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（驯兽者）. 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（报复）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】

试题分析:由于人类猎杀大象并侵占它们赖以生存的地方，所以大象开展了报复行动。在人象关系紧张的时候，被人们称作“大象公主”的优秀驯兽师Parbati驯服了大象，保障了大象和人类的安全。

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主要是为了保障大象与人之间的安全而驯象的。故选D。

2. 细节题。根据第三段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。故选A。

3. 细节题。根据第四段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.可知大象报复是因为人类猎杀大象并侵占了它们生活的地方。故选C。

4. 推理判断题。通读全文可知在人象关系紧张的时候，被人们称作“大象公主”的优秀驯兽师Parbati驯服了大象，保障了大象和人类的安全。所以在文章的开头描述大象攻击人类的故事是为了展示人象之间关系的紧张。故选D。

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