Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words whose beginning letters have been given. Six consecutive days of spring rain had created a raging river running by Nancy Brown’s farm. As she tried to herd her cows to higher ground, she (1) s_____ and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk. The fall knocked her out for a moment or two. When she came to, Lizzie, one of her oldest and favorite cows, was licking her face. The water was rising. Nancy got up and began walking (2) s____ with Lizzie. The water was now waist high. Nancy’s (3) p___ got slower and slower. Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm (4) a_____ Lizzie’s neck and try to hang on. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie (5) m______ to successfully pull herself and Nancy out of the raging water and onto a bit of high land, a small island now in the (6) m____ of acres of white water. Even though it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the rain and lightning so bad that it took rescuers another two hours to (7) d______ Nancy. A helicopter lowered a paramedic, who attached Nancy to a life-support hoist. They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, (8) w____ the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter. When the flood subsided two days later, Nancy immediately went back to the “island.” Lizzie was (9) g___. She was one of 19 cows that Nancy lost. “I owe my (10) l__ to her,” said Nancy sobbingly.