【推荐1】When I was 12, I went on a 720-mile cycling trip with my brother and father. Before the trip, we ____ for the journey by having smaller rides. We were all ____ cyclists. When setting out, I ____for an adventure and wanted to see beautiful sights. But what I hadn’t expected was that trouble was ____ the corner.

One night, we were getting to a campsite and cycling down a large hill with ____ to take a rest from ____ up a mountain with aching legs. Suddenly, my brother’s front tyre slipped and he ____ into the middle of the road. My father and I stopped, asking if he was okay. Obviously, he was not hurt too much, but his leg was ____ the bike frame. From the top of the hill, we saw a light coming. Realizing a car was speeding, my father and I were in ____.

Instinctively, I rushed out in front of my brother in the middle of the road, and ____my hands wildly. The car rushed forward, but abruptly turned ____, bypassing my brother and me. My brother was saved from being run over by the car.

My father said I was ____ brave then, but for some reason, I didn’t think I was ____ my life because it seemed like the only thing to do. And I believe that in times of danger we should do what we know is right rather than consider ____ carefully. If I had thought about what I was doing that night, my brother might have been ____from this world.

【推荐3】Colleen and her husband were part of a group walking the Overland Track. It was the fifth day of a 6-day walk. The guide, who was waiting for them at the nearest camp, had _______ them about the slippery and potentially dangerous conditions. Colleen, an experienced adventurer from Sydney, was a naturally _______ walker. She walked in front of her husband and carefully checked the safety of the track when they were going down a steep slope (陡坡). Suddenly she heard a cracking sound from _______.

"When I realized what was happening, I was heading to a deep ditch (沟壑), my pack on my back." Colleen's fall was only _______by the presence of a branch that stretched across the ditch and kept her from a fall that could otherwise have been deadly.

Colleen hit her head badly and went into _______. She soon woke up and turned around to see her husband sitting stunned on the side of the track. He had accidently fallen from the top. He had first slipped above Colleen, and his full weight, with his pack, _______down on top of her. He was uninjured, and Colleen was suspended on the branch. He reached out to grab Colleen's arm. Colleen felt so painful, the worst physical suffering she had ever felt in her life. She knew _______that her arm was broken.

Her husband took her pack along with his own and together they struggled for the final three kilometers to the camp. Once they reached the camp, the guide gave her first aid and called for the rescue helicopter immediately.

Colleen was _______to the nearest hospital by helicopter. She was examined in the hospital and was told that her head and neck were okay, but her arm had been broken in four places.

Later, Colleen recalled with emotion, "After this personal experience of near-death and being saved, I realized that in some situations there's absolutely no _______to get to hospital, and the rescue helicopter was the only way. At that moment, the most ________ noise was hearing the helicopter come. The helicopter rescue workers were so generous, so highly skilled as well. When they arrived with the policemen, I was never more grateful to see anyone in my whole life."

【推荐2】Last summer, I was suffering from too much stress. I’d just graduated from a/an_________doctoral program and was exhausted from the years of research, study and writing. I took a_________to celebrate, but the academic intensity had become a_________. Sitting on the beautiful lawn of the hotel on Mackinac Island, I just felt like I should be studying or working_________.

Generally seeing natural beauty would have_________me, but I couldn’t slow down. I couldn’t help looking at my cell phone_________in case I missed something important. “Enough.” I murmured. I needed to unwind, but why couldn’t I?

A dragonfly(蜻蜓)buzzed around me. With each_________, this creature’s wings_________color—blue one moment, green the next. Dragonflies usually fascinated me with their quick movements that_________me of acrobats(杂技演员)in the wind, but I wasn’t in the__________that day. What I needed then was appreciating, not movement. Suddenly, the dragonfly came to rest on a blade(叶片)of grass in front of me.

I watched that dragonfly carefully for many minutes. So did the dragonfly. “It’s not a matter of relaxing,” it seemed to say. “Life is so short. Be here in the__________and let the mood take care of itself.” Suddenly, I__________this beautiful creature, who only had months to live, was “instructing” me about the__________of life and felt much relaxed. The dragonfly seemed__________that its message had been delivered. It sprang from the grass and flew away. I didn’t see it again. But I would never forget what it taught me: Be here and__________yourself.

【推荐1】The family of Chuck Rees, his wife Laurie, and his mother-in-law Ann Effert had just finished lunch at a cafe. Then Rees, 51, spotted _______ rising. They immediately drove through unfamiliar streets and_______ came to a white two-story house. _______ nobody in, Rees called 911.

Rees ran around the house, hoping to find the _______ of the fire. When he climbed over a _______ and into the yard, Rees noticed a small steel door in the addition (扩建部分). He hit on it with his fist. Soon he _______ a woman’s faint voice from the deep inside. He spotted an old woman through the _______ in the doorway. He tried to take the woman to the _______.

Rees went back into the living room to _______ others. The smoke had spread to the floor, and the __________ was almost unbearable. He moved through the downstairs rooms, coughing and __________ to anyone who might be there. After one last look around, Rees __________.

A fire crew arrived, and Rees quickly __________ them. Moments later, flames destroyed the house.

That night, the local news reported that an anonymous (匿名的) man had __________ an elderly woman from her burning house. Effert proudly called media to __________ her son-in-law as the hero. “He didn’t do it for fame,” she said.

【推荐3】My phone rang. It was my adviser calling to tell me a preprint (预印本) had just been posted that identified wrong data in a ________ we’d published. My heart sank as he said the article would be retracted (撤回). We couldn’t ________ long—the plane soon took off. I spent the 16-hour flight processing a mix of ________—disbelief, embarrassment, frustration—and ________ what this would mean for my career.

After the plane landed, I found I received a flood of messages. Some were from supportive coworkers, but many ________ of our work. I felt embarrassed by the criticism.

By that point, I had ________ a position. Coworkers encouraged me to ignore ________ that seemed to be directed at me ________. But it was hard. I struggled with self-esteem, started to ________ meetings and deleted my Twitter account to protect my ________ health.

When it became clear that a retraction was ________, I offered my resignation to my department head. He didn’t ________ it, saying a resignation wasn’t needed, considering the ________ in the article were honest mistakes.

I decided to ________, in hopes that I could eventually recover my ________ by publishing sound science and demonstrating I’d learned from my mistakes. But that has turned out to be a ________ path: I’ve had trouble getting my articles ________ and had problems securing funding for new projects.

Despite (尽管) these ________, I don’t regret our decision to ________ my paper. It may have been embarrassing, but it was the ________ thing to do. And the experience helped me grow as a scientist.