My best friend is Cocoa, and I live in a senior-citizen apartment. Cocoa is a ten-year-old dog and I am a sixty-nine-year-old lady, so you can see we both qualify as 1 citizens.
He is a 2 companion. He does many amusing things that make me 3 , and when that happens, he is so delighted 4 he just keeps it up.
But one afternoon, Cocoa started acting strangely. I was sitting on the floor playing with him, 5 he started pawing and smelling at the right side of my 6 . He had never done anything like this ever before, and I told him, “No.” To Cocoa, one “no” is usually 7 , but not that day. He stopped briefly, and then 8 ran toward me, throwing his entire weight at the right side of my chest. He crashed into me and I cried in 9 , falling down to the floor. Soon after this, I felt a lump (肿块). I went to my doctors, and after X-rays 10 and lab work were done, they told me I had cancer.
When cancer starts, a 11 of calcium (钙) builds. Then the lump or cancer attaches itself to this wall. When Cocoa jumped on me, the force of the impact broke the lump away from the wall. This made it possible for me to 12 the lump.
I had a complete mastectomy (乳房切除术) and the cancer has not 13 to any other part of my body. The doctors told me if the cancer had gone undetected even six more months, it would have been too 14 .
Was Cocoa 15 of just what he was doing? I’ll never really know. What I do know is that Cocoa not only shares his life with me, he has also made sure that I will be around to share my life with him!
1.A. good B. standard C. senior D. great
2. A. wonderful B. tiring C. hungry D. bad
3. A. leave B. cry C. laugh D. jump
4.A. as B. when C. and D. that
5.A. when B. then C. though D. as
6. A. chest B. body C. shoulder D. arm
7. A. right B. good C. enough D. unexpected
8. A. hurriedly B. rudely C. slowly D.suddenly
9. A. pain B. surprise C. trouble D.danger
10. A. experiments B. researches C. tests D.papers
11. A. wall B. cancer C. body D. number
12. A. watch B. have C. get D. notice
13. A. ran B. kept C. entered D. spread
14. A. common B. late C. much D. early
15. A. ashamed B. aware C. afraid D. tired
Listen! Some person calling for you at the gate.
A. are B. is C. was D. will be
These wild flowers are so special that I would do _______ I can to save them.
A. whichever B. that C. which D. whatever
It is the fact ______ Jane doesn’t know Jolin is a popular singer _______ surprises us all.
A. which; which B. that; that C. which; that D. that; which]
He is so humorous that he had us all through the meal.
A. to laugh B. laugh C. laughing D. laughed
–I’ve taken someone else’s green sweater by mistake.
–It Harry’s. He always wears green.
A. could be B. will be C. mustn’t be D. has to be
