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从短文后各题所给的四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Friendship
Twenty-one years ago, my husband gave me an eight-week-old dog, Sam, to help me ease the loss of our daughter. Later my husband and I moved from New York to New Jersey. Our neighbor, whose cat had recently had kittens, asked us if we would like one. We were afraid that Sam would not be ___1___, but we made up our ___2___ to take a kitten.
We picked a little, gray, playful cat. She. raced around running after imaginary mice and squirrels and jumped from table to chair very ___3___, so we named her Lightning (闪电).
At ___4___, Sam and Lightning were not close to each other. But slowly, as the days went on, Lightning started ___5___ Sam. They slept together, ate together and played together. When I took ___6___ one out of the house, the other was always ___7___ by the door when we returned. That was the way it was for years.
Then, without any warning, Sam suddenly died of a weak heart. This time, there was no Sam for Lightning to greet and no way to ___8___ why she would never see her friend again.
In the ___9___ that followed, Lightning seemed heartbroken. She could not ___10___ me in words that she was suffering, but I could see the pain and ___11___ in her eyes whenever anyone opened the front door. The weeks ___12___ by, and the cat's sorrow seemed to be lifting. One day as I walked into our living room, I ___13___ to have a look at the floor next to our sofa ___14___ we had a sculptured replica (雕塑复制品) of Sam that we had bought a few years before. Lying next to the statue, one arm wrapped around the statue's neck, was Lightning, sleeping with her best ___15___.
1. A. sad B. excited C. disappointed D. glad
2. A. minds B. hearts C. heads D. brains
3. A. slowly B. quickly C. carefully D. bravely
4. A last B. noon C. night D. first
5. A. leaving B. following C. hating D. catching
6. A. neither