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Practice Reading: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers
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elephant
But I did not want to shoot the elephant. I watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees, with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have. It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him. I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to. Besides, there was the beast's owner to be considered. But I had got to act quickly. I turned to some experienced-looking Barman’s who had been there when we arrived, and asked them how the elephants had been behaving. They all said the same thing; he took no notice of you if you left him alone, but he might charge if you went too close to him.
The phrase 'Preoccupied grandmotherly air' signifies and author did not want to shoot the elephant because
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