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（A） One afternoon in January in 1998, Susan Sharp, 43, and her 8-year-old son David, were walking across an icy square, when Susan's cane(手杖) slipped on the ice. Her face first into the mud. David 2 her mother's side, “Are you all right, Mom” 3 , Susan pulled herself up, “I'm okay, Honey,” she said. Susan was falling more 4 since she had trouble walking. Every inch of ice was a 5 danger for her. “I wish I could do something,” the boy thought. David, too, was having 6 of his own. The boy had a speech problem, so at school he talked 7 . One day, David's teacher announced a 8 homework. "Each of you is going to come up with an 9 ," she said. This was for "INVENT AMERICA", a national competition to encourage creativity in children. An idea 10 David one evening. If only his mother's cane didn't slip on the ice. “What if I 11 your cane to a nail coming out of the bottom” he asked his mother. “ 12 the sharp end would scratch(划破) floors,” Susan said. | 
