Lucky Dog is committed to finding loving forever homes for each of our dogs and cats. Our customized adoption process is designed to find the best fit for adopters, whatever they may be looking for. You may have a specific pet in mind or just beginning your search for a new family member; wherever you are in the process our Adoption Coordinators are here to guide you through the process.
We are incredibly grateful for the overwhelming interest in our animals. You may notice that our dogs, cats, puppies and kittens are being adopted incredibly quickly and may not stay on the website very long. Please, don’t let that deter you! We have more new arrivals coming in all the time, and Lucky Dog is committed to finding you a great fit for your family. We will be happy to help you find a match once we receive your adoption application.
THE ADOPTION PROCESS
Step 1
Complete a Dog or Cat Adoption Questionnaire at the link below. If you are interested in applying for a specific animal on the website, please be sure to list their names on your questionnaire. If you cannot select an animal please still submit your questionnaire and write in the notes who you might be interested in! You only need to apply once and we will ensure it is directed to the right person. Please note that submitting an application is the first step in our process and does not guarantee adoption of a particular dog or cat.
Step 2
You will be contacted via email by a Volunteer Lucky Dog Animal Rescue Adoption Coordinator or Screener. They will then schedule an initial phone screening to further discuss your needs, preferences and lifestyle as you look for a new family member.
Step 3
Your Adoption Coordinator or Screener will also conduct any required checks, including a vet check to ensure your pets are up to date on medical needs, a landlord check if you rent, and a virtual home visit -- during which a knowledgeable volunteer will meet with all residents of your home to identify any risks or items to monitor when your new pet arrives and ensure that everyone is ready to welcome them home!
Step 4
At the time of adoption, the following adoption fees will be required, as well as a leash, ID tag, martingale collar and carrier for cats/kittens.
●Puppy (1 to 6 months): $425
●Young/Adult Dog (7 months to 8 years): $400
●Senior Dog (9 years and older): $300
●Dogs Receiving Heartworm Treatment: $475
●One Cat/Kitten: $175
●Two Cats/Kittens: $300
Spay/Neuter policy update:
A nonrefundable spay/neuter deposit will be added to a puppy or kitten’s adoption fee should you want Lucky Dog to pay for the cost of spay/neuter surgery at one of our low-cost vet partners. Adopters must be able to provide transportation to and from the partner visits.
1. How much do you need to pay if you adopt two baby cats and a middle-aged dog?| A．$ 600 | B．$ 700 | C．$ 750 | D．$ 775 |
| A．your current income level. | B．a landlord check if necessary. |
| C．a personal visit to your home. | D．your pet’s health condition |
| A．The adoption process can take quite a long time because of the routine paperwork. |
| B．Once you submit your application, you are assured of adopting your desired dog or cat. |
| C．You will have to pay some money in advance if you order a neuter surgery service. |
| D．Your Adoption Coordinator or Screener will only contact you through email. |
| A. force B. mains C. intense D. spell E. respite F. fuelling G. urging H. severity I. underlying J. collapses K. forecast |
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Extreme conditions produce extremely tough plants. The big difference between "drought—tolerant" plants and these tough plants: metabolism. Many different kinds of plants have developed tactics to weather dry spells. Some plants
Resurrection plants, defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than 0.1 grams of water per gram of dry mass, are different. They lack water—storing structures, and their existence on rock faces prevents them from
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5 . Saddleworth Moor in the north of England is a bare place. It seemed almost wired to me, then, that anyone should
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| A．take over | B．call for | C．look into | D．object to |
| A．vice versa | B．or rather | C．above all | D．to date |
| A．debate | B．concern | C．advantage | D．control |
| A．leading | B．reporting | C．watching | D．abandoning |
| A．cautious | B．basic | C．common | D．false |
| A．expert | B．campaigner | C．commentator | D．columnist |
| A．exploited | B．threatened | C．restored | D．attracted |
| A．unaided | B．unfriendly | C．uneconomic | D．unbalanced |
| A．produce | B．praise | C．eliminate | D．research |
| A．intentions | B．passions | C．opinions | D．protest |
| A．advocated | B．rejected | C．proposed | D．overlooked |
| A．expected | B．successful | C．conflicting | D．personal |
| A．relieves | B．amazes | C．disappoints | D．worries |
| A．predict | B．recognize | C．question | D．ski |
| A．wind farms | B．power plants | C．animal habitats | D．nuclear engines |
6 . Insects are disappearing. The world has 25 per cent fewer terrestrial insects now than in 1990. This includes those we rely on to pollinate our crops and clean our rivers. If we don’t solve this problem very soon, some species will disappear.
There are many causes for the insect decline, but insecticides (杀虫剂) are a major part of the problem. Those used today are longer lasting and up to 10,000 times more toxic than some that were banned in the 1970s. Adding to the problem is that these pesticides are now applied to crops prophylactically (预防地) and used whether pests are present or not.
