1 . Every Friday evening when the sun looks like a giant orange and is starting to dip into the blue ocean, Old Eddie comes to his favorite pier with shrimp. Before long, dozens of seagulls fly to diet and _________ him. Ed stands there tossing shrimp to the hungry birds. As he does, you can hear him say with a smile, “Thank you. Thank you.”

_________ in World War II he was a famous hero. On one of his flying _________ across the Pacific, he and his seven-member crew went down. _________, all of the men _________, crawled out of their plane, and _________ into a life raft. Captain Rickenbacker and his crew floated for days on the rough waters of the Pacific. By the eighth day their foods _________. They were hundreds of miles from _________ and no one knew where they were.

Suddenly, Eddie felt something land on the top of his cap. It was a _________! Old Ed would later describe how he sat perfectly __________, planning his next move. With a __________ of his hand, he managed to __________ it and he, and his starving crew made a meal, a very __________ meal for eight men of it. Then they used the intestines for bait(诱饵). With it, they caught fish, which gave them food and more bait and the __________ continued until they were found and rescued.

Eddie Rickenbacker never forgot the sacrifice of that first lifesaving seagull. That’s why almost every Friday night he would walk to the pier with a bucket full of shrimp and a feeling of __________.