In Canada, you can find dogs, cats, horses, etc. in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and have them as their good friends.
Before they keep them in their houses, they take them to animal hospitals to give them injections (注射) so that they won’t carry disease. They have special animal food stores, though they can get animal food in almost every kind of store. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food. When you visit people’s houses, they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find that almost every family has a bird feeder in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody is allowed to kill any animal in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. If you killed an animal, you would be punished. If an animal happened to get run over by a car, people would be very sad.
People in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be: Their family ties are not as close as ours. When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.
【小题1】The passage mainly talks about ________.
| A．how to keep disease from pets | B．pets in Canada |
| C．how to take good care of pets | D．life of the old in Canada |
【小题2】They give their pets injections before keeping them at their houses because ________.
| A．the pets are sick | B．the pets are wild |
| C．they want to stop them from carrying disease | D．they want them to sleep on the way home |
【小题3】This passage shows that Canadians ________.
| A．hate animals | B．often kill animals | C．love animals | D．don’t keep pets inside houses |
【小题4】In Canada, children leave their parents when they grow up because ________
| A．they don’t love their parents any more | B．they can only find jobs far from their parents |
| C．their parents’ houses are too small | D．they wouldn’t depend on their parents any more |
