【推荐1】The sound that woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning was so loud that he thought it came from inside his house in Wade, Maine. As he _________ to examine, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from _________. Looking out of his bedroom window, he saw smoke from a car about 500 yards away, its engine in _________.

“I grabbed (抓住) buckets of water,” Languell told BBC News. Then he and his girlfriend ran to the crash site. The badly-damaged car looked _________ up close. The car, a 1998 Buick, running into a tree, was broken nearly _________ two. No one should have _________this crash, and, _________ there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, whose _________ face was pressed against the driver’s side window, _________. Languell, 35, tried ____________ the fire with his buckets of water with no success. “When the flames got into the front seats, I realized I had to get him out of there,” he told WAGM-TV.

Languell ____________ the Buick’s back door and crawled (爬) in. Thompson was struggling to get ____________, Languell says. “That’s ____________ I noticed how bad his legs were.” Using a pocketknife he’d had brought with him, he ____________ through Thompson’s seat belt.

Now that Thompson was free of the ____________, Languell pulled him out a back window of the vehicle, and then pulled the teen to safely “before the ____________ car was in flames,” the police said.

____________ Thompson hurt his legs, and face, a social media post described him ____________ “looking great, smiling, and joking.” Languell thinks about that day often. “My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so ____________.”

Languell is one of the real-life ____________ changing the world.

【推荐2】In 1970, Alan Ayers was participating in a skydiving team competition in Gainesville, Florida. He would be ________ out of a Cessna 172, a small four seat passenger plane. In preparation, the passenger door and front passenger seat were ________, but the passenger side seatbelt remained.

Ayers’ teammates skydived first, ________ him and the pilot as the only two people remaining in the plane. It was Ayers’ ________. But as he stepped out into the air, his foot got ________ in the passenger side seatbelt.

“I was completely out of the plane on my back, ________ at the belly (腹部) of the Cessna, with only my boot ________ to the pilot ... I tried to pull myself up to reach the buckle (锁扣), but I just couldn’t,” Ayers remembered.

Thousands of feet in the air, hanging from the plane, Ayers was out of ________.

“And what happened next was ________,” Ayers said. “The 23-year-old pilot unbuckled her seatbelt, crouched (蹲) down in the door of the airplane, with both hands off the operating handle, and ________ my ankle.”

Ayers dropped away from the plane, opened his parachute, and landed ________.

More than 50 years later, she often came into his ________. “To this day, I can see her two ________ hands reaching out of the door to unbuckle the belt,” Ayers said. “I owe my ________ to this person and will always think of her as one of the ________ people imaginable.”

【推荐3】Luke is a cute dog, living together with me for five years. We get lots of   _________   in our area during the summer season. Many forests are badly _________ by fire each year. That hot summer, not far from our shelter, a forest   _________ fire. It was July, and there had been a heat wave going on for three days.

Somehow, Luke rushed toward the forest. There was no longer any hope at that moment to wait for Luke to come back to the _______. In fact, I was waiting for firefighters to tell me that he had _______ in the forest. Suddenly, a fireman burst into my office and     _______     me that Luke had succeeded in saving four kittens who had been _______by the flames. I _______   accompanied the fireman to the forest to get him back. _______ we got to the scene of the incident, we didn’t see Luke. Then we heard the   ________ of a dog barking in the forest. I ________the barks as Luke’s. The firemen ________ the tracks of the dog until they found him barking loudly by the side of an injured ________. Thanks to Luke, four kittens and a fireman were saved. This true story shows us that pets are loving, caring and compassionate. We should love and ________them. Little animals can do     ________     things for humans.

【推荐3】My mom is an environmentalist. We’ve always composted (制堆肥) and she’s always had some sort of garden. She also never threw anything away because she could see the second _______ in it.

I grew into a similar lifestyle. And I started _______ my carbon footprint and consumption.

I decided to _______ my car for one month in May of 2017. If I needed a car, I was going to borrow someone’s to prove that I had the community to _______ this decision. I only ended up _______ a car once, and I realized it didn’t make sense to own a car, _______ it and pay for gas. So in September, I fully quit and sold my car.

I also fly a lot for work, and on my _______ from the travel agency, it will include how many tons of carbon you’re emitting (排放) from just your single _______ , which is like a punch in the gut.

As a result, it has become a _______ for me to offset (抵消) my carbon emissions. I calculate my carbon emissions, and go onto carbon footprint and purchase an offset in the form of a donation. If we’re going to ________ the environment this much, we have to be doing something that’s going to offset the carbon ________ until there’s a carbon tax, which I truly hope is ________ we will go next.

It’s also really important to talk about what we could see the ________ as, because it gets so dark so fast when people talk about ________ change.

I don’t know what the ________ is of me not having a car, but I hope it’s something positive that I can’t necessarily see.

【推荐1】Fighting for country and Beethoven

Sgt. Jacob Kohut finally had some downtime during his 12-hour shift standing guard. He could have spent his lone break_________. Instead, he sat in the_________ of a Humvee, flute in hand, teaching students via his laptop_________ to play Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.”

Kohut has been in the military for 11 years. He also has been a band teacher for more than a decade, and for the past five years, he’s _________ music at two Fairfax County schools.

When he was called up for_________, “my first thought was, what about my kids?” says Kohut. “The last thing these students need is a_________ in their teaching.”

When on duty, Kohut’s days began in the morning with teaching his elementary class remotely, _________ the lesson mere minutes before his Guard shift started at 10 am. Later in the day, during his break, he would go_________ to teach his middle school students from the back of a Humvee.

Music has always been a driving force in Kohut’s life. He was a(n) _________ saxophone player throughout high school, studied music in college, and ultimately earned his doctorate in music composition.

“What I really wanted was to____________.” Says Kohut. “My mom, a single mother, was a music teacher. She was such a good role model.”

Kohut’s ____________ duty has caught the attention of parents at Canterbury Woods Elementary.

“I just wanted to share how____________ I am with Dr. Kohut this week,” Susi Brittain wrote in an e-mail to Leipzig. “what he did seems so ____________ the expectations of a teacher in these circumstances.”

Kohut insists he is not doing anything extraordinary. But during the long and sometimes stressful hours of standing guard, Kohut said his teaching time offers____________.

“It brings about unity and____________,” he says. “And that’s what the world needs right now.”