Read the 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)Tom lived alone in a small house far away from the city center because his parents died of some strange illness two years ago. However, he was a l{#blank#}1{#/blank#} boy, people in this village were all very kind to him and they often helped Tom with his life.
One night, it was very dry and windy. When everybody was s{#blank#}2{#/blank#} , Tom suddenly heard some noise. It came out from the kitchen. So he got up and walked to the kitchen q{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. There he found that the wood beside the stove(火炉)was burning. There was no w{#blank#}4{#/blank#}in the house, so he could not put out the fire. However, he didn't feel afraid. He u{#blank#}5{#/blank#} a piece of cloth to cover his nose, ran out of his house and knocked on the doors of many houses to wake all the people up. The people all got up and left their houses at once and helped to fetch water from a river running through the village.
F{#blank#}6{#/blank#}, the fire was put out by the villagers. No more houses were burnt and nobody was hurt in the fire. All the villagers were thankful to Tom and gave him a big hug.