Mr Bolton had a big house with a beautiful lawn and a garden. His neighbor often came to visit his garden and Mr Bolton enjoyed    1    (hold) parties in his house. Sometimes, even visitors to the town came to his house to look    2    the lawn and garden.

Because of this, Mr Bolton was very proud of his lawn and garden and he spend all his time and energy taking care of them. But there was still one thing    3    bothered him -- the sidewalk. Some of the sidewalk’s tiles(地砖) were stained(沾了污渍的). Some showed    4    (difference) levels of wear and some just looked old. One day, Mr Bolton had    5    brilliant idea. “Why not paint the sidewalk?” he said to    6    (he). So he went to a hardware store and found some light grey paint. He bought the paint, rushed home and    7    (get) out a paint roller. And in a short time he had    8    (complete) painted the sidewalk. After the paint dried, the sidewalk looked as though it was brand new.

Mr Bolton thought the project was a great    9    (succeed). But there was one unexpected result that troubled him: His neighbors and visitors all walk on his lawn now because they don’t want    10    (make) the sidewalk dirty.

A dog named Peggy was unable to continue the job she was good     1    -herding (放牧) sheep一when at age 8 she lost    2    (she) hearing.

Peggy’s owners gave her to a local animal shelter (庇护所) when they found it hard    3    (communicate) with her. The manager of the shelter ChloeShorten    4    (offer) to help. Shorten and her husband, Jason,    5     had two other working sheepdogs, decided to take Peggy home.

While Peggy became deaf,    6     (obvious), her love for sheep herding hadn’t disappeared.“We knew Peggy wanted to work, so we taught her how to herd and work with us without     7    (depend) on voice commands (指令),Shorten said. With    8    help of a sheepdog trainer, Peggy finally learned to reply to sign language rather than traditional voice commands.

But the most important lesson Peggy learned had nothing to do with sheep. It was about trust. “It took her some time to learn that we love her, and understand our praise,” Shorten said.

These days, with her GPS tracker in place, Peggy heads out with sheep fom time to time, happily knowing that the     9    (mean) of a “thumbs (拇指)up” is that she’s a good girl. The Shortens couldn’t be     10    (pleased) with Peggy.