An Ad

After a beautiful purebred puppy wandered onto our back porch and made himself at home, my husband composed an ad for the "Lost and found" column of the local newspaper. It read: "A puppy, male, approximately nine months old, no collar, very friendly, found on Rockbridge Road. "

I feared all the detail might encourage an unscrupulous person to claim the dog. As I methodically explained why each clue revealed too much, my husband dutifully crossed out the words. Finally, in frustration, he rewrote the ad, reducing it to a single sentence that I couldn't refute.

It read: "Guess what I found?"

Notes:

(1) purebred adj.纯种的 (8) methodically adj.有条不紊地

(2) puppy adj.小狗；幼犬 (9) clue n.线索

(3) porch n.门廊 (10) reveal v.透露

(4) compose v.构思；作 (11) dutifully adv.尽职地

(5) approximately adv.将近 (12) cross out画横线以删除

(6) cellar n.项圈 (13) frustration n.挫折

(7) unscrupulous adj.无耻的； (14) refute v.反驳

Exercises:

根据短文填空：

① A beautiful puppy wandered _____ our back porch.

② He _____ himself at home.

③ My husband _____ an ad for the "Lost and found" column of the local newspaper.

④ I feared all the detail might encourage an unscrupulous person to_____ the dog.

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