In the past, people in Sri Lanka used elephants for logging because the animals are so strong. In recent years, however, machines have proven more efficient for logging, and now only about 40 elephants work in the
industry. Others are used for carrying tourists through the streets, while still more are being made into
professional athletes. Elephant owners say that the massive animals are expensive to maintain. Elephants must
earn their keep and the salaries of their mahouts, or caretakers.
Do It!
In Sri Lanka, working elephants are not as
as they used to be.
A beneficial
B
cumbersome
C drab
D
noticeable

the answer is, a) she is angry with elnora for not standing up for herself.

the bundle of the sticks, talks about union and how sometimes people need a different point of view. when the father in this story asked his sons to break the bunch of sticks, they could not, but when they grabbed one stick each, it was easier for them to break, because they worked together.

in hofus the stonecutter shows a simple happy working man, but one day when he delivers a load of stone into the house of a rich man, he wishes to be a rich man as well and so the mountain spirit grants him that wish and many others, until he realizes that even getting all his desires and wishes come true, he just needed to be humble and have genuine reason to live and be a better man each day.