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. 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 fife. "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. 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 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 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

5.The underlined word “captured” in the last paragraph probably means “__________”.

A. found    B. caught

C. attacked    D. chased

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.C

4.B

5.B

【解析】本文介绍驯象师Parbati，她主要是为了保障大象与人之间的安全而驯象的。驯象师的工作还包括爱和奉献。

1.B细节理解题。由文中的“‘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。B项正确。

2.A细节理解题。由文中的“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。A项正确。

3.C细节理解题。由文中的“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.”可知，C项正确。

4.B推理判断题。从文章第一段内容可知，狗寻求人类的帮助跑到村子里，但是大象追到村子里时，并没有停止，而是毁坏了一些房屋，还伤了人，人们又害怕又生气，由此可推知，大象和人的关系在恶化，故B项正确。

5.B词义猜测题。根据最后一段中The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. 驯象师的工作还包括爱和奉献。根据划线下文Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. 它们最终会爱上他们的驯兽师，永远不会忘记他们They are also more loyal than humans, 他们也比人类更忠诚，可知A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. 一个好的驯象师会花好几个小时，每天唱情歌给新捕获来的大象。由此可知B项为正确答案。