题目内容：

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

I was on a plane that was about to take off when my phone rang. It was my neighbor saying I needed to get to the hospital, for my wife Mary _1.__(take) to hospital, and when I arrived doctors were trying to make __2.__(she) come back to consciousness, but it was no good.

I explained to my _3.__(child) that Mummy had died. Within hours they were running around the garden, __4.__(chat) with their grandad while I was in a deep sorrow. I went through the motions of being a dad—cooking, cleaning, washing—but inside I felt hollow. One of the hardest things __5.__(cope) with was that the boys had lost their mother. Mary and I were everyone’s favorite couple. The physical loss of not having her around was _6.__(extreme) painful. For a year, I was in the _7._(deep) of misery. Then I decided that we had to get through this. I began to date Emma, _8._ had been a childhood friend, and Mickey couldn’t wait for us to get married so he could call her Mum. It wasn’t long before George warmed to her, too—she is wonderful with them. Two years later we got married and life started to look rosy. Emma and I have had two boys to add __9.__our family.

We all have the concept that our lives are following __10.__particular path, but sometimes it turns out it’s not going that way.