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【題目】The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety.

That didn't stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess.

Parbati Barua's father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up -- how to catch wild elephants.

Parbati hasn't always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old fife. "Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase," she says.

But Parbati doesn't catch elephants just for fun. "My work," she says, "is to rescue man from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man." And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill.

The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. "Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans," she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!

【1】For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to .

A. get long lasting excitement B. keep both man and elephants safe

C. send them back to the jungle D. make the angry elephants tame

【2】Before Parbati studied in a boarding school, .

A. she spent her time hunting with her father

B. she learned how to sing love songs

C. she had already been called an elephant princess

D. she was taught how to hunt tigers

【3】Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because________.

A. they are caught and sent for heavy work

B. illegal hunters capture them and kill them

C. they are attacked and their land gets limited

D. dogs often bark at them and chase them

【4】The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India______　.

A. people easily fall victim to elephants' attacks

B. the man-elephant relationship is getting worse

C. elephant tamers are in short supply

D. dogs are as powerful as elephants

【5】The underlined word “captured” in the last paragraph probably means “__________”.

A. found B. caught

C. attacked D. chased

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】C

【4】B

【5】B

【解析】本文介紹馴象師Parbati，她主要是為了保障大象與人之間的安全而馴象的。馴象師的工作還包括愛和奉獻(xiàn)。

【1】B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由文中的“‘My work,’ she says, ‘is to rescue man from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man.’”可知，Parbati主要是為了保障大象與人之間的安全而馴象的。B項(xiàng)正確。

【2】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由文中的“After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to boarding school in the city.”可知，她從小與父親一起在叢林中度過了她的童年，之后才去寄宿學(xué)校的。A項(xiàng)正確。

【3】C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由文中的“the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land.”可知，C項(xiàng)正確。

【4】B推理判斷題。從文章第一段內(nèi)容可知，狗尋求人類的幫助跑到村子里，但是大象追到村子里時(shí)，并沒有停止，而是毀壞了一些房屋，還傷了人，人們又害怕又生氣，由此可推知，大象和人的關(guān)系在惡化，故B項(xiàng)正確。

【5】B詞義猜測題。根據(jù)最后一段中The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. 馴象師的工作還包括愛和奉獻(xiàn)。根據(jù)劃線下文Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. 它們最終會(huì)愛上他們的馴獸師，永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)忘記他們They are also more loyal than humans, 他們也比人類更忠誠，可知A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. 一個(gè)好的馴象師會(huì)花好幾個(gè)小時(shí)，每天唱情歌給新捕獲來的大象。由此可知B項(xiàng)為正確答案。