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The most delightful and unusual thing I paid for in the last summer was a pair of ducklings. One day I spotted a friend's photo of two tiny golden ducklings in her living room. I message d her immediately. She was fostering(照料) the baby ducks for a farm. As the farm explains on its website, you can adopt the newborns and parent them until they grow into their "adulthood" when you could choose to keep them or take them back. For $165, the farm would bring us everything we needed to foster ducklings and also an activity for Leo. This program would provide us with what we'd been lacking:joy and fellowship. "Were getting ducklings!" I proudly announced.
About 10 days later, a man from the farm arrived at our home and handed over a shoebox housing a pair of baby ducks. Leo and I held them in our hands, each one a tiny, almost weightless parcel of silky gold. Leo immediately cast himself as their father, and the ducklings accepted the role happily, waddling(摇摆) at his feet and slipping on our hardwood floors. Leo kissed them on their beaks(喙)and they bit his lip slightly, which he concluded meant they loved him.
After a few weeks, the ducklings tripled in size, and the fairytale took a turn. Much as we loved them, it was time to make the choice. They were about to enter adulthood, and it was getting inconvenient to keep the many longer. It was only then that I realized I didn't know what would happen to them back at the farm. I called the farm, and I was told that actually our ducklings would likely serve as a"wonderful supper".
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Now, we couldn't keep them, but we also couldn't take them back.
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I was losing hope when I received an email from a woman who lived on a hobby farm.
答案:One possible version: Now, we couldn't keep them, but we also couldn't take them back. What a dilemma!All this time, we had been fostering them out of love, hadn't we?Or had we been fattening them for a fancy meal indeed?Never did I imagine that the joy and fellowship we had would come to a brutal breakup. 【高分句型一】Plus, I didn't have the heart to tell Leo to accept such a miserable fate for his beloved ducklings. Dreadfully guilty, I launched a sort of duck adoption agency, desperately emailing and calling animal shelters in the hope of finding them a safe home. (描写作者进退两难, 非常内疚, 希望能找到一个安全的家) I was losing hope when I received an email from a woman who lived on a hobby farm. She was looking for more ducks, and she was vegetarian, which made her a perfect candidate. 【高分句型二】We carefully packed everything for our ducks before heading to their new home. As we entered the hobby farm, I felt as if we had slipped into a fairytale:bunnies shopping around sunlit grass, miniature horses trotting on the rich pasture, and grown-up ducks wandering about with their which feathers dancing against summer clouds. Reluctant and rejoiced at the same time, we left out ducks for this dream house. (描写作者给鸭子找到了新家)