单项选择题
(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.
A．Hardly
B．Nearly
C．Almost
D．Merely