Ⅰ.阅读理解(建议用时16′)

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　　[2016·育才中学联考二]I went to the Tsavo National Park in northern Kenya for a film. We set off early for a distant water hole. A huge elephant covered with dry mud, drank calmly and deeply. He might have traveled 50 km to reach the water. He wasn't going to hurry now. He'd drink a while and rest in the shade, and then drink again or so we thought. What actually happened was that he drank deeply and stepped away.S Then he suddenlyW1 fell down. Within minutes he was dead.

　　We called animal doctor Jeremiah Poghon immediately. He removed the head of a poisonedW2 arrow from the elephant's body, and let outP1 over 100 liters of pus (胺)－the result of the elephant's meeting with a poacher (偷猎者) months before.

　　Today's poacher shoots from a blind. He fires an arrow, covered with poison, into the body of an elephant. If the poacher is lucky, the elephant might die in an hour or twoP2; if not, he might have to follow the elephant for days before it dies. Often the arrow head fails to kill the elephant at once－it doesn't mean the poison won't finally kill the elephant, but it will be a slow death.

　　Living in Tsavo through these times, I could see the results of poaching from time to time. When I think about the death of that elephant, what stays with me is the extraordinaryW3 silence after the shockingW4 sound of his body hitting the ground. I took some comfort from the knowledge that as the dead body returned to the soil, some animals would benefit－but I couldn't escapeW5 the feeling that with the death of such a large animal, the world seemed to be a poorer and emptier place.

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