It was in Australia. By mid-afternoon on Thursday, Adrian Main was working outside in the _________. Over the years, he had _________ many animals while digging around in soil, but he knew how to _________ the dangerous ones.

Now his shovel (铲子) was in his car, parked 50 meters away. He considered getting it, but the job was _________. So he used his hands instead. Just as his fingers slid under the pile of _________, he felt a(an) _________ pain in his left hand. Adran quickly _________ out his hand, seeing a spider biting his finger.

Adrian knew immediately that the spider was a Sydney funnel-web (漏斗型蜘蛛), the _________ in Australia. He _________ his hand up and down to throw off the spider and after three or four seconds, it finally let go and dropped to fallen leaves again.

He __________ to his coworker, Phil, who was working close by. Phil __________ his shovel and ran over. The pair calmly walked to the car while Adrian pressed down on his finger to __________ the spread of venom (毒液) into his bloodstream. They both knew a bite like this, if left untreated, could __________ death within an hour.

__________, the forests where they had been working was not very far from the hospital. Adrian walked into the emergency department with __________ still streaming down his finger. He calmly told the nurse that he’d been bitten by a Sydney funnel-web, and was quickly brought to a bed. He finally was saved.

You never know how good your neighbors are until there’s an emergency.

It was after midnight when Clifford_________to the sound of a noise next door. Outside, he saw that the house next to his was_________, and there were three people_________. A mother with a teenager and a 5-year-old child were _________ for help inside the burning home. Unable to get down the stairs due to thick smoke and _________, the only way out of the big fire was through the window. Thinking fast, Clifford ran into his backyard and_________ an old mattress(床垫)out and placed it beneath the woman’s window.

“Come down, come down,” he called up to the family. He _________the panicked mother that he would_________ the child. In an act of_________and desperation, the mother handed her child out of the__________-into Clifford’s arms. Next, it was the mother and the teenager’ turns. Luckily, their landings were__________.

Nine people are homeless after the house was __________. The Red Cross is working to help the victims recover from losing their home and__________. The house suffered about $1 million in damages, and the fire was so hot that it even melted the siding(墙板)of the house next to it. Two __________from the Boston Fire Department suffered minor injuries.

After the big fire, Clifford was praised for his__________. Later he said he was happy he could help the family__________from the flames(火焰). He says the mother he saved was so__________ and she couldn’t stop thanking him for helping. It took a lot of courage for him to run towards that fire! __________, everyone made it out alive. Clifford didn’t think twice about running toward danger to help these __________. Everyone would all be __________to have a neighbor like him!

I've been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years. I use a small tractor   (拖拉车) to get about. My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.

One morning I _________ a lost lamb when I was in the top field, near where a motorway (高速路) cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its _________ , so I jumped out of the tractor to _________ it while Don stayed in his seat.

Lamb and mother _________, I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. This was so _________ because I had put the handbrake on when I jumped out. _________ Don had somehow made the _________ move.

My heart _________ in my chest as I saw the tractor heading towards the _________. I ran desperately but failed to __________. It crashed through a wooden fence and disappeared. The __________ thing I saw was Don's face, looking calmly back at me.

Heart in mouth, I __________ the fence and looked over. The tractor was __________ against the crash barrier in the central reservation, having miraculously (奇迹般地) crossed the __________ road with fast-flowing traffic. I couldn't see Don, but as I __________ the tractor he jumped out onto the road, apparently __________, and dashed back to me.

The police __________ and the motorway ran normally again. I couldn't quite believe my __________ -it turned out no one got badly hurt, but the outcome could have been __________. Don was given a special __________ that night--I didn't want him thinking I was angry with him.