【推荐1】Texting in the street—your funeral

Millions of people are putting their lives at risk by texting their friends as they walk along busy streets, reported the Daily Mail.

One in ten_______users has already been_______because they are so lost in their phones that they fail to_______lamp-posts or cars, according to Joanna Lumdsen of Aston University.

To test the danger of texting while_______, Lumdsen did an experiment in which volunteers followed a_______path while trying to_______in a message on the phone.

Around them, screens_______up instructions to avoid stepping on_______colors on the floor.

She found that people missed one in five_______because they were so busy with their phones.

“In________life this means that one in five lamp-posts or moving cars is________to go unnoticed by people________and walking,” she said.

Her research is looking for ways cell phone makers could improve the________of phones to make texting on the move________. That could________easier-to-use voice operated phones, or phones that respond to gestures.

“The safest thing is________people not to text while they walk along,” she said. “________ a lot of people in business are ________to carry a mobile phone and be in________24 hours a day, seven days a week. They are under pressure to reply to calls________, and to respond to text messages and emails straight away.

【推荐3】I went to group activity, “Sensitivity Sunday” which was to make us more _________ the problem faced by disabled people. We were asked to “_________ a disability” for several hours one Sunday. Some members like me _________ to use wheelchairs. Others wore _______ earplugs (耳塞) or blindfolds (眼罩).

Just sitting in the wheelchair was a _________ experience. I had never considered before how _________ it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down, my weight made the chair begin to _______. Its wheels were not _________. Then I wondered where to put my _________. It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into __________. I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of __________ for several hours. For disabled people, “adopting a wheelchair” is not a temporary __________.

It might be __________, thought, to be __________ around for a while. Looking around, realized would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as I __________ the heavy metal wheels. I came to know that controlling the ________ of the wheelchair was going to be a (n) __________ task.

My wheelchair experiment was soon finished, which left a deep ________ on me. A few hours of “disability” gave me only a __________ of the challenges, both physical and mental, that disabled people must __________. But I did realize that we could do small things to make their life easier.

【推荐1】At around 10 p.m., Jane got off the train at Bell port, New York. She jumped into her Honda Odyssey and began the 20-minute _________ home. She was so familiar with the route that she almost drove _________ all the way. Jane had just crossed the railroad tracks when out of nowhere a truck hit her car, _________ her backward some 100 feet onto the tracks. She was _________ the car, injured but mostly shocked by the _________.

As it happened, Peter, a volunteer firefighter and retired teacher, was getting ready for _________. At the _________ noise of clanging metals and breaking glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window, he, still dressed in his pajamas (睡衣), ran out of the door.

He first came upon a(n) _________ truck lying 2,000 feet from his front yard. After _________ its driver was OK, Peter looked around and spotted Jane’s car lying __________ the tracks. And then he heard the bells __________ an oncoming train.

Peter rushed to Jane’s car and __________ the driver’s side window. Jane just looked up at him, her eyes __________. “I have no __________ of where I am,” she said.

“You are on the railroad tracks,” Peter yelled. “I have to get you off right now!” He __________ the handle, but the door was jammed. The train was __________. Without a moment of hesitation, Peter ran to the passenger side and __________ open the door. He __________ pulled her across the passenger seat and dragged her to safety behind a signal box a few feet away. Several seconds later, the train crashed into the __________.

Jane recalled the __________ moment. “I can never repay him for this,” she said, “last night the hero arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck.”

【推荐2】As 17-year-old Norwood drove through St. Petersburg last February for a tour, the laughter from the four girls inside her car quickly _________ screams. As they approached a crossroads, another car T-boned them, sending their car sailing into the yard nearby, coming to a stop only when it crashed into a tree.

The impact had caved in Norwood's driver's side door, jamming it _________. Shaken, but _________ OK, she crawled out through the window. Along with two of her friends, who had also _________ to free themselves, she ran for her life.

But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn't with them. She ran back to the car and found Simmons _________ in the back seat. Without hesitation, she threw open the back door and pulled her friend out, _________ the broken glass as best she could. She _________ Simmons a few feet to safety and laid her on the ground. “I _________ her pulse but there was no sign of life. That's when I started CPR,” she told CNN.

If the accident had happened a few weeks earlier, she might not have known what to do. But Norwood, pursuing a career in medicine, had got the CPR _________ just the day before. Looking at her dying friend, Norwood knew she had __________ time to practice what she'd learned.

Immediately, she started __________ Simmons's chest with her interlocked fingers and breathing into her friend's mouth to __________ her lungs with the kiss of life. Five minutes later, Simmons began coughing and gasping（喘息）for air. The first aid she performed worked!

Soon, the ambulance arrived and __________ Simmons to the hospital, where she received medical treatment. When she heard how her best friend had saved her life, “I am extremely grateful to Norwood for her __________ of life,” Simmons told CNN. “But I am not __________, because she will always help any way she can.”

【推荐3】On Thursday morning, two teenage boys were rescued by a drone (无人机) in Australia while lifeguards were still training to use the machine.

