题目内容：

I left early to avoid the traffic, driving north from London. The motorway was nearly ____. The sun was coming up when I saw ____ up ahead.

My first thought was that it was something ____ — burning straws, perhaps. As I got nearer, I saw that it was a car that had ____ a tree and was on fire; the driver was still at the wheel. Flames were ____ of the broken front of the car. The inside was so full of smoke that it was almost impossible to see ____. But I could make out the driver. I stopped as quickly as I could and tried to open the door but ____. I took out the extinguisher on my car and ____ to open it, but its parts came away (脱落), and it was ____.

By now, another driver had also stopped. We knocked at the door ____, but couldn’t open it. Then, from a tiny 　　____ in the window, some fingers ____ towards us. The other driver used the extinguisher to ____ the glass around the “gap”. We ran into the smoke, pulled the driver out through the window and led him to ____. His clothes were on fire and smoking, but he was ____.

A police officer on his way to work stopped a few minutes after us and ____ the emergency services by phone. I felt reassured that the situation was under ____. After it seemed there was ____ more I could do, I went back to my car and drove to the next service — Though I felt ____ that the driver was rescued finally, I was still shaking, so I needed a cup of tea to help make myself ____.

1.A. narrow    B. crowded    C. empty    D. smooth

2.A. smoke    B. mist    C. steam    D. light

3.A. roast    B. deadly    C. agricultural    D. accessible

4.A. cut off    B. turned up    C. left behind    D. run into

5.A. making sense of    B. taking advantage of    C. making the most of    D. bursting out of

6.A. secretly    B. clearly    C. gradually    D. evidently

7.A. in vain    B. in charge    C. in control    D. in force

8.A. managed    B. promised    C. hesitated    D. attempted

9.A. lifeless    B. useless    C. aimless    D. faultless

10.A. deliberately    B. patiently    C. fiercely    D. curiously

11.A. blank    B. shadow    C. vacancy    D. crack

12.A. shook    B. fastened    C. bent    D. pulled

13.A. touch    B. crash    C. mend    D. hold

14.A. health    B. freedom    C. victory    D. safety

15.A. alone    B. awake    C. alive    D. asleep

16.A. contacted    B. advocated    C. monitored    D. improved

17.A. investigation    B. control    C. repair    D. protection

18.A. something    B. everything    C. anything    D. nothing

19.A. relieved    B. concerned    C. astonished    D. thrilled

20.A. take off    B. work out    C. calm down    D. hold on