Overall, the amount of pesticide applied to the land is decreasing, but this is a grossly misleading statistic. A recent paper found that, between 2005 and 2015, there was a 40 per cent reduction in the amount of pesticide applied to crops measured by weight. But because modern insecticides are so much more toxic, the global toxicity of treated land to pollinating insects has more than doubled in the same period.
Governments and regulating agencies are aware of the problem, and some parts of the world have moved to ban the use of certain insecticides outdoors in an attempt to help bees survive. But the pesticides used instead are just as toxic.
One often-touted approach is to use pesticide-free pest control methods. These varied techniques are gathered under the name of integrated pest management (IPM) and have been around for decades. They offer effective crop protection and include methods such as crop rotation and the use of natural predators. But their adoption has been incredibly slow, because spraying pesticides is viewed as an easier option. As a result, IPM methods are unfortunately seldom used today
Neither changing insecticides nor shifting to IPM is a quick fix. We argue instead that we need a subtle shift in focus, away from killing pests and towards protecting crops.
By using the minimal dose we need to protect crops, we could reduce the amount of insecticide to a fraction of what is used today. Farmers would benefit from these changes. They would spend less money on pesticides and improve crop production by keeping health pollinator insects about. Reducing insecticide doses won’t solve the insect decline problem but it is a move that could win us time to make food production more sustainable and reconcile (使和谐) farmlands and the natural ecosystems we crucially depend on. And that will allow insects to recover.
1. According to the passage, which of the statements is NOT true about the insect decline?| A．Currently-used pesticides are much more toxic than before. |
| B．Pesticides have played a key role in reducing the number of insects. |
| C．The amount of pesticides used is much more than before. |
| D．The toxicity in pesticides lasts longer than before. |
| A．Broadly-publicized. | B．Recently-created. |
| C．Frequently-criticized. | D．Generally-proved. |
| A．To protect crops rather than killing out insects. |
| B．To raise large-scale natural predators of insects. |
| C．To search and develop new pesticides. |
| D．To shift to the IPM pesticide-controlling method. |
| A．Insects control — there is still a long way to go |
| B．Insects decline! Take measures right now |
| C．New findings in the field of insects control |
| D．Shift in pesticide use could help insects recover |
7 . Swarm Immunity
Honeybees run vaccination programmes, too. An old saw has it that there is nothing new under the sun.
Being gregarious, honeybees are at constant risk of diseases sweeping through their hives. Most animals which live in crowded conditions have particularly robust immune systems, so it long puzzled entomologists that honeybees do not.
Part of the answer, discovered in 2015, is that queen bees vaccinate their eggs by transferring into them, before they are laid, fragments of proteins from disease-causing pathogens.
To test this idea, he teamed up with a group at the University of Helsinki, in Finland, led by Heli Salmela.
| A．With this modified method, we show variation in honey bee immunity in response to different classes of pathogens. |
| B．Together, they collected about 150 nurse bees and divided them among six queenless mini hives equipped with broods of larvae to look after. |
| C．Indeed, they actually possess fewer immune-related genes than most solitary bees. |
| D．Over the years, scientists have uncovered how insect immunity relates to behavior, mating success, ability to find food, nutrition, energy cost, etc. |
| E．These act as antigens which trigger the development of a protective immune response in the developing young. |
| F．But it may still come as a surprise that human beings are not alone in having invented vaccination. |
8 . If we are observant(善于观察的), we can find that most of the flowers in nature are red, orange and yellow. If we have seen a black flower, it is a chance in a million. People have made census (统计) to colors of more than four thousand kinds of flowers and discovered that only eight of them are black. Why are black flowers so rare?
As we know, sunlight is formed by seven different kinds of colored light. The wave length of each light changes, so the quantity of heat in each light changes, too. Flowers, especially their petals (花瓣) , are very weak and easy to the harm caused by high temperature. Black flowers can take in all the light waves, which cause the flowers to dry up in a high temperature. So the black flowers can hardly continue their lives. While red flowers, orange flowers and yellow ones can protect themselves from sunlight by reflecting（反射） the red light, orange light and yellow light, each of which has a large quantity of heat.
That is why red, orange and yellow flowers are very common in nature while black flowers are so unusual.
