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In English, people use many expressions(表达) with the word “dog”. People in Britain and America love their dogs and treat them well. They take their dogs for walks, let them play outside and give them good food and medical care. 1. ________ The expression, to lead a dog’s life, means living an unhappy life.
2. ________ That means many people are competing for the same thing, like good jobs. They say that to be successful, a person has to work very hard; to put it in another way, he has to work like a dog. Such work can make people dog - tired. And the situation will be even worse if they become sick as a dog.
3. ________ It means we’d better not trouble a person who is likely to cause problems. And if someone says you’re a lucky dog, he is just saying you’re very lucky.
Very often, people say every dog has its day. This means that every person enjoys a successful period(时期) during his or her life. To achieve one’s goal, people often have to learn new skills. Yet some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks. 4. ________
Dog expressions are also used to describe the weather. 5. ________ A rainstorm may cool the weather. But we do not want it to rain too hard. In other words, we do not want it to rain cats and dogs.

根据材料内容,从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项,使文章意思通顺、内容完整。
A. Sometimes we should let sleeping dogs lie.
B. Some people say we live in a dog - eat - dog world.
C. The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year.
D. However, dogs without owners to care for them lead a different kind of life.
E. They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.

答案： DBAEC