阅读组合训练一 Ⅰ. 完形填空 Thirty years ago, I fell in love with a dog called Cookie. __1__ it was hard for me to add(增加) another mouth to feed, I never gave it a second thought. Cookie could quickly__2__ seeing my bags spread(铺) across the bed with my leaving on a trip. She was also good at showing unhappiness with her tail(尾巴), trying to make me__3__. When I came back home and wrote my stories, she__4__ sat next to my desk and we could have __5__ about where I'd been and what I'd seen. We communicated(交流) with each other as only animals and those who love them can. I often read to her what I'd written. If she turned away to start cleaning a paw, I knew I had to improve my story. __6__， she didn't understand what I was really writing. But this kind of communication with her was my__7__ of pushing a story to a higher level. She inspired(激发) me to make up many stories and became my partner in my travels. In this way, we travelled together. Some readers may think it__8__to have such a relationship, but dog owners like me will know it's true and understand. Today I am still a travel writer. My heart is broken because my friend Cookie left me forever. Like many old friends, she and I__9__ much over the years. I miss her so much and I am also__10__ to her for being at my side for all those years, listening and simply loving. It doesn't matter if she never understood a word I said or that she never left our home. She was my travel partner and always will be. ( )1.A. Although B. Because C. If D. Before ( )2. A. compare B. mind C. connect D. aid ( )3. A. laugh B. cry C. stay D. leave ( )4. A. always B. once C. sometimes D. never ( )5. A. choices B. hobbies C. plans D. conversations ( )6. A. In fact B. Of course C. First of all D. At last ( )7. A. answers B. ways C. situations D. problems ( )8. A. interesting B. exciting C. perfect D. impossible ( )9. A. paid B. shared C. threw D. forgot ( )10. A. new B. helpful C. thankful D. friendly Ⅱ. 短文阅读 I was filled with doubts and worries until my grandfather told me to stand tall. For me, height was my trouble. I was much taller than other girls, I often bent(弯曲) my body at the back of the line. I had always felt unsafe as the tallest student of my class in Bala Cynwyd. And I wasn't looking forward to entering the ninth grade. My grandfather didn't laugh at me. Instead, whenever I tried to bend myself in order to appear shorter, he would tell me “Stand straight, stand tall, Alisa.” I trusted my grandfather more than anyone else in my childhood. And whenever I was afraid of something, he always told me stories of his life. My grandfather grew up in war－torn(战乱的) Europe. “Stand straight, stand tall” meant something else then. After the war, he went to America. He lived a hard life, “If they could do it, why couldn't I？” “Stand straight, stand tall，” he often reminded(提醒) himself. Thanks to the help of a friend, my grandfather got a job. He once told me that he was very nervous at f ... ...
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