2021年高考英语新高考Ⅱ卷 - 阅读理解B

I have worked as a keeper at the National Zoo.paris for 11 years. Spot and Stripe are the first tiger cubs that have ever been born here. Globally, a third of Sumatran cubs in zoos don't make it to adulthood, so I decided to give them round-the-clock care at home.
我在国家动物园当饲养员已经11年了。斑点和条纹是曾经在这里出生的第一批老虎幼崽。在全球范围内，动物园里三分之一的苏门答腊虎幼崽活不到成年，所以我决定在家里全天候照顾它们。

I've got two children - the younger one, Kynan, was extremely happy about the tigers arriving - but all of us really looked forward to being part of their lives and watching them grow. I wasn't worried about bringing them into my home with my wife and kids. These were cubs. They weighed about 2.5 kg and were so small that there was absolutely no risk.
我有两个孩子，小的叫凯南，对老虎的到来感到非常高兴，我们所有人都非常期待成为它们生活的一部分，看着它们成长。我并不担心把它们和我的妻子和孩子一起带到家里，这些是幼崽。它们重约2.5公斤，体型很小，完全没有风险。

As they grew more mobile, we let them move freely around the house during the day, but when we were asleep we had to contain them in a large room, otherwise they'd get up to mischief. We'd come down in the morning to find they'd turned the room upside down, and left it looking like a zoo.
随着它们的移动能力越来越强，我们让它们在白天在家里自由活动，但当我们睡着时，我们不得不把它们关在一个大房间里，否则它们会捣乱。我们早上过来发现它们把房间翻了个底朝天，看起来像个动物园。

Things quickly got very intense due to the huge amount of energy required to look after them. There were some tough times and I just felt extremely tired. I was grateful that my family was there to help. We had to have a bit of a production line going, making up “tiger milk”, washing baby bottles, and cleaning the floors.
由于照顾它们需要大量的精力，事情很快变得非常紧张。有一些艰难的时刻，我感到非常疲惫。我很感激我的家人提供帮助。我们必须有一条生产线，制作“虎奶”，清洗奶瓶，清洁地板。

When Spot and Stripe were four months old, they were learning how to open doors and jump fences, and we knew it really was time for them to go. It was hard for us to finally part with them. For the first few days, Kynan was always a bit disappointed that the cubs weren't there.
斑点和条纹四个月大的时候，它们正在学习如何开门和跳过栅栏，我们知道它们真的要离开了。最终要与它们分开，我们很难受。在最初的几天里，凯南总是对幼崽不在那里感到有点失望。

I'm not sad about it. I'm hands-on with them every day at the zoo, and I do look back very fondly on the time that we had them.
我并不为此感到难过。我每天都在动物园照顾它们，我非常深情地回顾我们拥有它们的时光。