Task 3

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It's about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Iowa to Ehlers' home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting, Ehlers _______1_about the small dog he had seen ______2_alongside the road.He had__3__to coax(哄)the dog to him but,frightened,it had__4__.

Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that ______5_dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove _______6_. After a long and careful _______7_, Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving ______8_away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with ______9_. It just started licking (舔) Ehlers' face.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one _______10_as lost in the local paper. The ad had a ______11_number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers _______12_the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had _______13_their dog.

Jeff had _______14_in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched _______15_for Rosie in the next four days.

Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. “It's good to know there's still someone out there who _______16_enough to go to that kind of _______17_,” says Lisa of Ehlers' rescue _______18_.

“I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as _______19_to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I'd hope that somebody would be _______20_to go that extra mile.”

1. A. read B. forgot C. thought D. heard

2. A. fighting B. trembling C. eating D. sleeping

3. A. tried B. agreed C. promised D. regretted

4. A. calmed down B. stood up C. rolled over D. run off

5. A. injured B. stolen C. lost D. rescued

6. A. home B. past C. back D. on

7. A. preparation B. explanation C. test D. search

8. A. cautiously B. casually C. skillfully D. angrily

9. A. surprise B. joy C. hesitation D. anxiety

10. A. predicted B. advertised C. believed D. recorded

11. A. house B. phone C. street D. car

12. A. called B. copied C. counted D. remembered

13. A. fed B. adopted C. found D. cured

14. A. hunted B. skied C. lived D. worked

15. A. on purpose B. on time C. in turn D. in vain

16. A. cares B. sees C. suffers D. learns

17. A. place B. trouble C. waste D. extreme

18. A. service B. plan C. effort D. team

19. A. equal B. allergic C. grateful D. close

20. A. suitable B. proud C. wise D. willing