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A. smell B. come from C. another D. other
E. sleeps
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Hunting was once popular
in the USA. Long ago the wild was filled with rabbits, bears and many other
animals. Hunting provided people with a lot of meat. Also some expressions
Americans use today{#blank#}1{#/blank#}hunting.
One of the expressions is "to
bark(吠叫) up the wrong tree". It comes from hunting
raccoons(浣熊). The raccoon is a very clever animal. It{#blank#}2{#/blank#}during the day and comes out at night.
Hunters used dogs to chase(追赶) the animals. The raccoon
used many tricks to escape the dogs. Often it would travel through the river
for a while to hide its{#blank#}3{#/blank#}from
the dogs. It would also climb into a tree to rest, leaving the dogs barking
below it. The hunter found the tree by walking to the sound of the dogs. He used
a light to try to see the raccoon and then caught it. Sometimes, however, the raccoon
was not in the tree. It had jumped to{#blank#}4{#/blank#}tree
and escaped, leaving the dogs "barking up the wrong tree". The
expression now means "to be mistaken" or "to look for something
in the wrong place".
