It was early in the morning, on a lonely road. It's1heavily. A 9-year-old boy was in the car with his mother, who was2him to school. Suddenly, the car went off the road, rolledseveral times, and came to rest upside down in a ditch (沟渠) filled with water.
Luckily, both the mother and son were3seatbelts. The mother suffered a blow to her head and was unable to move. The boy was frightened but4. As water came through broken windows in the car, he 5unbuckled (解开) himself, climbed out of thepassenger window, made his way around to the driver's side, and reached inside the6to free his trapped mother. With great effort, he managed to7her, pull her through the window and up to the road, where they were soon8.
His mother later recalled her experience of the 9. Being unable to move or evenspeakto offer instructions (指导) or encouragement to her son, she was 10by her little son's action. She recalledhearingher boy saying out loud as he pulled her through the water, “I think I can, I think I can!”
It seemed clearthat this little boy's act of courage was from one of his favorite books: The Little Engine that Could. In that 11, when everyone else had 12hope, the Little Engine carried the heavy load of toys and good things to eat over the hill to the children waiting on the other side. He had13and took action. Obviously this book had left a 14impression before the accident that rainy15and motivated (激励) the son to take action if the terrifying moments.
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