题目内容：

Madison Williams was studying in her bedroom in Dublin, Ohio, in August 2016 when the door burst open. It was her mother, Leigh Williams, with a(an)______ story: “A little boy fell into a septic tank (化粪池), and no one can ______ him.” Then she made this ______ of her 13-year-old daughter: Can you help?

Madison and Leigh ran to a neighbor’s yard, where they found the boy’s ______ mother and other adults surrounding a septic tank opening. Its diameter was ______ wider than a basketball. The boy had ______ in and was drowning in the sewage (污水).

Madison quickly ______ the situation. She was the only one who could ______ through the small hole. Without ______, she told the adults, “Lower me in.” Inside, the tank was dark, and the air ______. In the process of finding the boy, her left wrist was injured by a hidden pole so ______ that the hand was useless. But Madison went on skimming the surface of the sewage, hoping to ______ the boy. “Every once in a while, I’d see his little toes she says. “Then I would try to grab them.” After several failed ______, she finally managed to grasp his foot tightly with her ______ hand. “Pull me up!” she shouted to the others above. Ten minutes after Madison had entered the tank, she and the boy were ______ out.

But the boy wasn’t out of ______. He had been taken away from oxygen long enough that he wasn’t breathing. He was ______ on his side, and an adult gave him several hard beats on the ______, one right after the other, until the boy coughed up liquids. It was only when Madison heard him cry that she knew he was all right.

It took Madison longer to ______ than the boy. She experienced months of physical treatment for her wrist, which, says neighbor Mary, made the girl’s actions more ______.

1.A. amazing    B. puzzling    C. embarrassing    D. frightening

2.A. reach    B. find    C. see    D. hold

3.A. decision    B. request    C. recommendation    D. order

4.A. cautious    B. curious    C. anxious    D. courageous

5.A. tightly    B. closely    C. slightly    D. specially

6.A. skipped    B. run    C. wandered    D. slipped

7.A. surveyed    B. looked    C. decided    D. described

8.A. suit    B. walk    C. break    D. fit

9.A. permission    B. hesitation    C. doubt    D. question

10.A. disgusting    B. confusing    C. bright    D. dry

11.A. obviously    B. hardly    C. lightly    D. severely

12.A. notice    B. search    C. feel    D. strike

13.A. attempts    B. studies    C. ideas    D. invitations

14.A. left    B. strong    C. good    D. injured

15.A. picked    B. lifted    C. pushed    D. put

16.A. breath    B. trouble    C. sorrow    D. control

17.A. placed    B. lain    C. sent    D. carried

18.A. head    B. chest    C. back    D. foot

19.A. drown    B. cough    C. cure    D. recover

20.A. attractive    B. impressive    C. modest    D. considerate