山东省滕州市第十一中学2017届高三一轮复习第四周同步检测英语试题.doc

山东省滕州市第十一中学高三2016-2017学年一轮复习第四周同步检测 英语试卷 第I卷（选择题） 请点击修改第I卷的文字说明 评卷人 得分 一、阅读理解（本题共4道小题,第1题0分,第2题0分,第3题0分,第4题0分,共0分） Mrs. Packletide intended to shoot a tiger. Not that the desire to kill had suddenly come to her, or that she felt she would leave India safer with one wild beast less. It was because Loona Bimberton had recently taken a plane to the forest and killed a tiger, and the newspapers showed photographs of Loona Bimberton with a tiger-skin on. In a world supposed to be moved by hunger and by love, Mrs. Packletide’s movements were largely governed by dislike of Loona Bimberton. Circumstances proved favorable. Mrs. Packletide had offered a thousand rupees (印度卢比) for the opportunity of shooting a tiger without risk or effort, and it happened that an old tiger was frequently coming to a neighboring village at night. He was so old that he couldn’t kill animals in the wild and just satisfied his appetite to the smaller household animals. The villagers were eager to earn the thousand rupees; children were posted night and day in the jungle to watch the tiger, and the cheap goats were left about to keep him from going elsewhere. The one great fear was that he should die of old age before the day of Mrs. Packletide’s shoot. The great night arrived. A platform had been built in a tree, on which sat Mrs. Packletide and her paid companion, Miss Mebbin. A goat with a loud bleat (咩咩叫) was tied down at the correct distance. With an accurate gun, they waited for the coming of the tiger. “I suppose we are in some danger?” said Miss Mebbin. She was not actually nervous about the wild beast, but she was unwilling to perform a bit more service than she had been paid for. “It’s a very old tiger. It couldn’t spring up here even if it wanted to.” said Mrs. Packletide. Their conversation was cut short by the appearance of the old tiger. He saw the goat, and lay on the earth for a short rest before attacking. The gun fired very loudly, and the great yellow beast jumped to one side