Question

阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在短文空白处填入一个恰当的词，使短文内容完整、通顺，并将所填单词填写在答题卡上相应的题号后。

Jim can well remember the event that happened one morning when he was ten years old. While he was focusing his m1. on doing his homework, some raised voices came to him. At first the noise didn't draw his attention since customers in the motorbike shop directly below their apartment often became loud, but he soon realized that it was d2. .

"Quick! Quick! Remove the motorbikes from the shop," someone shouted loudly.

Then a thick burning smell f3. the air. When Jim opened the front door of their apartment to have a close look, a thick cloud of smoke g4. him. The motorbike shop had caught fire and people were running and crying.

Mary, Jim's elder sister, who had been playing the violin in her room, hurried to the living room. They rushed out of the door and along the corridor（走廊）t 5. the smoke.

They were heading towards the stairway at the far end of the corridor when Mary suddenly stopped. She turned around and headed back the way they came. Tom had no idea what she was doing, but had to f6. her. Mary had suddenly remembered the lady in her 70s living next door to them, who they called Makcik. She began h7. Makcik's door loudly, but got no answer. As the smoke became thicker and thicker around them, Jim could see many of their n8.--some still in their pajamas（睡衣）running for getting away from the fire. The thought of fear crossed their mind.

"She could have run for s 9. like everyone else!" Jim cried. However, Mary refused to give up. "She was too old to run away. She must be still i10. . " Mary knocked at the door violently（猛力地）again and again, shouting, "Go downstairs. Go now! Go!"

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