2022-全国甲卷（全国卷Ⅱ）-材料来源-完形填空

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You can tell a lot about a man by how he treats his dogs.

For many years, I enjoyed living with my dogs, Tilly and Chance. Their ___21___ was nearly enough to keep my loneliness at bay. Nearly. Last year, I started dating, but with ___22___ . When I first dated Steve, I ___23___ he had a dog, Molly, and a cat, Flora. While I was ___24___ that he was an animal lover, I ___25___ that three dogs were perhaps too many, and my dogs might attack ___26___ , the cat.

The next week we ___27___ our dogs together. It was a hot day. When we paused to catch our ___28___ , Steve got down on one knee. Was he proposing (求婚)? I liked him too, but so ___29___ ? He poured water from a bottle into his hand and offered it to my dogs. ___30___ , I began to fall for him.

We ___31___ to date, though neither of us brought up the future. And then in late November, Tilly had an operation on her ___32___ . I took the dogs out four times a day, and I worried that Tilly ___33___ climbing the stairs could reopen the wound. Then Steve ___34___ his house. All worked ___35___ . The three dogs formed a pack that, with coaching, ___36___ Flora’s space; Steve and I formed a good team ___37___ for Tilly. We made good housemates.

A year later, much to my ___38___ , this man produced a little box with a ring and proposed to me. He did not kneel (跪) down, nor did I ___39___ him to. That’s only for giving ___40___ to the dogs that brought us together.

21. A. ownership        B. membership     C. companionship D. leadership

22. A. reservations    B. expectations     C. confidence        D. prejudice

23. A. feared            B. doubted            C. hoped               D. learned

24. A. unsatisfied      B. amused           C. terrified             D. thrilled

25. A. predicted        B. worried            C. regretted           D. insisted

26. A. Flora              B. Chance           C. Molly                  D. Tilly

27. A. tied                B. walked           C. bathed                D. fed

28. A. breath           B. balance           C. attention             D. imagination

29. A. calm             B. sure                C. soon                   D. real

30. A. By the way    B. In that case     C. By all means       D. In that moment

31. A. continued     B. decided           C. intended              D. pretended

32. A. eye             B. tail                   C. ear                      D. leg

33. A. secretly      B. constantly         C. eventually            D. unwillingly

34. A. left             B. sold                 C. suggested            D. searched

35. A. late            B. hard                C. fine                      D. free

36. A. emptied     B. respected         C. occupied               D. discovered

37. A. looking      B. caring              C. waiting                  D. calling

38. A. delight       B. credit              C. interest                  D. disadvantage

39. A. beg           B. trust                C. need                      D. aid

40. A. toys          B. awards            C. food                        D. water

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