08 人与自然
Passage 1
（2022·河南濮阳·高二期末）
I couldn’t believe it when Ron said, “Honey, I bought us two camels!” I’d always been an animal
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. But beautiful was not a word I would have ever used to
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a camel.
They were babies when bought and I
_
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them Nadia and Sybil. I remember Nadia once
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a male calf that lived for only a short time. It broke my heart to hear her throaty bellows (嘶哑地吼叫) as she mourned (哀悼) the
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. After a week, Nadia went back to eating and roaming (漫步),
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. I can’t know her inner feeling, but the
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she showed left a deep impression on me.
Last fall, Sybil was believed to be in a deadly
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. I could see the suffering in her eyes, but she
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through the pain during the trip to A&M, where we knew she’d have the best chance of
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. Her strong will
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me and even the hospital team.
In 2016, Ron was diagnosed with cancer. We were both
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upset. For six months, he underwent intensive radiation treatments that left him quite
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. I took sole responsibility for caring for the animals, keeping our household
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and lifting Ron’s spirits. I was
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mentally and physically. But Nadia and Sybil
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me that there’s power within us that carries us through even the toughest times.
Yet it wasn’t until I watched Nadia and Sybil live through
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that I realized that even during those
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years, there had been hope for me. Now, between animal feeding and other farm cho
res, I sit
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in our cottage, more at peace than I’ve ever been. I thank Ron for bringing me these camels. They’re truly a
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for me.
1．A．feeder
B．lover
C．doubter
D．guardian
2．A．train
B．raise
C．describe
D．observe
3．A．returned
B．showed
C．brought
D．named
4．A．gave birth to
B．got close to
C．got out of
D．gave rise to
5．A．sky
B．earth
C．incident
D．loss
6．A．
专题08 完形填空之人与自然—2021-2022学年高二英语下学期期末考试好题汇编（全国甲卷乙卷版）.docx
