2 . 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.

3 . 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.

5 . A Race against Death

It was a cold January in 1925 in North Alaska. The town was cut off from the rest of the world because of the heavy snow.

On the 20th of that month, Dr. Welch _________ a sick boy, Billy, and knew he had diphtheria, a deadly infectious (传染的) disease mainly affecting children. The children of Nome would be _________ if it struck the town. Dr. Welch needed medicine as soon as possible to stop other kids from getting sick. _________, the closest supply was over 1,000 miles away, in Anchorage.

How could the medicine get to Nome? The town’s harbor was already full of ice, so it couldn’t come by ship. Cars and horses couldn’t travel on the _________ roads. Jet airplanes and big trucks didn’t exist yet.

_________ January 26, Billy and three other children had died. Twenty more were sick. Nome’s town officials came up with a(n) _________. They would have the medicine sent by rail from Anchorage to Nenana. From there, dogsled (狗拉雪橇) drivers — known as “mushers” — would _________ it to Nome in a relay.

The race began on January 27. The first musher, Shannon, picked up the medicine from the train at Nenana and rode all night. _________ he handed the medicine to the next musher, Shannon’s face was black from the extreme cold.

On January 31, a musher named Seppala had to cross a frozen body of water called Norton Sound. It was the most _________ part of the journey. Norton Sound was covered with ice, which could sometimes break up without warning. If that happened, Seppala might fall into the icy water below. He would __________, and so would the sick children of Nome. But Seppala made it across.

A huge snowstorm hit on February 1. A musher named Kaasen had to brave this storm. At one point, huge piles of snow blocked his way. He had to leave the trail (雪橇痕迹) to get around them. Conditions were so bad that it was impossible for him to __________ the trail again. The only hope was Balto, Kaasen’s lead dog. Balto put his nose to the ground, ________ to find the smell of other dogs that had traveled on the trail. If Balto failed, it would mean disaster for Nome. The minutes passed by. Suddenly, Balto began to __________. He had found the trail.

At 5:30 am on February 2, Kaasen and his dog __________ in Nome. Within minutes, Dr. Welch had the medicine. He quickly gave it to the sick children. All of them recovered.

Nome had been ________.

7 . Luke Coelho recently transferred from Brazil to attend school in the United States. He understands that integrity and ________ are values appreciated in all countries and cultures. And Luke didn’t hesitate to ________ both when he found a pocket full of family ________ left behind in a(n)________ jacket.

Andy’s Attic is a clothing donation program at Luke’s new school, and Luke recently ________ the jacket through the program. Local resident Dave Kenney was the one who donated the jacket.

When Luke put on the coat,________, he found much more than a warm coat. Inside the pocket, Luke discovered some personal ________, including two watches, a bracelet and two diamond rings!

Luke ________ shared the news with his aunt Taryn Souza and together they set to work trying to ________ the owner of the items. With some detective work, they were ________ to find Dave. Of course, Dave was ________ to receive the prized pieces back, but he hadn’t even ________ that they were in the jacket!

Earlier this year, both Dave’s mother and wife passed away, so he was especially ________ to have back the wedding ring he’d bought for his wife and items that had ________ his mother. Dave stated, “This fine young man did the right thing. I totally ________ what they did for me and my family.”

8 . 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.

10 . When working in person, most of us have a natural understanding of non-verbal (非语言的) signals. That is to say, all the ways in which we _____ work out without words. ____, in the digital workspace, this kind of communication can seem less _____.

Many work _____ now happen via online chats, and even video meetings can go ahead with cameras off.

Parts of non-verbal communication have always _____ outside face-to-face interaction, of course. For example, these unnoticeable _____ could begin with a profile picture on your CV (简历); even deciding whether or not to add an emoji (表情图标) in a work group chat can change the ______ of the interaction.

Yet the new workplace shift in where and how we work has _____ the world of non-verbal communication greatly. For instance, in video calls, backgrounds can give all sorts of non-verbal _____ about co-workers’ lifestyles, _______ and level of professionalism.

Let’s say if a co-worker positions the camera below the chin (下巴), ______ others to look up, you begin to dislike him or her, almost _______. Indeed, data have shown that during video calls, factors like camera angles, distance from the camera and ability to make eye contact all ______ how likeable people are noticed to be.

In a new world where ______ working is rapidly developing, being willing to engage non-verbally makes it ______ to understand others and to be understood.