2023年佳木斯市桦南县考研《英语一》高分冲刺试卷含解析.doc

2023年佳木斯市桦南县考研《英语一》高分冲刺试卷 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) Love Is Blind: The Magic of Tabby In October, 2003 I started my work at my local animal shelter’s Adoption Department. Over the years, more than 50,000 animals have 1 the doors of the shelter. Most of them, I do not remember. But occasionally there are 2 animals, who touch me so deeply that I could never possibly 3 them. Tabby was one such animal. Tabby was an ancient Cocker Spaniel, probably 14 years old. What’s more, she was blind and deaf. Tabby’s chances at adoption seemed 4 at best. After all, we didn’t have many adopters coming in 5 , “Can you show me all of your really old dogs who are also 6 ?” We had all thought that Tabby would live out the rest of her life at the 7 . One day a woman named Loretta came to the shelter. Her son, Gary, had 8 Tabby’s picture and stories on the shelter’s website at home. They were interested in meeting her! It was the only 9 we ever received about Tabby. What could a young child possibly see in a 14-year-old dog who was both blind and deaf? Most boys would want a dog who could grow with them and 10 through grassy fields on summer days. Tabby would 11 be able to do that. But after meeting her, Loretta and Gary decided that she was the right dog for their family. They adopted Tabby! If Tabby’s story had simply ended with her 12 adoption, it would still have been something very special indeed. 13 , it was what happened after her adoption that people might regard as “magic”. Gary 14 from seizures(癫痫). Since Gary and Tabby met they became 15 . They did everything together. They became so “in tune” with one another that Tabby began to telegraph Gary’s seizures 16 they occurred, giving his family 17 that one was about to strike. What’s more, Gary