Susan Jones often noticed people walking with guide dogs in her city. She was always 【小题1】 (interest) in how the guide dogs do their work. She finally 【小题2】 (find) the answer when she heard about the Seeing Eye program, whose purpose is to train dogs to be guides for blind people.
Last year, Susan and her family became Seeing Eye 【小题3】 (volunteer). They adopted (收养) 【小题4】 young Seeing Eye dog. “We spent a lot of time staying with him,” explained Susan. It 【小题5】 (take) at least two years to teach Seeing Eye dogs all the skills they needed to guide a disabled person.
During the first month of life, the little dogs live 【小题6】 a normal family. When the dog is about one year old, it leaves 【小题7】 (it) home. A professional trainer and a blind person teach the dog the skills. After a long 【小题8】 difficult training period, the dog and the blind person finally team up.
Susan said there was a deep 【小题9】 (feel) between her and the little dog. “It was always hard when the time came to say goodbye,” she said. “But we knew that the little dog was going to help someone who 【小题10】 (strong) needed it. I feel good about having had a small part in giving the gift of independence to someone who cannot see.”
