二、完形填空(10 分)
When my aunt’s children were small, she decided to get them a puppy. Her neighbour’s dog had given 1 to a couple of puppies a few weeks earlier, so my aunt decided to buy one of the puppies once they had weaned (断奶).
The day to bring home the little puppy came and the children were 2 . They waited at the front door to see the new family member. They named it Shorty happily and 3 welcomed it, preparing its food and a comfortable bed in a basket. The next day the children gave it some milk before kissing it goodbye and left for school. When they returned, they discovered that Shorty was missing. They 4 the whole house inch by inch, 5 it was nowhere to be found. The kids cried and sat at the front door for hours. Later in the evening, the 6 who sold them the puppy came over with Shorty, apologizing (道歉). To our 7 , it was the mother dog that had slid(溜)into my aunt’s house and carried the puppy back to his home. When he returned home from work, he found the puppy and went to my aunt’s home at once.
For a number of days, my aunt and her neighbour tried to keep the puppy in her home, because each day the mother dog would take it back. Finally, my aunt’s neighbour 8 and returned the money. The puppy went back to live with its mother dog from then on.
I came to realize that mother’s love is 9 all over the places you can imagine, even in the kingdom of animals. By the way, if you would like to keep a puppy as a companion(陪伴), you might as well keep the mother dog far away or keep 10 of them at the same time.
(
B
) 1. A. rise B. birth C. way D. attention
(
B
) 2. A. careful B. cheerful C. calm D. worried
(
C
) 3. A. simply B. suddenly C. warmly D. hardly
(
C
) 4. A. discovered B. cleaned C. searched D. looked
(
D
) 5. A. so B. though C. or D. but
(
D
) 6. A. parent B. friend C. relative D. neighbour
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C
) 7. A. anger B. sadness C. surprise D. joy
(
B
) 8. A. kept on B. gave up C. broke out D. lost way
(
B
) 9. A. appearing B. flowing C. hurrying D. sitting
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D
)10. A. all B. each C. either D. both
