将下列单词填入空格。每空格限填一词,每词只能填一次。
A. nearby B. driving C. memory D. volunteer E. close |
It was one of the hottest summers in 16 in the state of Victoria, Australia. Bush fires were burning very 17 to people’s homes and they were in danger. In every town, volunteers were fighting the fires. David Tree was one of these 18 firefighters.
One day, Mr. Tree was working with his team near his home town of Mirboo. They were fighting a bush fire. They were 19 up Samson Road when Mr. Tree saw a koala. It was walking across the burned ground, and it didn’t look happy. There’s a koala, stop the truck. Mr. Tree shouted and jumped out “I videoed the koala for my daughter Cheyenne and shouted for a bottle of water.”
A. rather B. looking C. local D. wounded E. hardly |
Firefighter Mark Pardew took the photo while the koala was drinking from a bottle. “Koalas are 20 friendly to people but this one took David’s hand,” said Mr. Pardew. “She was 21 tired and thirsty.”
A friend took the 22 animal to a wildlife centre. At the centre, they named her Sam after Samson Road.
Later Mr. Pardew emailed the photo to friends and someone sent it to the 23 newspaper. From there it went around the world and David Tree became a celebrity.
Bush fires=fast and dangeous fires that happen in the countryside in Australia.
Adapted from the Guardian newspaper