One of my earliest childhood memories: I’m maybe six, and it is Easter Sunday morning. I wake up early and skip down the hall to my parents’ bedroom to wake them up so that we can get straight down to the _______hunt. My dad is still in bed _______; my mum is nowhere to be seen. After _______my dad with finger for a bit, I go over to windows _______ the garden. I draw back the curtain to see if I can find any chocolate eggs that may be _______, perhaps   even the Easter Bunny (复活节兔子) himself going about his work. _______ I see my mother with a little basket of Cadbury’s Creme Eggs in one hand, crouching (蹲) to_______them here and there among planters and flower beds. What I am _______ makes no sense at all. It _______ in the face of everything I know to be true. Yet here it is unthinkable, ________ right in front of me. Hurt by my own expanding comprehension of what is happening, I turn to my sleepy father. "Mummy is the Easter Bunny!" I say, and burst into ________.

As losses of ________ go, this thing fades away slowly. But in retrospect (回想), what upset me most about this ________was my understanding that a part of my childhood had been gone forever. I was ________ able to enjoy the innocence I ________so highly in the first place.

Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people to climb the West Face of the Siula Grande in the Andes mountains. They reached the top _________，but on their way back conditions were very _________. Joe fell and broke his leg. They both knew that if Simon _________alone，he would probably get back ___________. But Simon decided to risk his_________and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope.

As they_______down，the weather got worse. Then another _______occurred. They couldn't see or hear each other and，_________，Simon lowered his friend over the edge of a precipice（峭壁）. It was_________ for Joe to climb back or for Simon to pull him up. Joe's __________ was pulling Simon slowly towards the precipice. __________，after more than an hour in the dark and the icy cold，Simon had to __________. In tears，he cut the rope. Joe ________ into a huge crevasse（裂缝） in the ice below. He had no food or water and he was in terrible pain. He couldn't walk，but he ____________to get out of the crevasse and started to __________ towards their camp，nearly ten kilometers __________.

Simon had ____________the camp at the foot of the mountain. He thought that Joe must be __________，but he didn't want to leave __________. Three days later，in the middle of the night，he heard Joe's voice. He couldn't __________ it. Joe was there，a few meters from their tent，still alive.