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　　Mark Shackleton's opinion on people who keep pets has received a lot of comments from our readers. Here are two of them.

　　Kungsbacka

　　Sweden

　　Dear Lucy,

　　In my opinion, animals like cats or dogs are good company for old and lonely people. But in the past dogs were good helpers for hunters, they watched the house, and so on. The cats who lived on the farms helped the farmers to kill rats and keep other small animals out of the farm. I agree with Mark about the danger of keeping animals in big cities and houses and giving them plastic bones and bad food, etc. I hope we can give them the old life back again so they can live in natural environment but also close to people.

Yours sincerely,

Hans Borjesson

　　Broager Central Skole

　　Denmark

　　Dear Lucy,

　　We are some pupils who don't like Mark's opinion about pets in the October issue of Modern English. We disagree with him because we think that children have a lot of fun with pets and they learn how to treat animals. Many old people usually live alone and they love to talk to pets, they depend on them.

　　And what would happen if you let the pets go free? Very soon there would be more cats and dogs in the world than people. Or the animals would die because they weren't able to manage on their own. Look at the alleycats nowadays! They weren't taken care of. Finally, we don't think that Mark has a pet himself or else he would have known better.

Yours sincerely,

Pupils from Broager Central Skole

　　注释：comment n．评论　　issue n．(报刊的)一期　　depend vi．依赖

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1．________ agrees with Mark Shackleton's opinion on people who keep pets.

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A．Lucy

B．Hans Borjesson

C．Pupils from Broager Central Skole

D．No one

2．In Mark Shackleton's opinion, ________.

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A．it's not good to keep pets in big cities

B．it's necessary to keep all the animals in the zoo

C．it's good for the old to keep pets

D．it's possible to make the dogs watch the house and make the cats kill rats

3．According to the pupils from Denmark, ________.

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A．it's good to let the pets go free

B．children will learn how to be kind to their pets

C．children shouldn't take good care of alley-cats

D．there will be more cats and dogs than people one day

4．The Swedish thinks since most people like animals, they ________.

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A．should keep them in their house

B．should let them live a nature life

C．should keep them in the zoo

D．should be taken better care of

5．Modern English in this passage is a ________ for English learners abroad.

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书面表达

　　中学生A不同意建动物园，而B则认为建动物园对于动物好处很多。你同意谁的观点呢?你认为动物是居住在动物园里还是生活在大自然里好呢?请参考使用下列所给短语以及句型表述你的观点。(100词左右)

　　参考句型：I think that...;I believe that...;I feel that...;I agree with...;I disagree with...

　　参考短语：sleep all day;take care of;go hungry;become lazy;live much longer;keep ani-mals in the cages;run freely;be happy

　　Aristotle the Greek thinker who lived about 2,300 years ago, said that heavy things fell faster than light things, but he was wrong. Most of the later scientists believed Aristotle. This remained true until the time of Galileo, the Italian(1564～1642), did not believe him. He went to school to learn science, but he did not like it. Then he went to the University of Pisa to continue his studies in medicine.

　　There is a famous tower at Pisa. It does not stand straight up, but leans(斜)a little more each year. Galileo climbed to the top of the Leaning Tower, and from there dropped two weights. One of them was heavier than the other, but they reached the ground at the same moment. The scientists who were watching were very surprised. This did not agree(同意)with Aristotle's rule.

1. ______said that heavy things fell faster than light things.

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A. Aristotle　　　B. Galileo　　　C. Newton　　　D. Copernicus

2. Galileo was _______.

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A. an English scientist　　　B. an American scientist

C. an Italian scientist　　　D. a Japanese scientist

3. Galileo went to school to learn ______.

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A. science　　　B. math　　　C. music　　　D. art

4. There is a famous _______ at Pisa.

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A. tower　　　B. horse　　　C. river　　　D. cinema

5. From the tower Galileo ______ two weights.

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A. put　　　B. dropped　　　C. drew　　　D. found