After my husband died suddenly from a heart attack, my world crashed around me.

After my husband died suddenly from a heartattack, my world crashed around me. I was overwhelmed (不知所措) with the   1.  ofearning a living,   2.  the little children.

One  3.  eveningI came home from work to find a big beautiful German shepherd (牧羊犬) on our  4.. Thiswonderful strong animal   5.  to enter thehouse and make it his   6. . The children took aninstant liking to “German” and begged me to let him in. I agreed to let himsleep in the basement until the next day,   7. we couldinquire around the neighborhood for his  8.. That nightI slept  9.  for the first time in many weeks.

The following morning we   10.  tofind German’s owner, but with no results. On Sunday I took the children on apicnic and we drove off without him. When we stopped to get gas at a localstation, we were   11.  to see German racingto the gas station after us. 12.  was he going tobe left behind.

On Monday morning I let him out for a runwhen the children got ready for school. As evening came and German didn’tappear, we were all   13. . The next Fridayevening, German was back on our doorstep. Again we took him in, and again hestayed   14.  Monday morning. This patternrepeated itself every weekend for almost 10 months. We grew more and more   15.  ofGerman. We stopped thinking about   16.  hebelonged — he belonged to us. As German became part of the family, heconsidered   17.  his duty to take up hisposition by the front door and remained there until the morning.

Each week, between German’s visits, I grewa little stronger, a little braver; every weekend I enjoyed his   18. .Then one Monday morning we   19.  his headand let him out for what turned out to be the last time. He never came back. Ibelieve German was sent because he was needed, and because no matter how   20. andalone we feel, somehow, somewhere, someone knows and cares. We are never reallyalone.

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1.A2.A3.A4.D5.C6.B7.B8.C9.D10.A11.C12.B13.D14.B15.C16.B17.A18.B19.D20.C

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