The back door of the ambulance was suddenly shut and the driver ran to the front, jumped into the seat, and started the engine. Inside were the ___parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green. The mother was holding their baby daughter, Ally. The girl had some ___stuck in her throat and could ___ breathe.

The driver, Mr. White, turned on his siren(警报器) and sped towards the ___hospital, fighting against the time. The ___ahead of him pulled out of the way____he drove through the busy traffic. From the back of the ___the parents were shouting at him to be   ____, since Ally had almost stopped___ . In front of him he saw some traffic ___, with the red “Stop” light shining. Mr. white knew he had no time to____, so he drove straight through the traffic lights.

Coming towards him from his right was a taxi with the____closed, and the driver was playing his radio, He did not ___the ambulance. The lights were green; ___he drove straight on into the ambulance.

Mr. White tried to stop his ambulance, but it was too ___. It hit the taxi. Everyone was shaken, but no one was hurt. Mr. White looked to see ___little Ally was. He was astonished to see relief(宽慰) instead of ___on the faces of the parents.

“Look!” cried Mrs. Green. “She is breathing again.”

“It ___have been the crash,” said her husband, “It ___the food out of her throat.”

The baby’s color was turning____, and she was crying in a loud but healthy voice. They were all joyful, and quite forgot about the accident.

【推荐3】It was 7:15 a.m. and Gary Messina was on his morning run along New York City’s East River. Suddenly something caught his eye — a man shouter for help _________ the current pulled him away from the seawall.

David Blauzvern and John Green _________ their phones and keys on land and jumped in. Messina, a police officer, also joined them in the river. Just as the man was_________, they stabilized him, with Blauzvern _________ his back and Messina and Green holding him _________from either side. After ten minutes, they managed to get to the river’s_________and stayed as close to the seawall as they could.

Fifteen minutes later, a rescue boat turned_________. As they approached the boat, there came a new _________: The wave created by the current was sucking(吮吸;吞没 )them under the boat.

Blauzvern remembers being pulled down just as someone in the boat _________on to the man,__________ Blauzvern to let go. Somehow, he grasped a pole attached to the boat deck and dragged himself __________. The men in the water pushed the drowning guy while the men in the boat pulled him up and, finally, to __________. The man they had saved was taken to the hospital for medical aid. Details on his __________ have not been released.

As for the rescuers, each of them was at work by 10:30 a.m. “I was a bit late,”__________Blauzvern, smiling. “But I had a good __________.”

【推荐1】The Homeless Hero

For many, finding an unattended wallet filled with £400 in cash would be a source of temptation (诱惑). But the ________ would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money. All of this makes the actions of the homeless Tom Smith even more remarkable.

After spotting a ________ on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

After hours in the cold and wet, he ________ inside and pulled the wallet out hoping to find some ID so he could contact the driver, only to ________ it contained £400 in notes, with another £50 in spare change beside it.

He then took the wallet to a nearby police station after ________ a note behind to let the owner know it was safe. When the car’s owner John Anderson and his colleague. Carol Lawrence returned to the car—which was itself worth £35,000—in Glasgow city centre, they were ________ to find two policemen standing next to it. The policemen told them what Mr. Smith did and that the wallet was ________.

The pair were later able to thank Mr. Smith for his ________.

Mr. Anderson said: “I couldn’t believe that the guy never took a penny. To think he is sleeping on the streets tonight when he could have stolen the money and paid for a place to stay in. This guy has nothing and ________ he didn’t take the wallet for himself; he thought about others instead. It’s unbelievable. It just proves there are ________ guys out there.”

Mr. Smith’s act ________ much of the public’s attention. He also won praise from social media users after Mr. Anderson ________ about the act of kindness on Facebook.

Now Mr. Anderson has set up an online campaign to ________ money for Mr. Smith and other homeless people in the area, which by yesterday had received £8,000. “I think the faith that everyone has shown in him has touched him. People have been approaching him in the street; he’s had job ________ and all sorts,” Mr. Anderson commented.

For Mr. Smith, this is a possible life- changing ________. The story once again tells us that one good turn deserves another.

【推荐2】I used to hate running．It seemed too hard, and pushing me outside my comfort ________ was not something I was raised to do．

In fact, I wouldn’t have become a(n) ________if it weren’t for my husband Charles．He had been a seriously competitive runner for many years．After our marriage, he wouldn’t stop talking about how much he ________it．

So he picked it up again, and after about a year, I started to join him at the ________．Just a few weeks later, Charles signed us both up for a five-kilometer race．I hesitated about it．It was too soon．

But on the race day, there I was．

The gun went off．Thousands of runners ________ ．

The first kilometer was tough．I was already breathing ________ and painfully aware of the group of runners running past me．

After another minute I saw the three kilometer ________ ．All I could think of was that I was ________．

I rounded a comer, and saw both sides of the street ________ with people watching the race, all cheering the runners on．I willed my legs to keep going．

Then I looked up and saw the clock．The ________ ticking away gave me an incentive (鼓励)．I knew that if I had ________ finished this race I would have achieved something．So, I straightened up and kicked it．

I had my arms ________ higher when I passed through the finish line．A volunteer put a(n) ________ around my neck．

“You did great!   I’m so proud of you!” Charles was thrilled that I’d ________ ．

“That was ________ ! I want to do another race．” I proudly hugged my medal as we started to walk to the post-race festivities．My lungs and my comfort zone both expanded．

【推荐3】Kim Stemple was a special-education teacher. In 2012, she found herself in Boston hospital being ____ for one of several diseases she had been diagnosed (诊断) with. The normally energetic Stemple was naturally getting very ____ . And then a friend gave her a medal.

Before she got too ____ to exercise, Stemple had been a marathon runner. The medal came from a ____ partner who had just ____ a half marathon in Las Vegas and hoped the medal would act as a kind of ____ . It worked like magic.

After Stemple hung the medal on the wall, other ____ said they wanted medals too. That got Stemple ____ . “A medal is a simple way to give a _____ message,” she told others. And so was born her charity, We Finish Together, which ____ medals from strangers — runners, dancers, swimmers, singers, and even spelling bee winners — and gives them to all sorts of people ____ .

People who have received the medals have ____ hospital patients, people from homeless shelters, etc. Part of the process involves the ____ owner writing a personalized note on the ribbon (绶带) . “This helps them ____ with someone,” says Stemple. “If they receive a medal, they know someone ____ .”

Can a simple medal ____ make a difference? Yes, says Joan Musarra, who ____ from a serious lung disease. “When I opened my package containing my new ____ and the notes of positive, warm thoughts, I was very _____,” she wrote to Stemple. “At that moment, I was sitting on my sofa breathing through an oxygen cannula (氧气管) because my lungs were so weak. It ____ so much to me to feel that I am not alone.”