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Анастасия в категроии Английский язык, вопрос открыт 20.10.2017 в 11:19
A FUTURE VET
Most small boys have a sort of hunting instinct, but there was one particular schoolboy who decided that he would have nothing less than a snake for a pet — and he aimed to get one from London Zoo. Nobody knows what determined his choice for many people have a phobia of snakes and insects. In fact, snakes are very clean animals and even the poisonous ones are normally docile as long as they are well fed and looked after.
The twelve-year-old schoolboy had obviously done some investigation and he knew when night watchmen patrolled certain points. He thought his campaign out very carefully. He had visited the zoo several times with school parties to prepare for his future escapade.
He cycled to the zoo in the early hours of the morning and climbed over the wall close to the front gate. From there he only had to walk a few yards to get to the open-air snake collection. He waited in the shadows for the night watchman to go on his way and ran to the reptile house where using his fishing net he fished out a snake. His plan worked very well.
Imagine this young lad cycling home with a fishing net containing a surprised damp snake! Luckily for the snake, the boy lived only half a mile away. He was able to reach home, park his bicycle, get back into the house and go up to his room without waking his parents. However, he was puzzled as to what to do with the snake. Suddenly a brilliant idea came to his mind.
The next morning the sleeping thief was woken by the terrible screams and shouts of his agitated mother. "Look! ... Look — in the toilet!" The father walked over the toilet and, sure enough, happily swimming around was a coiled up snake
The father marched to his son's bedroom where he found the boy pretending to be sound asleep. "What do you know about the snake in the toilet?" "Dad, all my friends at school collect animals and I don't have a pet..." "No!" his father exclaimed "This house is too small for them."
The boy confessed his night raid and his father didn't know whether to laugh or become angry. He gave his son five minutes to get the snake out and then phoned the zoo. So the snake was returned to the zoo, who were grateful, as they hadn't even noticed it was gone! They all took a liking to the boy. Such was his love for snakes that they gave him a Saturday job in the reptile house. He was brilliant at it. The boy had a great kinship and bond with the animals, an important quality for any veterinary surgeon, which he eventually became.
1. The schoolboy went to the zoo....
a) to meet a vetb) to hunt animals
c) to have a reptile friend d) to be a zookeeper
2. The boy's plan worked very well because....
a) the sleepy watchman failed to notice him b) he came there at dawn
c) the reptile house was not closed d) he had thought over all the details
3. The next morning his mother was very anxious as..
a) she had learned about his escapadeb) the boy had forgotten to park his bike
c) the zookeeper had phoned herd) she was afraid of reptiles
4. The father was so shocked that he....
a) agreed to buy another petb) phoned the veterinary surgeon
c) insisted on taking the pet to the reptile housed) locked the snake in the drawer
5. The zoo administration was grateful to the boy for....
a) returning the snake b) his love of animals
c) his work in the reptile housed) his wish to become a vet
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