题目内容：

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Having worked as captain of the lifeboat at Portland Bay in the north of England for over thirty years now, I feel quite proud of my career. In my time, I've rescued fishermen with broken-down boats, swimmers     1.     (sweep) out to sea and once even a pilot whose helicopter had developed engine    2.    (fail).

I've always been mad about the sea, and about the lifeboat. Both my father and grandfather were volunteers on the lifeboat.      3.     , I'm the first one in the family to be captain. This means that different from my father and grandfather, I work full-time at the lifeboat station.    4.   rest of the crew are volunteers 5.   (work) in other jobs locally. When the alarm goes, to signal a call-out, the crew members must drop whatever they    6.    (do) and report for duty    7.   (immediate)—we can be out on the water within a few minutes of the alarm sounding.

The coastline here can be one of the   8.  (bad) places in England. When the wind is in the east, the waves can be huge and there are a lot of rocks just beneath the surface of the water,   9.  makes it a dangerous place for shipping. But the sea feels  10.  a home for me—it's where I belong, in spite of its dangers.