(1)_____ 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     (1)_____ exactly a year ago, in a small village in Northern India, Andrea Milliner was bitten on the leg by a dog. "It must have (2)_____ your nice white flesh", joked the doctor (3)_____ he dressed the wound. Andrea and her husband Nigel were determined not to let it (4)_____ their holiday, and thought no more about the dog, which had meanwhile (5)_____ disappeared from the village.
    "We didn’t (6)_____ there was anything 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 antirabies 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 (13)_____, hallucinating, recoiling in terror at the sight of water, she was directed (14)_____ the nearest mental hospital.
    But if her symptoms (15)_____ little attention in life, in death they achieved a publicity close to hysteria. Cases like Andrea are (16)_____, but rabies is still one of the most feared diseases known to man. The disease is (17)_____ by a bite of a lick from an (18)_____ animal. It can, in very (19)_____ circumstances, be inhaled—two scientists died of it after (20)_____ bat dung in a cave in Texas.


选项 A、snap
B、spoil
C、stray
D、suit

答案B

解析 词汇辨析。snap 猛咬;spoil 破坏,宠爱;stray 迷路;suit适合。通过前面讲到Andrea被狗咬伤了腿,而这句又提到Andrea和她丈夫不想让被狗咬这件事破坏他们度假的兴致。spoil意为"破坏(气氛,兴致),宠爱(孩子)",因此合符题意
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