There was an eight-year-old boy named Peter. He lived in a village ______ to the sea. The villagers built a sea wall to ______ the sea water from running into the village. But unluckily, the village was in great ______ in the past.

It’s about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Lowa to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, Ehlers thought about the small dog he had seen and it was _________ in the cold along the road. He tried to coax（哄）the dog to him, but frightened, it _________.

Back home, Ehlers was _________ by that poor dog. So, four days later, he drove _________ with his friend Greg. After a long and careful _________, Greg saw the dog moving _________ away. Ehlers finally succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. It looked _________ and just started licking（舔）Ehlers’ hand.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like the _________ one that was reported in the local newspaper. The report had a phone number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers _________ the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had __________ their lost dog.

Jeff lived in Lowa before Thanksgiving day with his dog, Rosie. But a loud noise scared the dog off. Jeff searched without any __________ for Roise in the next four days.

Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove miles to put Rosie on a plane to Michigan. “It’s good to know there’s still someone out there and he __________ enough to go to that kind of trouble,” says Jeff about Ehlers.

“I thought whoever lost the dogs, they were just as __________ to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. __________ it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would like to go that extra（额外的） __________. ”

A young and successful manager was travelling down a street, going a bit too fast in his new car. He was worried there were kids _____ from between parked (停着的) cars, so he slowed down. As his car passed, no kids appeared but a(n) _____ was throwing into the side door of his car.

The manager stopped his car at once and drove back to the place where the stone had been thrown. He jumped out of the car, caught a kid and pushed him _____ one of the parked cars. “What were you doing that for? The stone you threw is going to ___ a lot of money. Do you know? That’s my new car, my expensive new car!” the man shouted _____.

“Please, sir. please. I’m sorry, but I didn’t know _____ to do,” said the kid, “I threw the stone because no one would stop.” The kid was crying as he pointed around the parked cars. “It’s my brother. His wheelchair hit a stone, and he fell out of the wheelchair. But I can’t lift him up.” The kid was so sad, and he went on asking the manager, “Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s _____ heavy for me to carry.”

The manager was touched deeply, and he said nothing. He lifted the young man back into the wheelchair, checked him that _____ was going to be OK. “Thank you! Thank you very much!” the kid said to the manager. The manager watched the kid push his brother towards their home. It was a long walk back for the manager to his car…a long, slow walk.

Since then, he _____ the side door of his car. It reminds him of the stone ______ was thrown to the side door. It also reminds him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a stone at him to get his attention some day.