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(1)One August afternoon, Peaches gave birth to 14 puppies. The kids were thrilled. But it crossed my mind once or twice that I h
(1)One August afternoon, Peaches gave birth to 14 puppies. The kids were thrilled. But it crossed my mind once or twice that I h
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(1)One August afternoon, Peaches gave birth to 14 puppies. The kids were thrilled. But it crossed my mind once or twice that I had no idea how we’d find good homes for so many adorable mutts.
(2)The father was a purebred golden retriever (寻回猎犬). And not until now had
I wondered why Roberta, who gave Peaches to us, had named her in the plural. Peaches didn’t resemble a peach, either. She was jet black with long retriever hair, an agreeable blend of many breeds. But she was indeed a peach, although once when her round pups were lined against her tummy, we affectionately called her "Pea Pod," and that name pretty much stuck.
(3)The kids and I had a blast with the pups, but as our cuddly friends grew, the cleanup job on the backyard lawn increased as well. I usually ended up with the chore after the kids had left for school in the morning, and after eight weeks the job was getting old. Besides, the time had come to start to get them settled into permanent homes.
(4)So one weekend the kids and I piled into the van, puppies in the rear, playfully biting each other’s ears and tails, and we headed for the local humane society. But in northern California at that time, shelters were full of animals, and if they weren’t adopted quickly they were put to sleep. I tried stifling that bit of information, but it wouldn’t stay submerged; I cried the whole way.
(5)When we arrived at the shelter, I dried my tears and smoothed my puffy eyes. I walked alone up to the counter and cheerfully announced I had 14 wonderful puppies for them. The woman, without looking up from her paperwork, roared, "We don’t take puppies." I cried all the way home, this time with tears of relief.
(6)So I placed an ad for "free puppies" in the newspaper. I don’t think we got a single phone call. In the meantime, the kids and pups grew more inseparable. Only Happy and Callie, our two cats, were allowed to spend the nights inside, but from the giggling and the look of the blankets in the morning, some pups had been overlooked at bedtime.
(7)The gate on our backyard fence opened onto the elementary school’s grass field. Every afternoon, scores of kids arrived to play soccer. The children loved it when their games were over, for then I would open the flood-gate, releasing 14 roly-poly, tail-wagging puppies for them to play with. Surely a parent wouldn’t mind taking one or two home? The parents loved the pups, too; but their disciplined ability to decline our offering amazed me.
(8)Certainly the divine plan could not have been for us to keep all 14 puppies, even if they had been given perfect names.
(9)I desperately searched the heavens for a solution. The odd idea came to put another ad in the paper, this time asking $10 for each puppy. It worked.
(10)Placing a value on the mutts somehow had an effect. I made a deal with the kids: If they would prepare the puppy food and clean up the yard every day until all the puppies had homes, I would give them each, in turn, $10 for every pup sold. When he was about 11 weeks old, the last puppy—Boots, with four white socks—had gone. It was a sad day; the yard was much too quiet. So Saturday morning I had the kids
get their money jars out They proudly carried their savings as I drove them to their favorite place—the toy store.
(11)The dog pound might have seemed easier. But I liked this ending much better.
As it is mentioned in the passage, "Peaches" _______.
选项
A、was the name of a purebred golden retriever
B、included a group of new-born puppies
C、got her name for an unknown reason
D、was one of the two dogs the author had
答案
C
解析
第2段第2句提到“现在我很纳闷为什么Roberta给狗起名要用Peach的复数形式”,可见作者本人也并不明白,全文都没有给出原因,因此本题应选C。由全文首句可知Peaches是生了14只小狗,故B中的includes错误;A所述是那14只小狗的“父亲”,故排除;作者只养了Peaches一只狗,D错误。
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