【推荐1】Jerry, 81 years old, set out from Big Pine, California, on February 24th to return to his home in Gardnerville, Nevada. _________, he was trapped alone in his car in a heavy snow for nearly a _________.

The temperatures dropped from 35F to15F overnight, and many areas saw _________amounts of snow — an unusual occurrence for a state that’s not used to _________ winters.

Jerry survived by _________ the few snacks he had in his car. He _________ his window occasionally to eat snow. A hotel bath towel was the only thing Jerry had to keep himself   _________

On February 28, the Inyo County Search and Rescue team received “a call for a _________person”. Then, on March 2, they succeeded in locating Jerry’s car partially buried in _________. The crew loaded Jerry onboard and transported him directly to __________ care.

Jerry was only in the hospital for a few hours and afterward was returned to his __________ in Gardnerville. According to his grandson Christian, he was __________ well.

Christian hopes his grandfather’s miraculous (奇迹般的) rescue can serve as a warning to others about just how __________ winter travel can be. But above all, “if someone gets __________, don’t give up hope,” said Christian. “The human body is   __________   for what it can endure (忍耐).”

【推荐3】Mercedes Boggs knows she’s lucky to be alive. Boggs was on her way to work last month _________ her car hit a patch of ice, turned on its side and slid, down an embankment (河堤) coming to _________ in an icy stream.

After _________, with cold water rushing in from the _________ windshield (挡风玻璃), Boggs realized she was trapped. That’s when a stranger appeared _________ his way toward her and Boggs _________ knew everything was going to be all right.

“I wasn’t even _________ anymore. I just knew that that was like my saving grace,” she told WVLT News-8.

Neither one of them realized how very true that _________ impression would turn out to be.

The good guy _________ Boggs from her damaged vehicle. As he was helping her up the embankment, her car burst into __________. Had he come along half minute later, Boggs would likely have got killed.

Kentucky coal miner John Burke was on his way home from working the night __________ when he saw someone in serious trouble and stopped to help. After an ambulance crew arrived and took __________, Burke went on his way.

Boggs was __________ to the hospital not even knowing the name of the person who’d saved her life. With no other way to contact him, she __________ a Facebook plea (请求) in hopes of finding and thanking the man she now considered her guardian __________:

“…Please please __________ this in hope to help me find the man that saved my life, I __________ him deeply would just like to speak to him. Without him, this situation would have been much different.”

Within a few hours, Boggs’ __________ was shared close to 900 times. Burke saw it and __________ her. Boggs and her family looked at Burke as a superhero, but Burke downplayed his role in her rescue.

One more piece of good news? It looks like Boggs is doing well and on the __________.

【推荐2】Daniel Gill has been helping to open young minds as a teacher. He has always been a champion for civil rights because he grew up ______ the ugly effects of segregation (种族隔离) and prejudice.

In the 1950s, 9-year-old Daniel was ______ to a birthday party. He and Archie, who was black, ______ at the party with presents, excited to see their ______ , but the birthday boy’s mother met them at the door. She told Daniel that he could ______ , but that there “weren’t enough ______ ” for Archie to attend.

Daniel ______ to sit on the floor so they both could celebrate their friend’s birthday, but she ______ . The boys broke down when they realized that what the boy’s mother said ______ meant that a black child was not ______ in her home. They both left in tears, and the ______ stuck with Daniel for his whole life.

Since he became a teacher, he has been keeping a (n) ______ chair in his classroom. Every year when he ______ his lesson around Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, he tells his students the ______.

Daniel says that students tend to ______ through symbols, so he keeps the chair there to remind them that everyone can enter his ______.

At a recent festival he mentioned a book idea called “No More Chairs” to publishers, hoping to take his ______ of inclusion and acceptance to an even ______ audience.

Daniel’s story is powerful, and it is a (n) ______ that we are all responsible for making the people around us feel comfortable, and ______.

【推荐3】Dad and I loved baseball and hated sleep. One midsummer ________ when I was nine, we drove to the local park with our baseballs and gloves.

The park was ours for about two hours. Then a young mother pushed her stroller (婴儿车)towards us. When she approached, Dad ________ leaned over the stroller, waved and gave the baby his best smile. The mother stared at him for a second, then ________ . Looking at her back, Dad covered his face with his hands and walked to the car. “Let’s go,” he said. “I’m feeling ________ .”

A month earlier, Bell’s palsy (贝尔氏麻痹) had paralyzed (使瘫痪) the right side of his face. He could ________ drink from a cup without spilling onto his shirt. And his smile was gone. I began understanding that our sunrise park visit was his ________ to avoid stares.

By the time I entered fourth grade that September, his smile hadn’t still ________ So I made a secret ________ : I would avoid ________ of any kind. It’s ________ for a fourth grader to do so. Classmates called me Frowny the Dwarf (皱眉小矮人). My teacher accompanied me into the doorway, asking what was wrong. I told her all and said: “Breaking the promise I had made myself was ________, as I couldn’t stand my Dad suffering ________ ”. Then my teacher ________ Dad. I never ________ what they discussed. But after school that afternoon, I saw Dad waiting for me, holding our gloves and ball. For the first time in months, we went to the park for a ________ . Sundown came quickly, but Dad and I threw balls into the night happily. We had catching up to do.

【推荐1】I checked my equipment one final time. It was my first ________ to climb the highest volcano in the world, Ojos del Salado, in South America.

I’d ________ to climb with a local guide. I left camp just after midnight. “You go first and I’ll be behind you,” he said. As the hours passed and the terrain (地形) became more dangerous, I wondered if I’d made a huge ________. Looking into the ________ behind me, I listened out for the sound of my guide’s steps but I was all ________. Finding my way by ________, I knew the icy conditions were merciless. Breathing heavily, I realised I’d run out of ________ soon.

Back home, 11,000 km away in Melbourne, my dad was following my ________ with my GPS tracker. ________, now alone on the side of a volcano, all I could do was to ________ my energy as I climbed higher and higher.

Reaching the top was the ultimate goal, but really it was only half the ________. As my breathing became more laboured, ________ set in. Had I gone too far this time? I knew all too well how frightening it was to be ________, for I’d suffered from chronic asthma (慢性哮喘) as a child.

Pushing on, I ________ made it to the top, where I ________ the breathtaking views. But I only spent a few minutes taking photos before I went down the mountain. I was ________ to see my guide on the way down and it turned out that he had ________ a climber in danger and had to ________ our exploration to save him.

Through blood, ________ and frozen tears, the last 10 years had taken me all over the globe. And with every high and painful low, I learnt more about myself. I’d pushed my ________, both in body and mind.