The French owner of a rooster called Maurice was taken to court by neighbors who insisted the rooster is too noisy. An elderly couple from Limoges, complained that the rooster cut short their sleep with its dawn crowing (啼叫) next to their home. The couple wanted it 【小题1】 from earshot.

The rooster’s owner, a retired waitress who has been on the island for 35 years, argued,   “A rooster needs to 【小题2】. ” Her lawyer added that the complaints were ridiculous because crowing roosters were part of the country life. 【小题3】, many people signed petitions (请愿书) in support of Maurice and his 【小题4】 to crow.

Mayor of the main town on the island where they live, said, “Today it’s the rooster, but what will it be tomorrow? The noise of the wind? Our accents? ” He has issued a municipal law showing the need to “preserve the rural feature of the town.”

Finally, the court rejected the neighbors’ complaints of the noise pollution and ordered them to pay E1, 000. 【小题5】, the France’s most famous rooster can carry on with his dawn chorus.

Alice likes cats 【小题1】 than any other animal. Although she is still young, she has experience of 【小题2】 after cats.

When she was a child, she 【小题3】 with her grandparents. At that time, her grandparents already had an old cat, about 11 years old, 【小题4】 she was only 4 years old. It was a good friend for her in her childhood. It was very 【小题5】 to her and never hurt her. One day, however, it left home and never came back again. It must be 【小题6】. She was so sad that she was 【小题7】 for it for a long time.

Now Alice has four 【小题8】. She takes good care of them and makes them live comfortable. But she is afraid to take her cats out of the house. She says it is too 【小题9】 for animals to go outside 【小题10】 she thinks that they must be hurt.

Snake meat is popular in restaurants. Some people think eating snakes is good for their 【小题1】. But these people don’t know that snakes feed on 【小题2】 and worms (虫), so there are many parasites (寄生虫) in snakes’ 【小题3】. They may 【小题4】 bad for our health. And we’re sorry 【小题5】 a butcher’s knife kill more snakes now.

An English newspaper 【小题6】, “People eat about 1,000 tons of snakes every year in China. In Shenzhen,【小题7】, people serve 10 tons of snakes on dinner tables in a day. ”

If we continue (继续) to【小题8】 snakes, there will be a vicious circle (恶性循环). If people eat more snakes, snakes are becoming fewer and fewer. But mice are becoming more and more, there will be 【小题9】 crops.

This will make more people 【小题10】. Who wants to see such a bad thing happen? So people must 【小题11】eating snakes. To protect snakes is to protect ourselves.