1 . I was travelling on an overnight bus from Kolhapur to Aurangabad. The ordinary bus was more than _________; all 55 seats were taken and there were some 20 people _________. The hot day added to the discomfort of the rough, 10-hour journey. I didn't get a seat, so I had to stand quite _________.

After around two very long hours, I was _________ and bored. I kept trying to _________ myself, changing my body weight from one leg to the other. I suddenly sensed a soft hand _________ my elbow (肘), asking for attention. Turning around, I _________ a middle- aged man with a smile looking up at me. He stood up and said I could take his _________ for a while. I pleasantly _________ it with a sigh of __________, and the man seemed happy too. After about 20 minutes , I __________ him to take back his space. A man who was sitting by the window had observed our __________.

Just then, something magical happened. Our observer stood up and __________ his seat to another standing man. Unexpectedly, we had caused a series of reactions: This game of seat-sharing __________ through the bus like wildfire and, before long, almost all the standees got a chance to be seated. People even started __________ each other while exchanging positions, and soon began __________ jokes and singing. I could say, the rest of the journey was quite __________.

The bus reached its destination (目的地)the next morning. The groups quickly said goodbye and went their __________. But this extraordinary __________ has stayed with me even after all these years. It showed me an important fact that we can all share what we __________ and help our co-passengers on this journey called life.

2 . This morning I was in an unfamiliar town to cheer myself up. I had stopped at a gas station to get some gas _________ I left to go home. I was not in a good _________. I have very impractical ideas and therefore have_________ mild depression (沮丧)on occasions.

I walked up to the entrance of the building to _________ my gas and stopped to read a bulletin(小报)on the door _________ , “Please help me attend the Special Olympics this year by donating(捐款).” As I walked _________, I saw a lovely young girl with Down Syndrome(唐氏症). She spoke to me very _________and asked if I could donate to her cause. I politely _________ and told her that I didn’t have cash on me at that time. Although secretly I knew I _________ easily get cash from the ATM. I just wasn’t in the mood. So after paying for my gas, I __________out of the gas station and the girl waved me goodbye.

__________ I was walking back to my car, the girl’s words rang in my ears and I was __________by guilt. I knew I was able to __________ . And although I was in a bad mood before, __________ seemed to disappear. I wasn’t upset anymore. __________I thought about before stepping into my car was that lovely girl who deserved to have her moment to __________ . My next action was obvious. I walked back into the __________and headed towards the ATM. I __________the $20 dollar bill and handed it straight to her.

She was wild with __________ . She looked at me and gave me a huge smile and thanked me again and again. I accepted her __________and walked out of the building smiling wider than I had in a very long time.

3 . One evening, Mother returned home after shopping for groceries (食品杂货) at the supermarket. I _______ her to sort out the groceries and put them into the refrigerator. Grandmother saw that the rubbish bin (垃圾箱) was _______, so she took a big black garbage (垃圾) bag and emptied the rubbish bin. While Mother was preparing dinner, grandmother asked me if I would like to take a walk with her. At the same time, we would _______ the rubbish at the rubbish collection point _______. I happily agreed.

We took the lift and got to the ground floor. We walked over to the rubbish collection point when we saw a man at the corner of our block _______ on his motorcycle. We did not take much notice of _______ and continued walking. Grandmother and I were talking about the recent events that were taking place in the world when we heard the sound of a motorcycle coming towards us from behind. _______ the motorcycle rode past us, the motorcyclist took a quick _______ of the garbage bag which grandmother was carrying. Grandmother was in shock for a second and then shouted _______, “Help!” My first reaction was to run after him. Then it dawned on me that the thief had taken our bag of rubbish! I burst out laughing. Grandmother also ________ when she realized that her purse was still with her. The motorcyclist had made a silly mistake!

5 . In 2021, Father’s Day falls on June 20. Before you go sopping for a gift, you can learn a little more about this special day.

There are a series of events, which may have _________ the idea of Father’s Day. One of these was _________ a large group of men, many of them fathers, who were _________ in a mining accident in Monongah, West Virginia in 1907._________ was inspired by the actions of a man named William Smart, whose wife died while _________ their sixth child. Deeply heartbroken, he devoted himself to _________ the newborn and other five children alone without marrying again, which was no doubt _________ back in those days. His daughter, Sonora determined that his sacrifices (牺牲)_________ recognition. So it was in the early 1900s and Sonora, was _________ at church one day, listening to a sermon (说教) on Mother’s Day. It __________ her that there should also be a day to __________ fathers. Sonora wanted to draw people’s attention to what __________ fathers played in lives.__________, Sonora gained local __________ and made her dream a reality. In 1910 Sonora __________ June 19th, as the day to celebrate Father’s Day __________ that was her father’s birthday. Later, Father’s Day was officially __________ in 1972 by President Nixon as a __________ holiday.

Now. Father’s Day is celebrated all over the world and wearing flowers is a __________ way to celebrate it. Apart from that, some families __________ do things together to celebrate Father’s Day like going for a meal.

6 . It was about 10 p.m. on October12, 2020. Paul Wilson and his friend Tina Stern were stepping out of the elevator (电梯) of her apartment building when they _________ smoke. “My dogs!” Tina shouted with _________ as she ran down the hall to her apartment. Paul 54, who is _________, walked carefully toward the smoke.

“I was _________ across from Tina's apartment door, I slowly took four or five steps to the right, and smoke hit me right, and smoke hit me right in the face.” Paul said, “I _________ the door, shouting, ‘Anybody home?’ _________, nobody answered.”

Suddenly the door opened, and more _________ more out Paul heard coughing and reached behind the door, waving his arm until he _________ someone. It was Diane, who lived there. He took her arm and pulled her into the hall, then ran back to the _________ apartment with Tina.

He and Tina picked up the fire extinguisher (天火器). While Paul held it, he __________ Tina to use it to fight the fire. __________, the fire finally died down.

Diane had fallen asleep when cooking on the stove, and it had __________ the fire. She later called Paul to __________ him. “I could have died without your help.” she said.

As it turned out, __________ fires was just second nature to Paul—he had been a __________ with the St. Lucie County Fire District for about 2 years in the 2010s. He __________ a serious eye disease in 2013 and lost his sight.

Last November, the St. Lucie County Fire District awarded (颁奖) him and Tina the Citizen Hero Award for their __________ actions. When asked what he was __________ at that moment, Paul said, “I was not __________ at all. I just knew it was __________ that I had to do.”

8 . A teenager, Justin Gavin, 18 years old, was walking down the street. Suddenly, he saw something that made his heart ________.

A small SUV covered in ________ drove past him. The Police Department ________ multiple calls, describing a woman trapped inside a burning ________. Gavin was on a walk to a local market when he first ________ there was a car on fire. Drivers honked their horns（按喇叭）and got out their cars to ________ the mother of the burning vehicle. Gavin was ________ to the woman to stop the car. But she couldn't stop. That's when he didn't have time to think and fell into ________. He ________ the burning car to help the family escape. "I just felt like if I were in that ________, I would want somebody to help me out," he said. When Gavin finally ________ the vehicle, it had come to a stop. He opened the car door and pulled the three children in the back seat to ________ first. Before the flames grew ________, he had gotten everyone out in time. The ________ was engulfed（吞没）by flames moments later.

The mother ________ the teenager with saving her family's life. The Police Department honored Gavin as a ________. Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo ________ the teenager with a "challenge coin" to acknowledge his ________ act. Gavin smiled big as the Chief shook his hand and offered him the ________. And Gavin realized the experience was ________.