The factory     1     I worked caught fire last winter. All of us were    2     (shock) to find we     3     (trap) in a workshop. The walls cracked and bricks    4     (fall) down frequently. The    5     (electrical) was also cut off. The thick smoke was hard     6    (breathe) . It seemed as if everything were    7     (destroy). We were about to give up     8     a good idea suddenly     9     (strike) me. I told others to wet their coats and covered their heads to protect themselves from heavy smoke and fire. We ran out of the workshop before it lay in    10     (ruin). It was my wisdom that saved our lives.

A 30-year-old man was finally rescued from the Alaskan wilderness after his cabin burned down,     1     (leave) him trapped in the snow for almost three weeks.

Tyson Steele had been living alone     2     several months in a small house in Skwentna, a town     3     (locate) 70 miles northwest of Anchorage. He had been burning a fire in    4     (he) woodstove back in December when a piece of flaming cardboard     5     (fly) up his fireplace chimney and landed on his roof,     6     started a slow fire that eventually left the cabin in ruins. Since Skwentna only has a population of about 35 people, Steele’s     7     (near) neighbor lived about 20 miles away. With no means of     8     (communicate) to call for help, Steele endured sub-zero temperatures     9     severe weather conditions wearing long johns (秋裤), boots with no socks, and a heavy wool sweater.

When his family and friends hadn’t heard from Steele for several     10     (week), they requested a welfare check from Alaska State Troopers. As a helicopter flew over the area, they caught sight of Steele waving his arms in the air next to a massive “SOS” sign that he had stamped into the snow.