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    I came into a village and I saw a policeman standing outside the post office and reading something carefully. He looked up at the car, w{#blank#}1{#/blank#}into the road, and held up a hand to stop me,

    I a{#blank#}2{#/blank#}stopped, but then I realized that the policeman had been reading about me. I supposed the police at the hotel had worked quickly, and called all the local villages. I drove faster, the policeman jumped out of my way, and I was soon out of the village.

    I left the main road as soon as possible and tried a smaller one. It was not easy without a map, and I realized that I had been so s{#blank#}3{#/blank#}to steal the car. It would help the police to find me in any corner of Scotland. If I left it, and went off on foot, they would find me in an hour or two.

    I was very hungry. I had eaten n{#blank#}4{#/blank#}since morning. And now, as I drove, I heard a noise in the sky, and there was a plane. I drove as fast as I could down into another town. Suddenly, a car appeared in front of me from a s{#blank#}5{#/blank#}road. There was no time to stop. I did the only thing possible and drove off the road into a fence, hoping to hit something soft beyond. But I was out of good l{#blank#}6{#/blank#}. The car went through the fence like a knife through butter, and immediately began to fall. I jumped out and was caught by the branch of a tree, while the car disappeared into a river fifteen metres below.

    A hand helped me out of the tree, and a frightened voice asked me if I was badly hurt. The speaker was a young man who was very sorry. I was more p{#blank#}7{#/blank#} than angry, it was a good way for the car to disappear.

    Children grow quickly, especially their feet. But many families cannot a{#blank#}1{#/blank#}new shoes when a child needs them. As a result, about 300 million children around the world go barefoot, Those children risk picking up diseases and parasites(寄生虫) from the soil.

    An American finally has a s{#blank#}2{#/blank#}for those barefoot children a shoe that grows with the child. Kenton Lee is the creator of The Shoe That Grows. He explains how the shoe works and how it is able to last so long. "It grows in three places; the front, the side, and the back. It can last up to five years. The b{#blank#}3{#/blank#}is compressed(压缩的) rubber like tire rubber. The top is just high-quality leather. "

    The shoe comes in two sizes; small that fits children ages 4 to 9 and large for children aged g to 14. Lee says he got the idea for the shoe while working as a v{#blank#}4{#/blank#}in an orphanage in Kenya. "… and there was a little girl in a white dress walking next to me. And I just remember looking down and seeing how small her shoes were. And she had to c{#blank#}5{#/blank#}open the front of her shoes to let her toes(脚趾) stick out. At that time I just remember thinking, wouldn't it be nice if there were a pair of shoes that could grow with her feet. "However, Lee says it was i{#blank#}6{#/blank#}to turn his idea into a reality at that time. "Yet I kept writing down I should do this because of this or because of that. All these reasons why it really was important for me to try to make the shoes grow are to try to help them. "

    Finally, in 2009 Lee founded a non-profit organization called Because International. Together, they have sent over 50, 000 pairs of shoes to 70 countries. Lee says a pair of shoes gives a child much protection b{#blank#}7{#/blank#}self-worth and more chances to succeed.