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C. Readthe passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）（14分）
AMAZING RESCUE
---THANKS TO CELL PHONE
Twoteenagers capsized（倾覆）in theocean off the east coast of the U.S. and called the west
Coast on a cell phone to ask for help.
Brother and sister Ray and Susan Rivera were on asailing vacation near Newport, Rhode Island. But because of huge w___81____ of the sea, their boat capsized, and they were thrown into the ocean.
Ray, 17, and Susan, 16, spent 30 minutes trying to right the capsized boat, but without success. They couldn’t get back into the boat, and they couldn’t a___82___ the attention of passing ships. After they had been in the water for about 40 minutes, the situation was getting s___83___, and they felt very cold. Then Susan remembered her cell phone in its watertight container in her pocket, and reached for it.
But she didn’t think of dialing 911, the emergency number. I ___84___, she called their father, who was 2500 miles away inScattle, Washington on a business trip. Susan explained:“I thought it would be q___85___ to call someone Iknew and tell them our position. I dialed Dad’s number and he contacted the Coast Guard.”
About ten minutes later, after they had held on to the boat for nearly an hour, they heard a helicopter. Next, everything happened very fast, and Ray and Susan were picked up and carried to s___86___.
Afterward. The Coast Guard said that the teenagers were lucky to be alive and very, very lucky that the cell phone had worked.“Anyone in trouble should contact the Coast Guard d___87___ by calling 911.”he added.
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