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"So teach him to close the door", my daughter Emma responded after listening to me
1 , again, about
the dog coming in from the back door, bringing with him a blast of Buffalo January
2 air.
Teach a dog to close a door behind him? That has got to be a really, really
3 thing to do. But then she
took a step
4 . "Come on, Kolby", she said, grabbing some treats (犒劳物) and
5 him in front of the open
door. "Touch." And "touch" he did, which moved the door to a
6 position. She
7 him with a treat, smiled,
looked at me, and said "see!" And I saw and became
8 . Over the last few days I have been with Kolby. Each
time he comes in I bring him back to the
9 door and ask him to close. There have been
10 in the beginning,
but lately more and more successes.
However, there remains much work to be done. I have to get him to follow my hand signal again and again
11 he will close the door from a distance. But, I now realize,
12 you keep to the focus, the
13 will be
completed.
What a
14 treat to have a dog that can close the door after himself! Even more wonder can be found in
the
15 I learned so clearly from both Emma and Kolby.
A wish is just a wish until you decide to take
16 . Once you
17 the belief that it is "too hard", then it
remains "too hard" and out of
18 . Once you want to accomplish a goal, and
19 that it is "easy", then it
becomes "easy" to do what needs to be done. Just
20 doing it.
( )1. A. complain ( )2. A. thin ( )3. A. interesting ( )4. A. again ( )5. A. pushing ( )6. A. stopped ( )7. A. rewarded ( )8. A. moved ( )9. A. open ( )10. A. pleasures ( )11. A. in case ( )12. A. even if ( )13. A. interest ( )14. A. wonderful ( )15. A. knowledge ( )16. A. patience ( )17. A. hold on to ( )18. A. date ( )19. A. prove ( )20. A. imagine |
B. scream B. fresh B. funny B. further B. catching B. fixed B. provided B. convinced B. closed B. experiments B. even if B. as long as B. task B. small B. skills B. part B. pay attention to B. touch B. decide B. start |
C. worry C. dirty C. tough C. deeper C. driving C. closed C. offered C. concerned C. broken C. failures C. as if C. in that C. profit C. different C. lessons C. delight C. come up with C. reach C. approve C. keep |
D. scare D. cold D. possible D. backward D. positioning D. checked D. thanked D. puzzled D. perfect D. pauses D. so that D. unless D. harmony D. simple D. experience D. action D. live up to D. power D. realize D. enjoy |