Early one morning the sub­inspector at a station at the other end of the town rang me. An elephant was damaging the town. Would I please come and do something about it?
I did not know what I could do, but I got onto a horse and started out.  I took my gun, maybe too small to kill an elephant, but I thought the noise might scare him. Various local people stopped me on the way and told me about the elephant's doings.
It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one. It had been chained up but last night it had broken its chain and escaped. Its owner, had set out to run after it, but had taken the wrong direction. He was now twelve hours' journey away, and in the morning the elephant had suddenly appeared in the town. It had already destroyed somebody's bamboo hut (棚屋), killed a cow and turned over fruit­stalls.
I came round the hut and saw a man's dead body sprawling in the mud.  He was an Indian, and he could not have been dead many minutes. The people said that the elephant caught him with its trunk, put its foot on his back and grounded him into the earth. This was the rainy season and he was lying on his stomach in the soft mud, the__peacebreaker standing beside, looking innocent.
As I lifted my gun, I hesitated a few seconds. Then I fired. That was a shot that did for him.
You could see the pain of it knock the last strength from his legs. But in falling he seemed for a moment to rise, his trunk reaching skyward like a tree. He trumpeted, for the first and only time. And then down he came, with a crash that shook the ground.
小題1:Which of the following statements about the author is TRUE?
A．He was an Indian.
B．He knew elephants well.
C．He was not a local villager.
D．He was the owner of the elephant.
小題2:The elephant made so much trouble because ________.
A．its owner treated him cruelly
B．it got out of control
C．it hated the village people
D．it was a wild elephant
小題3:The underlined words “the peacebreaker” in Paragraph 4 refer to ________.
A．the elephantB．the dead man
C．the authorD．the sub­inspector
小題4:It can be inferred that the author felt ________ when he shot the elephant.
A．excitedB．sad
C．frightenedD．happy

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:B

試題分析：
小題1:C 推理題。根據(jù)第一段Would I please come and do something about it?
說(shuō)明我不在那個(gè)村子里，故說(shuō)明我可能不是當(dāng)?shù)卮謇锏娜�，故C正確。
小題2:B 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第三段第二行l(wèi)ast night it had broken its chain and escaped.說(shuō)明這頭大象掙脫了鐵鏈，失去了控制才會(huì)帶來(lái)如此多的麻煩，故B正確。
小題3:A 猜測(cè)詞義題。根據(jù)本段說(shuō)明那個(gè)人是被大象踩死的。the__peacebreaker standing beside, looking innocent.說(shuō)明該詞就是指這頭大象。故A正確。
小題4:B 推理題。根據(jù)最后一段內(nèi)容的描述，尤其是第一句You could see the pain of it knock the last strength from his legs.說(shuō)明他心里很猶豫也很難受，故B正確。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：文章講述了我親手擊斃一頭大象的故事。本文較為容易，集中考查了細(xì)節(jié)題，本文的54題較難，要求考生根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容判斷作者的情感。對(duì)文章的細(xì)節(jié)把握要求較高。
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