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Animal Services

Town Lake Animal Center is the largest animal shelter in Central Texas, offering shelter to more than 23,000 animals each year and animal control services to all of Austin and Travis County.In the shelter, no animal will be turned away.

Hours of Operation

Shelter:

Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.to 7:00 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday, 11:30 a.m.to 5:00 p.m.

Closed City Holidays

Homeless or unwanted animals can be safely dropped off at the shelter.

Animal Protection and Control:

Monday ― Friday, 7:00 a.m.to 6:00 p.m.

Saturday ― Sunday, 7:00 a.m.to 5:00 p.m.

City Holidays, 7:00 a.m.to 3:00 p.m.

Officers on call overnight

Administrative Offices:

Monday ― Friday, 9:00 a.m.to 5:00 p.m.

Closed City Holidays

Location: 1156 W.Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78703

Mailing address: Town lake Animal Center, POBox 1088, Austin, TX 78767

What’s New

Animal Cruelty Prevention Classes

PURPOSE: To teach people how to recognize and report animal cruelty.

WHO: All citizens are encouraged to take this class.

CAUSE: Usually animal cruelty is in relation to(与……有关) family cruelty.People who hurt animals often move on to hurt human beings.If you’re able to recognize and report animal cruelty, you can help prevent cruelty from spreading throughout your area.

Programs

Town Lake Animal Center offers a number of animal-related services to Austin and Travis County, including Animal Protection & Control, a Pet Lost & Found, Pet Adoptions(领养) and Pet Registration(登记).

Because the shelter accepts all animals, and because there is a big problem of a large population of pets in our area, the shelter does carry out painless killing of animals that have no other choices for lifetime care.

60.According to the passage, Town Lake Animal Center    .

A.is the largest animal shelter in the USA        

B.kills or sells homeless animals

C.offers many services to animals                   

D.is a place that raises animals for food

61.If you meet a badly injured pet dog at night, you’d better    .

A.send it to the shelter directly         

B.call Administrative Offices immediately

C.send it to Animal Cruelty Prevention Classes

D.call Animal Protection and Control officers

62.Attending Animal Cruelty Prevention Classes can also help    .

A.avoid family cruelty                               B.know more about the wildlife

C.stop any animal cruelty                        D.treat injured animals quickly

63.According to the passage, Town Lake Animal Center has the right to    .

       A.kill any animal in the area      B.reduce animals’ population greatly

C.balance the number of animals       D.stop animals’ life without pain

60---63    CDAD   


解析:

60.C 细节理解题。依据倒数第二段信息推断Town Lake Animal Center提供疾病预防、领养、认领、登记等多项服务。

61.D 推理判断题。依据原文Officers on call overnight推断夜间只能联系该部门。

62.A 细节理解题。依据Animal Cruelty Prevention Classes的最后一句话推断,保护动物不受虐待也能保护人类情感。

63.D 细节理解题。依据全文最后一句话内容推断该中心可以对于那些不可救治的动物实行“安乐死”。

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  We have met the enemy and he i s our s.We bought him at a pet shop.When monkey-pox, a di sea se u sually found in the African rain fore st suddenly turn s up in children in the American Midwe st, it' s hard not to wonder of the di sea se that come s from foreign animal s i s homing in on human being s.“Mo st of the infection s we think of a s human infection s started in other animal s, ” say s Stephen Mor se, director of the Center for Public Health Preparedne s s at Columbia Univer sity.

  It' s not ju st that we're going to where the animal s are; we're al so bringing them clo ser to u s.Popular foreign pet s have brought a whole new di sea se to thi s country.A strange illne s s killed I sak sen' s pet s and she now think s that keeping foreign pet s i s a bad idea, “I don't think it' s fair to have them a s pet s when we have such alimited knowledge of them.” say s I sak sen.

  “Law s allowing the se animal s to be brought in from deep fore st area s without stricter control need changing.” say s Peter Schantz.Monkey-pox may be the wake-up call.Re searcher s believe infected animal s may infect their owner s.We know very little about the se new di sea se s.A new bug(病毒)may be kind at fir st.But it may develop into something harmful.Monkey-pox doe sn't look a major infectiou s di sea se.But it i s not impo s sible to pa s s the di sea se from per son to per son.

(1)

We learn from Paragraph 1 that the pet sold at the shop may ________.

[  ]

A.

come from Columbia

B.

prevent u s from being infected

C.

enjoy being with children

D.

suffer from monkey-pox

(2)

Why did I sak sen advi se people not to have foreign pet s?

[  ]

A.

Becau se they attack human being s.

B.

Becau se we need to study native animal s.

C.

Becau se they can't live out of the rain fore st.

D.

Becau se we do not know much about them yet.

(3)

What doe s the phra se “the wake-up call” in Paragraph 3 mo st probably mean?

[  ]

A.

A new di sea se.

B.

A clear warning.

C.

A dangerou s animal.

D.

A morning call.

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