Question

Early one morning the sub­inspector 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 fruit­stalls.

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 that did for him.

You could see the pain of it knock 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?

A．He was an Indian.

B．He knew elephants well.

C．He was not a local villager.

D．He was the owner of the elephant.

2.The elephant made so much trouble because ________.

A．its owner treated him cruelly

B．it got out of control

C．it hated the village people

D．it was a wild elephant

3.The underlined words “the peacebreaker” in Paragraph 4 refer to ________.

A．the elephant	B．the dead man
C．the author	D．the sub­inspector

4.It can be inferred that the author felt ________ when he shot the elephant.

A．excited	B．sad
C．frightened	D．happy

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：

1.C 推理题。根据第一段Would I please come and do something about it?

说明我不在那个村子里，故说明我可能不是当地村里的人，故C正确。

2.B 细节题。根据第三段第二行last night it had broken its chain and escaped.说明这头大象挣脱了铁链，失去了控制才会带来如此多的麻烦，故B正确。

3.A 猜测词义题。根据本段说明那个人是被大象踩死的。the__peacebreaker standing beside, looking innocent.说明该词就是指这头大象。故A正确。

4.B 推理题。根据最后一段内容的描述，尤其是第一句You could see the pain of it knock the last strength from his legs.说明他心里很犹豫也很难受，故B正确。

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