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

 A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she 1 play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill.

 she loved her parents and her family,she desired to live in such a house and 3 all day about how wonderful and exciting 4 must feel to live there.

  At the age when she gained some 5 skill and sensibility(识别力) , she 6 her mother for a bike ride 7 the garden. Her mother finally al?lowed her to go, 8 her keeping close to the house and not 9 too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew 10 where she was heading!

  11the hill and across the valley,she rode to the 12 of the golden house.

13 she got off her bike and put it against the gate post,she focused on the path 14 to the house and then on the house itself. She was very dis?appointed when she 15 that all the windows were16and rather dirty.

  So 17 and heart-broken,she didn't go any further. She 18    ,and all of a sudden she saw an amazing 19 . There on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home,she  20 that she had been living in her golden house filled with love and care. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her nose!

1.A. might   B. should   C. would   D. must

2.A. Unless   B. Although   C. Since   D. But

3.A. dreamed   B. worried   C. asked   D. shouted

4.A. this   B. that   C. it   D. which

5.A. different   B. scientific   C. musical   D. basic

6.A. begged   B. blamed   C. invited   D. paid

7.A. inside   B. outside   C. through   D. along

8.A. insisting on   B. relying on

 C. arguing about   D. wondering about

9. A. travelling   B. running   C. riding   D. walking

10.A. madly   B. rapidly   C. exactly   D. possibly

11.A. Over   B. Down   C. Around   D. Beside

12.A. windows   B. steps   C. centre   D. gate

13.A. Until   B. As

 C. While   D. Because

14.A. getting   B. introducing   C. leading   D. moving

15.A. felt   B. learned   C. concluded   D. found

16.A. transparent   B. bright   C. plain   D. wide

17.A. anxious   B. angry   C. serious   D. sad

18.A. turned around   B. cheered up   C. settled down   D. dropped in

19.A. hill   B. valley   C. background   D. sight

20.A. imagined   B. decided   C. realized   D. guessed

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