be: Their family ties are not as close as ours. When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.

( ) 25. The passage mainly talks about ______.

A. how to keep diseases from pets

B. pets in Canada

C. how to take good care of pets

D. life of the old in Canada

( ) 26. They give their pets injections before keeping them at their houses because _______.

A. the pets are sick B. they want to stop them from getting sick

　　C. the pets are wild D. they want them to sleep on the way home

( ) 27. In Canada, children leave their parents when they grow up because _______.

A. they don't love their parents any more

B. they can only find jobs far from their parents

C. they wouldn't depend on their parents any more

D. their parents' houses are too small

C

I work in a nursing home and my job is to take care of the elderly.

This year, a very sweet old lady that I cared for, Alice, had gone through a different time. She got dementia and so she had been in the hospital twice. In November I was finally able to get her back to her "home".

Alice had thought her daughter was coming to visit her on Christmas

Day and that they were going to have the whole family together like the

old days. When she finally realized that that happy moment was not going to happen, she was very sad. Knowing that her daughter was coming after Christmas was not enough to make her feel happy. I hated the idea of her being alone on the holiday!