1 . It was America’s deadliest wildfire in at least 100 years. The fire was caused by_______ electricity transmission (传送) lines in the town named Paradise. It burned for 17 days and _______ 153, 336 acres north of Sacramento. _______, the fire destroyed nearly 19, 000 buildings. The glory of this_______ named place was gone.

Shane Grammer, who grew up 15 miles away in Chico, _______ the news of the deadly fire’s path from Los Angeles, where he _______ as a creative director for Disney’s theme parks to support his family. When seeing his childhood buddy Shane Edwards post pictures of his white chimney (烟囱)— the only part of his house to_______, Grammer said to himself, “I’ve got to_______ that chimney.”

Then amid the rubble (瓦砾), Grammer spent three hours creating a black-and-white image of a woman on the chimney — a _______, perhaps, of the beauty of life, or even just of life itself. The victims of the fire, especially, couldn’t ________ themselves. “Beautiful and unforgettable,” they said.

Grammer realized that what he had thought was a purely artistic________ had transformed into something deeper. “There is hope and beauty in the ________,” he believed. Grammer’s work in the town has now become a(n)________ — he has traveled the world, painting in________ places that extremely need some light. “I want to do something ________ ,” he said.