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meal. They are free to e and go and nobody is allowed to kill any animal in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. If you killed an animal, you would be punished. If an animal happened to get run over by a car, people would be very sad about it. People in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be: Their family ties are not as close as ours. When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone. 41. The passage mainly talks about ______. A. how to keep diseases from pets B. Canadians have pets as friends C. how to take good care of pets D. life of the old in Canada 42. Pets are given injections in animal hospitals ______. A. in order to keep them safe B. after being taken home C. because they carry diseases D. because they are sick 43. The word “bird feeder” in the second paragraph probably means ______. 1,3,5 A. a person who gives food to birds B. a container that has food for birds C. something that catches birds D. an animal that eats birds 44. In Canada, children leave their parents when they grow up because ______. A. they don’t love their parents any more B. they can only find jobs far from their parents C. their parents’ houses are too small D. they wouldn’t depend on their parents any more 45. Which of the following is TRUE? A. People buy animal food only at the animal food stores. B. Pets eat better than people. C. Almost every family has a birdcage(鳥籠 ) in his house. D. Any bird can e to the bird feeders to eat. B Can you understand the beginning of this essay? My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF amp。s mon to make words shorter. In texting, a single letter or number can represent a word, like r for are, u for you, and 2for to. Several letters can also represent a phrase, like lol for laughing out loud. Another characteristic of texting is the leaving out of letters in a word, like spelling please as pls. Some parents and teachers worry that texting will make children bad spellers and bad writers. The student who wrote the essay at the top of this page said writing that way was more fortable for her. (The essay said, My summer holidays were a plete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend, and their three kids face to face.) Not everyone agrees that texting is a bad thing. Some experts say languages always develop, and this is just another way in which English is changing. Other people believe texting will disappear soon. New technology for voice messages may soon make text messages a thing of the past. 46. This kind of texting is particularly popular in ______. A. mobile phone panies B. parents C. customers D. teenagers 47. Which characteristic of texting is NOT described in the p