A friend of mine was walking down a deserted Mexic

an beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept throwing things out into the ocean.

As my friend approached even closer, he notice that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water.

My friend was puzzled. He approached the man and said,“Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing.”

“I’m throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it’s low tide right now and all of htese starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don’t throw them back into the sea, they’ll die up here from a lack of oxygen.”

“I understand,”my friend replied,“but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can’t possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many, and you don’t realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can’t you see that you can’t possibly make a difference？”

The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied,“Made a difference to that one!”

1.During the ______________, starfish was washed up onto the beach.

2.“Puzzled”in Para.3 most probably means _________________

3.When my friend walked to the man, he found the man was_____________________

4.My friend tried to persuade the man to ____________________

5.The lesson my friend most likely learned from this experience is that _____________________.

谢谢~