【推荐1】In the late afternoon, Brandon finished his farm work and went home. As they often did, his two sons, Louie, 6, and Everett, 3, _________ him.

As they headed for the house, the two boys ran ahead of him, who stopped to close the gate. Louie _________ at an old well. The _________ covering the well was brittle (脆弱的) over time. When Louie stepped on it, it was _________ and the boy fell in the well. Brandon quickly _________ what had happened.

He ran to the well and heard Louie _________ the water and screaming. Without _________ , he jumped in. As he _________ the well, he grabbed a thin pipe, which slowed his _________ and kept him from hurting his son.

Brandon hit the __________ water at the bottom of the well. He grabbed Louie, who was __________. Knowing they could not __________ in the freezing water too long, Brandon carried his son onto his chest as he __________ his own legs and back against the narrow walls for __________. Then he asked Everett to go back out to the road and get help.

About 15 minutes later, Christi and Mark, nearby farmer, noticed Everett stood __________ by the side of the road, waving. They asked if he was OK. He told them the __________ accident. The couple put Everett into their car and drove onto the farm, and the boy __________ to the well. Mark called the police while Christi called another __________, Dan, who sped to Brandon’s farm with his son and a __________ rope.

With the neighbors’ help, Brandon and Louie were rescued __________ at last.

【推荐2】On a sunny afternoon, Anthony Perry stepped off the train at Chicago’s 69th Street station. The 20-year-old, who worked nights in a grocery store, was on his way to see his ________.

On the platform, something unthinkable happened: a man fell over the edge and onto the electrified train tracks! As Perry and other horrified passengers watched, he shook uncontrollably as the ________ moved through his body.

“Help him!” someone cried. “Please, someone!”

Perry couldn’t just stand there and ________. He sat at the edge of the platform and eased himself down. ________ all rails between the man and him were electrified, he quickly leaped towards the victim, using a high-knee technique from his high school football days.

Perry soon reached down and grasped the victim’s wrist. ________, he felt a powerful electric shock shoot through his body. Perry jumped back. He reached down a second time, and was shocked again. But the third time he seized the man’s wrist and forearm, and managed to move the guy’s body away from the ________.

“Give him chest compressions!” yelled an old lady on the platform.

Perry was no expert, but for a few moments he worked on the man’s heart until the victim regained ________. Then, first-aiders arrived. Perry let the professionals ________. Heart still racing from the electric shocks, he climbed back up onto the platform, grabbed his things and continued on to his grandfather’s.

The evening news reported the incident, ________ an unnamed hero with saving the victim’s life. To many, Perry’s ________ deeds demonstrated the power of choosing compassion over personal safety.

【推荐3】A 71-year-old Swedish man “can’t put into words” how thankful he is for the new technology that saved him from sudden cardiac arrest (心脏骤停).

The _________ occurred while he was clearing snow in his _________. In such situations people _________ have about ten minutes to _________ help, but ambulance response times are often too long to save a patient’s life.

Luckily, an _________ call for emergency service was made, and the man lived in a region that had partnered with an innovative _________ program called EMADE.

EMADE drones (无人机) swiftly delivered an automated external defibrillator (AED), a device to save a person’s life during a sudden cardiac arrest, to the _________ —and the time from the alarm to the safe _________ of the AED was just over three minutes.

_________, a doctor drove by. “I was on my way to work at the local hospital when I noticed a man __________ in his driveway and I immediately rushed to help.” says Dr. Mustafa Ali. “The man had no pulse (脉搏), so I started __________ CPR while asking another bystander to call the ambulance. Just minutes later. I __________ something flying above me — it was a drone carrying an AED!”

After receiving on-site treatment, the patient was __________ to the hospital upon the arrival of the ambulance.

“This is a truly __________ technology that needs to be established everywhere.” said the patient who now has made a full __________ and returned home. “If it weren’t for the drone. I probably wouldn’t be here.”

【推荐2】While I was standing at the kitchen window, five-year-old Spencer, my oldest son, ran into the house ________, “We need a doctor out there! We need a doctor! Hurry, Mom!” “What’s wrong?” I asked. Spencer anxiously told me he had found a dead bird that needed a doctor.

Dutifully (顺从地), I seized a small plastic bag from the cupboard and took Spencer’s hand — ________, that’s the sort of thing mothers do! While my son led me out of the door and ________ the bird, I explained that if the creature was indeed dead, a doctor could not ________. When we arrived at the ________ scene, it was obvious that the baby bird was dead. Spencer and I could see the nest high up in the tree. My son and I ________ the probable age of the baby bird, its inability to fly well, and exactly how the ________ had caused its death. “I think his mommy and daddy would really ________ him,” Spencer observed. I ________ my boy’s hand and tried to ease his ________ by saying I was sure they did, ________ they would be okay because the little bird had gone to Heaven to be with God and PoPo (my grandfather who had died). I assured Spencer that the bird’s mommy and daddy knew that their little one would be ________ and loved. I told Spencer that PoPo loved little birds and that I was ________ he was in Heaven holding and playing with the baby bird ________. I picked up the little creature’s body, slipped it into my plastic bag and ________ placed the bird in the rubbish bin. ________ was said about the matter for the rest of the day. Spencer went right back to play ________ he had never been interrupted, and I returned to my work in the kitchen.

At breakfast the next morning, Spencer sadly explained to his father that he had found a baby bird the day before that had fallen from its nest.

“It was dead, Daddy!”

Trying to ________ Spencer’s spirits and remind him that the little bird was really ________, I asked our son to tell Daddy ________ the baby bird was. Spencer, looking solemn-faced at his dad, stated, “In the rubbish bin with Mama’s granddad, PoPo.”

At a table on a small terrace (露台) overlooking the Garonne River, I’ve just finished a classic southern French dish of shellfish. The restaurant seems to be one of the last on the block to appeal more _________ than tourists. I drink my coffee and _________ for the moment when the bright sky reaches that post-sunset shade of dark blue. As the moment_________, I finish my coffee and walk 200 meters to join the _________ on the street, across from the Place de la Bourse.

We gather at the edge of the miroir d’ eau (“water mirror”). It is a shallow pool the _________ of a sports field that goes through a nonstop 15-minute cycle of _________ with about two centimeters of water, then emptying out.

After a couple of minutes, the water has flowed away,_________a field of flat, wet stones to create a perfect _________ of the splendid 18^th-century buildings. At _________ that moment, the lights at the foot of the building__________, creating an image of instant beauty that is __________ with a mix of “wows” and “ohs” and the clicking of cameras.

__________, I cross the street to visit the Old City. I pass the grand structures along the quai (码头) and wander along the __________ streets behind it, which are __________ with restaurants, wine bars and shops. This contrast is what I always like so much about this city. The architecture of the Grand-Theatre, the museums and the town hall __________ the fact that the word “grandeur” is truly French.