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  Pet owners are being encouraged to take their animals to work, a move scientists say can be good for productivity, workplace morale(士气), and the well being of animals.

  A study found that 25% of Australian women would like to keep an office pet.Sue Chaseling of Petcare Information Service said the practice of keeping office pets was good both for the people and the pets.“On the pets’ side, they are not left on their own and won’t feel lonely and unhappy,” she said.A study of major US companies showed that 73% found office pets beneficial(有益的), while 27% experienced a drop in absenteeism(缺勤).

  Xarni Riggs has two cats walking around her Global Hair Salon in Paddington.“My customers love them.They are their favorites,” she said.“They are not troublesome.They know when to go and have a sleep in the sun.”

  Little black BJ has spent nearly all his two years “working” at Punch Gallery in Balmain.Owner Iain Powell said he had had cats at the gallery for 15 years.“BJ often lies in the shop window and people walking past tap on the glass,” he said.

  Ms Chaseling said cats were popular in service industries because they enabled a point of conversation.But she said owners had to make sure both their co-workers and the cats were comfortable.

(1)

The percentage of American companies that are in favor of keeping office pets is ________.

[  ]

A.

73%

B.

27%

C.

25%

D.

15%

(2)

We know from the text that “BJ” ________.

[  ]

A.

works in the Global Hair Salon

B.

often greets the passers-by

C.

likes to sleep in the sun

D.

is a two-year-old cat

(3)

The best title for this text would be ________.

[  ]

A.

Pets Help Attract Customers

B.

Your Favorite Office Pets

C.

Pets Join the Workforce

D.

Busy Life for Pets

答案:1.A;2.D;3.C;
解析:

注意把握文章的主体结构。文章以一条调查信息为主题(Sue Chaseling of Petcare Information Service said the practice of keeping office pets was good both for the people and the pets.),通过事例来证明这一信息。


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Many people consider their pets members of the family and are very sad when they die, but what if you could clone your dog, cat or bird?

  A scientist in New Orleans, who has proved his ability to clone other animals, is now offering the possibility to pet owners here in Wisconsin.

  Scientists have not been able to clone dogs, cats or other pets, but if and when the time comes, several companies will be ready and able to do the job.

  The question is: Are you ready to clone your pet? Brett Reggio is betting on it. He is working on his Ph D at Louisiana State University. He's successfully cloned a goat five times and wants to try the process on family pets. So he started a business called Lazaron. “What Lazaron provides is the first step in the cloning process.” He said.“It's for curing and storing the fiberglass cells that will be used for cloning.”

  “Your first reaction is yeah! I think I'd like that,” said Donna Schacht, a pet owner.

  “I don't believe you can ever replace a special love,” pet owner Paulette Callation said.

  Most pet owners will tell you freezing your pet's DNA in hopes of one day cloning it is a personal decision.

  Scientists say that cloning your own pet doesn't mean that the offspring will have the same intelligence, temperament or other qualities that your pet has.

(1)From the passage we know that scientists has ________.

[  ]

A.tried to clone animals

B.cloned many kinds of animals

C.been able to clone pets for people

D.once cloned goats successfully

(2)Brett Reggio started a business in order to ________.

[  ]

A.clone pets for people

B.store the DNA of people's pets for cloning one day

C.make pets members of a family

D.collect different ideas on cloning from people

(3)Some people seem not interested in cloning pets because ________.

[  ]

A.they think it would be too expensive

B.they don't think scientists will one day be able to clone their pets

C.they think the cloned pet would not be the one they once had

D.they don't want to give any love to the cloned pet

(4)If you cloned a pet, you might find that it ________.

[  ]

A.looked different from the pet you once had

B.turned out to be another kind of animal

C.had a different character

D.were just the same pet your once had

阅读理解

  Many people consider their pets members of the family and are very sad when they die, but what if you could clone your dog, eat or bird?

  A scientist in New Orleans, who has proved his ability to clone other animals, is now offering the possibility to pet owners here in Wisconsin.

