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。
Mrs. Wilson invited some friends to lunch. She was eager to try a new way of    (cook)a fish dish, and she was very pleased      herself when the dish was ready. She put it near the window    (cool) it for a few minutes because the dish was hot. When she came back for it, she was     (surprise) to find the neighbor’s cat by the dish.     (fortunate), she came in time to stop the cat. That afternoon was a great      (succeed) and they talked and laughed  four o’clock. At the end of the afternoon, when she was alone again, she felt tired but happy. She was sitting near the window    she was frightened to see her neighbor carrying the cat, dead. What had happened to her friends? She at once called the family doctor. He told her to phone each of her visitors to meet him. After all the phones, just as she sat down, the telephone rang.  was from her neighbor ,“I am so sad. My cat  (kill) by a car.”