According to a media release , a criminal had escaped from prison. In panic , he ran to a _________ living area close to the prison. He tried to ________ grandfather Luis Mena’s truck after he ________ his granddaughters Stephanie, 3, and Amy, 7, who had just come from the daycare center.

“ We started ________, ” Mena told the media. The man ________ the door to the driver’s side of the truck and tried to ________ Mena out of the vehicle. “ My T-shirt got all ________. He grabbed me by my T-shirt and threw me to the ground. ” Mena’s head hit the ground violently and lost ________. The man escaped in the truck , with Stephanie and Amy still in the back seat.   That was my biggest ________,” Mena recalled.

However , when he came to himself , he learned that Amy had ________ to get out of the truck before the man fled the scene in the ________ vehicle. “She jumped from the truck and pulled her sister out so they could escape and be ________.” Mena proudly accounted his granddaughter’s ________ actions in detail. ________, police found the truck. The criminal reportedly ________ it and ran away into the woods. Later, a police dog team caught and ________him. He was taken to the ________ to treat the dog bites. The community where the family lives ________ the 7-year-old girl as a ________ after she saved both herself and her younger sister from the ________.

On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Clarke locked the door and went to the women’s _______ as usual. It was a pleasant way of passing time for an old woman who lived _______.

When she came home she sensed _______ unusual. Had someone got in? The back door and the _______ were all locked and there was no sign of forced entry (进入). Had anything been _______ ? She went from room to room, checking, and found her camera and watch _______ .

The following Thursday she went out at her _______ time, but she didn’t go to the club _______ , she took a short walk in a park nearby and came home, _______ herself in through the back door. She settled down to wait and see what would ________ .

It was 4 o’clock when the front doorbell rang. Mrs. Clarke was making tea at the time. The bell rang again, and ________ she heard her letter-box being pushed open. ________ the kettle (壶) of boiling water, she moved quietly towards the door. A piece of wire appeared through the letter-box, and then a ________ The wire turned and caught around the knob (圆型旋钮) on the door-lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and ________ the water over the hand. ________ was heard outside as the ________ fell to the floor and the hand was pulled back, which was ________ by the sound of running feet.

It wasn’t long ________ the police caught the thief. And Mrs. Clarke was greatly ________ at the club for her successful ________ .

William Green, aged 82, was making his breakfast when he heard somebody in his garden. “I went out of the back door and suddenly I saw this man running towards me, he _________ me out of the way and took my _________ from the garden shed.” Mr. Green did not _________, as he knew he would be no match in a fight for the man. The burglar tried to cycle away, but the _________ of the bike were flat so it was difficult to ride. “He kept _________ the bicycle,” said Mr. Green, “at least three times.” After the man had _________, Mr. Green called the police.

When they arrived, officers asked him to _________ the man, but instead he offered to draw them a picture. “When Mr. Green started drawing,” said one of the police officers, “I knew straight away who the _________ was.” In fact, Mr. Green had drawing caricatures（漫画）for more than 20 years in newspapers. “I had no difficulty in remembering the man's face because he was so _________ to me,” he said.

Police __________ in the neighborhood with the sketch（素描）of the burglar and found him within half an hour. The cartoon was a perfect __________ of the robber. And the __________ bike was later found in a road nearby.

Police believed that this was the first time they had ever caught a suspect with a __________ sketch. A senior police officer said that in the past some victims used their mobile phones to take __________ at crime scenes, but they were not as __________.