Helping Paws
Craig Cook has a very special service partner—a twenty-five-year-old female capuchin monkey named Minnie. In 2012, when he was thirty years old, Craig was in a car ___1___ that left him a quadriplegic, someone whose arms and legs don’t work properly. For several years, Craig needed help from other people for such basic needs ___2___ getting a drink of water. Then Minnie came to Craig through the Helping Hands Organization.
Minnie was born at Southwick’s Zoo in New York. As part of the special Helping Hands program, while she was a baby, she was given to a foster (寄养) family ___3___ cared for her and helped her learn to live with people. She learned basic ___4___ such as turning off lights and fetching on command.
Next, Minnie ___5___ the Helping Hands Monkey College for two years. At the college, she learned tasks that would help a(n) ___6___ person. These included taking food out of a refrigerator, turning pages in a book one at a time, and picking up objects that had been dropped. It is a long ___7___ process, but capuchin monkeys can live to be forty-five years old. So they can be ___8___ to provide service for many years.
Craig said, “Living with Minnie is like living with a good friend. And since she’s been with me, Minnie’s learned ___9___ more neat things to do, like making popcorn in the microwave (微波炉). Thanks to Minnie, I can live ____10____ with caregivers only coming in for a short time each day. And, when I go out, instead of being seen as the guy in the wheelchair, I’m now the guy with the monkey.”
1. A. accident B. park C. sale D. race
2. A. up B. as C. for D. to
3. A. when B. why C. who D. what
4. A. ideas B. skills C. principles D. rights
5. A. returned B. visited C. supported D. attended
6. A. elderly B. poor C. disabled D. lonely
7. A. decision-making B. training C. planning D. risk-taking
8. A. based on B. turned on C. fed on D. counted on
9. A. even B. once C. just D. yet
10. A. happily B. energetically C. independently D. safely
【答案】1. A 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. D 6. C 7. B 8. D 9. A 10. C
