Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Rescue a Raccoon (浣熊)
A disoriented five- month-old raccoon hurries across a busy road in Greenbrae, California.Somehow the animal and her mom have become separated, and now the 【小题1】(frighten) baby has no idea what to do. Suddenly a car approaches. Unable to see the animal, the driver accidentally runs over her hind leg. The raccoon falls to the ground where she lies helpless.
Other motorists, who saw the accident, pull over to check on the injured animal. One concerned witness is Marco Berger, 【小题2】works for a nearby wildlife hospital called WildCare.Berger calls a nearby branch of the Marian Humane Society, an organization that, among other things, transports injured wildlife to care centers. About 10 minutes later, rescue officers arrive on the scene.
They use a net to lift up the lttle raccoon, then load her into an animal ambulance and 【小题3】(rush) her to WildCare.
At the hospital, head veterinary technician Nat Smith gives the raccoon a checkup. An X-ray of her leg reveals that the thighbone is completely broken. If the bone 【小题4】 (not repair),she'll never be able to run, climb, or search for food in the wild. The good news is that the leg 【小题5】be fixed with surgery.
Almost immediately after 【小题6】 (wake) up from the surgery, the raccoon shows signs of improvement. "Within a day she's able to walk on her leg," Smith says. A week and a half later,the raccoon has become so active that WildCare staff decide to move the animal to a 12-foot-by-12-foot outdoor enclosure 【小题7】trees for her to climb.
Within two months, the young raccoon is ready 【小题8】(release). After one final checkup, she's loaded into a pet carrier and driven to a forested area near 【小题9】 she was found. 【小题10】the carrier door is opened, the raccoon runs into the woods. "She's ready to take on the wild," says Smith.
