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(1-1)New York City police captured a cow on the loose in Prospect Park on Tuesday after the animal became an attraction for tourists while walking along the streets and enjoying the park facilities. The confused creature and camera-holding humans stared at each other through a fence for several minutes. (1-2)At other times the cow wandered around the 526 acre park and the artificial grass field normally used for human sporting events. Officers use soccer goals to fence the animal in. However, the cow then moved through one of the nets knocking down a police officer in the process. Police eventually trapped the cow between two vehicles parked on either side of a baseball field’s bench area. (2)An officer then shot an arrow to put it to sleep. Then officers waited for the drug to take effect. After it fell asleep they loaded the cow into a horse trailer. It was not clear where the cow came from or how it got lost. Police turned it over to the animal control department after they caught it.

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预览两道题各选项,由反复出现的 a wandering cow可推测,新闻内容与一头游荡的牛有关;再结合 destroyed、 knocked down、 injured, captured、 shot to death、 back to the park's zoo, sent to the animal control department可进一步推测,新闻内容涉及这头牛造成的破坏以及人们对它的处理方式。

详解详析

1.What happened in New York's Prospect Park on Tuesday?

D)【精析】 事实细节题。新闻开头提到,纽约警察周二在展望公园抓住了一头在逃的牛。这头牛曾在这个526英亩的公园里到处游荡,由此可知,纽约警察抓住了这头到处游荡的牛。


2: What do we learn about the cow from the end of the news report?

D)【精析】 事实细节题。新闻最后提到,警察等待药物生效并且牛睡着后,把它装进了一辆运送马匹的拖车。当时并不清楚这头牛来自哪里,也不清楚它是如何走失的。警察抓住它后,把它交给了动物管理部门。turn sth. over to sb.意为“把某物交给某人”。