Jim is a ______ (talent) man who can do quite a lot of things. He is an honest man as ______as a kind man., but he is never at ______ mercy of anybody. In a way, it’s his shortcoming. The ______day, he and I went to the zoo together. When he saw the tiger in the distance, he thought of a foolish ______ to control the tiger by attempting ______ (ride) it! If the adults had not come in time, he wouldn’t have escaped from the jaws of ______(die). Another time I went surfing with him. When he set loose, he surfed ______ the direction of the middle of the sea without anybody following him. I ______ next to him at the beginning, but he surfed so fast that I couldn’t keep up with him. Gradually, we couldn’t see him at all. It was not until late in the afternoon ______ he returned to the shore.