【推荐3】Pilot becomes a real-life hero

I would like to introduce a movie, Sully, which tells us about an airplane crash due to mechanical failure.

After leaving New York City, US Airways Flight 1549 is struck by some birds, which _________ both engines. The _________ of the flight, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, _________ to make an emergency landing on the Hudson River, as he believes that the damage will keep them from reaching the closest airport. Luckily, all passengers and the crew are _________ evacuated(疏散). However, his decision is _________ by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), as its simulation(模拟)shows that there was enough _________ to reach the closest airport. The NTSB thinks that Sully’s actions put all the people on the _________ at risk. The incident has already hurt Sully’s _________, but he still has to _________ suspicions(怀疑)and rumors. He __________ that the simulation is not reliable, and they should reconsider it. At that moment he didn’t have much __________ to analyze the situations, consider all possible ways and weight the risks before making the final decision. Considering those human factors, the NTSB runs the simulation again and shows that Sully has made the __________ decision.

After watching the movie, I was so __________ by Captain Sully. __________ an emergency that endangers hundreds of people, most leaders might feel fearful and anxious and be unable to think __________. However, he takes responsibility and saves the passengers’ lives. He follows his gut(直觉)and logically defends himself in the hearing(听证会).

【推荐2】“Does anyone on board know sign language(手语)?” came the voice over the speaker. Clara _______. Then the flight attendant(乘务员) walked up to her and _______ the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s _______ and deaf,” she said. “He seemed to want something, but we couldn’t _______ what he needed.”

Clara, 15, who had been studying sign language for years, knew she could finger-spell into the man’s _______, so she walked toward the passenger Tim Cook. Gently taking his hand, she _______, “Are you OK?”

Cook asked for some water. After it was _______, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the _______. Then she looked at her watch and told him. On her third visit, she decided to _______

Then she told Cook about her family and future plans. “________, he didn’t need anything. He was just lonely and wanted to ________,” Clara reasoned. After a while, Cook started to tell Clara how he became blind.

She listened carefully and it seemed that she had endless ________. “Clara was ________,” a flight attendant said in an interview. “She was a timely ________ to Cook and it obviously ________ Cook to have someone he could speak to.”

【推荐3】Sakina Halal Grill is a Washington restaurant known for its generosity. However, it has been able to get through the COVID-19 pandemic (流行病) because of other people’s _______.

Like many small businesses, Sakina Halal Grill was _______ hard by the pandemic. The restaurant had to _______several times, but when it reopened, business was slow. In fact, business was so slow that owner Kazi Mannan wasn’t able to _______ the rent on the restaurant and the _______ of his employees.

But Mannan and his employees weren’t the only ones who were _______. Sakina Halal Grill had always _______ free meals to homeless people. But when Sakina Halal Grill was struggling _______, Mannan had to make the _______ decision to stop handing out meals for free. “My heart ________ in doing so, but the mission of feeding another human being who can’t ________ a meal is always close to my heart,” said Mannan.

Luckily, a friend assisted Mannan to set up a GoFundMe page to ask for help. Within 24 hours, Mannan ________much money from people all over the world. “I am very ________,” said Mannan. “People are angels; they understood my pain and ________ me.” With these money, he could rehire some staffs and regain the ________ to continue his mission to help others.

【推荐1】Paige Winter stood in waist-deep water when a shark suddenly appeared and pounced (猛扑) on her just three feet from her _________ Charlie Winter, a firefighter and former Marine. The 17-year-old suffered severe injuries from the _________ earlier this month at North Carolina’s Fort Macon State Park.

“I _________ where Paige was and there was no Paige,” Charlie recalled in an interview by a local newspaper. “Paige was underwater, but there was pink on the water. I went straight to where the pink was and I _________ and I grabbed her. When I pulled her up, a shark _________ with her—it was a big one and I _________ started to hit it. I hit it with everything I could and _________ it let go.”

But Paige was the real _________ .

Both her hands were badly injured while trying to force open the shark’s _________ and her left leg had to be amputated (截肢), thigh-high. Unprovoked (无端的) shark attacks like this are   __________ . There were 66 of them worldwide last year, causing four deaths. But even more rare is Paige’s __________ : no screaming, no crying and no self-pity.

“I’m still Paige” she said. “Just a little __________ . I want people to see I’m doing alright and I’m still going to do the stuff they can do. I think I can __________ this into something good for me, good for sharks and good for the environment too,” she said.

Charlie told the reporter that he couldn’t be __________. He said, “The shark took my daughter’s __________. It did not take her spirit.”

【推荐3】Watching a plane fly across the sky as a young boy, Todd Smith knew that flying was what he wanted to do when he was older.

After five years’ training, he finally _______ his dream job in his late twenties-working as an airline pilot. But in 2019, the travel firm he was _______ for was closed down.

By this time Mr Smith had become increasingly _______ about the growing threat of climate change, and the aviation (航空) industry’s carbon emissions (碳排放). “I had an uncomfortable _______ ,” he says. “I was really eager to get involved in environmental protest groups, but I knew it would ruin my _______ , and I had a lot of _______ . It would be easier to return to the industry and pay them off.”

Yet after hesitating for several months, Mr Smith finally _______ to quit his flying career for good. “I prefer flying and _______ interesting destinations, and earning a decent _______ ,” says Mr Smith. “But when we are ________ the climate and ecological emergency, how could I possibly ________ my needs? We need to think about how to ________ the biggest threat to humanity.”

Giving up his dream job was a ________ decision, he says. “Financially I’ve been really ________ . It’s been challenging, but taking action has ________ my anxiety.”

Mr Smith is now a climate activist.