Question

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（馴獸者）. 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 life. “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. make the angry elephants tame

C. send them back to the jungle

D. keep both man and elephants safe

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（報(bào)復(fù)）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（受害者）to elephants attacks

B. dogs are as powerful as elephants

C. elephant tamers are in short supply

D. the man-elephant relationship is getting worse

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.A

3.C

4.D

【解析】

試題分析:由于人類獵殺大象并侵占它們賴以生存的地方，所以大象開展了報(bào)復(fù)行動。在人象關(guān)系緊張的時(shí)候，被人們稱作“大象公主”的優(yōu)秀馴獸師Parbati馴服了大象，保障了大象和人類的安全。

1. 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.”可知 Parbati主要是為了保障大象與人之間的安全而馴象的。故選D。

2. 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第三段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. 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。故選A。

3. 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第四段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.可知大象報(bào)復(fù)是因?yàn)槿祟惈C殺大象并侵占了它們生活的地方。故選C。

4. 推理判斷題。通讀全文可知在人象關(guān)系緊張的時(shí)候，被人們稱作“大象公主”的優(yōu)秀馴獸師Parbati馴服了大象，保障了大象和人類的安全。所以在文章的開頭描述大象攻擊人類的故事是為了展示人象之間關(guān)系的緊張。故選D。

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