11.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!
65.For Parbati,catching elephants is mainly to.B
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
66.Before Parbati studied in a boarding school,A
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
67.Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge becauseC.
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
68.The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in IndiaB.
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.
分析 本文屬于記敘文閱讀,在文章的開頭作者向我們介紹了在印度大象與狗之間的關(guān)系并不是很友好,引出"大象公主"巴瓦娣,她的父親教會他如何捕捉并馴服大象,她的工作馴獸師,馴服大象是為了保護(hù)它們的安全,作者寫這個文章是為了告訴我們在印度大象與人之間的關(guān)系越來越差.
解答 65.B 歸納概括題.根據(jù)第四段Parbati doesn't catch elephants just for fun."My work is to rescue man from the elephants and to keep the elephants safe from man."可知馴服大象主要是為了保障大象與人之間的安全,故選B.
66.A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)第三段After happy childhood hunting with her father,she was sent to boarding school in the city.可知Parbati在去寄宿學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)之前與父親一起在叢林中度過了她的童年,故選A.
67.C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)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.可知印度大象越來越生氣并且開始報復(fù)是因為他們被攻擊并且他們生活的領(lǐng)地在減少,故選C.
68.B 主旨大意題,通讀全文可知這篇文章是從一個大象的故事開始,作者寫這個文章的目的是為了解釋在印度大象與人之間的關(guān)系越來越差,故選B.
點評 做閱讀理解時要快速的瀏覽全文,把握文章主旨大意,帶著問題回到原文,尋找細(xì)節(jié)或概括相應(yīng)的答案,最后要理清作者寫作思路.