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When Fluffy the cat disappeared from her home in Navarre,Ohio,her owner found her high in a tree.Ellen Albert wasn’t immediately worried because everyone told her that cats always came down when they were hungry.
That was on a Friday.On Sunday,when the white cat showed no sign of leaving and was still high in the tree,Ellen Albert called Erie Valley Fire and Rescue for help with her pet.
“Fluffy was about 40 feet in the air.Too high for the ladders we carry,”Ryan Shanower of Erie Valley Fire and Rescue said.“She was also near some power lines that caused a threat.We tried cat food on day two of her being there and figured by evening she’d be down.High winds and hard rain made the rescue more difficult.”
Fire Chief Rick Annen told his theory about how the cat ended up so high in the tree.Annen saw hawks(老鹰) sitting on a building across the street and noticed Fluffy’s regular collar was missing.He supposed that a hawk had picked up Fluffy by the collar and that she had gotten free and fallen high in the tree.
By day three,the rain had stopped,but Fluffy still wouldn’t or couldn’t move.The fire department reached out to a local tree service to see if they’d lend a hand to the frightened cat.They showed up with a bucket truck they use to trim(修剪) tall trees.Once the bucket truck was up in the air,Fluffy was down in a minute or two.
It was a happy ending,for sure,but not a common day’s work for these firefighters.
21.What added to the difficulty in rescuing the cat?
A.Bad weather.
B.No effective tools.
C.The power lines.
D.The cat’s weakness.
22.What can we know about Fluffy the cat?
A.It tended to climb trees when hungry.
B.It climbed up to the tree on Friday.
C.Its situation might be caused by a hawk.
D.Its collar was on the top of the tree.
23.How did people rescue the cat finally?
A.They trimmed the tree.
B.They used a long ladder.
C.They employed a bucket truck.
D.They pushed it to come down.
