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Almost exactly a year ago, in a small village in Northern India, Andrea Milliner was bitten on the leg by a dog. 'It must have (1)_____ your nice white flesh', joked the doctor (2)_____ he dressed the wounD.Andrea and her husband Nigel were determined not to let it (3)_____ their holiday, and thought no more (4)_____ the dog, which had meanwhile quietly disappeared (5)_____ the villagE.
'We didn't realize there was (6)_____ wrong with it,' says Nigel. 'It was such a small, (7)_____ dog that rabies didn't (8)_____ my mind'. But, six weeks later,23-year-old Andrea was deaD.The dog had been rabiD.No one had thought it necessary to (9)_____ her anti-rabies treatment. When, back home in England, she began to show the classic (10)_____—unable to drink, catching her breath—her own doctor put it (11)_____ to hysteriA.Even when she was (12)_____ into an ambulance, hallucinating, recoiling in (13)_____ at the sight of water, she was directed (14)_____ the nearest mental hospital.
But if her symptoms (15)_____ little attention in life, in death (16)_____ achieved a publicity close to hysteriA.Cases like Andrea are (17)_____, but rabies is still one of the most feared diseases known to man. The disease is (18)_____ by a bite of a lick from an (19)_____ animal. It can, in very exceptional circumstances, be inhaled—two scientists died of it after (20)_____ bat dung in a cave in Texas.
A.fancied
B.flashed
C.flopped
D.gasped

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A.fancied
B.flashed
C.flopped

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解析:词汇辨析及上下文理解。fancied 喜欢,想象;flashed 闪光;flopped 飘动;gasped 喘气。本文从句意可判断出医生开玩笑说那条狗一定是喜欢吃Andrea的肉,其它选项均不合题意。
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