1 . The sound woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning. Watching out of his bedroom window, he saw a tree ________ in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped around the tree's base, its engine ________.
"I grabbed buckets of water," said Languell. Then he ran to the crash ________.The car looked worse up close. It was nearly ________ into two, and the tree was where the driver's seat ought to have been, as if planted there. No one should have ________ this crash, and yet there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, his ________ face pressed against the driver's side window, in visible ________. Languell, 35, tried pouring the fire with his buckets of water with no success. "When the ________ got into the front seats, I realized I had to get him out of there," he said.
Completely ________ his own safety, Languell opened the car's back door and ________ in. He cut through Thompson's seat belt using a pocketknife he'd had the foresight to bring with him. Now that Thompson was free of the ________, Languell pulled him out of the vehicle, and then ________ the teen to safety just before the entire car was surrounded in flames.
Although Thompson suffered several breakings to his legs, spine, and face, a social media post ________ him as "looking great, smiling, and joking". Displaying the sort of sympathy that ________ him to help, he explained, "My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so ________."
1. A.swallowed | B.preserved | C.melted | D.settled |
2. A.beyond reach | B.under control | C.on fire | D.in shape |
3. A.levels | B.surroundings | C.direction | D.site |
4. A.developed | B.arranged | C.shot | D.divided |
5. A.explained | B.planned | C.survived | D.prevented |
6. A.terrified | B.relaxed | C.moved | D.confused |
7. A.eagerness | B.doubt | C.pain | D.devotion |
8. A.flames | B.water | C.branches | D.fuel |
9. A.denying | B.ignoring | C.respecting | D.guaranteeing |
10. A.climbed | B.slipped | C.ran | D.called |
11. A.dilemma | B.trap | C.destination | D.embarrassment |
12. A.forced | B.showed | C.dragged | D.accompanied |
13. A.thanked | B.employed | C.served | D.described |
14. A.ordered | B.drove | C.begged | D.trained |
15. A.directly | B.hopelessly | C.calmly | D.effectively |