阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。On a steamy July day in Bayonet Point, Florida, Gene Work and his brother-in-law, Mark Rouco, were resodding（重新铺草皮）Gene's yard.
The lawn had grown 1 in the heat, and the Works had been threatened to accept a huge fine if the situation wasn't remedied. The new sod was sitting in the driveway, but the job was slow-going.
Gene, then 40, wasn't feeling right. He went inside to take a break and 2 on the couch, clutching his chest. His wife, Melissa Work, called 911 quickly. Even though he was 3 down death, Gene had one thing on his mind: that 4 .
If the sod wasn't 5 that day, it would die. "While he was having his heart attack, literally in and out of consciousness, he kept 6 me to have it put down because he didn't want it to go to waste," Melissa wrote in a Facebook post.
Soon Pasco County Fire Rescue arrived and took Gene and Melissa to the hospital, leaving Rouco behind to 7 the yard. Within an hour, he had managed to remove the old grass. He was about to lay the new sod, which he 8 would take him well into the night, 9 two emergency vehicles appeared. Seven men—the same ones who had treated his brother—10 . Gene had told them how 11 he'd wanted to get the sod down, so they had returned to help. The job was done in under two hours. Meanwhile, Gene had surgery to insert stents（支架）in his heart, 12 a potentially deadly blockage.
He's home now, fully recovered—and enjoying his beautiful lawn. The Works are still 13 that those EMTs went above and beyond their job 14 . "These men," Melissa told tampabay.com, "saved Gene's life, and then came back to save his grass. That's just so 15 ."