  Scientists have not been able to clone dogs, cats or other pets, but if and when the time comes, several companies will be ready and able to do the job.

  The question is: Are you ready to clone your pet? Brett Reggio is betting on it. He is working on his Ph. D at Louisians State University. He's successfully cloned a goat five times and wants to try the process on family pets. So he started a business called Lazaron. “What Lazaron provides is the first step in the cloning process.” He said. “It's for curing and storing the fiberglass cells that will be used for cloning.”

  “Your first reaction is yeah! I think I'd like that.” said Donna Schacht, a pet owner.

  “I don't believe you can ever replace a special love,” pet owner Paulette Callation said.

  Most pet owners will tell you freezing your pet's DNA in hopes of one day cloning it is a personal decision.

  Scientists say that cloning your own pet doesn't mean that the offspring will have the same intelligence, temperment or other qualities that your pet has.

1.From the passage we know that scientists has ________.

[  ]

A.tried to clone animals

B.cloned many kinds of animals

C.been able to clone pets for people

D.once cloned goats successfully

2.Brett Reggio started a business in order to ________.

[  ]

A.clone pets for people

B.store the DAN of people's pets for cloning one day

C.make pets members of a family

D.collect different ideas on cloning from people

3.Some people seem not interested in cloning pets because ________.

[  ]

A.they think it would be too expensive

B.they don't think scientists will one day be able to clone their pets

C.they think the cloned pet would not be the one they once had

D.they don’t want to give any love to the cloned pet

4.If you cloned a pet, you might find that it ________.

[  ]

A.looked different from the pet you once had

B.turned out to be another kind of animal

C.had a different character

D.were just the same pet you once had

  阅读理解

Many people consider their pets members of the family and are very sad when they die, but what if you could clone your dog, cat or bird?

  A scientist in New Orleans, who has proved his ability to clone other animals, is now offering the possibility to pet owners here in Wisconsin.

  Scientists have not been able to clone dogs, cats or other pets, but if and when the time comes, several companies will be ready and able to do the job.

  The question is: Are you ready to clone your pet? Brett Reggio is betting on it. He is working on his Ph D at Louisiana State University. He's successfully cloned a goat five times and wants to try the process on family pets. So he started a business called Lazaron. “What Lazaron provides is the first step in the cloning process.” He said.“It's for curing and storing the fiberglass cells that will be used for cloning.”

  “Your first reaction is yeah! I think I'd like that,” said Donna Schacht, a pet owner.

  “I don't believe you can ever replace a special love,” pet owner Paulette Callation said.

  Most pet owners will tell you freezing your pet's DNA in hopes of one day cloning it is a personal decision.

  Scientists say that cloning your own pet doesn't mean that the offspring will have the same intelligence, temperament or other qualities that your pet has.

(1)From the passage we know that scientists has ________.

[  ]

A.tried to clone animals

B.cloned many kinds of animals

C.been able to clone pets for people

D.once cloned goats successfully

(2)Brett Reggio started a business in order to ________.

[  ]

A.clone pets for people

B.store the DNA of people's pets for cloning one day

C.make pets members of a family

D.collect different ideas on cloning from people

(3)Some people seem not interested in cloning pets because ________.

[  ]

A.they think it would be too expensive

B.they don't think scientists will one day be able to clone their pets

C.they think the cloned pet would not be the one they once had

D.they don't want to give any love to the cloned pet

(4)If you cloned a pet, you might find that it ________.

