新概念第三册背诵: Lesson 1 - A Puma at large

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Lesson 1 A Puma at large
Where must the puma have come from?

Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of London, they were not taken seriously. however, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have see the puma were extraordinarily similar.
    The hunt for puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her. It immediately ran away, when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered. The search proved difficult, for the puma was often obversed at one places in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the evening. Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits. Paw prints were (found at)  seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes. Several people complained of 'cat-like noises' at night and a businessman on a fishing trip saw (a) the puma up a tree. The experts were now fully convinced (to) that the wild animal was a puma, but where had it come from? As no pumas had been reported missing from any Zoo in the country, this one must 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 that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.

update: 检查了一下后，发现遗漏还是好多。

我的计划是一个星期背两篇，但这样似乎会拖太久，但是为了保证背诵质量，而且同时还有其他的工作和学习需要占用时间，所以暂定位一周两篇，第二篇我已经过了好几遍，应该很快会就背住了。

update: 同义词
spot : find                        accumulate : gather
obliged to : forced to         claime: assert/ declare
extraordninarily similar : extremely like    
immediately : at once/ instantly
convinced : assured

转载于:https://www.cnblogs.com/samuelhou/archive/2008/02/22/1077719.html