【新闻填空】It‘s a story this time~ 参考答案在原文给出

妖妖灵
楼主 (文学城)

It's not news but a story this time. Please fill out the 5 blanks with your knowledge and common sense:

 

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In 1997, Apryle Oswald was on a road (1.   )with her boyfriend and two dogs, driving through a wide-open stretch of Nevada. Suddenly, one of the dogs tried to jump in the front seat. Oswald swerved and lost control of the car. 

"I can picture it very, very clearly," she remembered. "The car did a somersault, back-over-front for nearly a hundred yards."

Once it stopped, she (2.   ) her seatbelt and got out of the car, yelling for her boyfriend, John Williams, who had disappeared.

 

"(3.   )of a sudden I see him come running towards me, and then I collapse," she said. She learned later she had bruised lungs and splintered ribs. "And I remember laying on the ground, and I just couldn't get up ... I remember being cold — really, really cold."

At that point it was around midnight, with below-(4.   ) temperatures. One of their dogs was badly injured, and needed attention. Williams tried to flag (5.     )the cars driving by, but no one slowed down. They started to panic.

"I ... remember him coming back and saying, 'Nobody's stopping, nobody's stopping,'" she said. 

Williams eventually took off his coat and threw it at a truck coming by. "He got the guy to stop," Oswald said. "And that guy's ... the unsung hero."

Oswald doesn't recall his name, or what he looked like. But she remembers his deep voice, and how he wrapped her in a blanket.

"I recall in my mind ... this scratchy wool plaid blanket, and covering me up to make sure I was warm," she said.

Luckily the man had an emergency radio in his truck, so he called for help. An air medical helicopter arrived and evacuated Oswald to the hospital. 

If her unsung hero had left after that, it would have been enough. She believes that if not for him, she might have died of hypothermia. But his generosity didn't end there.

For the next three nights, the man drove Williams back and forth between his motel and the hospital, so Williams could visit her. He even drove their injured dog, Digby, to the veterinary clinic for blood transfusions.

"He just really cared," she said. "And he just went above and beyond."

She wishes she had gotten his phone number, to thank him again for saving her life — and for sticking around to help. 

"I mean, who does that?" she said. "What an amazing person ... what an amazing thing for a stranger to do in the middle of a cold Nevada night."



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最西边的岛上
A quick try

1. driving 

2. released

3. all

4. freezing 

5. down 

 

妖妖灵
好棒啊!羡慕羡慕!:)
甜虫虫
A good story. Let me try

1, trip

2, unbuckled

3, out 

4, freezing 

5, down

 

above and beyond  And stick around are good too.

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7grizzly
She forgot his name!?

1. trip

2. loosened

3. All

4. zero

5. down

妖妖灵
虫虫的语感从来都是棒棒哒!学习啦:)
妖妖灵
名字有那么重要吗?:)一如既往好厉害!:)
暖冬cool夏
交作业,谢谢妖mm!

1. Trip

2. Unfasten

3. All

4. zero

5. at/down (?)

妖妖灵
暖冬mm语感真好!英文真厉害!
甜虫虫
妖妖好,我填对了几个? :)
妖妖灵
我觉得你都填对了,因为答案其实不是唯一的:)明天给参考答案
方外居士
迟交作业
妖妖灵
真好!不迟,答案公布前都不晚!
妖妖灵
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