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这是今天复习了的3-1 A puma at large
Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports cames into London Zoo that a (wild) puma was(had been) spotted forty-five miles south of london, they were not taken seriously. However, as the evidence began (to) accumulate, the experts from the zoo felt obliged to investigate, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to see(have seen) the puma were extrodinarily(extraordinarily) similar.
The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberrys(balckberries) saw \'a large cat\' only five yards away from her. It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts comfirmed that a puma would(will) not attack a human being unless it was(is) cornered. The hunt(search) proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the evening. Wherever it goes(went), it left behind him(it) a trail of dead deers(deer) or(and) small animals like rabbits. Paw prints were seen at a lot of (in a number of) places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes. Some(Several) people complained of \'cat-like\' noises at night and a business man(businessman) on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree. Now the experts were (now) fully convinced that the animal was a pump, but where had it come from? As no pumas was(had been) reported missing from any zoo of(in) the country, this one must had(have) been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught. It is disturbing to think a wild large(dangerous wild) animal is still at large in the quiet countryside. |