2 . One hot afternoon decades ago, Thea Rhiannon was driving her old Volkswagen bus down the highway. When she _______ down her window to let in some fresh air, her car registration paper blew off the sun visor (遮阳板) and onto the ________.

She leaned down to get it, and as she did so she ________ pulled the steering wheel (方向盘) to the left. When she ________ back up again, she realized she had got into oncoming ________. In a hurry, she over corrected and pulled the wheel sharply in the other ________. The truck rolled over three times, and Rhiannon was ________ onto the road and was bleeding from a train of injuries.

A passer-by ________ her and stopped to help. Rhiannon remembers him as a man in his late twenties, with a ________ manner and a calming voice.

“He stayed with me until the ambulance got there,” she said. “He ________ me with a blanket and gave me emergency first aid, including apparently putting a tourniquet (止血带) on my left arm, above where I’d hurt it so ________ .”

At a hospital in California, an emergency room doctor spent hours ________ all the pieces of window from her _______ , and gave her necessary treatment. The next day, one of the doctors told Rhiannon that, ________ the tourniquet, she would have probably bled to death before the nurses arrived.

“Thank you for your ________ and concern,” she said to the passer by in tears.

3 . I was on the first lap of the dangerous course. I was going 25 mph, and it was the first time I had ________ to ski without the beginner’s protective suit.

On the “S” turn, a rock got stuck in my wheel and sent me flying. I slid for about 20 feet before coming to ________ in the bushes. I remember the ________ all too well — like a hard blow on the face. Blood was coming out of the wounds. I cried ________ , but it didn’t help.

Knowing I had no other ________ , I got up and started skiing again. Every time, I planted my pole and extended my legs, I could feel the unbearable pain. Nevertheless, I finished the race with ________ and torn clothes.

When my mother cleaned the wounds, I experienced pain which is ________ to describe. It was like an acupuncturist (针灸师) went wild, ________ my body. She poured something cold on my hot, bloody ________. I cried like a crazy man, which ________ our neighbor to come over. Those were the ________ hours of my life.

To this day, over two months later, I still haven’t fully ________. Whenever I look at my wrapped knees, I am ________ of what happened that day. It was my first skiing crash, but instead of ________, I was inspired to keep going. I now know what true ________ feels like, and I’m not afraid of it anymore.

5 . Despite their lack of long-time attention, children do hear the words and watch the actions of the adults around them. In other words, adults are major _________ on children. For one elderly woman, thankfully, this is the case.

It was a mid-January afternoon and school was over. As usual, 70-year-old Patricia _________ her grandchild, 7-year-old Mariah, from school.

However, when they arrived at Mariah’s home, things took a terrible _________. Once the car was in the driveway, Patricia _________ it. Patricia thought the car was in park but it was actually in reverse (倒挡). The car then continued to roll _________. Patricia attempted _________ to stop it. However, she fell and her leg got _________ under the front tire (轮胎) on the driver’s side.

Mariah, who was still in the car at the time, sprang into _________. She quickly _________ the key out after watching her mother and other adults often do so. What Mariah did successfully stopped the car from moving further.

The next moment, Mariah __________ up to her house and rang the doorbell __________. Mariah’s mother, Porchia, was shocked at the __________ and called 911 immediately. It was Mariah’s __________ move that allowed her grandma to free her leg from under the car. Fortunately, Patricia was not seriously __________. Days after the __________ incident (事件), Patricia recovered and left the hospital.

6 . Christine, an experienced skydiver, was about to complete her 112th jump in Johannesburg. Christine decided that she would _________ a sitting position jump for the first time.

Jumping off the plane from 3,353 meters, she stayed in that _________ until about 1,828 meters, when she flattened her body and _________ her parachute (降落伞) as she had done many times before. Unlike the _________ 111 jumps, however, this time, something felt different, and Christine soon realized that something had gone _________.

The first thing she noticed was that she had not slowed down, _________ she also couldn’t see the familiar life-saving canopy (伞盖) above her head. Christine realized her main parachute had not opened, so she _________ changed to her reserve (备用) chute before cutting away the main. But this effort sent her turning around wildly out of _________.

As she was falling toward the _________, Christine thought about her family and upcoming wedding before realizing she was __________ straight into live power lines. This seemed to be terrible luck at the time but probably saved her life as they broke her fall before she __________ into the earth, suffering a broken pelvis (骨盆) and other injuries. Fortunately, she was __________ during her falling by a passerby who stopped his truck to __________ an ambulance and help the stricken woman.

Christine eventually made a full __________, although she did ask her would-be-husband to change their upcoming honeymoon __________ from their adventurous ideas of skydiving and cage-diving with great white sharks to something less dangerous.

7 . It was a hot weekend in Australia. Adrian was working outside in the _________. Over the years, the 40-year-old had _________ dangerous animals while digging around in soil, but he knew how to _________ the non-threatening ones from the dangerous ones.

His shovel(铲子) was in his truck, _________ some 50 metres away. He considered getting it, but the job was _________, and only a light dig was necessary. So he used his hands instead. Just as his fingers slid under the pile of leaves, he felt a _________ pain in his hand. Adrian quickly pulled out his hand to see a spider grasping his finger.

But that wasn’t the worst of it. Adrian knew immediately it was the most _________ spider in Australia. He _________ shook his hand up and down to _________ the spider and finally made it.

He called out to his __________, Phil, who was working close by. Phil dropped his shovel and ran over. The pair quickly walked to the truck while Adrian __________ hard at the base of his finger to __________ the spread of venom(毒) into his bloodstream.

Fortunately, the woodland was not very far from the hospital. Phil __________ Adrian to hospital as fast as he could. Adrian walked into the emergency department with __________ still streaming down his finger. He told the doctor what had happened and was treated __________. After being observed for 24 hours, Adrian was allowed to go home.

9 . Two people, including a 9-year-old boy, were injured in a bear attack while hunting in Alaska, authorities said.

The child suffered serious injuries, while a man suffered minor injuries, Alaska State Troopers said.

The incident occurred Tuesday around 6:30 p.m. local time near Palmer, located about 40 miles northeast of Anchorage, police said.

The pair, who are related, were hunting moose (驼鹿) in the Palmer Hay Flats area, a state game refuge, Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Austin McDaniel told ABC News. Troopers did not say clearly their relationship. They met with a brown bear that then attacked the child, troopers said. The man shot and killed the bear during the attack, police said.

Troopers and EMS responding to the scene following reports of a bear attack found the two victims, who were taken to a hospital in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley area, Troopers said.

McDaniel said the last report he received had the child listed in “fair condition.”

The brown bear was with a cub (baby animal) at the time of the attack. The Alaska Wildlife Troopers and Alaska Department of Fish and Game were unable to locate a cub in the area after ground and aerial searches, McDaniel said.