Question

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

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We lived in a rocky area and it seldom rained in our town. There was a stream (溪) 1. ran through our town. Far away in the mountains where the stream came from, it rained a lot.

One summer, it rained so 2. (heavy) that our little stream turned into a river. What was worse, the water was quickly 3. (rise). Unluckily, our whole town had only ten sandbags to hold back the water! We needed hundreds of handbags 4. (protect) our town from a food (洪水). 5., there was almost no sand in our town there were only rocks.

“We have to leave the town and look 6. somewhere safe to stay,” someone said. Then, everyone started packing and getting prepared to leave. when we were about to drive away, an old man 7. (stand) in the middle of the road and asked, “Where are you going?” We explained that we were going to safety and that he should leave too. He said, “There’s 8. (ton) of sand near my place.” He lived about a mile away up in some hills.

Within minutes, we were all heading for his place. In the following ten hours, some of 9. (we) filled sandbags and others placed them along the edges (边缘) of the river. There was a flood that night, but our town was safe.

The old man was 10. hero and from then on, we celebrated “Sandbag Day” every year.

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