On the IraqSyria border，a pack of wild dogs circled American soldiers for food．The leader of the pack was a grayandwhite dog．The soldiers called him Nubs．Nubs was shaking and __
36__ able to stand．Marine major Brian Dennis looked closer and saw that there was a knife wound __
37__ his chest．
Dennis couldn’t stand seeing the dog __
38__．He and his men immediately treated the wound，and gave Nubs medicine．Nubs__
39__but was still in pain．The next day，the team had to__
40__．Ten days later，Dennis’s unit was back，and so was Nubs．He was still___
41__，but the men fed him and played with him．
Before long the unit once again__
42__an outpost (前哨) 70 miles away．Nubs，slowly but determinedly，__
43__them far into the trackless wasteland until the men lost__
44__of him．Two days later，beyond Dennis’s__
45__，he saw Nubs just outside the outpost．The dog had tracked him across 70 miles of frozen desert to__
46__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__
47__to have pets，Dennis__
48__to make sure the dog would continue to live the__
49__life．So he quickly raised $4,000 from his family and friends to fly Nubs to__
50__．
A month later，when Dennis and the dog were__
51__in California，at first Nubs didn’t recognize the guy．__
52__within minutes，the dog jumped into Dennis’s arms，jumping up again and again to__
53__ his friend’s face．
A little__
54__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) __
55__world．
| 小题1: | | A．mostly | B．certainly | C．hardly | D．never |
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| 小题3: | | A．stand | B．starve | C．bleed | D．suffer |
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| 小题4: | | A．pulled through | B．fell asleep | C．woke up | D．fell down |
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| 小题5: | | A．leave | B．rest | C．pass | D．remain |
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| 小题6: | | A．hungry | B．tired | C．dirty | D．weak |
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| 小题7: | | A．took up | B．took over | C．left for | D．returned from |
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| 小题8: | | A．watched | B．followed | C．accompanied | D．barked |
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| 小题9: | | A．touch | B．sight | C．footprint | D．smell |
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| 小题10: | | A．ability | B．surprise | C．imagination | D．understanding |
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| 小题11: | | A．part | B．fight | C．meet | D．break |
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| 小题12: | | A．asked | B．suggested | C．required | D．allowed |
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| 小题13: | | A．decided | B．agreed | C．accepted | D．proposed |
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| 小题14: | | A．moving | B．good | C．safe | D．interesting |
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| 小题15: | | A．London | B．America | C．Iraq | D．Syria |
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| 小题16: | | A．found | B．interviewed | C．linked | D．reunited |
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| 小题18: | | A．lick | B．touch | C．bite | D．clean |
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| 小题19: | | A．pity | B．mercy | C．care | D．contribution |
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| 小题20: | | A．equal | B．harmonious | C．prosperous | D．amazing |
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