A. 根据课文的内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。

One morning the man woke up beside a river. Slowly he followed it with his eyes and saw it emptying 61 a shining sea. When he saw a ship on the sea, he closed his eyes. He knew  62 could be no ship, no sea, in this land. A vision, he told himself. He heard a noise behind him, and  63  around. A wolf, old and sick, was coming slowly toward him. This was real, he thought. The man turned back, but the sea and the ship were 64  there. He didn't understand. Had he been walking north, 65  from the camp, toward the sea? He stood   66  and started slowly

toward the ship, knowing full well the sick wolf was  67  him. In the afternoon, he found some bones of a man. Beside the bones was a small  68 of gold, like his own. So Bill had carried his gold  69  the end. He would carry Bill's gold to the ship. Ha-ha! He would have the last laugh on Bill. His laughing  70  like the low cry of an animal. The wolf cried back. The man stopped suddenly and turned away.

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