【推荐2】It was10:15 p.m. when Esposito arrived at the train station. She jumped into her Honda and began her _________ home. Out of nowhere an unexpected car _________ crashed into Esposito’s pushing her backward onto the tracks. She got _________ in her vehicle, shocked by the impact.

As it happened, Dipinto, a volunteer _________ , was going to bed. He was crawling under the _________ when he heard the crash of metal on metal coming from outside. Unhesitatingly, he grabbed a _________ and rushed out the door still in pajamas(睡衣). "Any firefighter would have done so. We're always on _________ ." he explained later.

The first car he _________ , 500 feet from his front yard, was the one that had hit Esposito's. Soon, by the light of his flashlight, he _________ Esposito's car lying messily on the tracks. Then he heard a (n) __________ sound breaking through the sky: the bells signaling a (n) __________ train. "I absolutely could see the headlight of the train." he __________ .

DiPinto, an experienced rescuer, immediately bent to __________ Esposito's side window violently. "Where am I?" Esposito voiced weakly with her __________ unfocused. "You're suffering a car crash and __________ pulling out at once, madam." DiPinto __________ . He struggled against the door handle, but the door was __________ shut. The train loaded with oil, at a speed, which is 65 miles per hour, was __________ near. DiPinto turned to the passenger side and threw open the door. He __________ the airbags, grabbed Esposito's arms, and pulled her toward him across the passenger seat before speed-walking her to __________ . Within six seconds, the train ran over Positive's car.

"It was like a Hollywood movie." the reporter joked.

【推荐1】During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a “free” course, called Thinking Chess, for three credits. I_________the idea of taking the class because, after all, who doesn't want to save a few dollars? More than that, I'd always wanted to learn chess. And, even if I weren’t_________ enough about free credits, news about our _________was appealing enough to me. He was an international grandmaster, which_________I would be learning from one of the game’s_________. I could hardly wait to_________him.

Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this job was no game for him; he meant business. In his introduction, he made it_________that our credits would be hard-earned. In order to_________ the class, among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to_________ what we would learn in class to our future professions and, __________, to our lives. I   managed to get an A in that course and learned life lessons that have served me well beyond the__________.

Ten years after my chess class with Ashley, I’m still putting to use what he__________me: “The absolute most important skill that you learn when you play chess is how to make good__________. On every single move you have to analyze a situation, process what your opponent (对手) is doing and__________the best move from among all your options.” These words still ring true today in my__________as a journalist.

【推荐2】I was 11 when you were born , and in your first few years I often looked after you, bathed and dressed you and took you out for walks. I have _______ memories of your childhood. Of _______ you up as a "rock star". Of watching you dance _______ nightclothes. Of your insistence that I make your school lunch _______ I put so much more peanut butter on your _______ than anyone else. Of the _______ phone call we ever had—•an echo of my own university years-when you wanted to _______ university and study dance.

Since we have grown up, I have lived through you, although you may not know it. You had the opportunity I so_______ wanted but never got — to train in the dancing art. I encouraged our parents to support you because 1 have always _______ how my life would be if they hadn't chosen a(n) ________ career path for me, their eldest child.

I know you have ________ to hunt for work and confidence, and that you probably wonder sometimes if you made the right choice. ________, I am happy for you and proud that I played some small role in helping you to ________ a dream.

There is a ________between us now. It has grown since I first left home, and in the ________ I missed your teenage years. That ________ me greatly. I imagine that you believe we have very little in common-----a ________ in the city and a biologist in West Africa-but in you 1   ________ some of my own dreams realized.

But beyond that, even at 12 or )3 I felt as much a mother to you as an older sister. So, on the rare ________ when we see each other, I want to know everything, from your worries, hopes to delights.

I wish I, as an adult, could hold you at arm's ________. I hope we can one day be sisters or friends again. I still make a tasty peanut butter sandwich for you.

【推荐3】In late January of 2018, Chicago experienced the coldest temperature that the city has seen in decades.

A group of homeless people were left outside directly _________ to the deadly weather. 34-year-old Candice Payne, a managing broker (经纪人) from a local company, was _________ enough to have shelter from the dangerous conditions. _________, she couldn’t stop thinking about the homeless people in the area who had nowhere to go.

“It’s 50 degrees below, and I knew I had to take _________,” Payne told The New York Times. She started thinking of different _________ that could possibly work. Eventually, she _________ to see if there were any rooms available at _________ hotels that she could _________ for the people _________ outside. So without wasting any time, Payne picked up the __________ and started calling hotels in the area.

“Finally, the Amber Inn was nice enough to __________ me to buy the rooms for the homeless,” Payne said. Without __________, she purchased 30 rooms for the night with her credit card. She __________   reached out to people on her Instagram account asking if anyone would like to __________ with either paying for more rooms or __________ the homeless people to the inn.

She got immediate __________ that surprised her. Strangers __________ their cars and SUVs. They also __________ money, which helped Payne pay for a total of 60 rooms for five nights.

Payne’s __________ act made news across the country. However, she said, “ I’m just a regular person. I __________ it with so many others’ help.”

【推荐2】It was many years ago. I was a young dad sitting on the couch reading a fairy tale _________ my little girl. She sat next to me with her _________ on my arm as I told the tale. When it came to the end I finished with those famous words: “And they lived happily ever after.” I could see the _________ on her face and I never expected it to end. Suddenly I _________ that the ending of the tale was what I wanted for her. I _________ her to “live happily ever after.”

Still, deep in my heart I knew that this couldn’t always be true. I knew that there would be times when her _________ was broken. I knew there would be times when she cried and I couldn’t _________ her. I knew there would be times when all she _________ was fear, sadness, sorrow, and despair. As I stroked her hair and smiled at her I hoped that those times would be brief and that she would have _________ in her life more often than not. Living __________ ever after, though, seemed out of the question.

It took me a lot of years to realize that it is __________ to live happily ever after. You just have to do it “one day at a time.” Happiness you see isn’t some __________ that you get at the end of your journey. Happiness isn’t something that depends on what life hands you. Happiness is something you __________ in your life day by day.

The truth is that happiness comes when you choose love. Love is a gift from God. It is love __________ defeats fear. It is love that reduces sorrow. It is love that brings light to darkness. It is love that __________ us joy. Choose to “live happily ever after, one day at a time.”

【推荐3】Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was ________ of the fact that she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been ________ for a driving offence.

Then one day she nearly ________ her record. A police car ________ her, and the policemen in it saw her ________ a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed ________ that she would be punished. When Mrs. Jones ________ to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was ________ old to drive a car, and that the ________ why she had not stopped at the red ________ was most probably that her eyes had become ________ with old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge ________ what he was saying, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was ________ and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she ________ a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.

When she had ________ done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed ________ the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, "Now it is your ________ . I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight. "

The judge took the ________ and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he still didn't succeed. The case against Mrs. Jones was ________ , and her record ________ unbroken.