Early one morning the sub-inspector 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 fruit¬stalls. 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 for him. You could see the pain of it knocking 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.
小题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.小题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小题3:The underlined words “the peacebreaker” in Paragraph 4 refer to ________.
A．the elephant
B．the dead man
C．the author
D．the sub¬inspector小题4:It can be inferred that the author felt ________ when he shot the elephant.
A．excited
B．sad
C．frightened
D．happy
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:B
文章介绍了自己射杀大象的事情。
小题1:推理题。根据第五行Various local people stopped me on the way可知我并不是当地人。如果我是当地人，就不会说当地人阻止我了。
小题2:细节题。根据It had been chained up but last night it had broken its chain and escaped.可知这只大象挣脱了铁链，失去了控制。
小题3:推理题。这只大象逃脱以后给当地人带来了很大的伤害，正是一个破坏和平的人。
小题4:推理题。根据文章倒数第5行looking innocent. As I lifted my gun, I hesitated a few seconds可知我有点犹豫，说明我并不想射杀大象，后面大象倒地以后我应该是很难过的。