1 . On a sunny afternoon, Anthony Perry stepped off the train at Chicago’s 69th Street station. The 20-year-old, who worked nights in a grocery store, was on his way to see his _________.

On the platform, something unthinkable happened: a man _________ the edge and onto the electrified train tracks! As Perry and other _________ passengers watched, he shook uncontrollably as the _________ moved through his body.

“Help him!” someone cried. “Please, someone!”

Perry couldn’t just stand there and _________. He sat at the edge of the platform and eased himself down. _________ all rails between the man and him were electrified, he quickly leaped towards the victim, using a high-knee technique from his high school football days.

Perry soon _________ down and grasped the victim’s wrist. _________, he felt a powerful electric shock shoot through his body. Perry jumped back. He reached down a second time, and was shocked again. But the third time he seized the man’s wrist and forearm, and managed to move the guy’s body away from the _________.

“Give him chest compressions!” yelled an old lady on the platform.

Perry was no expert, but for a few moments he worked on the man’s heart until the victim regained __________. Then, first-aiders arrived. Perry let the professionals __________. Heart still racing from the electric shocks, he __________ back up onto the platform, grabbed his __________ and continued on to his grandfather’s.

The evening news reported the incident, __________ an unnamed hero with saving the victim’s life. To many, Perry’s __________ deeds demonstrated the power of choosing compassion over personal safety.

2 . In 2019, Thierry Henry, a bus driver, found there was a rise in bike ________ in his city, Reykjavik. Rather than ________ that the bike was gone forever, he decided to take matters into his own hands and started to find the bikes and return them to their ________ owners.

The 44-year-old has helped return hundreds of stolen bikes in the past 4 years. His social media account has over 14, 500 members and helps people ________ more than just lost bikes. His page ________ to people who have lost tools, cars and other items of high value. On top of his ________ act, Henry has helped the bike thieves to reform in the process.

Initially, Henry would deal with the thieves with ________. However, over time, he realized that most of the thefts were driven out of poverty and other issues. He went from feeling ________ towards the thieves, to developing ________ for their situations. It was very tough at first. But Henry decided to try to ________ them and just talk to them.

From this moment onward, he reached out to the thieves, offering help and guidance. After the ________ in his approach, Henry found that the bike thieves began to often hand back the bikes to him. Amazingly, some former thieves that Henry helped now ________ him in looking for the stolen bikes.

“It’s like a ________ that has got bigger and bigger,” says Henry. “It’s not only me. Many times, someone ________ a bike hidden in a bush and takes a picture. Then someone else ________, ‘hey, that’s my bike’.”

Thanks to Henry, everyone’s looking out.

3 . I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself. And unless otherwise ________ a seat by the teacher, I always chose to sit at the back of the classroom.

All this________ after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher suggested I ________ the basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy ________ because I didn’t have a good sense of balance, nor did I have the ability to keep pace with the others on the team and they would tease me. But for the teacher who kept insisting on my “________ for it”, I wouldn’t have decided to give a try.

Getting up the courage to go to the tryouts was only the half of it! When I first started ________the practice sessions, I didn’t even know the rules of the game, much worse what I was doing. Sometimes I’d get ________and take a shot at the wrong direction, which made me feel really stupid. ________ I wasn’t the only one "new” at the game, so I decided to focus on learning the game, do my best at each practice session, and not be too hard on myself for the things I didn’t ________ “just yet”.

I practiced and practiced. Soon I knew the rules and the “moves”. Being part of a team was fun and motivating. Very soon the competitive________ in me was winning over my lack of   ________.

With time, I learned how to play and made friends in the process-friends who respected my efforts to work hard and be a team player. I never had so much ________!

With my improved self-confidence comes more ________ from teachers and classmates. I have-gone from “________” in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call attention to myself, to raising my hand-even when I sometimes wasn’t and not 100 percent   _________ I had the rightanswer. Now I have more self-confidence in myself.

4 . Chris Smith looked like any other young boy in his class except for the constant evictions (驱赶), and eventually being homeless.

Chris’ father was reckless (鲁莽的) with finances and _______ in business. His mother tried her best to run the home until Chris’ little brother drowned, then his father went to prison, and finally the family _______.

“My mom shut down _______. Everything got worse,” Chris remembers. Then she was gone and ran away from home without telling Chris. He did the _______ he could, sleeping on his newly married sister’s sofa. “They didn’t have much money, and I know it was a _______ to take me in at 17 years old, I was going to _______ from school and make it on my own.”

But Chris’ history teacher had different ideas. When Chris’ _______ began to go down, she _______ him. “You’re the smartest kid in the class,” she told him, “If you don’t graduate, you’re going to _______ it.”

“School was my safe place.” Chris says. School also ________ him heat and food. It became the closest thing to home he could find, ________ to his father’s old truck that became his bed and his study space.

When ________ came, Chris earned a full scholarship to college and graduated in the top 10 of his class. When it’s time to apply for medical residencies (住院医生), Chris set his ________ high. He applied for residencies around the ________ and included the No. 1 program in the nation: Johns Hopkins. And then the letter came. Chris was in.

“I didn’t really think I had a chance. But I had learned to ________ everything my best shot. Life is never fair. But if you don’t give up, you will give yourself a better chance to make it.” Chris says.

6 . Most of us associate learning with younger people — kids in school and college or recent graduates early in their careers. But at Udemy, an open university offering online courses, Artist Anneke Camstra is _______ in the pursuit of lifelong learning and shows her potential for teaching. She loves the _______ of gaining new knowledge and also loves _______ it with others.

She reaches countless people with her online courses and exposes them to what they can _______ on their own using animation software, such as Go Animate and Pow Toon. Her _______ for teaching on Udemy is “to get the tools to the people.” She hopes people can go such a long way to make things that look _______ but still have their own voice.

Most of Anneke’s students start out thinking they’re not creative and can’t _______ . Anneke understands how _______ can get in the way of so many things people dream of doing. With her five-day challenge courses, she helps them _______ the fear. Anneke loves the effect she has on her ________. What makes her more ________ of them is that they have gone from their first animation to ________ their own works.

She encourages people of all ages, ________ older people, to develop their ________ for life. Grandparents, for example, can learn to use Go Animate and make animations together with their grandkids.

As an older woman, teaching and having fun learning again, Anneke wants others later in their ________ to catch up with her on this journey.

7 . Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for _______food than they can eat and others often forget _______ off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don’t agree _______ them.

Waste can bring a lot of problems._______China is rich in some resources, we are short of others, for example, fresh water. It is_______ that we will have no coal or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on _______ our resources, what can we use in the future and _______ can we move? Think about it. I think we should say no to the _______ who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.

In our _______life, we can do many things to prevent waste from happening, for example, turn off the water taps when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom, try not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day, if we do ________ best.