A Pennsylvania patrol (巡逻) officer rescued（营救）a German shepherd (牧羊犬) from a car accident in South Londonberry.

    Since the rescue, a photo of patrol officer Nick Ague carrying the 1 that his fellow police officers posted to Facebook has got nearly 4,500 likes and tons of 2  comments(评论).

    "Amazing people still do exist (存在)!” one user 3 .

    The act of heroism began on Aug. 11, when Ague heard on the radio that there had been a car 4  nearby, and that two dogs involved in the crash had fled (逃离) from the 5 .

    "I heard other people say they saw a German shepherd 6 ," Ague told ABC News.com. "Based on the location I could 7  the dog was heading west."

    So Ague and a few fellow 8  set out to find the dog, who they later learned was named Mya. They flagged Mya down, 9  every time they stopped their patrol cars, she would run from them. They called Mya's 10 , and when she arrived on the scene, Mya 11  stopped running. And then the dog wouldn't move at all.

    That was when Ague realized something was 12 . He quickly realized that it wasn't that the dog wouldn't move but 13  not move.

    "The dog was not moving because the skin on her feet was hanging off 14  the distance she ran," Ague explained. "She ran two miles from the crash on hot asphalt (柏油).

    "When I realized that's why she couldn't walk," he said, "the 15  thing I could think of doing was to pick her up."

    So he 16  Mya up, who he said weighed around 75 pounds, and 17  her about 100 yards to her owner's car.

    Mya's owner, Megan Smith, said that Mya's feet were already healed(痊愈), and she was now walking 18 .

    Ague, who has a German shepherd of his own and described himself as "a real animal 19 ", said he never thought of doing anything besides 20  Mya.

    The books in David's schoolbag felt like bricks as he ran. What he wanted to do was to play basketball with Eric, 1 his mother told him he would have to return his sister's books to the library first.

    He had 2 set foot in a library and he didn't like reading. He would just 3 the books in the outside return box. But there was a 4; it was locked.

    He went into the building, only a few minutes 5 closing time. He put the books into the return box. And after a brief 6 in the WC, he would be on his way to the playground to 7 Eric.

    David stepped out of the WC and stopped in  8 — the library lights were off. The place was 9. The doors had been shut. They 10 be opened from the inside, he was trapped in a library!

    He tried to11 a telephone call, but was unable to12. What's more, the pay phones were on the outside of the building. 13 the sun began to set, he searched for a light and found it.

    14 he could see. David wrote on a piece of paper: “15! I'm TRAPPED inside!” and stuck it to the glass door. 16, someone passing by would see it.

    He was surprised to discover that this place was not so unpleasant, 17. Rows and rows of shelves held books. He saw a book about Michael Jordan and took it. He settled into a chair and started to 18.

    He knew he had to 19, but now, that didn't seem to be such a 20 thing.

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    He was known everywhere as a great artist. People1 from miles around to admire his beautiful2 His name was Pygmalion，and he lived long，long3 in Athens，Greece.

    Pygmalion4 his art for many years. His desire 5excellence made him spend months6a single work of art. He would not stop7he felt it was perfect.8the years passed，his work became9 Pygmalion painted flowers which looked 10natural that people tried to11them. He painted fruits which looked so12that people wanted to eat them. Everyone13 looked at the pictures he had painted was14by their beauty.

    As the years passed it15only his pictures that made him famous，Pygmalion16 made perfect pieces of sculpture.He could take a plain piece of wood17stone and make it beautiful. He could make a rough stone as18as glass. He worked long and hard to make his statues as real as possible. Often visitors who came to see his work began talking to someone. They were surprised when that person didn't19They were even more surprised20they realized they were talking to a statue. It always gave Pygmalion pleasure when people were surprised this way.

    There is a story about a princess who had a small eye problem that she felt was really bad. Being the king's daughter, she didn't like to listen and kept 1 all the time. When the doctors wanted to help her, she always refused any 2treatment and kept touching her eye and it became worse and worse.3 the king announced a big4 for whoever could cure his daughter. After some time, a man arrived. He 5 that he could cure the princess but6 he was not a doctor.

    After he had 7 her, the man said, “There is nothing much wrong with your eye, hut there is something else that is really 8 .” The princess was worried and asked what it was. He 9and said, “It is really bad. I shouldn't tell you about it.” No matter how much she10, he refused to tell her, saying that he could not speak without the king's11 .

    When the king arrived, the man was still 12to tell his findings. After the king ordered him to tell them, the man said, “Well, there is no problem with the 13 . The big problem is that the princess will start14 a long tail very soon. If she15it when it appears, I can prevent it from growing.” Everyone was deeply concerned at this 16. And the princess stayed in bed, day and night, directing all her17 to feeling when the tail might appear. Thus, after a few days, her eye got well.

    This is how we 18 react: we always focus on our  19 problem and it becomes the center of everything. So far, we have done this20, generation after generation.

    I grew up in a small town. My father1chickens and ran a construction company. I was210 years old when my dad gave me the3of feeding the chickens and4up the stable（笼子）. He believed it was5for me to have those jobs to6responsibility. Then, when I was 22, I found a job in Natchbill at a country music club7the Natchbill Palace, I washed8and cooked from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm and then9to sing until 2:00 in the morning. It wasn't long before I became known10a singing cook.

    I had been rejected so many times by record11that it was hard not to be discouraged. One night, a12executive(主管) from a company named Warner Brothers Records came to hear me sing. When the show was13, we sat down and talked and after she left, I said to14it was one more rejection. A few weeks later, my manager received a phone call—Waner Brothers15to sign me to a record deal.16after, I release(发行) my first record in June 1986. It17over 2 million copies.

    My best efforts had gone into every job I've ever held. It was the18of responsibility that made me feel like a man. Knowing that I had done my19filled me with pride. I still feel that way today, even though I have become a well-known20.

    I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! If not, no 1 to catch up, just join right now. Everyone says one of the most effective ways to deal with 2 emotions is to 3. If things are sad, try to find a 4 to laugh or joke. Easier said than done.

    However, I had a chance to make a joke of it last night. My husband 5 the job of dealing with my 6 orthodontic（矫牙）treatment. He7 he'd make the 8 and take her to see the doctor.

    On 9 flight to Kansas city for the holidays, my daughter lost her dental braces（牙套）. We looked everywhere on the plane but it was 10. We returned home 11 and my husband didn't call to make an appointment. Days went12. I 13 him periodically, but nothing happened.

Whenever I thought about this delay（延误）, I became extremely annoyed. Last night, I was 14 to turn on my anger at full volume（音量）. "This really matters. She is growing now. She'll only have to suffer, you 15 you'd do it," But then I thought about, "make a joke of it." So I went over and said 16, "honey, if you don't call the orthodontist's tomorrow, I'm going to be very angry. I'm not threatening, just giving you fair warning." And today he made the appointment. I'm not sure if making a joke of it was more effective（有效的）than getting angry, but I don't think it was less effective.

I used the same 17 on myself last weekend. Faced with a lot of dull tasks to do, I repeated to myself 18, "Oh well, this is the weekend of the dreaded（恐怖）tasks." And just making that little joke made it easier to handle those tasks.

Maybe, my jokes weren't funny at all. But just the attempt to take a 19 attitude made a huge 20. It's easy to say "make a joke of it", but it's hard to do when you're feeling angry or upset. Have you found a way to get yourself to make a joke?