高三英语第一次周练8.12.doc

江西省丰城中学2016-2017学年上学期高三周练试卷 英 语（实验班、零班） 命题：倪黎新 审题：倪黎新 2016-08-12 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 A Recently I went to the Tsavo National Park in northern Kenya for a film. We set off early for a distant waterhole. A huge elephant, covered with dry mud, drank calmly and deeply. He might have traveled 50 km to reach the water. He wasn’t going to hurry now. He’d drink a while and then rest in the shade, and then drink again－or so we thought. What actually happened was that he drank deeply and stepped away. Then he suddenly fell down. Within minutes he was dead. We called animal doctor Jeremiah Poghon immediately. He removed the head of a poisoned arrow from the elephant’s body, and let out over 100 liters of pus(脓)－the result of the elephant’s meeting with a poacher(偷猎者) months before. Today’s poacher shoots from a blind. He fires an arrow, covered with poison, into the body of an elephant. If the poacher is lucky, the elephant might die in an hour or two; if not, he might have to follow the elephant for days before it dies. Often the arrow head fails to kill the elephant at once－it doesn’t mean that the poison won’t finally kill the elephant, but it will be a slow death. Living in Tsavo through these times, I could see the results of poaching from time to time. When I think about the death of that elephant, what stays with me is the extraordinary silence after the shocking sound of his body hitting the ground. I took some comfort from the knowledge that as the dead body returned to the soil, some animals would benefit－but I couldn’t escape the feeling that with the death of such a large animal, the world seemed a poorer and emptier place. While filming near the waterhole, the author and his team __________. knew the elephant was injured found the elephant acted violently tired their best to save the elephant thought the elephant was in good condition Further examination showed that the dead elephant _