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Early one morning the sub-inspector at a station at the other end of the town rang me. An elephant was damaging the town. Would I please come and do something about it? I did not know what I could do, but I got onto a horse and started out. I took my gun, maybe too small to kill an elephant, but I thought the noise might scare him. Various local people stopped me on the way and told me about the elephant's doings. It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one. It had been chained up but last night it had broken its chain and escaped. Its owner had set out to run after it, but had taken the wrong direction. He was now twelve hours' journey away, and in the morning the elephant had suddenly appeared in the town. It had already destroyed somebody's bamboo hut (棚屋), killed a cow and turned over fruit¬stalls. I came round the hut and saw a man's dead body sprawling in the mud. He was an Indian, and he could not have been dead many minutes. The people said that the elephant caught him with its trunk, put its foot on his back and grounded him into the earth. This was the rainy season and he was lying on his stomach in the soft mud, the peacebreaker standing beside, looking innocent. As I lifted my gun, I hesitated a few seconds. Then I fired. That was a shot for him. You could see the pain of it knocking the last strength from his legs. But in falling he seemed for a moment to rise, his trunk reaching skyward like a tree. He trumpeted, for the first and only time. And then down he came, with a crash that shook the ground.
1.Which of the following statements about the author is TRUE?
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A．He was an Indian. |
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B．He knew elephants well. |
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C．He was not a local villager. |
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D．He was the owner of the elephant. |
2.The elephant made so much trouble because ________.
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A．its owner treated him cruelly |
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B．it got out of control |
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C．it hated the village people |
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D．it was a wild elephant |
3.The underlined words “the peacebreaker” in Paragraph 4 refer to ________.
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A．the elephant |
B．the dead man |
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C．the author |
D．the sub¬inspector |
4.It can be inferred that the author felt ________ when he shot the elephant.
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A．excited |
B．sad |
C．frightened |
D．happy |
1.C
2.B
3.A
4.B
【解析】文章介绍了自己射杀大象的事情。
1.推理题。根据第五行Various local people stopped me on the way可知我并不是当地人。如果我是当地人，就不会说当地人阻止我了。
2.细节题。根据It had been chained up but last night it had broken its chain and escaped.可知这只大象挣脱了铁链，失去了控制。
3.推理题。这只大象逃脱以后给当地人带来了很大的伤害，正是一个破坏和平的人。
4.推理题。根据文章倒数第5行looking innocent. As I lifted my gun, I hesitated a few seconds可知我有点犹豫，说明我并不想射杀大象，后面大象倒地以后我应该是很难过的。
Early one morning, I witnessed romance at one the least-expected places in the world—a room in a rest home. At the time, my father 36 a room with three other gentlemen.
Before my daddy lived in the rest home, an elderly 37 was sent there. Since there wasn’t a double room 38 , they were forced to separate the couple. The gentleman, Mr.West, was 39 in the bed beside Daddy. His wife, Mrs.West, shared a room with several other ladies down the hall.
When I went to see Daddy that morning, I 40 Mr.West. Three employees were working with him. He hadn’t eaten a bite of food 41 he was sent several days earlier. I could 42 by the expression on the nurses’ faces that they were worried about him. Mr.West 43 to open his mouth for any of them.
“Go and get Mrs.West, ” the nurse told her helper. “Maybe Mr.West will eat 44 her. ”
In a few minutes a kind-looking lady was 45 into the room. Her smile was contagious（传染的）and Mr.West smiled 46 . I felt as though I was intruding（侵入）on a 47 moment, but I couldn’t take my eyes off the couple. The love between them was obvious, as Mrs.West patted Mr.West’s hand.
With a soft voice, Mrs.West tried to 48 Mr.West to eat. To everyone’s surprise, Mr.West 49 his mouth and began to enjoy the 50 and his wife’s company. While the nurses fed him, he stared at his sweetheart with a smile on his face. Mrs.West began singing a song for him. The 51 on his once solemn（严肃的）face became even brighter.
Tears 52 my eyes. The nurse then 53 the curtain around the couple to give them some quality time alone. I discovered that 54 doesn’t only exist when we’re young and in love. Romance 55 a lifetime and grows stronger with age.
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At Blossom End Railroad Station, 22-year-old Stanley Vine sat, waiting for his new employer. The surrounding green fields were so unlike the muddy landscape of war-torn France. After four horrible years as an army private fighting in Europe, Stanley had returned to England in February 1946. Armed now with some savings and with no prospects for a job in England, he answered a newspaper ad for farm help in Canada. Two months later he was on his way.
When the old car rumbled (发着辘辘声) toward the tiny station, Stanley rose to his feet, trying to make the most of his five foot and four inches frame. The farmer, Alphonse Lapine, shook his head and complained, “You’re a skinny thing.” On the way to his dairy farm, Alphonse explained that he had a wife and seven kids. “Money is tight. You’ll get room and board. You’ll get up at dawn for milking, and then help me around the farm until evening milking time again. Ten dollars a week. Sundays off.” Stanley nodded. He had never been on a farm before, but he took the job.
From the beginning Stanley was treated horribly by the whole family. They made fun of the way he dressed and talked. He could do nothing right. The humourless farmer frequently lost his temper, criticizing Stanley for the slightest mistake. The oldest son, 13-year-old Armand, constantly played tricks on him. But the kind-hearted Stanley never responded.
Stanley never became part of the Lapine family. After work, they ignored him. He spend his nights alone in a tiny bedroom. However, each evening before retiring, he lovingly cared for the farmer’s horses, eagerly awaiting him at the field gate. He called them his gentle giants. On Saturday nights he hitch-hiked into the nearest town and wandered the streets or enjoyed a restaurant meal before returning to the farm.
Early one November morning Alphonse Lapine discovered that Stanley had disappeared, after only six months as his farmhand. The railway station master, when questioned later that week, said he had not seen him. In fact no one in the community ever heard of him again. That is, until one evening, almost 20 years later, when Armand, opened an American sports magazine and came across a shocking headline, “Millionaire jockey (赛马骑师), Stanley Vine, ex-British soldier and 5-time horse riding champion, began life in North America as a farmhand in Canada.”
【小题1】Stanley Vine decided to go to Canada because ___________.
| A．he wanted to escape from war-torn France |
| B．he wanted to serve in the Canadian army |
| C．he couldn’t find a job in England |
| D．he loved working as a farmhand |
| A．Stanley joined the French army when he was 18 years old. |
| B．On the farm Stanley had to milk the cows 14 times a week. |
| C．The Lapine family were very rich but cruel to Stanley. |
| D．Stanely read about the job offer in a newspaper. |
| A．Hitch-hiking to different towns. |
| B．Caring for the farmer’s horses. |
| C．Wandering around the farm alone. |
| D．Preparing meals on the farm. |
| A．He didn’t know Stanley had been a British soldier. |
| B．He had no idea Stanley had always been a wealthy man. |
| C．He didn’t know his father paid Stanley so little money. |
| D．He didn’t expect Stanley to become such a success. |