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  3. On any collecting trip, obtaining the animals is, as a rule, the simplest pa

On any collecting trip, obtaining the animals is, as a rule, the simplest pa

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问题     On any collecting trip, obtaining the animals is, as a rule, the simplest part of the job. As soon as the local people discover that you are willing to buy live wild creatures, the stuff comes 【S1】______ in; ninety percent is, of course, the more common types, but they do bring an occasional rarity. If you want the 【S2】______ rare stuff, you generally have to go out and find it yourself.
    The 【S3】______ difficulty you have when you have got a newly caught animal is not so much the 【S4】______ it might be suffering, but the fact that being caught forces it to exist close to a creature it regards as an enemy of the worst possible sort: yourself. On many 【S5】______ an animal may take beautifully to being in a cage but getting used to the idea of living with people is another matter. This is the difficulty you can only deal with by patience and kindness. For month after month an animal may try to bite you every time you approach its cage, until you 【S6】______ of ever making a favorable impression on it. Then, one day, sometimes without any 【S7】______ warning, it will trot forward and take food from your hand, or allow you to tickle it behind the ears. At such moments you feel that all the waiting in the world was 【S8】______ .
    Feeding, of course, is one of your main problems. Not only must you have a fairly extensive knowledge of what each animal eats in the wild state, but you have to work out something else when the natural food is unavailable, and then teach your animal to eat it. You also have to provide for their individual likes and dislikes, which vary 【S9】______ . I have known a rat which, refusing all normal rat food fruit, bread, vegetables--lived for three days on a(n) 【S10】______ diet of spaghetti.

A) despair           B) boast            C) really           D) chief
E) worthwhile        F) numerous         G) strikingly       H) enormously
I) pouring           J) occasions        K) pushing          L) settings
M) exclusive         N) shock            O) preliminary [br] 【S10】
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