Last summer vacation, I volunteered to work at a vet’s（獸醫(yī)診所）. There I saw a lot of dogs. Minnie was the funniest-looking dog I’d ever seen. Short thin curly hair covered her sausage-shaped（香腸形）body. Her eyes always seemed surprised. And her tail looked like a rat’s tail.
She was brought to the vet because her owners didn’t want her any more. I thought Minnie had a sweet personality, though.“No one should judge her by her looks,”I thought. Finally, I advertised Minnie in the local paper.“Funny-looking dog, well-behaved, needs a loving family.”
When a boy called, I warned him that Minnie was strange-looking. The boy on the phone told me that his grandfather’s sixteen-year-old dog had just died. They wanted Minnie no matter what. I gave Minnie a good bath. Then we waited for them to arrive. At last, an old car pulled up in front of the vet’s. Two kids raced to the door. They picked Minnie up and rushed her out to their grandfather, who was waiting in the car. I hurried behind them to see his reaction to Minnie. Inside the car, the grandfather held Minnie in his arms and stroked her soft hair. She licked（舔）his face. Her tail wagged（搖擺）around so quickly that it looked like it might fly off her body.
“She’s perfect!”the old man said happily.
I was thankful that Minnie had found a good home.
Suddenly, I saw that the grandfather’s eyes were a milky white colour—he was blind.
【小題1】The last three sentences in the first paragraph tell us      .

完形填空（共 15小題，每小題 1 分，滿分15分）
閱讀下面短文，從每小題A、B、C三個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并將其字母標號填入題前的括號內(nèi)。
A well-dressed man came into a famous jewellery （首飾）shop. He explained that he wished to buy a pearl（珍珠）for his wife’s birthday and that the  16  did not matter since business had been very good for him that year. After examin;ing a number of beautiful and valuable pearls, he chose a nice black one that _17_ $5000. He paid for that pearl , shook hands with the jeweler and left.
A few days later the man returned and said his wife had liked that pearl _18_ that she wanted another one just like it. It had to be exactly the _19_ size and quality as she wanted a pair of earrings made. “Can you give me any advice on _20_ to get such a pearl?” said the man. The jeweler replied , “I would say it’s _21_ to find an exact one like that pearl.”
The rich man _22_ the jeweler to advertise in the newspaper, and offered $25.000 for that matching pearl. Many people answered that ad, _23_ nobody had a pearl that was just right. Just when the jeweler had _24__  hope, an old lady came in. To his _25_ , she took a wonderful pearl from her handbag. “I don’t like to sell it, ” she said _26_. “I inherited (繼承)it from my mother, and my mother inherited from _27_, but now I really need money.”
The jeweler was quick to pay her _28_ she changed her mind. Then he called the rich man’s hotel to tell the good _29_ to him. The rich man, however, was _30_ to be found. He had fled with the old woman a few more minutes before.
【小題1】 A. size               B. shape             C. price
【小題2】A. spent               B. cost              C. took
【小題3】 A. a little              B. so much           C. at all
【小題4】 A. same               B. different           C. common
【小題5】A. what               B. why              C. how
【小題6】 A. possible            B. easy               C. impossible
【小題7】 A. let                 B. make              C. asked
【小題8】 A. so                 B. but                C. and
【小題9】 A. found out           B. given up            C. come up with
【小題10】 A. disappointment      B. surprise             C. fear
【小題11】A. happily             B. loudly             C. sadly
【小題12】A. mine               B.his                 C. hers
【小題13】 A. when               B. before             C. after
【小題14】 A. news               B. advice             C. way
【小題15】 A. somewhere          B. anywhere           C. nowhere

 
【小題1】Who is organizing the party?