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新概念英语 1-20课复习总结 Lesson 1 Pumas are large 似猫的 animals which 产于美洲. 当伦敦动物园接到报告 that a wild puma had been spotted 伦敦以南45公里处, 这些报告并没有受到重视. However, 随着证据越来越多, experts from the Zoo 感到有必要 investigate, for the descriptions given by people who 声称见过 the puma were extraordinarily similar. 搜寻美洲狮的工作 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 确认 that a puma will not attack a human being 除非被逼得走投无路了. The search 很困难, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the evening. 看到了爪印 in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes. Several people 抱怨 “cat-like noises‘ at night and a businessman 去钓鱼 saw the puma up a tree. The experts 现在完全肯定 that the 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 由…豢养 a private collector and somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught. 真令人担心 to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside. Lesson 2 Our vicar is 老是筹集资金 for 各种各样的事情, but he 始终未能 get enough money to 把教堂的钟修好. The big clock which used to 不分昼夜地打钟报时 was damaged many years ago and had been silent ever since. One night, however, our vicar 被惊醒: the clock was striking the hours! But 钟敲了13下才停下来 . 拿着一支电筒(torch), the vicar went up into the clock tower to see what was going on. 借着电筒光, he 看见一个人 whom he immediately 认出是 Bill Wilkins, our local grocer. ‘究竟在干什么 are you doing up here Bill?’ asked the vicar 惊讶地. ‘I’m trying to repair the bell,‘ answered Bill. 我夜夜都来这 for weeks now. You see, I was hoping to give you a surprise.’‘You certainly did give me a surprise!’ said the vicar. ‘You’ve probably woken up everyone in the village as well. 但是,?I‘m?glad?the?bell?is?working?again. ’ ‘Thirteen is 不如一下好 but its better than