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2017届高考英语二轮专题总复习阅读能力培养精品系列（三十） 阅读理解 (Reuters)—A Michigan man credited his dog with saving his life by chewing off his diseased big toe as he lay passed out in a drunken stupor(昏迷)． Jerry Douthett,48，woke up on a Saturday night in late July in his Rockford，Michigan home to find his Jack Russell Terrier，Kiko，had gnawed_off his right big toe. “The dog always lay with me on the bed，”said Douthett.“That night，I woke up and looked down at my foot，and it was wet. When I looked it was blood, and there was the dog looking at me with a blood mustache. ” Douthett's wife，Rosee，rushed him to a hospital where doctors found he was suffering from Type 2 diabetes. His toe was badly infected and surgeons amputated(截)the remainder of the toe. Douthett's wife，a registered nurse，had been urging him for weeks to have his infected toe examined by a doctor. On the night Kiko ate his toe，Douthett said he had been out with his wife and drank about six or seven beers and a pair of giant margaritas—big enough to put goldfish in. “I was selfmedicating at this point，”he said.“The moral of the story is that the dog saved my life，because otherwise I would never have gone to see a doctor.” The couple said they were amazed that Kiko appeared to know Douthett had an infection that needed treatment. | 
