选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 In 1999, Eve and Norman Fertig, a couple, saved a two-week-old shepherd (牧羊犬) named

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In 1999, Eve and Norman Fertig, a couple, saved a two-week-old shepherd (牧羊犬) named Shana.
One winter several years later, as the Fertigs, both then 81,     41    the injured and hungry animals housed in one of their buildings, a    42     snowstorm blew in. When the couple went outside to check the weather, several trees fell,    43    them in a narrow path between two    44   . Eve and Norman couldn’t climb over or duck below the   45  . For the next two and a half hours, they crowded together for   46   as the snow piled higher. “We were    47   ,” Eve said. “I thought we could die out here.”
Around 9:30 pm, Shana , who was outside, began     48     toward Eve and Norman in the deep snow. It took her nearly two hours, but    49    she cleared a narrow tunnel(隧道)about 20 feet long    50   the front door of the main house with the Fertigs’   51    .
When breaking through the snow and    52     the couple, the 160-pound dog barked and caught Eve’s jacket and    53    the 86-pound woman onto her back. Norman   54   
Eve’s ankles, and for the next two hours, Shana pulled the couple through the tunnel.
Thanks to Shana’s   55   , they finally reached the house around 2 am., and the Fertigs
    56    to get just inside the front door. Extremely    57    , they lay there, still. The storm had    58    the electricity and heat,    59    Shana slept next to them all night to keep them warm until the firemen found them.
After five months, Shana’s feet recovered from the injuries she    60   while digging.
41. A. fed B. found             C. rescued           D. trained
42. A. strange B. unique            C. violent            D. normal
43. A. covering B. pushing           C. delivering          D. trapping
44 A. rooms B. buildings          C. tunnels            D. animals
45. A. trunks B. fences            C. leaves             D. roofs
46. A. faith B. warmth           C. freedom           D. sympathy
47. A. in vain B. in sight           C. in trouble          D. in place
48. A. barking B. checking          C. digging            D. scanning
49. A. carefully B. eventually         C. casually           D. hopelessly
50. A. comparing B. providing         C. equipping         D. connecting
51. A. position B. bedroom          C. tree              D. tent
52. A. observing B. reaching          C. returning          D. passing
53. A. threw B. controlled        C. fastened           D. guided
54. A. lifted B. turned           C. pressed            D. seized
55. A. efforts B. growth          C. habits             D. eagerness
56. A. managed B. planned           C. waited            D. afforded
57. A. stressful B. unprepared        C. tired              D. desperate
58. A. focused on B. knocked out       C. got over           D. kept off
59. A. for B. since            C. or           D. but
60. A. discovered B. predicted         C. received           D. remembered
【答案】41--45. ACDBA   46--50. BCCBD  51--55ABDDA      56---60ACBDC
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