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 and all the dogs ran back to the village-for safety. That didn't stop the elephant. It destroyed a few houses and hurt several people. The villagers were frightened and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess, for help.

Parbati's father was an elephant tamer(训像师). He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He taught her how to understand elephant's languages. He also taught her the dangerous art of catching wild elephants.

Parbati doesn't catch elephant just for fun. "My work," she says, "is to protect man from the elephants, and to keep the elephant safe from man." And this is exactly what she has done for many years. However, the Indian elephant is angry for many years -- hunters attack it and its home in the forest is 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 (丛林) before they can kill.

59 A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a baby elephant. "Finally they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more faithful than humans," she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants mad sat on the huge, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!

1.How did the villagers/eel in the first paragraph!

A. Scared and angry. B. Frightened but excited.

C. Happy and patient. D. Excited but curious.

2.What did Parba.1 s father NOT teach Parbati?

A. How to ride an elephant. B. How to walk an elephant.

C. How to understand elephant's languages. D. How to catch wild elephants.

3.Which is suitable as the first sentence in the last paragraph?

A. Being an elephant tamer also needs love.

B. Sometimes an elephant tamer is a dangerous job.

C. Many people don't understand an elephant tamer's job.

D. People in villages love Parbati because she can drive away elephants.

4.Which sentence is WRONG?

A. Parbati and her father do a similar job.

B. People call Parbati the elephant princess.

C. Parbati helps people catch elephants just for fun.

D. ]Tne Indian elephant's home in the forest is reduced to small pieces of land.

If you've been joining in chat room conversation, or trading e-mail with net pals(网友 ), you have become one of the millions who write in a special short form of English.

Throughout the world, every night children and their elders are "talking" online - many of them all talking at the same time.

It's fast: try talking to six people at once. It's easy: three or four words per exchange. It takes cleverness, and quick fingers.

And it requires very simple language. There’s neither time nor space for explanations. Why waste valuable time telling six friends you have to leave for a moment to take care of your little brother when BRB(=be right back) will do?

Want to enter a conversation? Just type PMFJI(=pardon me for jumping in).

Interested in whom you're talking to? A/S/L, the nearly universal request to know your pal's age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a response from your pal.

If something makes you laugh, say you're OTF(=on the floor), or LOL(=laughing out loud), or combine the two into ROTFL(=rolling on the floor laughing).

And when it's time to get back to work or go to bed, you type GTG(got to go) or TTYL(=talk to you later).People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters(大写字母) are left in the dust, except when expressing strong feelings, as it takes more time to hold down the "shift" key and use capitals. Punctuation (标点) is going, too.

1.The sentence , “There’s neither time nor space for explanations” means that_______.

A. people should use words properly

B. people should know what time it is when they are talking

C. people online can express themselves in a simple way

D. people should communicate in a funny way

2.If you get 17/F/NY as an answer to your A/S/L, it means ______.

A. the person on the other end is 17 from New York and he is fine

B. you are talking to a girl who is 17 and lives in New York

C. you are talking to 17 girls who are from New York

D. the people you are talking to is a 17-foot tall New York girl.

3.Which of the following is a way to save online time?

A. People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks.

B. People only use the mouse instead of the keyboard.

C. Many people draw pictures.

D. People never use the “shift” key.

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