Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following
passage. The partnership between humans and animals dates
back to the first domestication of animals in the Stone Age, as long as 9,000
years ago. But never have animals provided such (47) and
particular help to humans as they do today in the form of trained (48)
to people with disabilities. These animals, usually dogs, help people
(49) tasks that would otherwise be difficult or even
impossible. Service animals are not (50) but working animals
doing a job; thus, (51) such as the Americans with
Disabilities Act(1990) in the United States and the Disability Discrimination
Act (1995) in the United Kingdom make service animals exempt from rules that
(52) animals from public places and business.
The most familiar service animals are guide dogs whose job is to help
people with (53) weakness or disability move about safely.
Systematic training of guide dogs (54) in Germany during
World War One to aid blinded veterans. In the late 1920s Dorothy Harrison
Eustis, an American dog trainer living in Switzerland, heard of the program and
wrote an article for a magazine about it. The (55) led her
to her first student, Morris Frank, with her help she established a similar
training school in the United States in 1929, the Seeing Eye. Reputable
organizations which train assistance animals also take steps to (56)
that animals are cherished and lead rewarding enjoyable and healthy
lives. When the animals’ helping careers are over, provisions are made for their
well-deserved retirements. A) physical
B) prohibit C) pets
D) unnecessary E) originated F)
dedicated G) isolate H)
visual I) legislation J) accomplish
K) assistance L) publicity M) ensure
N) approve O) fume