1. It is a chance in a million” means______.| A．something common |
| B．something lucky |
| C．something extremely rare |
| D．something impossible |
| A．many different kinds of colored light |
| B．three different kinds of colored light—red, orange and yellow |
| C．seven different kinds of colored light |
| D．four thousand kinds of colored light |
| A．they are so weak that it’s difficult for them to grow up |
| B．there are actually no black flowers in the world |
| C．the petals of black flowers are very delicate（易碎的） |
| D．they can take in the light of all wave length which make the flowers dry up because of high temperature. |
| A．Red, orange and yellow flowers can absorb the light of all wave lengths. |
| B．People have found that only a few kinds of flowers are black. |
| C．Most of the flowers are resistant（有抵抗力的） to high temperature owing to their bright colors. |
| D．The black flowers cannot protect themselves from sunlight. |
9 . Mapping Antarctica
Antarctica was on the map long before anyone ever laid eyes on it. Nearly 2,400 years ago, ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle believed that a great continent must exist at the bottom of the world. They though it was needed to balance out the continents at the top of the world. In the 1500s, mapmakers often included a fanciful continent they referred to as Terra Incognita(Latin for “unknown land”) at the bottom of their maps. But it was not until the 1800s -----after explorers had sighted and set foot on Antarctica----- that mapmakers got down to the business of really mapping the continent, which is one—and—a –half times rhe size of the U.S..
While the coastline could be mapped by ships sailing around the continent, it took airplanes—and later, satellites---to chart Antarctica’s vast interior(内陆). That job continues today. And it is a job that still require a mapmaker, or cartographer, to put on boots and head out into the wild.
Cole Kelleher is familiar with that. He is a cartographer with the Polar Geospatial Center(PGC), which is based at the University of Minnesota and has a staff at McMurdo Station. PGC teamed up with Google to use the company’s Trekker technology to capture images of Antarctica for the Internet giant’s popular feature, Street View. A Trekker camera, which is the size of a basketball, is set about two feet above a backpack. The camera records image in all directions. “It weighs about 50 pounds. I was out for two and a half days, hiking 10 to 12 hours each day,” says Kelleher. It was hard work, but really an incredible experience.” According to Kelleher there are plans to use the technology to create educational apps for museums.
The PGC staff at McMurdo Station provides highly specialized mapmaking services for the U.S. Antarctic Program. For one project, Kelleher used satellite images to map huge cracks in the ice. That helped a team of researchers know whether they could safely approach their field camp on snowmobiles. Another recent project was to help recover a giant, high—tech helium(氦气) balloon used to carry scientific instruments high into the atmosphere. These balloons are launched in Antarctica because there is no danger that they will hurt anyone when they fall back down to Earth. Using satellite images, Kelleher and colleagues created maps of where the balloon could be found.
Antarctica may no longer be Terra Incognita, but it still holds countless mysteries. Cartographers and the maps they make will continue to be essential in helping scientists unlock those secrets.
1. From the passage, we can infer that Antarctica was on the map in the 1500s when________.| A．mapmakers knew it was much larger than the U.S. |
| B．Aristotle named the continent Terra Incognita |
| C．no one had ever seen or been to the continent |
| D．it was such an interesting continent as was often referred to |
| A．It needs much work for the mapmakers to head out into the wild. |
| B．The interior can only be mapped by planes and satellites. |
| C．It is relatively easy to map Antarctica’s coastline by ship. |
| D．Antarctic is a vast but still mysterious continent. |
| A．to capture images of Antarctica for Street View |
| B．to test the company’s Trekker technology |
| C．to create educational apps for museums |
| D．to hike for an incredible experience |
| A．satellite images which are used to map huge cracks in the ice |
| B．a high-tech helium balloon for carrying scientific instruments |
| C．how to safely approach the researcher’s field camp and the balloon |
| D．the specialized mapmaking services provided by the PGC staff |
10 . Nature Therapy
We need the tonic of wildness... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
—Thoreau
One major difference between our current lifestyle and those of our evolutionary past is an increasing
We are now far
Dr. Gregory Bratman’s group at Stanford has published a couple of papers following a small group of healthy volunteers told to for a 5 kilometer walk in the San Francisco Bay area. Half walked along a busy street while the other half went for a/an
So there we have it in a world and environment where our brains are working overtime and we think and
| A．resistance | B．isolation | C．interruption | D．distance |
| A．Currently | B．Generally | C．Historically | D．Fortunately |
| A．local | B．imposing | C．fascinating | D．standard |
| A．assistance | B．evidence | C．belief | D．approach |
| A．cycling | B．swimming | C．adventure | D．hike |
| A．removed | B．rid | C．driven | D．dropped |
| A．more | B．less | C．similar | D．negative |
| A．dominantly | B．lively | C．merely | D．significantly |
| A．exposure | B．link | C．availability | D．necessity |
| A．tolerate | B．unwind | C．swing | D．resolve |
| A．causal | B．earnest | C．upright | D．scenic |
| A．reduced | B．increased | C．intensified | D．balanced |
| A．turn on | B．get over | C．draw on | D．roll over |
| A．communities | B．facilities | C．greenspaces | D．transportations |
| A．In a word | B．For instance | C．In the meantime | D．In particular |
