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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