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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 roundup-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 a boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she
went back to her old life. "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!
1. For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to________.
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
2. Before Parbati studied in a boarding school, ________.
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
3. Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because________.
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
4. The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India ________.
A. people easily fall victim to elephants' attacks
B. the manelephant relationship is getting worse
C. elephant tamers are in short supply
D. dogs are as powerful as elephants
幼患了软骨病，身长腿短，投特别大，脚小而纤细，走起路来很艰难。但他下定决心苦学三年，终于成为独树一帜的名丑。是挫折与艰辛使他功垂名就。