The ________, aged 15-17, got into difficulties about 700 feet off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales (NSW). A passer-by saw them ________ in dangerous waves. Lifesavers ________ sent the drone to drop a lifeboat, and the pair made their way safely to the ________.

The drone, known as “Little Riper”, was actually not ________ to be saving anyone just yet—lifeguards were being trained to ________ the machine. When a call came through about the swimmers in ________ the drone happened to be nearby.

Jai Sheridan was the lifeguard who ________ the drone. He described the experience as ________. “The Little Ripper ________ proved itself today. It is a highly efficient piece of lifesaving equipment. I was ________ the drone when the alarm was raised. I directed it towards the swimmers and dropped the ________. With its support they made their way to safety. They were ________, but not hurt. The teens were saved in just 70 seconds with the drone—while a lifeguard would have taken up to six minutes to ________ the rescue.”

John Barilaro, an official of the state,________ the rescue as historic. “It was the world's ________ rescue by the unmanned airplane,” he said. “Never before has a drone been used to ________ swimmers like this.”

Last December, the NSW state government ________ some “Little Ripper” drones for 247, 000 pounds.________ some are designed to spot sharks, others are ________ with lifeboats, alarms and loudspeakers. “It was money well spent,” said John Barilaro.

【推荐1】Mattew Shifrin has been building with Legos (乐高积木) since he was 5 with the help of his friends. When he turned 13, he got a _______ birthday present from his friend, Lilya Finkel. It was an 843-piece Middle Eastern Lego palace. And with it were _______ that Finkel made specially for it. Finkel _______ a unique name for every one of the more than 800 pieces in the palace set. Then she spent countless hours _______ building instructions in Braille (盲文) that spelled out how to fix them all together.

His mind was blown. As a _______ person, Shifrin had never before been able to complete a Lego set _______. Shifrin knew immediately that he had to help other blind children find the same_______. Shifrin says, “For blind people, Lego sets act as small 3D replacements for real-life buildings instead of two-dimensional photographs. Lego bricks _______ me to see things that are impossible to explore by touch.” For years after that incredible Lego _______, he together with Finkel created similar instructions for about 45 other Lego sets, all ________ on a website they created, “Lego for the Blind.”

Shifrin began ________ the Lego company several years ago to discuss his work, but it was in 2017, when Finkel died of cancer, that he finally connected with the right person. His years-long efforts ________ when the Lego company released its first audio and Braille building instructions. The project is a high-tech version of what Shifrin and Finkel did for their ________. It couldn’t have been completed without Shifrin’s ________ — or without his determination.

He just wished Finkel had been here to see it. “I think she’d be very glad that we came this

【推荐2】Every Saturday morning Phoenix Young would take piano lessons with a family friend when he was a child. “At that time we would_______around and take all morning just to have a lesson,” Phoenix_______. “And I loved it.”

But when Phoenix was 12, his teacher proposed that he need better_______.So his mother took him to a music school in the Bronx, and signed him up for classes with a teacher named Bade Simon, experienced bit known for being _______. And she quickly lived up to that _______.Phoenix found the stressful life was_______like his lighthearted Saturday mornings with his former teacher, so it wasn’t long before he_______that he would quit.

One day, however, Bade_______him and said something surprising: “I have_______in you. Keep going. Then the reluctant (不情愿的) student did something surprising ________: he said, “Okay.”

“It was as if all I wanted was just a________from her that she cared about me,” Phoenix said.

That moment________their relationship. Within a few weeks, they were having________during lessons. And within a few months, she was teaching him things about music that he’d never known before. It was the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship.

“I went into________and became a piano teacher, a career I have been doing for 50 years,” Phoenix said. “And I ________it all to that precious moment with my unsung hero, Bade Simon.”

【推荐3】When I started teaching at my school, parents refused to send their children here. Over time, situations have improved. We’ve _________ into a place where parents want their children to learn. We have a waiting list. But with this has come increased __________ and high expectations from management.

More paperwork than ever is __________ of us. I spend a worrying amount of my week typing about children rather than having __________ face-to-face contact time with them.

But through the stress and frustration, the children I teach and their parents have kept me going. They’ve   ______ some much-needed relief.

My students are lively and eager to learn. Many of my days have been __________ by these incredible little people and their __________ for knowledge. And over the years it is those children who have helped me to develop my personal __________ as a teacher.

I’ve come to see that every child is __________, and that there are some who just need more support. Sometimes, it’s the progress you make with these children that allows you to see most   _____the positive effect your teaching has on learning.

One particular child ________massively with the expectations of school at the start of the academic year, laughing at other children and using   ____words, and I spent a lot of time with him talking through __________ to be a good friend. Seeing this child a week ago showing kindness to a younger pupil makes you reflect on the incredible ________a child can make in a year.

Working with parents, too, has become a(an) __________ enjoyable part of the job. I like having   _______ with every one of the parents of my class, and their support of the children and enthusiasm for them to continue their learning at home is truly   _____.

So my pupils and their parents are an important   ______ of why I got into this job. It was never to   ______ the demands of management,   ______ to work with children and inspire their passion for learning.