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广东省佛山市南海区2021届高三上学期英语摸底测试试卷
On a steamy July day in Bayonet Point, Florida, Gene Work and his brother-in-law, Mark Rouco, were resodding (重铺草皮) Gene's yard. It had grown brown in the 1 and the homeowners' association had 2 to give a heavy fine if the situation wasn't 3. The new sod was sitting in the driveway, but the job was 4. Gene, then 40, wasn't feeling 5. He went inside to take a 6 and fell on the sofa, holding his chest tightly. His wife, Melissa Work, called 911 7.
8 he was staring down death, Gene had one thing on his mind: that lawn (草坪). If the sod wasn't put down that day, it would 9, "While he was having his heart attack, literally in and out of consciousness, he kept 10 me to have it put down because he didn't want it to go to11," Melissa wrote in a Facebook post.
Soon Pasco County Fire Rescue arrived and took Gene and Melissa to the12, leaving Rouco behind to deal with the13. Within an hour, he had managed to remove the14grass. He was about to lay the new sod, which he 15 would take him well into the night, when two emergency vehicles appeared. Seven men, the 16 ones who had treated his brother, got out. They had 17 to help because Gene had told them how badly he'd wanted to get the sod down. The 18 was done in under two hours.
19, Gene had surgery in his heart, easing a potentially deadly blockage. He's home now, fully recovered and enjoying his beautiful lawn.
"These men," Melissa told tampabay.com, "saved Gene's life, and then came back to save his grass. That's just so 20."
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