题目内容：

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Twenty－one years ago, my husband gave me Sam, an eight－week－old dog, to help me ease the loss of our daughter. Later my husband and I moved from New York to New Jersey where our neighbor, whose cat had   ________  had kittens, asked us if we would like one. We were afraid that Sam would not be ________  , but we made up our ________ to take a kitten.

We picked a little, gray, playful cat. She   ________  around running after imaginary mice and squirrels and jumped from table to chair very ________  , so we named her Lightning (闪电).

At ________ , Sam and Lightning were not close to each other. But slowly, as the days went on, Lightning started   ________  Sam. They slept together, ate together and played together. When I took  ________  one out of the house, the other was always ________ by the door when we returned. That was the ________  it was for years.

Then, without any ________ , Sam suddenly died of a weak heart. This time, there was no Sam for Lightning to greet and no way to ________  why she would never see her friend again.

In the ________ that followed, Lightning seemed heartbroken. She could not ________ me in words that she was ________  , but I could see the pain and   ________  in her eyes whenever anyone opened the front door. The weeks   ________  by, and the cat’s sorrow seemed to be lifting. One day as I walked into our living room, I ________  to have a look at the floor next to our sofa where we had a sculptured replica (雕塑复制品) of Sam that we had bought a few years before.   ________ next to the statue, one arm wrapped around the statue’s neck, was Lightning, sleeping with her best ________ .

1.A. recently  B．lastly   C．firstly      D．never

2.A. sad         B．excited  C．disappointed D．glad

3.A. minds       B．hearts    C．heads          D．brains

4.A. walked      B．climbed  C．raced          D．hid

5.A. slowly    B．quickly   C．carefully      D．bravely

6.A. last      B．noon       C．night          D．first

7.A. leaving    B．following C．hating        D．catching

8.A. neither    B．both       C．either         D．any

9.A. waiting     B．sleeping   C．crying        D．barking

10.A. road       B．path       C．way            D．street

11.A. words     B．diseases   C．fear          D．warning

12.A. talk     B．explain   C．think          D．write

13.A. days       B．months    C．seasons       D．years

14.A. express    B．tell       C．report        D．say

15.A. enjoying   B. doing      C．suffering      D．missing

16.A. disappointment B．anger C．gathered       D．fun

17.A. came       B．went      C．gathered     D．walked

18.A. seemed     B．appeared   C．happened       D．meant

19.A. Running  B．Laying    C．Playing       D．Lying

20.A. friend     B．enemy     C．sofa         D．chair