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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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AThe?elephant?was?lying?heavily?on?its?side,?fastasleep.?A?few?dogs?started?barking?at?it.?Theelephant?woke?up?in?a?terrible?anger:?it?chased?thedogs?into?the?village?where?they?ran?for?safety.That?didnt?stop?the?elephant.?It?destroyed?a?dozenhouses?and?injured?several?people.?The?villagers?werescared?and?angry.?Then?someone?suggested?callingParbati,?the?elephant?princess.Parbati?Baruas?father?was?a?hunter?of?tigers?and?an?elephant?tamer.?He?taught?Parbati?to?rideanelephant?before?she?could?even?walk.?He?also?taught?her?the?dangerous?art?of?the?elephantround?-?up?–?how?to?catch?wild?elephants.Parbati?hasnt?always?lived?in?the?jungle.?After?a?happy?childhood?hunting?with?her?father,?shewas?sent?to?boarding?school?in?the?city.?But?Parbati?never?got?used?to?being?there?and?manyyears?later?she?went?back?to?her?old?fife. Life?in?the?city?is?too?dull.?Catching?elephants?is?anadventure?and?theexcitement?lasts?for?days?after?the?chase,?she?says.But?Parbati?doesnt?catch?elephants?just?for?fun. My?work,?she?says, is?to?rescue?man?fromthe?elephants,?and?to?keep?the?elephants?safe?from?man. ?And?this?is?exactly?what?Parbati?hasbeen?doing?for?many?years.?Increasingly,?the?Indian?elephant?is?angry?:?for?many?years,?illegalhunters?have?attacked?it?and?its?home?in?the?jungle?has?been?reduced?to?small?pieces?of?land-?Itis?now?fighting?back.?Whenever?wild?elephants?enter?a?tea?garden?or?a?village,?Parbati?is?called?toguide?the?animals?back?to?the?jungle?be-?fore?they?can?kill.The?work?of?an?elephant?tamer?also?involves?love?and?devotion.?A?good?elephant?tamer?willspend?hours?a?day?singing?love?songs?to?a?newly?captured?elephant. ?Eventually?they?grow?tolove?their?tamers?and?never?forget?them.?They?are?also?more?loyal?than?humans, ?she?said,?asshe?climbed?up?one?of?herelephants?and?sat?on?die?giant,?happy?animal.?An?elephant?princess?indeed!21.?For?Parbati,?catching?elephants?is?mainly?to?__A.?get?long?l