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 ran after 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 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—caught 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 after class

C.she was taught how to hunt tigers in the woods

D.she had already been called an elephant princess

3.Why are Indian elephants beginning to fight back?

A.Because illegal hunters catch them and kill them

B.Because they are caught and sent for heavy work

C.Because they are attacked and their land gets limited

D.Because dogs usually bark at them and interrupt them

4.The elephant story in the beginning shows that in India ______.

A.dogs are often as powerful as elephants

B.people easily fall victims to elephants' attacks

C.elephant tamers are becoming fewer and fewer

D.the man-elephant relationship is getting much worse

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.C

4.D

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。文章开头作者向我们介绍了在印度大象与狗之间的关系并不是很友好，引出大象公主Parbati，她的父亲教会他如何捕捉并驯服大象，她的工作驯兽师，驯服大象是为了保护它们的安全，作者写这个文章是为了告诉我们在印度大象与人之间的关系越来越差。

1.

细节理解题。根据第四段中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.”可知但是Parbati抓大象并不是为了好玩。“我的工作，”她说，“就是把人类从大象中拯救出来，并且保护大象不受人类的伤害。”由此可知，对于Parbati来说，捕捉大象主要是为了保护人和大象的安全。故选B。

2.

细节理解题。根据第三段After happy childhood hunting with her father，she was sent to boarding school in the city.可知在和父亲一起打猎度过了快乐的童年后，她被送到了城里的寄宿学校。由此可知，在 Parbati在去寄宿学校学习之前，她一直和父亲一起打猎。故选A。

3.

细节理解题。根据第四段中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.可知印度象越来越愤怒：多年来，非法猎人一直在攻击它，它在丛林中的家园已经变成了小块土地。现在它正在反击。由此可知，印度大象越来越生气并且开始报复是因为他们被攻击并且他们生活的领地在减少，故选C。

4.

推理判断题。根据第一段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 ran after the dogs into the village where they ran for safety.可知大象沉重地侧身躺着，睡熟了。几只狗开始朝它吠叫。大象愤怒地醒来：它追着狗跑进了村子，它们在那里逃命。以及第二段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.可知这并没有阻止大象。大象摧毁了十几座房屋，并造成数人受伤。村民们又害怕又生气。然后有人建议叫Parbati，大象公主。由此可推知，大象被狗吵醒于是追着狗跑，并且摧毁了村庄的房屋，结合第四段中说明了大象和人类的关系越来越差的原因，可知开头的大象故事表明，在印度，人象之间的关系越来越糟糕。故选D。