1 . My sister is nine years old, a little bit fat and doesn’t _______ really well at school. She is heavily made fun of and thus has developed some _______ and distrust towards adults, who usually don’t put high hopes in her.

Yesterday we went to an art _______ together. There were paintings from kids with disabilities. My little girl has _______ eyes, for the paintings she liked most were also the best of the show. She also voluntarily helped to _______ the chairs and table for a sharing session（分享会）, painted by herself alongside new friends while I attended the sharing, and _______helped me to do many other things, which doesn’t _______ often at home as she’s usually _______ in her iPad.

We went to a book store. I bought a book written by a mom _______ her journey with her autistic（自闭症的）son. On the bus back home, I briefly ________ the book to my sister, and to my surprise she was truly ________. She kept asking me to tell more stories about this friend in the book who ________ with small things in life. This is the first time I’ve seen her so interested in a ________. Usually when she talks to me, she describes events at school and at home ________ a clear focus. I’m very ________ that the life of an unknown ________ has found its way into this little girl’s heart.

I’m very thankful for the ________ of books, for the beauty that my sister showed to me, and for the time we had together. I pray that I can ________ seeing clearly the wonderful things in her, so that whenever the not-so-kind world puts her ________, I can remind her how truly ________ she has always been.

2 . South African lifeguard Achmat Hassiem would watch sharks hunting seals in False Bay. Hassiem never imagined he would _______ an attack by the shark because he always thinks they are one of the most _______ ocean killers. He was really lucky.

In August 2006 he and his brother were _______ an exercise with the local lifeguards. Suddenly he saw shark _______ towards his brother. His first thought was to distract(分散)the animal’s _______. Immediately he started drumming on top of the water, trying to make a _______ noise. He knew sharks tend to move towards _______. He saw the shark turn away from his brother. But as it _______ the course, the shark swam towards Hassiem. The shark _______ its mouth and his right leg was in the shark’s mouth. Then it pulled him under the water and headed downwards. Then he ________ horrible sound. His right leg split(分解)in two. ________ of the shark’s’ bite, Hassiem immediately swam toward the shore. He waved his ________ out of the water and cried for help.

Hassiem survived, ________ the shark had taken away his right leg below the knee. Hassiem was training ________ for swimming. Two years later, he was on a plane to Beijing to ________ his country at the 2008 Paralympic Games(残奥会). After that he represented South Africa to attend two big Paralympic Games and ________ a medal at the London Paralympics.

Sharks are________. Now, Achmat Hassiem is an ocean conservationist(环保主义者)encouraging people to ________ sharks. He thanks the shark for setting him on a new life. He said, "Thanks to the shark’s ________, I’ve managed to go around the world. As child, I always wanted to represent South Africa, and the shark gave me the ________. Who is better to speak up for sharks than a shark attack survivor?"

3 . Last year, I found a part-time job. I was working as a__________ at Tower 15 on Newport and two blocks to my right was another guard-named Mike, working at Tower 17. He called me over the phone and said, “Hey, I have spotted two kids who are__________ in the dangerous zone. I have to give them a warning. Keep an eye on us.” I said, “Sure.” In case of emergencies, anytime we got out of our tower, we were supposed to__________ somebody else.

Mike__________ the phone and seized the lifebuoy.Then he realized that these two kids had been__________ arid that there was a great tendency for them to be__________ by the wave.__________，Mike rushed toward the ocean, I____the water and all I found was two small heads. The mother of the two kids knelt down on the beach with__________.

When I dropped my binoculars(望远镜) and reached the mother, Mike was in waist-deep water,__________ the two kids. I turned to the mum and said, “Hey, it's. OK. They are safe.” I saw the terror started to__________. Then she glanced back and got her first good look at Mike. A new kind of__________ washed over her face as though there was another__________ to her kids' lives. She snatch her kids without appreciation.

Mike had some seemingly boring__________, and his shaved head showed a scar. Maybe he had no__________ manners, but his lifesaving ability__________ his unsatisfactory skills in PR(public relation). In the mother's__________, Mike was a really terrible guy. However, that couldn't change the fact that he had just__________her kids.

Mike just glanced at me and smiled. As I jogged back to my tower, I promised myself I'd never let my own__________ prevent me from__________ a hero when I meet one.