Cloze 3

　　(2017·四川卷)

　　My husband, Tom, has always been good with animals, but I was still amazed when he befriended a female grouse(松鸡). It's __1__ for a grouse to have any contact(接触) with people. In fact, they're hard to spot, __2__ they usually fly off when they hear humans approaching.

　　This grouse came into our lives in __3__. Tom was working out in the field when he __4__ her walking around at the edge of the field. She was __5__ unafraid and seemed to be __6__ about what he was doing.

　　Tom saw the __7__ bird several times, and she got more comfortable around him. We quickly grew __8__ of the bird and decided to call her Mildred.

　　One day, as Tom was working, Mildred came within a few feet of him to watch. Tom __9__ he didn't see her and kept working to see what she would do next.

　　Apparently, she didn't like to be __10__. She'd run up and peck(啄) at Tom's hands, then __11__ off to see what he would do. This went on for about 20 minutes, until Mildred became tired of the __12__ and left.

　　As spring went and summer came, Mildred started to __13__ more and more often. __14__ Mildred felt comfortable enough to jump up on Tom's leg and stay long enough for me to get a __15__ of the two of them together. This friendly grouse soon felt __16__ not just with our family, but with anybody who walked or drove by.

　　When hunting season opened, we put a __17__ at the end of our driveway asking __18__ not to shoot our pet grouse. My father, who lived down the road, __19__ warned people not to shoot her.__20__， hunters would stop and take pictures, because they had never seen anything like her.

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