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[00:00.00]Lesson 1
[00:04.71]A Puma at large
[00:06.14]逃遁的美洲狮
[00:08.11]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
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[00:12.17]Where must the puma have come from?
[00:17.11]Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America.
[00:23.35]When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles
[00:29.81]south of London, they were not taken seriously. However,
[00:34.64]as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate,
[00:41.77]for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.
[00:49.44]The hunt for the puma began in a small village
[00:52.75]where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her.
[01:00.98]It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that
[01:06.16]a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered.
[01:11.76]The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning
[01:17.68]and at another place twenty miles away in the evening.
[01:22.40]Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits.
[01:29.04]Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes.
[01:37.03]Several people complained of "cat-like noises'at night and
[01:41.42]a businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree.
[01:46.89]The experts were now fully convinced that the animalwas a puma, but where had it come from?
[01:54.34]As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country,
[01:58.94]this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape.
[02:07.27]The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught.
[02:12.77]It is disturbing to thinkthat a dangerous wild animal is still at large
[02:19.35]in the quiet countryside.
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[00:00.00]Lesson 1
[00:04.71]A Puma at large
[00:06.14]逃遁的美洲狮
[00:08.11]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:10.20]听录音，然后回答以下问题。
[00:12.17]Where must the puma have come from?
[00:17.11]Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America.
[00:23.35]When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles
[00:29.81]south of London, they were not taken seriously. However,
[00:34.64]as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate,
[00:41.77]for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.
[00:49.44]The hunt for the puma began in a small village
[00:52.75]where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her.
[01:00.98]It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that
[01:06.16]a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered.
[01:11.76]The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning
[01:17.68]and at another place twenty miles away in the evening.
[01:22.40]Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits.
[01:29.04]Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes.
[01:37.03]Several people complained of "cat-like noises'at night and
[01:41.42]a businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree.
[01:46.89]The experts were now fully convinced that the animalwas a puma, but where had it come from?
[01:54.34]As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country,
[01:58.94]this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape.
[02:07.27]The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught.
[02:12.77]It is disturbing to thinkthat a dangerous wild animal is still at large
[02:19.35]in the quiet countryside.
