The Choking Bear — Article Cloze

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Read the story about Nat and the choking bear and choose the word that best completes each sentence.

Natasha Jones likes to feed the deer, squirrels, and birds in her — choose — backyard distress reputation . Nat is a — choose — nature lover single blow distress and lives in the countryside in America. Unfortunately, such — choose — generous ferocious stressful giving also invites dangerous and unwanted guests—bears. While bears have a — choose — ferocious unresponsive generous — choose — reputation distress backyard , they would rather — choose — scrounge wandered attempting through garbage cans than eat humans. If you don't — choose — fasten down turned over put on your garbage cans at nights, with chains, you are — choose — quite likely despite stand by to find your trash — choose — turned over fasten down passed out in the morning.

Nevertheless, bears are still extremely dangerous. While they may prefer your garbage to yourself, they can still kill you if you get too close—Nat had such a close encounter.

Nat was awakened one morning about 5:30 a.m. when she heard a strange and loud — choose — moaning choking attempting sound. When she looked out her window, she saw that a bear was in — choose — distress reputation single blow . Though Animal Control always warns people not to approach wild bears, Nat decided to get closer and — choose — take a look went back stand by . On closer inspection, she saw that the bear was — choose — unresponsive unconscious stressful , that is, the bear was just lying there motionless. However, it had stopped moaning and was now making small gasping sounds while — choose — attempting moaning dislodging to get air.

Nat made a guess that the bear must be — choose — choking moaning tending and ran back into her house and — choose — put on went back fasten down a pair of leather gloves and — choose — went back put on take a look to the bear. By this time, the bear had — choose — passed out turned over unresponsive completely and was — choose — unconscious unresponsive stressful . Nat managed to get her hand down the bear's throat. She felt an object and grabbed it and yanked it out. She could see that it was an old cow bone that she had bought for her dog Sam.

After — choose — dislodging attempting tending the bone, Nat went back and got some water for the bear. The bear slowly — choose — recovered scrounge wandered .

While Nat was — choose — tending choking dislodging to the bear, her daughter called Animal Control. As the bear was — choose — slowly recovering quite likely despite , Animal Control finally arrived. They warned Nat and her daughter to get back into the house before the bear fully recovered.

Animal Control said that bears are one of the most dangerous animals to humans when in a — choose — stressful ferocious generous situation. They explained that if the bear had awoken it could have easily bitten off Nat's hand. Bears jaws are very powerful, and their arms are so strong that they can kill a human with a — choose — single blow reputation backyard .

Nat said that she understood the danger but that — choose — despite quite likely stand by the danger she just couldn't — choose — stand by take a look went back and do nothing.

Eventually, the bear — choose — fully recovered slowly recovering quite likely and — choose — wandered scrounge recovered over to a tree and looked up; two bear cubs came down from the tree to join their mom. They all wandered back into the woods.

On this day, the bear was lucky to be alive—and so was Nat.