题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
湖北省荆州中学2019-2020学年高一上学期英语期中考试试卷
I was five foot ten and weighed between 340 and 360 pounds; the exact number depended on whether you took my weight before or after one of my big meals. I knew that I needed to 1.
"At every 2, just make sure that at least half your plate is full of fruits and 3." And my doctor suggested I start with 20 minutes of easy exercise twice a day. "Something you can enjoy, like taking a walk. And I suggest that you go to 4 a dog."
"A dog is a good partner," she said. "Plus, you live in an apartment, which means the dog has to be walked. So you walk your dog twice a day, and that will be your 5."
"I've never owned a dog. What about a cat?" I asked.
"Have you ever seen anyone 6 a cat?"
My friend Casaundra said she had the 7 dog for me. There he was: a large black-and-white dog with a big round body. He looked up at me and then 8 his head with a clear look of 9. Like, Really? This loser? I suppose I looked at him the same way.
I named him Peety, and we took it 10, just as my doctor had suggested. Peety weighed 75 pounds when a healthy 11 for him was more like 50 pounds. But on our first walk together, Peety took the lead. We made it halfway down the 12 and then came back. Luckily for me, he didn't walk very fast. You could 13 hear my footsteps on the sidewalk as I 14 each leg forward—thump, thump, thump, like the giant from "Jack and the Bean Stalk." The next day we made it to the 15 of the block. Soon he would 16 me around the block.
Over the next weeks, Peety kept 17 harder and harder on the leash(束缚). There were times when I couldn't 18, even though I'd dropped five pounds a week 19 I started the plant-based eating and walking.
We walked together for nearly five years, until Peety died of cancer. He'd come into my life, and simply by being here, he 20 me. And in that moment, I felt like the two of us could have done anything.
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