[  ]

A.looked different from the pet you once had

B.turned out to be another kind of animal

C.had a different character

D.were just the same pet your once had


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  More and more young people enjoy having pets,but they don't like to keep them.At present in Changchun,people prefer to rent pets and play with them during weekends,regarding this as a fashionablelifestyle.
  Mr.Feng,from Jilin Province,likes pet dogs.Last weekend he rented a Scottish shepherd dog from a localpet shop.He bathed the dog,and went walking with it.He said he could not keep pets in his spare time because he was busy everday except weekends.To rent pets during weekends seemsto be the most practical and economical way to relax himself.
  A manager from a pet shop says his customers(主顾) are all like Mr.Feng,usually too busy to keeppets,and some of them have never kept any pets before. But they hope torent pets and learn to keep pets so that they can know whether they can be good pet masters or not.
  It's reported that all pets for rent need to beimmunized(免疫).Before they are rented out,pet shops will teach their customers the ABCs of pet keeping and preparing pet food based on each pet's taste.
  Shop assistants will also provide(提供)different konds of services for pets like health checkup if their customers want to rent pets for a longer period.
  Dogs for rent are often not ordinary ones,so their rent is high,usually 200 - 500 yuan(US$ 25-63) per day.Sometimes,you have to leave thousands of yuan with the owner before you can take a dog away.
  60.Mr.Feng rents pets instead of keeping them mainly because _______.
  A.it's cheaper                  B.it is more fun
  C.he has little spare time         D.he wants a new pet for each week
  61.What do we know about those who rent pets?
  A.None of them ever kept a pet before.
  B.They'll become pet owners later.
  C.They enjoy having pets.
  D.They want to help protect animals.
  62.The underlined phrase "the ABCs(of…)"in the 4th paragraph refers to "______(of…)".
  A.the possible dangers           B.the basic knowledge
  C.the communicative language    D.the rules set by the shops
  63.The dogs' rent is high because___________.
  A.the customers are rich           B.there are few dogs to rent
  C.their owners hate to leave them    D.they are top - class dogs

Every pet owner loves his pet. There is no argument here.

  But when we asked our readers whether they would clone (克隆, 复制)their beloved animals, the responses(反应) were split almost down the middle. Of the 228 readers who answered it, 108 would clone, 111 would not and nine weighed each side without offering an opinion.

  Clearly, from readers’ response, this is an issue that reaches deeply into both the joy and final sadness of owning a pet. It speaks, as well, to people’s widely differing expectations over the developing scientific procedure.

  Most of the respondents who favored the idea strongly believed it would produce at least a close copy of the original; many felt the process would actually return an exact copy. Those on the other side, however, held little hope a clone could never truly recreate a pet, many simply didn’t wish to go against the natural law of life and death.

  Both sides expressed equal love for their animals. More than a few respondents owned “the best dog/cat in the world”. They thought of their pets as their “best friend”, “a member of the family,”“the light of my life.” They told moving stories of pets’ heroism, intelligence and selfless devotion.

  Then the loss is so disturbing---and the cloning so attractive. “People become very close to their animals, and the loss can be just as hard to bear as when a friend or family member dies,” says Gary Kowalski, author of Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet. “For me, cloning feels like an attempt to turn death away…It’s understandable. Death is always painful. It’s difficult to deal with. It’s hard to accept.”

  But would cloning reduce the blow? This question seemed to be at the heart of this problem.

1.So far as the cloning of pets is concerned, a recent survey shows that, of all pet owners, ____.

A.a lot more of them are for it

B.a lot more of them are against it

C.very few of them are willing to tell their opinions

D.about half of them are for it and the other half against it

2.While talking about the respondents from the readers, the expression “final sadness of owning a pet” refers to ____.

A.the death of one’s pet

B.the high cost of owning a pet

C.the troubles one has to deal with in keeping a pet

D.the dangers about the cloning of a pet

3.From what Gary Kowalski says, we can know that he ____.

A.has never thought about the problem of cloning

B.is going to write another book on pets

C.is in favor of the idea of cloning pets

D.is all against the cloning of pets

4.What is the key question at the heart of the problem of cloning pets?

A.Can cloning make the pain one suffers less when a pet dies?

B.Can pet owners afford the cost of cloning?

C.Does cloning go against the law of nature?

D.How reliably does cloning produce an exact copy of one’s pet?

 

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