2 . Wednesday comes, and along with it my first drum lesson. Mike, the drum teacher, ________ me to a room where there are two drum sets, and he tells me to ________ at the one closer to the door.

People make me ________. That’s the way I have always been. But Mike has a very calm manner, which ________ me lightly. Not only does he not tell me that I, a fifty-year-old mom of three, am the ________ of person to play the drums, but he ________ me for how well I follow along with him. After my first lesson, I ________ as much as I can and notice a rapid ________ in my skill.

I am a quiet person, so it seems ________ for me to learn drumming. But I become so ________ on drums that it is ________ my expression of who I am comes out with every beat and rhythm (节奏). I am not nervous, shy and quiet. I am a ________.

As the weeks turn into months of ________, Mike convinces me to play with others at a jam. When walking up on the stage, I breathe ________. The guitarist starts playing and soon I join in. What a rush I feel when we finish, and everyone is clapping and ________ for us. I did it!

3 . For the past four years I had been having up to 30 seizures (癫痫发作) a day. It made me _________ a lot.

Despite _________ visits to hospitals, no doctor could tell me the cause of it. At night, my family had to check on me just in case I wasn’t _________. So I could never be in a room alone and as a 21-year-old young man, I was finding the lack of _________ getting me down.

One day, my friend Kerri asked if I wanted an assistance dog. I knew there were guide dogs for the _________, but I wasn’t sure how a dog could help me. A few days later, Kerri told me she’d done some search and found a company “Dogs For Life”. From the website of the company, I _________ that they teach dogs to smell a chemical change in the body and _________ people when a seizure is about to _________.

Soon after, I _________ Baloo, a dog trained by Dogs For Life. It sat silently in the corner. As I sat down, Baloo suddenly __________ and jumped on me. Minutes later, I had a seizure. It had __________ the chemical changes in my body and tried to warn me. It was by my side until the __________ came. Instantly, I knew it was a good __________ for me, and I took her back home.

It’s __________ my life more than a handful of times and I couldn’t be more __________ for it.

4 . Dillon Reeves is a student in Michigan. He was honored as a hero for preventing his school bus from _________ after the bus driver lost consciousness (知觉).

On April 26, 2023, the bus driver was taking students home from the school when she began to experience a faint (昏厥). She attempted to _________ but didn’t make it._________ she lost consciousness.

The bus began to turn to oncoming traffic._________, Dillon took action. Dillon, who was _________ about five rows back, got up from his seat, ran to the front of the bus,_________ the steering wheel (方向盘) and brought the bus to a stop in the middle of the road in _________.

In a video released by authorities at the news conference, Dillon was seen taking _________ of the steering wheel and then shouting at the other passengers to call 911.

The police and fire departments responded quickly to the scene to _________ to the driver and the students were loaded onto another bus to be __________ taken home. No injuries to the children on the bus were reported.

The city was very __________ of the hero! The little boy reacted quickly when his school bus driver experienced a __________ emergency, bringing the bus to a stop and __________ a very severe accident. Dillon has been a hero.

“Dillon has really been a __________ guy” , his mother said. “However, to do something like that really makes my heart stop __________.”

8 . At the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Derek Redmond was a 400-meter runner for the UK. The _______ started well. In the semifinals(半决赛), Derek was far ahead of his _______ . But shortly before the halfway mark,he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right leg and _______ . Derek struggled to his feet and began hopping(蹦)on his left foot. The crowd stood up and cheered as he hopped _______ toward the finish line.

Then a figure _______ from the crowd: Derek’s dad, Jim Redmond. Waving off officials who tried to get him off the _______ , he ran up to his son and put an arm around his waist. Derek _______ and wept on his father’s shoulder. _______ , father and son walked the final meters of the race. The Olympic

Committee called the finish one of the most _______ moments in Olympic history. And twenty years later, they were invited to take part in the nationwide torch(火炬)relay for the 2012 Games in London.

“I saw my son having a(n) __________ and it was my duty to help”, he told CBS News in 2012. “I actually went on the track to try to stop him from __________ himself further. But he was __________ to finish the race. So I offered him a shoulder to support him.”

“He was telling me that I had nothing to __________ and that I didn’t need to do this, but I told him I was going to __________ . Then he said that we would do it together,” Derek Redmond remembered at the same interview. “So we did, and I hopped over the line in __________ .”

9 . Joseph Salmon, 17, was practising ice fishing with his mom on a lake in Iowa. Suddenly, Salmon saw a jeep, driven by an old man, Thomas Lee, ________ off the ice and into the water. As soon as Salmon saw it a short distance away, he called 911 and ran over to help. For a(n) ________, he was right standing on the ________.

Then another young man waved at Lee and tried to ________ to him to get out of the jeep. However, it seemed that Lee, ________, didn’t really know what to do next, just sitting on the seat. ________, he couldn’t move at all.

Things looked extremely ________. As Salmon and the young man became ________ in face of the emergency, more people came. Then someone found there was an animal in the jeep. Salmon immediately jumped into the ________, got to the jeep and tried opening the back door. It was locked, and he had to ________ the back window and ________ to get Lee out, whose foot was ________ because of being caught between the center console (控制台) and the seat. So Salmon gently pushed Lee back towards the front. Just then, four more passers-by ________ over to help pull Lee and his dog to safety.

Finally, the rescue workers arrived. Lee was transported to a nearby hospital. Neither he nor his dog was injured while Salmon was only treated for a minor ________ from the broken glass. How ________ they were!

10 . My 5-year-old daughter Kai walked around a bus stop, picking up candy wrappers and plastic bottles and throwing them in the waste bin. We were a visiting family here, but she was cleaning the sidewalk, which didn’t shock me, nor was I _________ when strangers looked at us.

Our cleanup project began when we drove past an empty field one day and Kai _________ the field was covered by _________ balloons. We had read about how animals could _________ balloons for food. “Stop,” Kai said, and I _________. Surprisingly, we found the field was full of much trash _________ the balloons. “Can we come back and clean it?” Kai asked. Then each Friday, we returned to have a(n) _________ cleaning.

However, it seems we can never _________ the trash completely. I feel something close to _________! Why are we making kids clean up our __________? It has everything to do with the planet we adults are leaving for kids. Plastic pollution is globally distributed and microplastics have even been discovered in human blood. It is not a __________ story that we have created trash but our next generation cleans up them.

Now Kai hopes to become a marine biologist to protect sharks one day. She still has many years to __________, if adults get serious about solving plastic pollution. We shouldn’t leave our next generation a __________ planet and expect them to save it.

The last time our family was at the beach, we still picked up plastic bottles. Most __________, though, we saw an octopus (章鱼) playing around our feet, a __________ of a harmonious habitat worth protecting.