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晨读完形真题——完形语篇是最具发掘价值的语料库
I’ve been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years.__1__ My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.
One morning I spotted a lost lamb when I was in the top field, near where a motorway cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its mother, so I jumped out of the tractor to tend to it while Don stayed in his seat.
Lamb and mother reunited,_I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. This was so unexpected because I had put the handbrake on when I jumped out.__2__
My heart froze in my chest as I saw the tractor heading towards the motorway.__3__ It crashed through a wooden fence and disappeared.The last thing I saw was Don’s face, looking calmly back at me.
__4__ The tractor was resting against the crash barrier in the central reservation, having miraculously (奇迹般地) crossed the busy road with fastflowing traffic.I couldn’t see Don, but as I approached the tractor he jumped out onto the road, apparently