3.
完形填空
Saving Jesse's Arm
At
about 8 p.m. on July 6th, eight-year-old Jesse was playing in the sea in a
national park near Pensacola. It was the end of a perfect day at the beach with
his uncle and aunt.
Suddenly, a two-metre-long shark(鲨鱼)appeared 1, and it bit off Jesse's
right arm from the shoulder. By the time his uncle and aunt pulled Jesse out of
the water, he was unconscious(失去知觉的)and had already lost a lot of 2.
While
Jesse's aunt was giving the boy the kiss of life, his uncle ran back into the
sea and 3 the shark under the water. Amazingly, he
managed to catch the shark and pull it out of the water onto the beach,
although this might sound impossible. At that moment two park workers arrived
to help the family and one of them shot the shark four times in the head. Then
he held open the shark's 4 while the other
worker reached down its stomach and pulled out Jesse's arm.
A few minutes later, a helicopter(直升机)took the boy and
his arm to the nearest hospital, where Dr. Ian Rogers and his team managed to 5 the arm to Jesse's body again. The operation
lasted eleven hours. When the doctors saw Jesse's fingers go pink, they knew
the operation had been a 6.
After
such a terrible accident nobody believes that good things will happen, but the
medical team are hopeful that Jesse will be able to 7 his arm again in the future.
"Although
Jesse's story is terrifying, it would be not correct to think that sharks are
always so dangerous. Sharks are usually harmless to humans," Dr. Ian
Rogers said. "However, we should be 8 for safety and should only swim on beaches
where there are lifeguards."