My best friend, Tom, and I live in a senior-citizen apartment in a lovely small town. Tom is a ten-year-old dog and I am a sixty-nine-year-old lady .
Years ago, I __36__ when I retired I would get a dog to __37__ my golden years. From the very beginning, Tom has always been __38_ and I never have to tell him anything more than once. He is extremely __39___ and always puts back the toys where they were after __40__.He is a wonderful companion. We sometimes play a ___41___together. He does many amusing things that make me laugh. As a result, I enjoy his__42___.
One afternoon, Tom started acting ___43__. I was sitting on the floor playing with him, __44___he started sniffing at the right side of my chest. He had never done anything like this before, suddenly he threw his entire__45__at the right side of my chest, and I cried in___46___.
Soon after this, I felt a lump(腫塊). After X-rays and tests, doctors told me I __47__cancer. When cancer started, for an unknown __48___, a wall of calcium(鈣化壁) built. Then the lump or cancer _49__ itself to the wall. When Tom __50__on me, the force broke the lump away from the calcium wall, which made me ___ 51__the lump. Before that, I couldn’t see or feel it, so there was no way for me to know it was there.
I had a complete __ 52___ and the cancer did not spread. The doctors told me if the cancer had gone unfound even six more months, it would have been too late.
Was Tom ___53__ of just what he was doing? I’ll never really know. What I do
know is that I’ m glad I made a promise to_ 54 __my golden years with this wonderful creature---- for Tom not only shares his life with me; he has made sure that I will be ___55___to share my life with him.
| 【小題1】 | | A．suggested | B．insisted | C．told | D．promised |
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| 【小題2】 | | A．take | B．bring | C．share | D．carry |
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| 【小題3】 | | A．well-behaved | B．well-built | C．well-dressed | D．well-known |
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| 【小題5】 | | A．working | B．sleeping | C．eating | D．playing |
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| 【小題7】 | | A．company | B．kindness | C．care | D．comfort |
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| 【小題8】 | | A．happily | B．luckily | C．strangely | D．sadly |
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| 【小題9】 | | A．while | B．when | C．as | D．before |
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| 【小題10】 | | A．power | B．energy | C．devotion | D．weight |
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| 【小題11】 | | A．joy | B．surprise | C．pain | D．relief |
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| 【小題12】 | | A．enjoyed | B．had | C．lived | D．treated |
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| 【小題13】 | | A．cause | B．excuse | C．reason | D．idea |
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| 【小題14】 | | A．attached | B．devoted | C．fell | D．dropped |
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| 【小題15】 | | A．jumped | B．sat | C．stood | D．put |
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| 【小題16】 | | A．watch | B．witness | C．observe | D．notice |
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| 【小題17】 | | A．task | B．work | C．operation | D．job |
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| 【小題18】 | | A．fond | B．aware | C．ashamed | D．afraid |
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| 【小題19】 | | A．waste | B．spend | C．cost | D．make |
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| 【小題20】 | | A．in | B．around | C．out | D．outside |
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