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New Concept English III Lesson 1 A Puma at large 逃遁的美洲狮 Pumas are large, cat-like animals ____________are found in America. When reports came into London Zoo ___________a wild puma _________________(spot) forty-five miles south of London, they were not taken_____________(serious). _____________, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged ________ investigate, for the descriptions _________(give) by people who claimed to___________(see) the puma were______________ (extraordinary )similar. The hunt ________ the puma began in a small village__________a woman ____________(pick) 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 ___________ it is cornered. The search proved difficult,____ the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at___________ place twenty miles away in the evening. Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals ______ rabbits. Paw prints were seen in ____ number of places and puma fur was found ________(cling) to bushes. Several people complained of cat-like noises at night and a businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree. The experts were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma, _______where had it come from? _______no pumas had been reported______(miss) from any zoo in the country, this one must __________(be) in the_____________(possess) of a private_________(collect) and somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught. ____ is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside. Lesson 2 Thirteen equals one 十三等于一 Our vicar ____ always_______(raise) money for one cause or________, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock_______(repair). The big clock _____ used to _______(str