The Cat That Showed Up

  Li Ping was the pet (宠物) cat of a young woman named Vivian. Vivian lived in Ohio. She decided to take a job in Florida. She could not take Li Ping with her right away, so she left the cat with her sister.

  In a month, Vivian found a good place to live. She wrote to her sister and asked her to send Li Ping to Florida. Vivian missed her cat very much. She mailed the letter and went to visit a friend. She started up the steps of her friend' s house. Suddenly, something caught her eye. A cat was coming toward her. It looked thin and very hungry.

  “That cat looks like Li Ping, ” thought Vivian. But it couldn't be. Li Ping was more than a thousand miles away. The cat ran straight to Vivian. She picked it up and looked at it. The cat opened its mouth and let out a tiny squeak(吱吱叫声) . Then Vivian knew the cat was hers. Li Ping got hurt when he was a kitten (小猫) . The only sound he could make was a little squeak.

  Vivian called her sister in Ohio. Li Ping had been missing for two weeks, her sister said. She was afraid to tell Vivian. She knew how much Vivian loved her cat.

  How did Li Ping make such a long trip? How did the cat find Vivian? She was not even at her own home. No one knows the answers to those questions. No one knows how a cat's mind works.

1.Vivian moved to Florida so she could ________.

[  ]

A.start a new job

B.find a new cat

C.visit a friend

 

2.The only sound Li Ping could make was ________.

[  ]

A.a growl

B.a squeak

C.a scream

 

3.At first Vivian could not tell if the cat was Li Ping because

________.

[  ]

A.it was running

B.it looked thin and hungry

C.it got hurt

 

4.The story does not tell ________.

[  ]

A.why Vivian left Ohio

B.where Vivian moved

C.how Li Ping got to Florida

 

5.Another title for this story could be ________.

[  ]

A.“Cats in Florida”

B.“ The Strange Story of Li Ping”

C.“How To Care for a cat ”

 

The owner of a missing cat is asking for help. “My baby has been missing for over a month now, and I want him back so badly,” said Mrs. Brown, a 56-year-old woman. Mrs. Brown lives by herself in a trailer park near Clovis. She said that Clyde, her 7-year-old cat, didn’t come home for dinner more than a month ago. The next morning he didn’t appear for breakfast either. After Clyde missed an extra-special lunch, she called the police.

When the policeman asked her to describe Clyde, she told him that Clyde had beautiful green eyes, had all his teeth but was missing half of his left ear, and was seven years old and completely white. She then told the officer that Clyde was about a foot high.

A bell went off. “Is Clyde your child or your pet?” the officer suspiciously asked. “Well, he’s my cat, of course,” Mrs. Brown replied. “Lady, you’re supposed to report missing PERSONS, not missing CATS,” said the sppeadeotoned policeman. “Well, who can I report this to?” she asked. “You can’t. You have to ask around your neighborhood or put up flyers,” replied the officer.

Mrs. Brown figured that a billboard would work a lot better than an 8”x11” piece of paper on a telephone pole. There was an empty billboard at the end of her street just off the interstate(州际公路) highway. The billboard had a phone number on it. She called that number, and they told her they could blow up a picture of Clyde (from Mrs. Brown’s family album) and put it on the billboard for all to see.

“But how can people see it when they whiz(快速移动) by on the interstate?” she asked. “Oh, don’t worry, ma’am, they only whiz by between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. The rest of the day, the interstate is so full of commuters that no one moves.” They told her it would cost only $3,000 a month. So she took most of the money out of her savings account and rented the billboard for a month.

The month has passed, but Clyde has not appeared. Because she has almost no money in savings, Mrs. Brown called the local newspaper to see if anyone could help her rent the billboard for just one more month. She is waiting but, so far, no one has stepped forward.

1.How long has the cat been missing?

A.More than a month                      B.More than two months

C.More than three months                  D.It’s been back.

2.Who did the old lady finally turn to for help?

A.A billboard company                     B.The police

C.The phone company                     D.The interstate telephone line

3.How is the old lady like?

A.Stupid            B.Loving            C.Smart            D.Decisive(有决断力的)

4.The underlined word was mistyped(打错了). But we can still guess it’s most probable meaning:____________.

A.angry            B.surprised          C.happy            D.excited

5.What’s the best title for this passage?

A.An advertisement                       B.A missing cat

C.A pet’s story                          D.Life without cat

 

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