One   (rain) night I was driving along a lonely highway  I saw a man walking rapidly ahead of me along the side of the road. It was pouring rain and I slowed down to avoid  (splash) him as I went by.
He misunderstood,   (think) I was offering a ride and ran towards my car. He was very tall, had a full beard and he scared me. I stepped on the gas pedal to leave  (quick), and I saw the look of total despair in his eyes.
Suddenly, all fear was    (go) and I backed up and unlocked my car door, praying this was not the    (big) mistake in my life but somehow knowing it would be okay.
The man was a plumber（水暖工人）,     truck had got stuck in the mud. He   (walk) for miles. No one would pick him up and his wife was in the hospital in labour（分娩） with their first child!
He had cried at the thought that he might not be there.
We   (arrive) at the hospital moments before his son was born.