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On the Iraq-Syria border, a pack of wild dogs circled American soldiers for food. The
leader of the pack was a gray-and-white dog. The soldiers called him Nubs. Nubs was
shaking and___1__able to stand. Marine major Brian Dennis looked closer and saw that
there was a knife wound__2__his chest.
Dennis couldn't stand seeing the dog__3___. He and his men immediately treated the
wound, and gave Nubs oral medicine. Nubs__4__but was still in pain. The next day, the
team had to__5__. Ten days later, Dennis's unit was back -- and so was Nubs. He was
still__6__ , but the men fed him and played with him.
Before long the unit once again__7__an outpost (前哨) 70 miles away. Nubs, slowly
but determinedly,__8__them far into the trackless wasteland until the men lost__9__of him.
Two days later, beyond Dennis's__10__, he saw Nubs just outside the outpost. The dog
had tracked him across 70 miles of frozen desert to__11__with the friend who had saved
his life. From then on Nubs and the men slept in the same place, and ran around in the
same ruins.
Until an order came down from above that they were not__12__to have pets, Dennis
__13__to make sure the dog would continue to live the__14__life. So he quickly raised
$ 4,000 from his family and friends to fly Nubs to__15__.
A month later, when Dennis and the dog were__16__in California, at first Nubs didn't
recognize the guy.__17__within minutes, the dog jumped into Dennis' s arms, jumping up
again and again to__18__his friend's face.
A little__19__and concern in the middle of war will not save a violent world. But small
stories, like the story of a soldier and a dog, hold a promise of a(n)__20__world.
( )1.A. mostly
( )2.A. in
( )3.A. stand
( )4.A. pulled through
( )5.A. leave
( )6.A. hungry
( )7.A. look up
( )8.A. watched
( )9.A. touch
( )10.A. ability
( )11A. part
( )12.A. asked
( )13.A. decided
( )14.A. moving
( )15.A. London
( )16A. found
( )17.A. So
( )18A. lick
( )19.A. pity
( )20.A. equal

B. certainly
B. on
B. starve
B. fell asleep
B. rest
B. tired
B. look over
B . followed
B. sight
B. surprise
B. fight
B. suggested
B. agreed
B. good
B. America
B. interviewed
B. And
B. touch
B. mercy
B. harmonious

C. hardly
C. at
C. bleed
C. woke up
C. pass
C. dirty
C. left for
C. accompanied
C. footprint
C. imagination
C. meet
C. required
C. accepted
C. safe
C. Iraq
C. linked
C. But
C. bite
C. care
C. prosperous

D. never
D. behind
D. suffer
D. fell down
D. remain
D. weak
D. returned from
D. barked
D. smell
D. understanding
D. break
D. allowed
D. proposed
D. interesting
D. Syria
D. reunited
D. Though
D. clean
D. contribution
D. amazing