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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。
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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 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 be- fore 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 die giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India ______.
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
B
Big messaging apps abroad
While WeChat is China's biggest mobile messaging app (应用软件) there are many equivalent apps in other countries that offer similar features.
WhatsApp (US)
Users: more than 300 million?
Platforms: Android, 10S, Windows Phone, BlackBerry
Features. Text chat, push-to-talk, file sharing, location sharing
With more than 300 million active users, WhatsApp is one of WeChat's biggest competitors.
Developed by two ex-Yahoo, employees in 2009, WhatsApp originally focused on text chat, but onAug6 it also started push - to - talk service. It's noted for its accessibility, ease of use and the absence (没有) ofadverts. The service is free for the first year, after which $ 0.99 (6. 06 yuan) is charged for a one -year
subscription.
Kakao Talk (South Korea)
Users- more than 100 million
Platform Android, iOS, W.ndo.s Phone. BlackBerry and Bada (an operate system developed by Samsung)
Features. Text chat, group chat, push - to - talk, group calls, file sharing
With .ore than 100 million users in .ore than 230 countries, Kakao Talk is a multi - platform ( 多平台 ) texting application that allows users to send and receive messages for tree. With Kakao Talk, userschoose from more than 250 animated emoticons and share them with friends.
Line (Japan)^
Users: more than 200 million
Platforms. Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and PC
Features. Text chat, group chat, push - to - talk, file sharing, location sharing, gaming, stickers.
Linne tops the list of the most downloaded free apps in 52 countries. Apart from text and voice messaging , Line provides its users with more than 250 original stickers and emoticons to buy from ,. own shop. In the first quarter of 2013 alone. it made $ ,7 million just from stickers. The popular app also allows friends to battle each other in the LINE Game.
25. The first paragraph of the passage is nsed to.
A. introduce the most popular mobile messaging apps in China
B. talk about new features in the latest mobile messaging apps
C. draw readers' attention to various popular mobile messaging apps
D. explain how mobile messaging apps have become so popular
26. Compared with the other two apps, which of the following features makes Line stand out?
A. Group mobile games. B. Free stickers and emoticons.
C. Free download of the app.D. Text and group chat.
27. One of the popular features of WhatsApp is that users ..
A. can send and receive messages for free B can enjov live video chats within groups
C. don't need to worry about unwanted ads D. regularlv set free stickers and emoticons
