Question

 The elephant was lying heavily on its side,fast asleep. A few dogs star?ted 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(驯兽师) .He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He al?so taught her the dangerous art of elephant round-up―how to catch wild ele?phants.

  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 excite?ment 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. In?creasingly,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 learnt 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

Answer 1

1. B通读全文可知Parbati主要是为了保障大象与人之间的安全而驯象的。

2.A由文章第四段第二句可知她从小与父亲一起在丛林中度过了她的童年，之后才去寄宿学校的。

3.C根据文章第五段可知答案为C。

4.B