题目内容：

 

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

Just home from work，Daddy stepped in the kitchen where Mother and I were preparing supper．From the look on his face, we knew something was   1him．

    “Mr．Roth is worse, ” he said． “The doctor says it’s only a  2of time now．The old man call  3his pain, but not the long hours he has to spend alone．His eyes are  4bad that he can’t read，and he doesn’t get much  5．He keeps begging for a big dog to be his companion，   6he can reach out and touch as he sits in his wheelchair in the sun．”

    “Why don’t they  7him a dog?” I asked．

    “Honey，with Mr．Roth in the hospital so much of time．there are a lot of  8．There isn’t

enough money.”

    “They could go to the animal shelter and get one．”I  9．

    “Yes，” Daddy said．“I suppose they could．But it has to be a  10dog，which they can trust

to be gentle．Not all big dogs are．”

    After supper，I went  11my big German shepherd(牧羊犬)，Dan，was usually dozing．He jumped up and ran to meet me  12he always did when I came into sight．There were no other 12一year—old girls in our neighborhood，so I   13Dan for companionship．When I rode my bicycle，he ran behind me；when I roller—skated on the sidewalk, he followed behind．It had been

that way since Daddy  14him home four years before．

    Now, I couldn’t  15Daddy’s words in the kitchen．I threw my arms  16Dan’s neck

and buried my face in his stiff hair．

“I love you，” I whispered to him． “I’d be  17without you，but…oh，Dan，I know what I  should do，  18I don’t want to do it．”

I thought about Mr．Roth．He was old，sick and almost  19．It seemed to me that he was just about out of blessings．I   20quickly．I knew what I had to do．

    I went to my father and said, “Mr．Roth can borrow Dan．”Tears started down my face．

1.A．pleasing                B．bothering          C．puzzling              D．frightening

2.A．sort                      B．lot                    C．waste                 D．matter

3.A．consider               B．suffer               C．bear                   D．cure

4.A．so                        B．too                   C．very                   D．also

5.A．1uck                    B．company          C．wealth                D．business

6.A．someone               B．this                  C．one                    D．that

7.A．buy                      B．offer                C．supply                D．promise

8.A．supplies                B．operations         C．expenses            D．visits

9.A．replied                  B．asked               C．explained            D．suggested

10.A．fierce                 B．special              C．useful                 D．brave

11.A．which                 B．what                 C．when                 D．where

12.A．once                   B．though             C．as                      D．if

13.A．came across        B．thought of        C．depended on       D．felt like

14.A．brought              B．trained              C．drove                 D．delivered

15.A．realize                 B．understand        C．forget                 D．appreciate

16.A．through              B．past                 C．over                   D．around

17.A．lost                    B．surprising         C．aggressive          D．fearful

18.A．so                      B．and                  C．or                      D．but

19.A．crazy                  B．blind                C．lonely                 D．painful

20.A．ran up                B．got up              C．woke up             D．picked up