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Cats have no emotions. At least, that's what my husband once claimed. I
1 that my two cats experience
emotions. They feel anger, fear, and
2 . He agreed with me, but
3 his opinion that cats don't feel love.
4 ,
my tuxedo cat, Sebastian, would teach him otherwise.
When my next-door neighbour moved in, he had a she cat named Juliet. She was an indoor lady, always
watching
5 through the window.
Then one day when I
6 my cat to the backyard for his playtime, Sebastian
7 Juliet gazing at him behind
the window. It soon became
8 that they were attracted by each other. So every day thereafter, whenever I let
Sebastian out, he would rush
9 to the backyard next-door and they would sit gazing
10 at each other through
the screen, she inside, and he outside. Even my husband watched
11 , and he would murmur, "But cats can't
feel love...can they?"
Five months later, my neighbour had to
12 because of work. My heart sank. I wondered how Sebastian
would
13 to Juliet's leaving.
For months after Juliet moved away and the new neighbour moved in, I often
14 Sebastian sitting by Juliet's
window, looking into the apartment
15 his lady. The new neighbour didn't mind having the "Peeping Sebastian"
after I
16 his reason for being there.
Sebastian
17 the small area outside that window as his territory. Other male cats were allowed in the
18 ,
but not near Juliet's window, which he guarded until his
19 . Even riow, when my husband and I walk through
the backyard and see that window, he
20 me of the lesson Sebastian taught him... that cats do indeed fall in
love.
( )1. A.argued
( )2. A.energy
( )3. A.referred to
( )4. A. Therefore
( )5. A.the environment
( )6. A.forbade
( )7. A.called attention to
( )8. A.ambitious
( )9. A.secretly
( )10. A.lovingly
( )11. A.in trouble
( )12. A.settle
( )13. A.react
( )14. A.took
( )15. A.in place of
( )16. A explained
( )17. A.discovered
( )18. A.street
( )19. A.birthday
( )20. A.reminds |
B. quarrelled
B. power
B. prepared for
B. However
B. the sky
B. prevented
B. caught sight of
B. doubtful
B. straight
B. angrily
B. in sorrow
B. travel
B. reply
B. caught
B. on the basis of
B. requested
B. reformed
B. backyard
B. departure
B. informs |
C. suggested
C. strength
C. stuck to
C. Besides
C. her owner
C. accompanied
C. took charge of
C. skeptical
C. quietly
C. hungrily
C. in amazement
C. apologize
C. reduce
C. met
C. in search of
C. blamed
C. preserved
C. window
C. death
C. tells |
D. discussed
D. happiness
D. approved of
D. Meanwhile
D. her boyfriend
D. left
D. paid a visit to
D. obvious
D. worriedly
D. greedily
D. in horror
D. move
D. replace
D. sensed
D. on account of
D. asked
D. marked
D. village
D. arrival
D. accuses |