2 . It was in Australia. By mid-afternoon on Thursday, Adrian Main was working outside in the _________. Over the years, he had _________ many animals while digging around in soil, but he knew how to _________ the dangerous ones.

Now his shovel (铲子) was in his car, parked 50 meters away. He considered getting it, but the job was _________. So he used his hands instead. Just as his fingers slid under the pile of _________, he felt a(an) _________ pain in his left hand. Adran quickly _________ out his hand, seeing a spider biting his finger.

Adrian knew immediately that the spider was a Sydney funnel-web (漏斗型蜘蛛), the _________ in Australia. He _________ his hand up and down to throw off the spider and after three or four seconds, it finally let go and dropped to fallen leaves again.

He __________ to his coworker, Phil, who was working close by. Phil __________ his shovel and ran over. The pair calmly walked to the car while Adrian pressed down on his finger to __________ the spread of venom (毒液) into his bloodstream. They both knew a bite like this, if left untreated, could __________ death within an hour.

__________, the forests where they had been working was not very far from the hospital. Adrian walked into the emergency department with __________ still streaming down his finger. He calmly told the nurse that he’d been bitten by a Sydney funnel-web, and was quickly brought to a bed. He finally was saved.