A 14-year-old boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday after he saved the life of a woman in another country．

Dean Bluey from Dallas，Texas，was a school boy who has much  1  in computer．One day，he  2  an email to a friend on the Internet．Suddenly he received a message saying “Help! Pain! Help!”．"The message was from Finland，  3  kilometers away from America．

“I didn't know  4   I should do，”Dean said to a reporter afterwards．“It was really difficult to tell if the message was real．”So Dean did nothing at first． 5   the message kept coming．

“By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble,” Dean explained. He   6  and discovered that the sender was a student called Tarja, who was alone in a university library. She was ill. What was  7  , there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the world was by email. Dean got in touch   8   the police immediately. And they realized that the situation was quite serious. They called the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the library.   9  , she was still alive and was sent to the hospital quickly.

       “I'm glad she's OK,” Dean said. “It's hard to believe, but   10   saved her life.”

1．A．interest                  B．interested             C．interesting              D．interests

2．A．sent                      B．sends                   C．was sending           D．is sending

3．A．thousand                 B．thousand of          C．thousands              D．thousands of

4．A．how                      B．what                    C．where                    D．when

5．A．So                        B．And                     C．But                        D．As

6．A．telephoned             B．replied                 C．found                    D．talked

7．A．better                    B．worse                   C．harder                    D．easier

8．A．with                      B．on                       C．to                          D．at

9．A．Hardly                   B．Happily                C．Luckily                  D．Carefully

10．A．a boy                   B．doctors                 C．the police             D．email