A cloze test.
Do you have a pet dog? Now lots of people in the Western countries have pets at home. If you are in a town in a western country, you’ll often see people（ 1 ） with their dogs. It is still true that a dog is the most useful animal in the world, but why do people （ 2 ）dogs? Different people have different reasons.
Once a man met a dog and wanted it to help him in the fight against other animals, and he found that the dog（ 3 ） him. Later people used dogs（ 4 ） other animals, and the dogs didn’t eat what they got （ 5 ）their masters agreed, so dogs were used for driving sheep and guarding chickens.
But now people in the towns and cities do not （ 6 ）dogs to fight against other animals. Of course they keep them to frighten thieves, but the most important （ 7 ）is that people feel lonely in the city. For a child, a dog is the best friend （ 8 ） he has no friends to play with. For a young wife, a dog is her child when she doesn’t have her（ 9 ）baby. For old people, a dog is also a child when their real children have grown up and （ 10 ）. Now people do not have to use a dog to fight or hunt, but they keep it as a friend, just like a member of the family.
( )1. A. sleeping B. walking C. fighting D. eating
( )2. A. keep B. buy C. grow D. make
( )3. A. heard B. listened C. listened to D. heard of
( )4. A. hunter B. look C. to hunt D. hunt
( )5. A. after B. until C. when D. if
( )6. A. need B. make C. let D. regard
( )7. A. reason B. question C. time D. place
( )8. A. why B. what C. how D. when
( )9. A. herself B. owner C. own D. owns
( )10. A. forgot B. left C. kept D. stayed

( B)1. A. sleeping B. walking C. fighting D. eating
( A)2. A. keep B. buy C. grow D. make
( D)3. A. heard B. listened C. listened to D. heard of
( B)4. A. hunter B. look C. to hunt D. hunt
( B)5. A. after B. until C. when D. if
( A)6. A. need B. make C. let D. regard
( A)7. A. reason B. question C. time D. place
( D)8. A. why B. what C. how D. when
( D)9. A. herself B. owner C. own D. owns
( B)10. A. forgot B. left C. kept D. stayed