1. (2020九下·江苏开学考) 完形填空

    After their 15­year­old pet dog died, Rain and his wife, Ann, looked for months to find the right new pet. "I love dogs," said Rain, a worker at a health club in New York. "I can't 1 not having one."

    Finally, the couple found a lovely young 2 and decided to 3 him home. They named him Little Sheep. Little Sheep quickly made himself at home, sleeping on his new 4 bed at night.

    With heart disease for 25 years, Rain 5 took his medicine four times a day and always had no problems. 6 on March 17, he took the wrong amount(数量) of medicine before he went to sleep. When he got out of bed to 7 the bathroom at night, suddenly, he felt his heart beating fast and later fell to the floor heavily.

    "Little Sheep was usually very 8and well­behaved," said Ann. "But when my husband hit the floor, the dog gave a loud cry like a wild animal. I was woken but didn't know what was happening. Then I saw my husband 9 on the bathroom floor. I ran for the 10 and called a hospital at once."

    Rain spent several hours in the hospital. By 6:30 a. m, he had been 11 enough to go home. "It surprises me that Little Sheep has such great 12," said his thankful owner. "He's becoming a calm little gentleman. We can walk him on our street, unleashed(未拴住的), without any problem. He's got a lot of 13 now, and everyone wants to 14 him kindly."

    "We feel the name Little Sheep is not good enough," said Rain. "So now we call him Big Hero, more 15 for an animal of his ability."