1 . A snowboarder was feeling lucky to be alive yesterday after a helicopter rescue(直升机营救).

Ben Akintola, 30, was snowboarding in the French Alps under a clear blue sky in the afternoon when a large amount of snow fell down the side of the mountain. He didn’t have time to escape(逃脱) and it hit him with full force and knocked him senseless.

He woke in the night in total darkness. He was lying on an icy rock. Amazingly, he still had a mobile phone signal(信号), so he called a friend a thousand kilometers away in Britain. His friend called the French rescue services.

“I was waiting for what seemed like hours on that rock. I was beginning to give up hope when I heard the sound of a helicopter. It was circling around in the darkness, looking for me. I was trying my best to wave my mobile around. Fortunately the helicopter pilot saw the light.”

“I was overjoyed when the helicopter headed my way. It stayed above me and began lowering a rope.”

Ben was in hospital last night but he was not being treated for any serious injuries. He’s looking forward to going home today.

The French rescue services said: “We were very pleased that we were able to save Ben. The risk of snow slide off-piste(非滑雪场地的) is much higher at this time of year. All snowboarders and skiers should stay on the ski runs and not go off-piste. Ben was very lucky.”

3 . Draper, the owner of a second-hand bookstore, was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelope fell from one. Inside was an undated _______ and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was _______ it, it meant the author had died.

Tears were welling up in Draper's eyes. These were a _______ woman's last words to her child. He had to _______ Bethany. “Whoever it is will _______ this,” he thought. “You wouldn’t _______ a letter like that.”

He supposed if the _______ ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he _______ recognized the little girl's face. Even if she’d left the area, there might be someone in the town who would recognize the _______.

He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo ran the story of the ________ letter.

________, Bethany Gash, now 21 and a mother herself，was on Facebook about 10 miles away ________ a close friend messaged her to check out the ________. As she read her mother's ________, which she thought had been lost forever, she said she thought she must be ________.

5 . When I was in elementary school, I enjoyed telling lies. That was a lot of _________. As I got older, my _________ continued. I enjoyed people’s reactions to my seemingly amazing life. But when I was 15, that all   _________. I met someone I really _________ , who put me on the path to honesty.

In my usual fashion, I told him lies just like telling other people. I made up _________ to get him to be more interested in me _________I wasn’t sure if the truth would be enough to make him want to continue working with me . But he knew me so well.

One day he told me ,”I can’t talk to you on the _________anymore because I can’t see your eyes, and so I am not sure when you are lying to me. “That _________shocked me, because I didn’t know he knew I had been lying to him, and he was willing to end our _________ for those lies. I __________ at that moment that I would never lie to him again. It was a __________ transition(转变)to make because I was used to exaggerating(夸大) experiences to get attention. But because of him, I made a deal with myself never to tell any lie again. __________, his trust in me was rebuilt.

That was how I learned the ________ of honesty. I felt more __________ when I told the truth. As Merlin said in a movie,”when a man lies, he murders some part of the world.” It is __________.