Reading Comprehension

Take jambo, the boss male of the gorillas in a zoo in jersey. When he was attracted to the side of
his enclosure by the shouts of public and saw a little boy lying unconscious on the ground. I
believe he saw immediately a likeness to his own offspring. The shape and the size were much
the same.

He discovered that the child has something on its back, a shirt. To jambo that was certainly
different and puzzling. He gently touched the child’s skin with his finger and put it to his nose
and discovered that the smell of child was also strange. But neither of these things alarmed him.
When the boy came round and began to cry. Jamboo did no more than to move away, taking his
family with him.

So how did gorillas obtain their horrific reputation? It started back in the middle of the last
century when an American explorer published a book about hunting gorillas in the African
forests, including a drawing of a wounded giant ape standing above the body of a fallen hunter,
its lips pulled back in a fearsome roar bending a rifle with its bare hands. That image took root
in the public imagination. In the 1930s, Hollywood built it into a nightmare with the film King
Kong in which a gigantic ape was captured and the eventually terrorized New York. What a
libel that reputation is. By nature they are gentle and inoffensive.

Questions:

1: Write down meanings of the bold words of the passage.

2: Write a précis of the above passage and give it a suitable title?

3: How gorillas got their bad reputation?

4: Write summary of the above passage.

5: Why doesn’t the gorilla attack the boy in his enclosure?