【推荐1】North Carolina mom Hannah Jarvis is thanking the kind stranger. The stranger saved her 7-month-old daughter, Calli, from _________ while her family was eating dinner at Golden Corral. According to Hannah's post, a woman named Debra acted fast when she saw Calli choking on a bite of potato.

“I immediately _________ my daughter out of her high chair and started pounding（反复击打）on her _________, but I wasn't doing it right and so I started to _________,” Hannah told POPSUGAR.“My mother started to do the same: holding her upside down, hitting her back, but _________. At that time, we were all in a panic.Then, Debra _________ and did the Heimlich manoeuvre properly.”

_________ that her daughter survived the incident, Hannah shared on the social media just how grateful she is.

“If it weren't for Debra Rouse, my daughter probably would have been _________ away in an ambulance today,” Hannah wrote.“My family and I can't thank you enough for helping. My daughter has been seen to the ER and is perfectly _________ now. I will never forget the tears that were shed today at Golden Corral as this heroine __________. Most importantly, thank you for hearing our __________ cries for Calli this evening.”

Thanks to the power of social media, the post eventually __________ it onto Debra's screen, and she left a sweet reply in the __________ section.“Good evening Mrs. Hannah, I saw the news article and I messaged you my number! I'm __________ that Calli is doing well, y'all have been on my mind since yesterday! Love you all and take care.”

Hannah and Debra have been keeping speaking with each other regularly since then.“We actually met up in Asheville the day after the incident. I'm just so thankful for __________ Debra to us that day!”

【推荐3】Jack was a student at Cambridge, but his hometown was in Albans. It was _______ and the family had gone to the seaside. Jack _______ money and came home a week _______ than he had expected to. His train didn't get into Albans until _______. The last bus had gone, so he had to _______ home. As he was feeling _________, he took off his shirt to have a _______.

Suddenly the _______ burst open, the police rushed in. They _______ him sit down and began asking him questions.

“I live here,” said Jack, but nobody trusted him. They just ________ questions. Then they ________one tall, very young policeman to guard him. The rest of them went to ________ the house. Soon the others came   ________with an older man, a police officer. He asked ________questions, but he listened to Jack’s answers. “We’ll soon ________this,” he said.

He went out and came back with a small man. It was Jack’s next-door neighbor. He looked at Jack ________ through his thick glasses.

“Oh, yes, Sir, ________ Mr. Hope.” Then he disappeared very quickly. The policemen all looked ________. They were sure they had caught a thief. “Did he ring you up?” asked Jack. The police officer ________.“He ________ a light and understood your family had all gone away to the seaside.”

【推荐1】I grew up fishing with my father in his boat. We often saw other _________, at the boat launch, and _________ we’d greet each other with, “Catch anything?” which would usually move into a comparison of the day’s _________, or traded suggestions on lures(鱼饵).

My son Gordon is now growing up fishing. He loves to fish. He can spend a full day, sunrise to sundown, _________ his line and changing lures. He’s relatively unsociable and usually quite _________ to talk to strangers; but if they are similar fisher-person, he _________ instantly.

When we were visiting Paris, on our evening walk back to our _________, on a quiet part of the Seine, Gordon _________ a fisherman. Dragging us down several staircases to reach the river’s edge, we _________ the fisherman for a conversation about his catch. Despite Gordon speaking almost no French, they had a (an) __________ conversation as he showed us what he caught and indicated if it was a good size or __________ than normal, and it ended up with Gordon being __________ a fish, which we cooked that night. They shared joy in fishing, and reached across language and age __________.

Recently walking along the river’s __________ in Calgary, I saw a person fishing. I couldn’t help calling out, “Catch anything?” Not missing a beat in his cast, the guy called back, “Yeah, a couple of small rainbows(虹鳟鱼)!” It’s a conversation we would have had and __________ understood in any country or in any language.

【推荐2】I’ve always loved horses, but for years my riding took a back seat to my four kids’ soccer games, dance recitals and so on. As my children became more _______,I decided it was time to put myself _______the calendar, not always being at the beck and call of my family.

I have a work-to-ride rent at a nearby stable (马厩). As soon as I arrive at the stable, I always _______ to take a deep breath or two, inhaling the sweetness of freshly mown hay (干草). Then I go for a joyride. Sometimes, I’m_______by a friend and other times I ride solo, but it’s always a reset and _______ of my batteries for another week in the real world.

One day, as I wiped off my bridle (马笼头), my friend Mary asked with sad eyes, “Did you hear about Heather? She _______ her son last week.”

“No, how awful! Heather’s son is around my age.” I murmured.

“Yes, it’s tragic,” she said. “I _______to her yesterday. She seemed okay despite everything.”

“Yesterday? She was out here?”

“She and her grandsons went for a trail _______. This is the best place to be when you need to _______real life,” Mary commented knowingly.

I nodded ________. Mary’s husband had just ________a horrible disease, and whenever she wasn’t taking care of him, she was here to take care of herself. We all ________ various levels of heart-hurt on a daily basis. Our stable is pure________— from worry, frustration, hurt, even unimaginable loss.

Relief from real life. We all need it, somewhere, somehow, because life is ________. I’m so glad I’ve found that horse time can make the hardest landings a little ________.