A family in Kalanwali town in Haryana’s district of India is waiting for a bull to pass dung, as the bull swallowed gold jewellery weighing about 40 grams on Sunday. They have been feeding the animal over the past three days, with the hope that it will also pass the gold along with the dung. “We have been checking the dung to recover the gold. It’s a dirty job, but we have no other choice,” says Janak Raj, as the jewels belong to Raj’s wife and daughter-in-law.
Janak, a businessman in Kalanwali, said that after his wife and daughter-in-law came back from a wedding, they kept the jewellery in a bowl in the kitchen. “My aged mother cut some vegetables and used the same bowl to discard the leftovers,” he said. His mother then threw the leafy contents of the bowl outside the house which were eaten up by a bull roaming outside, but she spotted an earring on the floor nearby, which she brought back into the house, he added. Sources said the family members ran from pillar to post after they checked the CCTV camera and identified the bull. After five hours they finally found the bull. Now, they have tied it an empty plot near the house and are feeding the bull daily and checking its dung. 
Raj said the family feared that someone could kill the bull for the gold, so they have planned to send the bull to a cowshed with a family member, with the hope that a worker at the cowshed will find the jewellery and return them.

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1.Which is the best title for the passage?

A The secret of the gold jewellery.

B The story of Janak Raj’s family.

C To recover the jewellery from the bull’s dung.

D A bull ate up the jewellery and ran away.

解析：选C。主旨大意题。本文主要讲述了拉杰和家人为寻回金饰，每日全家辛苦翻牛粪的故事，故选C。

2.What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?

A The gold jewellery became the good dish of a bull.

B Janak Raj sold a bull in order to get gold jewellery.

C A bull broke into Raj’s house and ate up the gold jewellery.

D Their bull was lost when Raj and his family came back from a wedding.

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据文章第一段as the bull swallowed gold jewellery weighing about 40 grams on Sunday以及第二段内容可知，公牛误吞了他们的金饰，故选A。

3.Who was thought to throw the jewellery by mistake?

A Janak Raj.

B Janak Raj’s wife.

C Janak Raj’s mother.

D Janak Raj’s daughter-in-law.

解析：选C。细节理解题。根据文章第二段第三句His mother then threw the leafy contents of the bowl outside the house which was eaten up by a bull roaming outside可知，拉杰母亲的失误让公牛吃了金饰，故选C。

4.What did Raj and his family do first to find the clue to the jewellery?

A They called the police.

B They searched for the bull.

C They checked the camera.

D They looked for the footprints of the bull.

解析：选C。细节理解题。根据文章第二段第四句Sources said the family members ran from pillar to post after they checked the CCTV camera and identified the bull.可知，他们为了寻找线索首先检查了监控录像，故选C.

5.Why did the family send the bull to a cowshed?

A Because they wanted to lock the bull in the cowshed.

B Because their neighbour advised them to kill the bull.

C Because a worker at the cowshed thought of a good way.

D Because they were worried about the safety of the jewellery.

解析：选D。推理判断题。根据文章第三段第一句Raj said the family feared that someone could kill the bull for the gold可知，拉杰家人害怕有人可能会为了金饰而杀了那头公牛，由此推断他们是担心珠宝的安全，故选D。