1 . I’ve been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years. I use a small tractor to get about. My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.

One morning I _________ a lost lamb when I was in the top field, near where a motorway cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its _________, so I jumped out of the tractor to _________ it while Don stayed in his seat.

Lamb and mother _________, I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. This was so _________ because I had put the handbrake on when I jumped out. _________ Don had somehow made the _________move.

My heart froze in my chest as I _________ the tractor heading towards the _________. I ran desperately but failed to __________. It crashed through a wooden fence(栅栏)and disappeared. The__________thing I saw was Don’s face, looking calmly back at me.

Heart in mouth, I __________ the fence and looked over. The tractor was __________ against the crash barrier in the central reservation, having miraculously (奇迹般地) crossed the __________ road with fast-flowing traffic. I couldn’t see Don, but as I __________ the tractor he jumped out onto the road, apparently__________, and ran back to me quickly.

The police __________ and the motorway ran normally again. I couldn’t quite believe my __________ it turned out no one got badly hurt, but the outcome could have been __________. Don was given a special __________ that night — I didn’t want him thinking I was angry with him.

2 . Nicholas Rilling is a bright-eyed, active 5-year-old boy, normal in every way. What is _________ is that he’s that way today after three days’ _________ that happened because of his being underwater without _________ for some 8 minutes.

It was Oct, 17. The Maryland family were enjoying a vacation at a beach resort (旅游胜地) in Puerto Rico. The shallow (浅的) water suggested no _________. But after a while when Kent Rilling _________, he couldn’t find his son Nick!

The sunlight dancing on the water made it difficult for Kent to see where his son was. After an anxious and hurried _________ up and down, he suddenly found his son _________ face-up on the bottom, his eyes open, his body _________.

“He just looked gray and his _________ black,” Kent said. “We picked him up, ran him up to the __________ and just started CPR (心肺复苏) at once.”

For three days in hospital, Nick __________ unconscious (无意识的), his breathing assisted by a breathing machine. The whole time, from the beginning when her husband brought Nick to the beach to give first aid (急救) as a crowd of other __________ gathered around, Cynthia Rilling kept taking pictures and videos of what was going on.

“__________ as I was, I knew in my heart he was going to __________. There was no way God was going to take our son from us. And I just said, ‘I am going to take pictures so he can see the __________ he went through when he grows older.’”

The family kept praying at his bedside, talking to him, hoping for a __________. Finally, on the fourth day, when his parents asked him what __________ he liked, “Sponge Bob Square Pants,” he answered.

After five days, Nick was well enough to __________ hospital, showing no ill effects from his __________ experience. The doctors and nurses organized a “__________ party” for him, and Nick was happy to watch his Sponge Bob Square Pants on TV.