2023届高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练:完形填空专题题四

高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练 完形填空专题四 ① It was the day before Thanksgiving and Kaleb Benham was wandering around outside his home. His pit bull（比特犬）, Buddy, was playing noisily around nearby. The sound that no one wants to hear alone in the woods caught Benham’s 1 . It was the roar of a black 2 . Benham wheeled around to see the beast, which Benham figures 3 around 350 pounds, some 100 feet away. In an instant, the bear grabbed Buddy’s head and started 4 him away. Benham, a lean, fit 24-year-old, 5 after them. “Honestly,” he told CBS13, “the only thing I could think of was ‘save my baby.’ ” Sprinting, he lowered his shoulder and 6 into the bear. But it only tightened its grip on Buddy. Benham grabbed the bear by the throat. Nothing. He tried prying(撬) 7 its mouth, but the jaw was locked 8 . Benham resorted to street fighting—pummeling the bear over and over around its snout and eye. It 9 . The bear dropped the dog and ran off into the woods. Buddy was in bad 10 . His face was bloodied. His ears were dangling. “My first thought was that I was going to 11 him,” Benham said. He 12 Buddy, put him into his car, and sped off to a nearby veterinarian. Buddy’s 13 took nearly four hours. Benham watched the 14 through a window. “If it was your kid, what would you do?” he asked. 15 toward Buddy, he added, “That’s my kid.” 【题源 Reader’s Digest USA (September,2022) 】 1. A. attention B. glimpse C. ears D. breath 2. A. eagle B. bear C. wolf D. bull 3. A. weighed B. displayed C. calculated D. presented 4. A. pushing B. throwing C. dragging D. walking 5. A. pulled off B. turned off C. dropped off D. took off 6. A. divided B. stepped C. crashed D. transformed 7. A. loose B. personal C. frozen D. open 8. A. shut B. tight C. bitter D. loaded 9. A. worked B. encouraged C. knew D. ended 10. A. place B. location C. power D. shape 11. A. protect B. lose C. treat D. welcome 12. A. lifted B. proved C. captured D. caught 13. A. c