题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
浙江省浙南名校联盟2020-2021学年高一上学期英语期中联考试卷(含听力音频)
It was December 2019, and Arens Smith, a US delivery (快递) driver, was taking his routine work as usual near the lake when he heard a sound.
He guessed about 15 feet from the 1 banks was the 2 of that cry—a half drowned dog, struggling to catch the ice on the lake.
How she got there, no one knows, but an elderly man was already on the scene, determined to3 her. He'd entered the lake in a rowboat and was breaking the ice with a rock to create a 4 to the dog.
It was slow going, and Arens, 44, thought he had a 5 chance.
“Animals are my weakness,” he told the reporter, explaining why he 6 his coat to save her, 7 the temperature was -30℃.
His heart beating wildly, he 8 16 feet of freezing water. Using all his energy to keep warm, he 9 about five feet toward her, caught hold of her 10, and pulled her to the ice. He then lifted the dog into the boat and slid it back to the 11, where anxious bystanders carried the dog to visit a vet (兽医).
Later, back home, Arens took a warm 12 with the dog until they both recovered from cold. A few more minutes in the lake, the vet told Arens, and she would have 13suffered heart attack.
The next day, Arens was back 14 in the same neighborhood when the dog's owner came over to 15 him for saving the dog.
"Would you like to16 her?" he asked. He opened the door to his car.
And she rushed out. She ran straight to 17, leaping on him and bathing him in wet 18. “That 19 delivery," laughs Arens, "was the most 20 experience in my career."
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