【推荐1】In June 2019, Curtis Whitson and his family decided to go backpacking along central California's Arroyo Seco River. Things went _______ for the first two days. On June 16, Whitson, who was _______ with the area, led the trip to a waterfall in the Arroyo Seco narrows (峡谷).

Whitson had _______ to rappel (绕绳而下) down the side of a waterfall along the river. _______,when they reached the waterfall, Whitson realized that _______ his previous trip through the area, the water currents (水流) were too strong to pass. “My heart _______ when I realized that.” Whitson told CNN. To make matters worse, the rope was missing. Since going back the way they had arrived was _______ as well, they tried to _______other routes to get around it. But their _______ proved fruitless. With food running low and no cellphone reception to ________ help, he decided to carve a “GET HELP” message on the side of his water bottle and threw it across the waterfall in the ________ that someone would find it. Then they went back up the river to a small beach to ________ out for the night.

Sometime after midnight, the three adventurers were ________ by a welcome sound — a helicopter flying overhead. Since it was too dark to conduct a(n) ________, the officials asked them to stay warm for the night, and promised to ________ a team the following day.

Shortly after being ________, Whitson discovered that two hikers had tripped upon their water bottle and, upon seeing the urgent ________, reported the issue to the officials. Whitson says, “They didn’t ________ their name or phone number. They just did what was right in their heart, and most importantly they took it ________. The Whitsons hope the two good hikers will reveal their ________ so that they can express their gratitude in person.”

【推荐2】Mickey Wilson was on the mountain at the Basin Ski Area. He with his friends Simmons and Mueller had got ______ the cable car (索道缆车) when they heard a scream. Their friend Richard was on the cable car ahead of them, but when they reached the top, Richard disappeared. They walked toward the ______ and found skiers stood on the slope (坡), ______ to the cable car.

“Oh, Richard!” ______ Wilson.

When Richard tried to jump off the cable car, his backpack was ______ in the chair. The backpack belt twisted around his neck, making him ______. The cable car operator quickly stopped it. Now Richard’s body was swinging four feet above the snow. The friends ______ the skis on their feet and ran toward the scene. Their efforts to make a human pyramid to reach Richard were ______. With the clock ticking, Wilson ran to the ladder of a nearby lift tower. Scared skiers watched as he ______ up. After reaching the top, Wilson’s first ______ was to climb onto the steel cable that held the chairs. Then he sat over the cable and used his hands to pull himself to Richard quickly. Wilson’s greatest fear wasn’t that he’d fall, ______ that he wouldn’t reach Richard. “This was ______ or death,” he said. In the process, his jacket was stuck on the movable footrest. The footrest began to slide down with Wilson ______. Fortunately he managed to free himself and reached Richard ______ that could happen.

The patrol (巡查) had gathered below and performed emergency ______ on Richard who had been hanging for 5 minutes and then skied him down to an ambulance.

【推荐3】I was walking along the main street of a small seaside town in the north of England looking for somewhere to make a phone call. My car had _______ outside the town and I wanted to contact the AA Company. Low grey clouds were gathering across the sky and there was a cold damp wind _______ the sea which nearly threw me off my _______ every time I crossed one of the side streets. It had rained in the night and water was dripping from the _______ trees that lined the street. I was glad that I was wearing a thick coat.

There was no sign of a call _______ nor was there anyone at that early hour whom I could ask.I had thought I might find a shop open _______ the Saturday papers or a milkman doing his _______, but the town was _______ dead. The only living thing I saw was a thin _______ cat outside a small restaurant.

Then ________ I found what I was looking for. There was a small post office, and almost ________ from sight in a dark narrow street. Next to it was the town’s only public call box, which badly needed a coat of ________. I ________ forward, but stopped in ________ when I saw through the dirty glass that there was a   ________ inside. He was fat, and was wearing a cheap blue plastic raincoat. I could not see his face and he didn’t even ________ his head at the sound of my ________.

Carefully, I remained standing a few feet away and ________ a cigarette to wait for my turn. It was when I ________ the dead match on the ground that I noticed something ________ red trickling (滴流) from under the door.

【推荐1】Last Saturday evening, Mike, who has autism (自闭症), attended a concert with his grandfather, Stephen Mattin at Boston Symphony Hall. As the orchestra (交响乐队) _________ playing, they expected to hear polite applause after a brief _________.

The music was over and there was no sound, but it suddenly was _________ by the “Wow!” heard around the hall. A child’s _________ expressed simple, refreshing amazement at the performance. The elder Mattin felt _________ and turned to people around them, _________ that Mike actually did not _________ to make noise and that he has autism and often expresses himself _________ from other people.

The moment _________ the orchestra so that they released the audio recording of the “Wow!” moment, hoping to __________ the child. Not long after the audio clip (片段) hit the Internet, it became extremely __________, getting thousands of shares across several platforms. Later, David Snead, the president and CEO of the orchestra, gave out his email address, wishing to get a (n) __________ from the parents of the child and __________ them to meet the musician Harry Christophers. It took less than a week for the kid to come forward. His family and the orchestra planned to __________ a date for him to meet the musician.

Mattin expressed his __________ that the society has become more tolerant and understanding of the differences between people.

【推荐3】Christmas was near a season that we took seriously in our house. But a week or so before the 25th, my father would give each of his children $ 20. This was the 1970s, and $ 20 was quite a bit of money.

But I saw it ___. My father trusted me to have the ________ to spend money wisely. Even better, he gave me the ____ to get it. On a very basic level ,my father was giving me a shopping spree（狂欢）every year. But he was also giving me charge over my own fun, trusting my ability to ____ money and making me feel like a/an _______. He didn't buy me Sherlock Holmes, but he gave me the means to walk into the bookstore and choose it for myself, so it felt like a gift from him.

My mother had a/an____for giving me what I needed, usually____at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25, I _____at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my ___job but had no new one. But when my mother____me a visit, I____a good show, telling her I had started my own company.

My mother knew that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn't until____she left that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thick with _________. She knew how _______ I needed it. She knew that had she just shown up with groceries, or____to pay my rent, she would have made me feel much __________ . The cold, hard cash meant she was helping me. And, funnily enough, the____with which she gave the gift felt like she was giving me space to ___my life and preserve my dignity. My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to take my own ____ ,and the other was giving me a second ____ when those decisions had cost me dearly.

【推荐1】Jeremy Locke, who owns a roofing and construction company, had always been wanting to _______ the roof of Jeanette MacDonald’s home. Whenever he drove past the woman’s home, he _______ that another group of repairmen had taken on the job. But as weeks wore on, the roof continued to worsen without any _______ of repair.

“I had it in my mind that if no one steps up to help this lady in our community, I’d love to,” said Locke to his wife.

When Locke finally _______ MacDonald about fixing her roof for free, however, she politely turned him down because she did not like to accept _______. She told Locke, “I applied for a government grant (补助金) to fix the roof and I’ll be more than happy to _______ you once the grant application was approved”.

_______, the approval never came.

So Locke changed tactics (策略). The sympathetic construction worker played a/an _______ trick to make her accept his help. He invited MacDonald to enter a raffle (抽奖) that his business was holding for a free roof. After MacDonald got one of the raffle tickets, Locke told her that she was the _______. Not until the new roof was finished did MacDonald know that she was the only one who had entered the raffle.

MacDonald said that she didn’t know how to express her ________ to Locke, saying that he was her “guardian angel”.