One morning, while elephant was in search of shade and he arrived at a
tree. However, soon he became angry and shook the tree hard. He didn't find enough shade.
Down came all the sparrow eggs and broke one by one. But both parents were saved. The
mother sparrow was very sad. The woodpecker, a friend of hers, offered to help her think of killing
the elephant
The woodpecker flew to her friend the gnat, which in turn went to the wise frog for advice.
The frog then devised a scheme for killing the elephant.
He asked the gnat to buzz in the ears of the elephant, so that the elephant would be thrilled
to listen to the music
of the gnat and close his eyes. Then, he asked the woodpecker to pluck his
eyes. He himself would be on the edge of a pit and would croak misleading the elephant to think
that it was a pond.
The next day at noon the three carried out the plan and the elephant was killed when he fell
flat into a pit after being blinded by the woodpecker when he closed his eyes in response to the
gnat's music. So the revenge was taken with collective with of all three animals.
2. He asked the gnat to buzz in the ears of the elephant, so that the elephant would be thrilled to
listen to the music.
The underlined word can be best replaced by ....
A. Excited
B. brought down
C. depressed
D. discouraged
E. response