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dog	of	I	examine	for	bear
own	peace	long	love	short	whether

I am a vet. Once I was called to examine a ten—year—old dog named Belker. The dog's    1    , Ron, along with his wife Lisa and his son Tom all loved Belker. They were very sad. I    2    Belker and found he would die of cancer. I told the familv that we couldn't do anything for Belker.
Then, Ron and Lisa asked their six—year—old son Tom to see the whole thing. They felt this was a good chance     3    the little boy to learn something from this experience. To    4    surprise, Tom seemed calm. He touched the lovely dog for the last time. I didn't know    5    he could understand what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker died    6    
After Belker's death, we talked about the fact that animal lives are    7    than human lives. Tom, who was listening quietly , suddenly said, "I know why. " Then , I heard the best reason I had ever heard. He said , " People are     8    to learn how to live a good life. They learn to    9    everybody and be nice all the time. " The six-year-old boy continued, "Well,    10    already know how to do that, so they don't have to stay so long. "

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be; spend; keep; search; quiet; open; secret; good; study; they

The world of the out-of doors is full of secrets. And they are so interesting that quite a lot of people are     1     them. All around us are birds, animals, trees and flowers. The facts about how they live and grow     2     as interesting as anything could be. Do you know that one of the great presidents of the United States     3     hours and hours studying birds many years ago? A businessman who lives near New York City became so interested in insects(昆虫) that he began to collect     4    . Now more than one thousand different kinds are     5     in glass boxes. Let us go     6     through the woods and fields. We shall follow a mother bear and her babies to     7     for food and get ready for winter sleep.

We shall watch bees dance in the air to let other bees know where they can find food. I will show you many other interesting things, but the     8     thing that I can teach you is to keep your eyes and ears wide     9     when you go out of doors. Nature tells her     10     to only the people who look and listen seriously.