2023届高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练：完形填空专题十八

高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练 完形填空专题十八 ① Wally, my golden doodle, has come to work with me every day since the start of the pandemic. He was there on the morning this February when a colleague came into my office and said, “ The dog resort’s on fire.” My initial reaction was 1 . I know the resort well – it’s just across the road from my office and 2 daycare and boarding services for pets. Wally had stayed there when he was a puppy. I got up from my desk immediately.Wally got anxious when I left, so I 3 the door behind me. As I got outside I saw the big plume of grey-black smoke above us, which was barrelling out from what looked like the middle of the building. By that point, the firefighters were at the 4 . There was so much noise. Suddenly it 5 us: we’ve got to get the dogs out. A handful of 6 , along with people from other nearby businesses, made their way to the building and started grabbing dogs. It was incredibly frantic. We were lunging to 7 a collar or get any kind of hold on them, then ushering them across the road. Some of them thought we were trying to play with them a bit, so it was a 8 . Some dogs can be very sensitive, but luckily no one got 9 . It seemed much more emotional for the owners. People were pulling 10 and leaving their cars in the middle of the road to hop out and search for their dogs. When they got to our fence and saw them, there were tears. It took a bout three hours, but we got about 60 dogs into our makeshift pen. The 11 were held at a nearby brewery, and even on a bus that came to help out. All the dogs from the centre, about 110 in total, were 12 . When I got back to Wally in my office, he gave me so much love. He’s an affectionate dog and made the whole episode feel 13 . It was very emotional seeing him again, knowing he could have been in the 14 that day. I could only imagine that I would have had the same 15 as the people who came up to our fence looking for their dogs. I was just so