After my husband died suddenly from a heart attack, my world crashed around me. I was overwhelmed (不知所措) with the
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of earning a living,
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the little children.
One
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evening I came home from work to find a big beautiful German shepherd (牧羊犬) on our 小题4:
. This wonderful strong animal
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to enter the house and make it his
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. The children took an instant liking to “German” and begged me to let him in. I agreed to let him sleep in the basement until the next day,
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we could inquire around the neighborhood for his
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. That night I slept 小题9:
for the first time in many weeks.
The following morning we
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to find German’s owner, but with no results. On Sunday I took the children on a picnic and we drove off without him. When we stopped to get gas at a local station, we were
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to see German racing to the gas station after us.
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was he going to be left behind.
On Monday morning I let him out for a run when the children got ready for school. As evening came and German didn’t appear, we were all
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. The next Friday evening, German was back on our doorstep. Again we took him in, and again he stayed
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Monday morning. This pattern repeated itself every weekend for almost 10 months. We grew more and more
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of German. We stopped thinking about
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he belonged — he belonged to us. As German became part of the family, he considered
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his duty to take up his position by the front door and remained there until the morning.
Each week, between German’s visits, I grew a little stronger, a little braver; every weekend I enjoyed his
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. Then one Monday morning we
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his head and let him out for what turned out to be the last time. He never came back. I believe German was sent because he was needed, and because no matter how
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and alone we feel, somehow, somewhere, someone knows and cares. We are never really alone.
| 小题21: | | A．duties | B．ways | C．purposes | D．focuses |
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| 小题22: | | A．caring for | B．looking for | C．waking up | D．taking up |
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| 小题23: | | A．Friday | B．Saturday | C．Sunday | D．Monday |
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| 小题24: | | A．gate | B．street | C．road | D．doorstep |
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| 小题25: | | A．regretted | B．forced | C．intended | D．encouraged |
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| 小题26: | | A．nest | B．home | C．kitchen | D．destination |
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| 小题28: | | A．advice | B．gifts | C．owner | D．situation |
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| 小题29: | | A．comfortably | B．smoothly | C．meaningfully | D．peacefully |
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| 小题30: | | A．tried | B．managed | C．succeeded | D．failed |
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| 小题31: | | A．happy | B．glad | C．amazed | D．pleased |
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| 小题32: | | A．No wonder | B．No way | C．No doubt | D．No use |
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| 小题33: | | A．wondered | B．lost | C．worried | D．disappointed |
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| 小题34: | | A．before | B．until | C．since | D．once |
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| 小题35: | | A．aware | B．sure | C．fond | D．anxious |
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| 小题36: | | A．who | B．where | C．whom | D．which |
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| 小题38: | | A．friend | B．company | C．factory | D．story |
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| 小题39: | | A．beat | B．hit | C．wounded | D．patted |
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| 小题40: | | A．excited | B．satisfied | C．abandoned | D．interrupted |
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