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  3. 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 (

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 (

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问题     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.

选项 A、seldom
B、rare
C、scarce
D、less
答案B
解析 同义词辨析。根据句意应是"象Andrea 这样的病症是罕见的，很少有的"，所以应选rare，其它用法不当。
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