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FIRST PASSAGE
Here in the hills were buffaloes. I had even, in my very young days – when I could not live till I had killed one of each kind of African animal- shot a bull out here. Later on, when I was not so keen to shoot as to watch the wild animals, I had been out to see them again. I had camped in the hills bringing my servants, tents and food with me but twice I had had to go back without success.

But one afternoon as I was having tea with some friends… outside the house, Denys came flying from Nairobi and went over our heads out westwards; a little while after he turned and came back and landed on the farm. Lady Delamere and I drove down to the plain to fetch him up, but he would not get out of his aeroplane.

‘The buffalo are out feeding in the hills, ‘ he said’, cone out and have a look at them’.
‘I cannot come’, I said, ‘I have got a tea- party up at the house’.
‘But we will go and see them and be back in the quarter of an hour’, he said.
This sounded to me like the suggestions which people which people make to you in a dream. Lady Delamere would not fly so I went up with him. It did not take us long to see the buffalo from the air; we counted them as they peacefully mixed and separated. There was one very old big black make, one or two younger males, and a number of young ones. The open ground on which they walked was closed in by bushes; had a stranger approached on the ground they would have heard or scented him at once, but they were not prepared for advance from the air. They heard the noise of our machine and stopped feeding, but they did not seem to have it in them to look up. In the end they realised that something very strange was about; the old male first walked out in front of the rest. Suddenly he began to go down the valley side and after a moment he broke into a run. The whole group now followed him, rushing headlong down, and as they plunged into the bushes, dust and loose stones rose behind them. In a small wood of low trees they stopped and kept close together. Here they believed themselves to be out of sight, and so they were to anything moving along the ground, but they could not hide themselves from the eyes of the bird of the air. We flew up and way. It was like having been taken into the heart of the Ngong Hills by a secret unknown road.
When I came back to my tea- party the teapot on the stone was still so hot that I burned my fingers on it.

1 When the author was young she
A. was keen to kill as many animals as possible
B. had failed to find the buffalo.
C. was keen to shoot one of every sort of African animal.
D. Preferred watching wild animals to shooting them.

2.Lady Delamere and the author went to the aeroplane.
A. to pick Denys up and take him back to the tea-party.
B. to talk to Denys.
C.to persuade Denys to leave the plane.
D. because they wanted to go up in the plane.

3. Denys said it would only take a quarter of an hour to go and see the buffalo.
A. looked up at it.
B. ran away immediately
C. if they went by a secret route.
D. but it wasn’t a serious suggestion.

4. When the buffalo heard the noise of the plane they
A. thought they couldn’t be seen.
B. could only be seen from the ground.
C. could only be seen if the plane flew higher.
D. could not see the plane.