Jack is a retired worker from Rio de Janeiro. Now he is sharing a close relationship with a penguin which is ______ to South American’s Patagonian region. For the past five years, the penguin seems to have ______ his natural migrating route just in order to be able to ______ Jack several times a year.

The unusual ______ began in 2011, when Jack found the bird, nicknamed Jinling, trapped in oil on the beach near his house. He brought the penguin home, ______ him up, and offered him a good meal and a shady spot to ______. Since then, the penguin has ______ stayed away from Jack for too long.

The kind man tried to get the penguin to ______ to the open sea after he got better, ______ the bird just kept coming back. He even took him out in a boat, far from ______ and let him loose in the ocean, but by the time he got back home, with ______, he saw Jinling was already waiting for him.

______ penguins migrate thousands of miles between Patagonia and Rio de Janeiro, Jinling doesn’t stay away from Rio for more than four months at a time. He always runs back to Jack’s little ______ by the sea, sometimes ______ as long as eight months to a year with the old man. And he is a little ______, too – it seems that he can’t stand other animals getting anywhere close to his ______.

The local fishermen show their kindness to the penguin and they think it is a great ______ not only for Jack himself but also for all the villagers. Jinling has been regarded ______ the village mascot (吉祥物) since 2012. However, some are ______ about this unusual relationship thinking about Jinling’s identity. But good friendship will last for long regardless of the ______, isn’t it ?

Wilson’s dog, Jack, was an energetic, six-year-old collie(柯利犬)that would greet him every day at the bus station when he returned from work. This was a(n) _______ that had begun when Jack was young. The dog was quite _______ with the route to and from the station. So when Wilson _______ his job and had to move to California, he thought it best to leave Jack with a relative. He told him they both would have to _______ to new homes.

But Jack didn’t want a new home. He returned to Wilson’s old house, even though the door was _______. Every evening, he ran to the bus station. But evening after evening, there was no _______ of the devoted dog’s master. _______ and sad, he would return alone to the _______ house.

The dog’s depression grew. He _______ food, becoming thinner and thinner. But every evening, ever hopeful, he’d go to the station to meet the bus. And every evening, he’d return more ________.

Jack’s worsening condition did not go unnoticed. A friend who lived nearby was so upset that he ________ Wilson, informing him of the dog’s situation.

Wilson bought a return train ticket ________. Upon arriving, he waited several hours so that he could take the same bus that he always did. When it arrived at the station, sure enough, there was Jack, waiting and ________ as the passengers got off. And then suddenly there he was, his beloved owner.

Wilson later recalled, “Jack was ________ like a child, trembling all over. Tears welled up in my eyes too.”

Wilson took Jack back with him. They were never ________ again.

Forty minutes later I heard a voice shout, “Get up!” Then ______, “Get out!” I pulled on my clothes and ran out ______ the darkness, to see the neon-green light ______ from behind the mountains. There she was, the Aurora Borealis (北极光). Dawn(黎明) at ______. Light in the darkness.

Within moments, the northern lights were travelling at a high speed, ______ wildly across the dark sky. They ______ left and then right, speaking a ______ language of their own. Soon our entire group----some wore only boots and cotton bathrobes----were ______ in the light of the night. To my great ______ and excitement, I imagined my late mother. Her spirit entered into the dancing lights, “speaking” to me from the heavens. And I felt ______ I were with her.

Alas, the ______ came to an end. I'd made new friends and saw the northern lights. But I also saw my only ______ on finding light on the outside, on seeing Aurora, had nearly ______ me to the other lights. There was so much of it in my friends, my fellow travelers---even in ______. In fact, it was only ______ I'd let go of my expectations that Aurora appeared. I understood maybe the power of my mother's spirit had ______ me to see the dance of green light in the sky.

I finished my long journey and flew home. ______ I got to my front door it was close to 2:00 a.m. Stepping out of the car I ______ into the night sky, looking for Aurora (or Mom--I wasn't sure). I took a photo with my phone, and I found a green light in the picture. I laughed at myself, because I   ______ I'd traveled all those miles, made all those ______, in search of that magical light, and it had been here with me all along.