【推荐1】On a cold November night, Layton was on his way home when he got an urgent call from his mother. “The mountain’s on fire.” she _______, “and many rental guests were up there.”

Layton’s family _______ a dozen rental cottages on Shields Mountain. At the thought of this, Layton _______ the gas on the dirt back road.

He _______ first to Layton’s rental cottages to make sure whether his guests were _______. Fortunately, all his guests were. At that point, he made up his mind to _______ his cottages to rescue tourists _______ other cottages nearby.

Over the next two hours, he travelled through the _______ mountain, knocking on doors and leading _______ people to safety. Knowing the mountain so well, he drove one after another family down the mountain on roads ________ in smoke in his pickup. When one family was ________ from the fire, Layton would take the pickup ________ up the mountain in search of another ________ person. He helped one elderly woman flee barefoot ________ hot road surface to reach his car and found a man unconscious in a burning cottage and ________ him to his car. Thankfully, he helped 14 people out of danger despite that he had ________ escaped the burns.

________ his brave and immediate action, the fire didn’t ________ a single life on Shields Mountain. And though his business were destroyed, Layton remains ________ “I wasn’t worried about the property ________, not when I saw those families trapped on the mountain.” he says, “I knew I was gonna help them.”

【推荐2】Ten years ago when I suffered from anorexia nervosa (神经性食欲缺乏), I was depressed. It wasn’t until I was well enough to _______ that I realized how much of my life was _______ by my anorexia.

Today, I am _______ for the struggles I endured. The day I realized this I was sitting in a small _______ that I had just started attending with my boyfriend at the time. The preacher (牧师) came up to me to see how I was. He asked me how school was, and I said I didn’t like it that much. He then _______, “Well, if you hadn’t gone there, you wouldn’t have met him，” and pointed at my _______ who later became my husband.

This really _______ my eyes, and after I left I started seeing everything in my life through this perspective. At first I didn’t see how having anorexia could have ever been a(n) _______ thing. But when I looked at it as a(n) _______ for me, I started to see that I had a lot to be thankful for.

I grew closer to my mother while ________. I learned how to take care of my wants and ________ in a way that made me happy.

I found doing sports, which allows me to ________ my body and move through my life with more ________. I also found my purpose, which is to help others in some ways with their own struggle with food and ________. There is something in your pain or struggle that is helpful to you.

Challenge yourself to look for the light rather than the ________. I promise you can find it. And if not, you can create it.

【推荐1】Last spring, my family went camping in the Peak District. For two whole weeks, life felt _________ — living, working, playing together, _________ by the sights, sounds and smells of the natural world.

On the final night of our trip, an _________ gradually took shape: could we do this longer-term? When it came to _________, my husband and I had both kit and expertise. It might also be an _________ to turn the writing and photography we loved into our livelihood.

After half a year of preparation, we finally _________ in September. Our first destination was New Forest National Parks and we stayed at each _________ for between one and four weeks, exploring each day from the tent door.

There was no mobile signal or Wi-Fi at the campsite, _________ us from the outside world. We just _________ the best of what nature had to offer. I loved the __________ rhythm (节奏) of daily life in the tent, always starting with coffee as the steam from the camping stove rose into the morning air. We worked hard, drawing __________ for our writing and photography from our surroundings. Afternoons were for __________ — climbing mountains, paddling in streams, or simply enjoying being in and around the tent. The mountains __________ us as if in protection with a reassuring (令人安心的) skyline.

It was wonderful to fully __________ the places we stayed. Sleeping with an ear to the earth, tuning into the natural rhythms of light and __________, there’s nothing quite like being in a tent for total immersion in a place.

【推荐2】Water is one of the most important things for life on Earth. What happens ________ you suddenly can’t get this precious liquid?

Mark, an expedition (探险) guide from Shropshire, in the UK, ________ this for himself while ________ along the Zambezi River for two months. When he reached the gorge (峡谷) at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, the area became much more ________ to travel through. Mark guessed that it would take a month to get to the other side of the gorge, and with no other people for miles around, he was beginning to ________ food: After two weeks of trying to pick his ________ through the gorge, Mark decided to find another ________. On his ________, he could see another river heading into the Zambezi.

________ at 4 am, Mark climbed out of the gorge with two—litter water bottles. But after three hours of walking, he ________ ran out of water. He was on the edge of a cliff (悬崖). He could see the river far below him.

He examined the cliff and saw a few tree roots to hold onto, so he decided to make an attempt at climbing down. When he reached a ledge(岩架), he became ________ due to his thirsty, hunger and tiredness. It was not until a few minutes later that he came to himself. Even so, Mark kept pushing himself down the cliff for nearly an hour until he came to the ________. He had to sit there for an hour, cooling down and drinking water.

While few of us are likely to experience this kind of extreme dehydration (脱水), around four billion people experience a ________ of water at least one month of the year. Mark was lucky. After resting for a week, he was able to ________ his journey. Although his experience was a ________ in patience, it also taught him how important water is.

【推荐3】Not long ago, I was the guide on a wildlife-photography trip to Svalbard near the North Pole. After two days of _______, we arrived there and _______ several seals resting on the ice. I _______ my camera and a motion sensor near the edge of a hole to get a(n) _______ of a seal.

The next morning, I was woken up because a polar bear was _______ closer. At first the bear walked toward our boat. Then it made a(n) _______ turn and headed directly for my camera. The motion sensor reacted to the bear’s _______, making the camera start taking pictures. The bear circled the _______, gently sniffing it. Unexpectedly the camera _______ into the hole and disappeared beneath the deep ice.

That was the ________ moment in my photography career. I was so ________ with myself. A year later I obtained ________ to bring a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to find the camera. There was a lot more ice than the ________ trip. As I knew well, polar bears could be nearby. We decided to ________ it. The ice was so thin, and soon we ________ technical difficulties and had to pull the ROV out of the water twice. ________ on the third try the ROV found the camera. We shouted and ________ around on the ice.

I was overjoyed to see all my ________. I saw the polar bear breathing and sniffing the camera. ________ that camera is the most satisfying ________ of my career with the lovely animal and its habitat presented.