Fill in the blanks with proper words. The first letter is given.

One Sunday, Nick went skiing at Sugar-loaf Mountain in Maine. In the early afternoon, when he was planning to go home, a fierce snowstorm swept into the area. Unable to see far, he a 1. turned off the path. Before he knew it, Nick was lost, all alone! He didn’t have food, water, a phone, or other supplies. He was getting colder by the minute.

Nick had no idea where he was. He thought about all the survival s2. he had watched on TV. It was time to put what he had learned to use. He decided to stop skiing. There was a better chance of someone finding him if he stayed put(留下原地). The first thing he did was to find s3. from the freezing wind and snow. If he didn’t, his body temperature would get very low, w4. could quickly kill him.

Using his skis, Nick built a snow cave. He got in. Then he piled branches on top of himself to stay as warm as he c5.. By that evening, Nick was really hungry and he ate snow and drank water from a nearby stream so that his body wouldn’t l6. too much water.

The next day, Nick went out to look for help, but he couldn’t find a7. to give him a hand. He knew that if he went too far, he might not be able to find his way back to the cave. He followed his tracks and returned to the snow cave, because w8. shelter, he could die that night. On Tuesday, Nick went out to find help. He had walked for about a mile when a volunteer searcher found him. After two days of being lost in the snow, Nick was saved.

Nick might not have s9. this snowstorm had it not been for TV. He had often watched Bear Grylls’ survival show “Man vs. Wild”. That’s w10. he learned the tips that saved his life. In each episode of “Man vs. Wild”, Grylls is abandoned in a wild area and has to find his way out.

C. Fill in the blanks with proper words.

For some people, music is no fun at all. About four percent of us are what scientists call amusic. Those amusics are born without the ability to r1. , repeat or remember musical notes(音调). Amusic people often cannot tell the difference between two songs. Amusics can only hear the difference between two notes if they are pretty different.

As a result, songs sound like n 2.to an amusic. Many amusics compare the sound of music to pieces of metal hitting each other. Life can be hard for amusics. Their unfitness to enjoy music makes them away from others.

It can be difficult for other people to get to know them. Actually, most people cannot understand what it feels like to be an amusic. Many amusics may not feel very c3.when they go to a restaurant or a shopping mall. Sometimes they even feel painful. That is why many amusics usually stay away from places where there is music. “I used to h4.parties,” says Margaret, a seventy-year-old woman who only discovered that she was an amusic last month. By studying people like Margaret, scientists are f 5.learning how to find this unusual condition.

Scientists say that the brains of amusics are different from the brains of people who enjoy music.

The difference isn’t about defective hearing(听力障碍).

Many amusics are happy when their condition is found. For years, Margaret felt embarrassed about the p 6. with music. Now she knows that a large number of people are like her. There is a name for the condition. That makes it e 7.for her to explain“When people invite me to a concert, I just say‘No thanks, I’m amusic,’”says Margaret.“I just wish I had learned to say that when I was seventeen and not seventy.”

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