This year I entered the Great Gorilla (大猩猩) Run in London. This is a programme run by The Gorilla Organization which raises money     1     (save) the world’s last remaining gorillas from dying out. Each runner receives a gorilla suit and off they go! It’s a bit hot and sweaty inside the suit, and my legs ache,     2    it’s a lot of fun. The funniest moment was when someone watching the race offered me a banana—a real treat for a    3     (run) gorilla! I had a great day out in London, as well as helping to save gorillas!

Thirty-six visually-impaired (视力缺损的) visitors head to the Hulun Buir grassland in north China’s Inner. Mongolia. Li Manshuo is one of the volunteers    1    (accompany)them. Her “job” is to help three group members “experience” the sights as best they can.

Li is studying    2     a master’s degree in tourism management and she’s using her midterm break to undertake the trip. “Visually-impaired travelers get the experience     3    (main) through smelling or listening, or touching with their hands,” Li says. “Also, with our     4    (describe), they can create a picture of the scene in their minds.”

Guiding instead of taking over, Mei Zhiyu is the director of Zhisu Commonweal Organization, a Suzhou-based non-profit organization that, through    5    (it) own travel agency, has given more than 1, 000 brave blind and low-vision travelers the chance    6    (explore) places all over China.

Before a tour sets out, the volunteers, each of     7     is normally assigned to two or three travelers, receive safety instructions and basic training. Throughout the trip, their performance     8    (assess) by Mei on a daily basis. “The most important thing is not to think of them as incapacitated people,” he says.

“Actually, most visually-impaired people have a     9    (great) capacity to look after themselves than we think, and we try to offer them the same experiences as sighted travelers.”

Mei likes his role to work like a bridge, connecting the visually-impaired to the outside world. “Even though they can’t see,”he says, “they can experience     10     world in other ways.”

    1     moment I stepped out of school, I saw a dark blue­gray cloud approaching. But I didn’t know what a huge tornado was. I heard my mother yell my name. She asked me to get in her car. I ran to the car and got in. She     2     (immediate) started the car and headed for our house.

When I looked back at the cloud, it had a small funnel­looking (漏斗状的) cloud inside. We finally got to our house and then we heard a loud siren (警笛). My dad looked scared in the     3     (emergent). He brought the radio and a flashlight, while my mom    4     (grab) some batteries. My mom attempted     5     (shelter) me from the disaster. We turned on the radio and heard that an EF­2 tornado had touched down just east of my school. Then I heard a long deep sound that began to shake the house. That was the most horrible moment of my life and I hoped nothing like that     6     (occur) again.

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In recent years, the world     1     (see) a number of natural disasters: hurricanes in the Caribbean and southern U.S., earthquakes in Mexico, and monsoons (季风雨) in southern Asia. These     2     (event) brought damage to communities. They also brought questions about what we can do to prepare     3     (we) for similar events. The best thing to do when facing a coming natural disaster is to pay attention to your area’s evacuation notices and take advantage of evacuation help. However, it’s possible to     4     (catch) by an unexpected emergency. When     5     (face) with those situations, what should you do to stay safe? How can you be better prepared? Every family should have an emergency plan     6     addresses the most likely disasters in their area. Practical     7     (survive) skills should also be part of every family’s plan. These skills need to be learned and practiced before things get hard. This is because you     8     (simple) won’t have time to read a survival book during     9     emergency.     10     (stay) calm is the most important thing a person can do during any emergency. A little fear is a natural and healthy response (反应) to a frightening event. But when fear runs unchecked, a person may make dangerous choices. It takes practice to learn to stay calm in frightening situations, but it can be done.