阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

It’s about 250 miles from the hills of west-central lowa to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting. Ehlers 41 about the small dog he had seen 42 alongside the road. He had43 to coax(哄)the dog to him but, frightened, it had 44 .

Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that45 dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove 46 . After a long and careful 47 . Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving 48 away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with 49 . It just started licking(舔)Ehlers’ face.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one 50as lost in the local paper. The ad had a 51 number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers 52 the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had 53 their dog.

Jeff had 54 in lowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched 55 for Rosie in the next four days.

Ehlers returned to Minnesotan, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. “It’s good to know there’s still someone out there who 56enough to go to that kind of 57 ,”says Lisa of Ehlers’ rescue 58 .

I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as 59to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would be 60 to go that extra mile.”

41. A. read                    B. forgot         C. thought          D. heard

42. A. read                    B. trembling    C. eating             D. sleeping

43. A. tried                   B. agreed C.     promised             D. regretted

44. A. calmed down     B. stood up      C. rolled over      D. run off

45. A. injured               B. stolen            C. lost                 D. rescued

46. A. home                B. past                C. back               D. on

47. A. preparation      B. explanation      C. test               D. search

48. A. cautiously        B. casually             C. skillfully        D. angrily

49. A. surprise           B. joy                     C. hesitation      D. anxiety

50. A. predicted        B. advertised         C. believed         D. recorded

51. A. house              B. phone               C. street             D. car

52. A. called              B. copied               C. counted        D. remembered

53. A. fed                  B. adopted             C. found            D. cured

54. A. hunted           B. skied                  C. lived              D. worked

55. A. on purpose    B. on time              C. in turn           D. in vain

56. A. cares              B. sees                   C. suffers            D. learns

57. A. place              B. trouble              C. waste             D. extreme

58. A. service           B. plan                  C. effort               D. team

59. A. equal             B. allergic             C. grateful            D. close

60. A. suitable         B. proud              C. wise                   D. wiling

正确答案

41—45 CBADC      46—50 CDABB

51—55 BACAD     56—60 ABCDD

答案解析

完形填空做题贵在找线索（语句），重视上下句之间的关联。

41.动词考查。空格处语境为：从西洛瓦中部的小山到明尼苏达州的埃勒斯家大约有250英里。周末打猎之后，在返程路上，埃勒斯_____曾经遇到的一只小狗。显然为：想起。A.读，B.忘记，C.想，D.听，故选C。

42.动词考查。考查段内句间关系把握能力：小狗当时的心态是怎么样呢？根据小狗被埃勒吓跑了（frightened, it had 44 .Back home），所以该空缺处应该是与“害怕”相关。A.读，B.颤抖，C.吃，D.睡觉,故选B.

43.动词考查。按常理埃勒斯第一反应自然是试图去哄小狗，而且第二段也描述成功哄小狗，所以设空缺处试图做某事。A，尝试，，B，同意，，C，允诺，，D，后悔，故选A.

44.动词短语。根据前后语境可知：小狗被埃勒吓跑了。A，平静下来，B，站起来，C，滚到一边，D，跑走，故选D.

45.过去分词。把空格处设置成为问题：怎么样的一只狗？联系下文情节，杰夫在接下来的四天里一直找罗西，所以，A，受伤，B，偷走，C，失踪，，D，拯救，故选C。

46.考查副词。根据前文：小狗被埃勒吓跑了。所以：四天后，他给朋友格雷格打电话，两个人应该是开车回去找。A，家，B，过去，C，回去，D，在……上，故选C。

47.考查名词。考查名词的复现。前文有：“小狗被埃勒吓跑了””埃勒斯试图去哄小狗”，所以：经过漫长而仔细的寻找，后文也说格雷格看到小狗，前后照应。所以选项中：A，准备，B，解释，C，测试，，D，寻找，D入选。

48.考查形容词。前文有：frightened, it had 44 .Back home，同时后面句子用到eventually succeeded in 可知小狗再次看到埃勒斯，一开始还是谨慎的远远跑开。A，谨慎的，B，随意的，C，娴熟的，，D，生气的，故A入选。

49.考查名词。根据：小狗才会舔埃勒斯的脸，按照行文逻辑，紧张和恐惧应该是被积极方面的心理感受取代。A，惊讶，B，高兴，C，迟疑，D，焦虑，故选择joy。

50.考查名词。考查名词当地一位农夫告诉他们，这条狗在当地报纸上_____失踪的那只。The adhad a 51 number for a town in southern Michigan. The ad 就是线索词。A,预测，B,广告，C,相信,，D,记录，故为：打广告。

51.考查名词。空格处语意为：这则广告上有一个密歇根州南部城镇的号码，根据后面tell推测此处应该是电话号码。A，房屋，B，电话，，C，街道，D，汽车，故选B.

52.考查动词。前面语意为：埃勒斯有了杰夫和丽莎的电话号码，_____告诉他们。明确上下文行文逻辑，A，打电话，B，复印，C，计算，D，记起，故A入选。

53.考查动词。把空格处变成问题：给狗主人打电话自然是告诉他们自己怎么样他们的狗？当然是：找到了。A，喂养，B，收养，，C，找到，，D，治疗，因此，C项入选。

54.考查动词。空格处变成问题：感恩节前，杰夫和他的狗罗西在洛瓦干什么？下文语句：杰夫开枪了，狗狗被吓跑了。所以，他们是在打猎。A，打猎，B，滑雪，C，生活，D，工作。故A入选。

55.考查介词短语。从故事发展的脉络可知：杰夫在接下来的四天里一直找罗西，但是没有找到。所以选项要与未找到相关。A，故意，B，准时，C，反过来，D,白费力气，故选D.

56.考查动词。空格前的语句呈现了埃勒斯的行为：埃勒斯回到明尼苏达州，然后驱车100英里到明尼阿波利斯，把罗西送上飞往密歇根的航班。空格处推演丽莎对埃勒斯的评价，因此是小心、细心、认真。

57.考查名词。本文描述的核心事件感人之处在于陌生人之间的帮助是很可贵的。把埃勒斯与别人对比：换个人就可能认为这么麻烦，不去做了。A，地方，B，麻烦，C，浪费，D，极端，故选B。

58.考查名词。考查同义复现，埃勒斯的援助行为付出了辛劳，辛劳与C( 努力 )为同义复现。

59.考查形容词。从埃勒斯的角度，体现感同身受，想到别人的情况：应该是想表达和小狗，故D「亲密的」入选。

60.考查形容词。站在埃勒斯的角度，进行态度倾向推测：如果是他的狗丢了，他期待看到什么事情发生，当然是有人能够像他一样，乐意不断努力，把事情做好。A，合适的，B，骄傲的，C，聪明的，D，乐意的，故D入选。