My husband, Tom, has always been good with animals, but I was still amazed when he befriended a female grouse（松鸡）. It’s __11__ for a grouse to have any contact（接触）with people. In fact, they’re hard to spot, __12__ they usually fly off when they hear humans approaching. This grouse came into our lives in __13__ . Tom was working out in the field when he __14__ her walking around at the edge of the field. She was __15__ unafraid and seemed to be __16__ about what he was doing. Tom saw the __17__ bird several times, and she got more comfortable around him. We quickly grew __18__ 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 __19__ he didn’t see her and kept working to see what she would do next. Apparently, she didn’t like to be __20__ . She’d run up and peck（啄）at Tom’s hands, then __21__ off to see what he would do. This went on for about 20 minutes, until Mildred became tired of the __22__ and left. As spring went and summer came, Mildred started to __23__ more and more often. __24__ Mildred felt comfortable enough to jump up on Tom’s leg and stay long enough for me to get a __25__ of the two of them together. This friendly grouse soon felt __26__ not just with our family, but with anybody who walked or drove by. When hunting season opened, we put a __27__ at the end of our driveway asking __28__ not to shoot our pet grouse. My father, who lived down the road, __29__ warned people not to shoot her. __30__ , hunters would stop and take pictures, because they had never seen anything like her.

A．chance
B．dream
C．picture
D．sense