Lesson 1 A Puma at large （听写）

pumas  are large cat-like animals,which are found in  America.
When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma has been  spotted forty-five miles south of London,
they were not taken seriously.
However,as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the zoo felt obliged to investigate,
For the descriptions given  by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraodinarily similar.
The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackbarries saw a large cat only five yards away from her.
It immediately ran away when she saw it,and experts confirmed that  a puma will not attack a  human being unless it is cornered.
The search proved difficult.For the puma was often observed at one place in the moring and another place twenty miles away
in the evening.Wherever it went, it left behind it a  trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits.
Paw prints were seen in  a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes.
Several people complained the  cat-like  noises at night.
And a businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up the tree.
The experts were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma.But where had it come from?
As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in  the country.This one must have been  in the possession of  a
private collector and somehow managed to escape.
The hunt went on for several weeks,but the puma was not caught.
It is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.