THE CAMEL AND THE MOUSEDEERLong time ago, there were a camel and a mousedeer. The camel said, ‘nothing like being tall! Look how tall I am!” the mousedeer, who heard these words, said, “Nothing like being short! Look how short I am!”.
The camel said,” well, if fail to prove the truth of what I said, I shall give you my hump.”
The mousedeer said, “if fail to prove the truth of what I said, I shall give up my snout.”
“Agreed!” said the camel. “Just so!” said the mousedeer.
They come to garden, enclosed by a low wall without any opinion. The camel stood on this side of the wall, and reaching the plants within by means of his long neck, made a breakfast on them. Then, he turned jeeringly to the mousedeer, who had been standing at the bottom of the wall, whitout even having a look at the good things in the garden, and said, “Now, would you be tall or short?”
Next they come to garden, enclosed by a high wall, with a wicket gate at one end. The mousedeer entered by the gate and after having eaten his fill of the vegetables within, came out, laughing at the poor camel who had to stay outside because he was too tall to enter the garden by the gate, and said, “Now, would you be tall or short?”
Then , they thought the matter over and came to the conclusion that the camel should keep his hump and the mousedeer his snout, observing, “Tall is good, where tall would do, of short, again, this is also true!”

1.What does the text talk about?
2.Who are the characters?
3.What is the characteristic of the camel?
4.What is the purpose of the text?
5.What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
6.What would the camel do if he couldn’t prove his words?
7.What happened when they came to a garden enclosed by a low wall without any gate?
8.Why did the camel stay outside when the mousedeer are the vegetables?
9.“Then, he turned jeeringly to the mousedeer.....” (paragraph 3) the underlined word refers to . . . .
10.The story teaches us that . . . . .