Unit 4 Wildlife Protection reading课时作业

一.阅读理解

　　It's a too long story-8 months to be exact-with an ending that's short and sweet. Ruthie has，finally and happily，been reunited with her family.

　　The story goes back to August，2014. Ruthie，8 months old，was sitting on the back seat of the family car when her owner walked hurriedly into a Long Island store. When Nancy Noel returned a few minutes later，Ruthie was nowhere in sight.

　　Noel and her husband，Lincoln Werden，got in touch with Nassau County police，put up fliers(传单) around their Manhasset neighborhood. But no sightings of Ruthie were reported. Until last week，that is，someone sent Ruthie to a Manhattan shelter after finding her walking slowly around the Bronx-25 miles from where she was taken on that fateful August day.

And then，shelter workers searched Ruthie for a possible microchip(微芯片)-she had one fixed under her skin. It showed her