“Hi, Mrs. Grady,” said Mark, “Would you like us to shovel (铲除) your driveway?”

Mrs. Grady touched her hand to her heart. “That would be ___________, boys. I think the job is too much for me.”

“It will cost 10 ___________.” said Jamie.

“If that’s OK,” Mark ___________.

Shoveling was Jamie’s idea, a way to earn enough money for video games.

“Oh, dear.” Mrs. Grady sounded _____________. “I haven’t been able to get to the bank. I can ___________ homemade cookies, but I realize that’s not what you had in ___________.”

Mark was going to say Mrs. Grady could ___________ them another time, but Jamie_________. “We’ll come back later.”

As they walked through the snow off the _________, Mark glanced over his shoulder. Mrs. Grady stood at her window, __________ them.

She didn’t look like the person who’d come to his __________ last summer when Mr. Dunn’s dog, Goldie, escaped from his backyard. Goldie had __________ wanted to play, but Mark didn’t feel __________ around big dogs. Mark tried to call for his dad, but his ____________ seemed locked behind his teeth.

Mrs. Grady’s front door flew open. She ran across the street and slipped __________ Mark and the dog. She wasn’t much __________ than Mark, but she stood ____________ as a rock in front of him. “Goldie, go home!” Then she swept a broom to ____________ the dog along. “Get!” Goldie ____________.

When Mark’s father appeared, he said to Mrs. Grady. “That was very ____________! Thank you.”

Mrs. Grady laughed. “It’s nothing. Good neighbors watch for each other, don’t they?”