1 . Black cats may have the reputation for being bad luck. However, Piran helped save his owner's _______.
Piran _______ with an 83-year-old Bodmin woman in a rural area of Cornwall for many years. When the old woman went missing, her neighbors set about _______ the nearby countryside, but she was nowhere to be found until the searchers _______ Piran, meowing (喵喵叫) loudly by a cornfield gate.
"The cat is very _______ to her, and he was going back and forth in the gateway and meowing, so I decided to go and search the _______," searcher Tamar Longmuir said.
With the crop standing seven feet tall, the walking was _______. Carefully, Longmuir searched the field, calling out her neighbor's name. She had just reached the bottom of the field when she _______ heard a faint response. Then she _______ the elderly woman was lying in a stream below the field and couldn't ________.
Longmuir made her way down to ________ the situation, and thankfully, learned her neighbor had no major ________.
After a two-hour effort by almost 25 emergency workers, the woman was sent to a nearby hospital for ________.
Indeed, had Piran not sounded the alarm, the ________ might have been vastly different. ________ for Piran in aid of his owner, the neighbors are coming in to take care of him.
1. A.face | B.money | C.life | D.honor |
2. A.deals | B.lives | C.communicates | D.competes |
3. A.searching | B.traveling | C.developing | D.inspecting |
4. A.took control of | B.made use of | C.kept up with | D.caught sight of |
5. A.useful | B.friendly | C.familiar | D.attached |
6. A.gate | B.field | C.house | D.river |
7. A.necessary | B.interesting | C.important | D.difficult |
8. A.gradually | B.finally | C.typically | D.frequently |
9. A.noticed | B.thought | C.imagined | D.heard |
10. 11. A.change | B.assess | C.explain | D.control |
12. A.decisions | B.incidents | C.injuries | D.breakthroughs |
13. A.rest | B.improvement | C.treatment | D.training |
14. A.outcome | B.course | C.effect | D.answer |
15. A.Famous | B.Suitable | C.Concerned | D.Grateful |