阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
One day, my two brothers and I were coming back from the islands 【小题1】 we often risked going and got more fish than others. All at once, the sky 【小题2】(cover) with clouds and in less than a minute we were in a terrible storm. A huge wave covered our boat and my younger brother 【小题3】(fall) into the sea. My elder brother put his mouth 【小题4】to my ear and cried out “Moskoe-strom!” The moment I heard the word I became very 【小题5】(frighten). I knew what he meant by that one word well enough.
During the polar time of 1910-1911, both teams organized food bases in preparation 【小题6】their journeys the next year. Then came the total 【小题7】(dark) of the polar winter. Scott and Amundsen waited 【小题8】(anxious) for spring.
Amundsen was the first to leave on 8 September, 1911. He had teams of dogs 【小题9】(pull) the sleges and all his men were on skis. Because of this, he made 【小题10】(rapidly) progress. Scott left on l November and soon had problems. First, his two sledges broke down and then the horses began to to have serious 【小题11】(difficulty) with the snow and the cold. After a while, Scott and his men had to push the sledges 【小题12】(them).
