河南省南阳市第一中学2016-2017学年高二下学期第一次月考（3月）英语试题

南阳一中2017年春期高二第一次月考 英语试卷 第二部分阅读理解（共两节,满分40分） 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。 A The orderly came back in a few minutes with a rifle（步枪）and some Burmans（缅甸人）. He told us that the elephant was in the rice fields below, only a few hundred yards away. As I started forward practically the whole population of the quarter flocked out of the houses and followed me. They had seen the rifle and were all shouting excitedly that I was going to shoot the elephant. It was fun to them, as it would be to an English crowd; besides, they wanted the meat. It made me a little uneasy. I had no intention of shooting the elephant—I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself—and it is always uneasy to have a crowd following you. I marched down the hill, looking and feeling a fool, with the rifle over my shoulder and an ever-growing army of people knocking and pushing at my heels. Beyond the huts（小木屋）there was a rice field a thousand yards across, muddy from the first rains. The e