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 本文属于记叙文阅读，在文章的开头作者向我们介绍了在印度大象与狗之间的关系并不是很友好，引出"大象公主"巴瓦娣，她的父亲教会他如何捕捉并驯服大象，她的工作驯兽师，驯服大象是为了保护它们的安全，作者写这个文章是为了告诉我们在印度大象与人之间的关系越来越差．
解答 65．B 归纳概括题．根据第四段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．"可知驯服大象主要是为了保障大象与人之间的安全，故选B．
66．A 细节理解题，根据第三段After happy childhood hunting with her father，she was sent to boarding school in the city．可知Parbati在去寄宿学校学习之前与父亲一起在丛林中度过了她的童年，故选A．
67．C 细节理解题，根据第四段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．可知印度大象越来越生气并且开始报复是因为他们被攻击并且他们生活的领地在减少，故选C．
68．B 主旨大意题，通读全文可知这篇文章是从一个大象的故事开始，作者写这个文章的目的是为了解释在印度大象与人之间的关系越来越差，故选B．
点评 做阅读理解时要快速的浏览全文，把握文章主旨大意，带着问题回到原文，寻找细节或概括相应的答案，最后要理清作者写作思路．
