山东开放大学英语阅读3期末复习题.docxVIP

英语阅读(3)期末复习题 一、连线题(共2题，40分) 1、 Passage 1 Importance of Pet Loss Therapy Noriko Saito (not her real name), a company employee in her early 20s, lost her beloved male dog a couple of months ago. She attended the dying dog night and day, taking a full month off from work, but the dog passed away while she was dozing. Now she still blames herself fbr having missed the very moment of his death. I let him die alone,aquot; she says. Im still grieving fbr him. I feel as if I will never have such wonderful days as I had with him. I cannot find any meaning in life any more. Housewife Yukari Malsuoka (not her real name) carries around the ashes of her cat, who died four months ago. She even brings the urn into her bed every night. My friends tell me to bury it in the cemetery. They say the cats soul cannot rest in peace if I keep her ashes, she says with a sigh. But I want to keep it fbr a while. These women might sound eccentric or even neurotic to some readers, but their reaction is fully understandable to those who have lost someone or something special, says Tsukimi Washizu, a veterinarian and lecturer at Nippon Veterinary and Zootechnical College. In Japan, where extended families are becoming a thing of the past and people are increasingly choosing to live alone, more people are beginning to keep pels as their companions. Pets give unconditional affection and comfort to humans, but their death can also bring them unbearable grief. Animals become a part of your family. It is very natural to be saddened over the death of your family, Washizu says. Many people, however, will consider you a little strange if you lake even a single day off for your pets funeral, while theyll give you sympathy fbr a death in your family and allow you to take several days off from work or school. Washizu recently compiled a book titled Pet no Shi, Sono Toki Anala wa (The Death of Your Pet - What Next) with several other specialists in the field. While many books on how to raisea and train pets