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【題目】Cat cafés to open in Toronto & Montreal

THESTAR,TORONTO

Soon,people in Toronto may be able to enjoy a hot chocolate or a coffee in a“cat café”.Two groups of people in the city are trying to raise enough money to open cat cafés.

The idea is simple:a café for humans—with lots of cats around.People will be able to pet the cats while they're sipping their coffee.There are already cat cafés in places like England,France and in Asia like in Japan,South Korea and China.

Jennifer Morozowich plans to open her Kitty Cat Café in September.She told The Toronto Star that it will have six to fifteen cats.Morozowich is a cat lover who says that cats help to lower people's stress levels.She is also planning to host special“Litter-ature”events,with the Dundas West Animal Hospital,at her café,with kids reading to the cats.

Some experts say that reading to animals helps kids learn to read better because animals enjoy hearing the human voice and kids don't have to feel stress about making mistakes while they're reading.

Another cat café,Pet Me Meow,will be open in autumn if Ashkan Rahimi and Jeff Ro have their way.They are trying to raise money to open a place where cats will live,and people can come in and buy a coffee and hang out with the cats.

Both sets of possible café owners will have to make sure their cafés are very clean.The City of Toronto has many rules that people have to follow who want to serve food to humans when there are animals nearby.For example,the animal boxes need to be in a separate space away from the eating area.

The café owners will get the cats from rescue shelters(救護(hù)所).If the coffee drinkers fall in love with a certain cat,they may be able to take it home.

The Toronto cat cafés won't be Canada's first.Happy Cat Café is opening in July in Montreal.

【1】The underlined word“sipping”in the second paragraph probably means“ ”.

A. selling B. getting C. drinking D. making

【2】According to the passage,Jennifer Morozowich .

A. is a star from Toronto B. likes cats very much

C. owns a cat café now D. lives under much stress

【3】We can learn from the passage that .

A. reading to cats may help kids make fewer mistakes

B. people mustn't take the cats of the cat cafés home

C. Canada will probably have three cat cafés this year

D. the cat cafés have to give food to animals nearby

【4】The passage might be .

A. a news report B. an animal story

C. a meeting notice D. a pet advertisement

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】C

【4】A

【解析】

本文是一篇新聞報(bào)道。它向人們介紹了一種與寵物在一起相處的咖啡店。訪問貓咖啡館是種不錯(cuò)的體驗(yàn),特別對(duì)家里沒有貓的愛貓者來說,這里幫助調(diào)劑心情,釋放壓力。

【1】C

詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)The idea is simple:a café for humans—with lots of cats around.可知此處表示“當(dāng)人們?cè)诤瓤Х鹊臅r(shí)候”,故選C。

【2】B

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段的第三句Morozowich is a cat lover who says that cats help to lower people's stress levels.可知,Jennifer Morozowich是一個(gè)非常喜愛貓的人。

【3】C

推理判斷題。文章第三段第一句話Jennifer Morozowich plans to open her Kitty Cat Café in September.中提到Jennifer Morozowich的Kitty貓咖啡店計(jì)劃在九月開始營(yíng)業(yè);第五段的Another cat café,Pet Me Meow,will be open in autumn if Ashkan Rahimi and Jeff Ro have their way.提到在秋季會(huì)有一家叫Pet Me Meow的咖啡店開業(yè);最后一段The Toronto cat cafés won't be Canada's first.Happy Cat Café is opening in July in Montreal.提到在七月蒙特利爾的幸福貓咖啡店將開始營(yíng)業(yè)。可知在加拿大將會(huì)有三家貓咖啡館，故選C。

【4】A

推理判斷題。根據(jù)Cat cafés to open in Toronto & Montreal THESTAR,TORONTO可知此處報(bào)道在多倫多，蒙特利爾有貓咖啡館要開張，故本文是一篇新聞報(bào)道。故選A。