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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
It’s about 250 miles from the hills of westcentral Iowa to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota.During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting, Ehlers thought about the small dog he had seen trembling alongside the road.__1__.
Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that lost dog.So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove back.__2__.Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him.Nervousness and fear were replaced with joy.It just started licking (舔) Ehlers’ face.
A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one advertised as lost in the local paper.The ad had a phone number for a town in southern Michigan.__3__.
Jeff had hunted in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off.Jeff searched in_vain for Rosie in the next four days.
__4__.“It’s good to know there’s still someone out there who cares enough to go to that kind of trouble,” says Lisa of Ehlers’ rescue effort.
“__5__,” says Ehler