1 . Louie, a pet parrot, saved a whole family. He __________ the sleeping Klein family in the middle of the night as flames swept through their home.

“Louie is a true __________,” Barbara Klein recently told news agency South West News Service (SWNS). “If it hadn’t been for him, I probably wouldn’t have been __________ at that time. He started shouting ‘Fire’. He had never said that word before in my __________. When I woke up, the fire was starting to spread across the living room floor.” Unluckily for the family, Louie didn’t __________. Barbara said, “He was like our babies, so it’s __________.”

Barbara took her five-year-old granddaughter __________ and ran out of the house. Her husband Larry also made it out, but was severely wounded when escaping from the burning building. “He ran to the kitchen and tried to __________ the fire out with water,” Barbara told SWNS. “After we left, he ran back into the house and insisted on __________ the pet but with no __________.” The Kleins suffered great __________ in the fire. Their house was in __________ along with its contents and the parrot Louie passed away.

“People have __________ with clothing and someone donated an apartment for three months,” Barbara said. “The man who donated the apartment also __________ us with a baby parrot. We call him Louie Jr to __________ Louie.”

2 . In April last year, I saw a post on the PNP (Pilots N Paws) website from a family in Topeka. They had to move to Virginia but they were on a very tight ________. They could not afford to pay for ________ for their dog, Tiffy, and ________ wanted to take her with them.

It just ________ that I was planning another PNP flight with another pilot, Karen, who ________ to take Tiffy from Kansas City to Virginia. What I was to do was fly to Topeka to ________ Tiffy.

When I met Tiffy’s owners, they seemed very ________. George, the husband, was trying to be calm, but I could tell this was ________ for him, having to leave his dog to a ________ and trust that everything would ________.

After some goodbyes, I asked George and his wife to help me ________ Tiffy in the plane. I promised to take care of Tiffy and ________ them as soon as we got to Kansas City.

The flight was ________, and Tiffy was a great passenger. The next day, she ________ with Karen and made it back to George in Virginia within a few days. He was so ________ and sent me a nice e-mail with pictures. It felt great to know that I had helped bring this family together again.

5 . Last year, I decided to explore Antarctica alone. To get some experience, I _________ for a two-week training course. I learned all the _________: how to camp in the snow and what clothing to wear.

In October, I flew to Antarctica from Punta Arenas. I’d planned to finish the adventure within 70 days, which would make it the longest _________ one-way exploration across Antarctica. I just took such basic _________ as food and clothing, and set off alone.

The first few days were _________. The wind was as fast as about 60 mph, and my sled weighed more than 120 kg. Even if the visibility (能见度) was good, I couldn’t _________ much-it’s white everywhere. I was on the move for 13 to 15 hours a day. Then, the conditions became even worse. During the last 40 hours, the wind blew so hard that I _________ about 14 times every two hours. After I _________ 922 miles, I felt too weak and had to ask for a helicopter to pick me up. The _________ I felt when I saw the helicopter in the distance was unbelievable.

Although I fell more than 100 miles short of my __________, I am proud of what I’ve __________. After the trip, I have realized that it’s __________ to change our initial goals. I don’t __________ with those who insist on conquering (征服) somewhere. Instead, I think we should treat places with __________ and hope they’ll allow us __________ passage.

7 . A 3-year-old boy who was lost in the woods for 3 days is now safe at home. But Casey told his parents that he was not ________ in the rainy, freezing cold woods. He said he was with a friend — a ________.

The child went ________ on January 22 while playing with friends at his grandmother’s house. When the other children ________ to the house and Casey didn’t, hundreds of people ________ the search. Then on January 24, someone called the police saying he heard a child ________ in the woods. The police then found Casey at night. He was in good health. After being ________ carefully by the doctor, Casey was sent home with slight ________.

Casey told the police that he had ________ with a black bear for two days and he called it his “________”. His mother told reporters that Casey did not say how he was able to ________ in the woods for three days. ________, she said, “He did say he had a friend in the woods, a bear, with him.” His mother ________ everyone who joined the search for her son. “We just want to tell everybody that we’re very thankful that you took the ________ out to search for Casey,” said his mother. “He is good. He’s already asked to ________ online cartoons.”

8 . The sun was beginning to sink as I set off into the Harenna Forest. I was on my way to _________ a unique honey harvest. Here, in south-east Ethiopia, hand-carved beehives (蜂房) are placed in the _________. Reaching them to get the honey is difficult and often _________.

I followed beekeeper Ziyad over a wide stretch of grassland _________ entering a thick jungle. Ziyad began preparations. He gathered _________ of damp tree leaves, wrapped them with string, and _________ the bunch to create a torch (火把). Then, with one end of a rope tied to his waist and the other end around the trunk of a tree, Ziyad began _________. He stopped every few minutes to move the _________ higher up the tree trunk.

_________, Ziyad got close to the hive which was around 20 meters above the ground. Sitting on a branch, he __________ towards it and blew smoke from his torch into a tiny hole in the hive. Suddenly, Ziyad __________ a sharp cry. Within seconds, he’d __________ the trunk and was back on the ground.

It was too __________ to collect the honey. A cool summer had delayed __________. Baby bees were still in the honeycombs (蜂巢). The angry adult bees kept attacking as Ziyad escaped from the tree. He had to wait for the right __________ to go back up.

9 . It was 1:20 a. m. I had just gone to bed, a bit _________ after celebrating my 31st birthday. Before dinner, I’d placed _________ outside my garden door and prepared the cell phone just _________. After all, it had been _________ that week, resulting in flood warnings.

I was awakened by the _________ of rushing water. When I swung my legs off the bed, I was shocked to feel cold water already up to my knees and _________ fast.

Shaking in darkness, I _________ my phone and turned on its flashlight. Then by the light I could _________ water was from the garden door. It must have breached (在……上) the sandbags. The river, usually such a quiet, slow moving river in my region, had _________ burst its banks. And now I had to __________!

I took __________ action. Any effects of the alcohol before sleep were gone;__________ sobers (使清醒) one up. After I went outside, I learned the river had flooded the neighbourhood. Therefore, if I had woken up just a few minutes later, I would have drowned.

In the end, I think the experience made me __________ and determined to live each day to its fullest. I came very close to drowning that day. But rather than dwell on (沉湎于)what happened, I prefer to __________ what my mother told me afterwards, “Don’t remember the day when you lost everything. Remember the day you __________. That day marked the beginning of a new chapter in your life.”

10 . Two hundred years ago the English poet William Wordsworth wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, a poem that was _______ when he came across a field of daffodils (水仙花). It expresses a basic spirit of early English Romanticism.

What makes this poem a (n) _______ of Romantic thinking? It isn’t that Wordsworth chooses to write about a natural _______: it is the way he describes the scene as if it had human _______. For him, _______ is not only a neutral (无感情色彩的) mixture of scenery, colors, plants, rocks, soil, water and air. It is a living force that feels joy and sadness and even tries to _______ us human beings and show us the beauty of life.

Wordsworth’s home is now one of the most popular _______ in the Lake District. You can go on a tour of the garden where wild flowers still survive now regardless of the change of the _______. The place, where Wordsworth saw the daffodils, is at the southernmost end of the lake. When you are walking in the _______ of William from two centuries ago, the first group of daffodils ________, but they aren’t tall yellow trumpets (小号状的花) proudly swinging in the gentle wind as ________ in Wordsworth’s poem. They are just tiny wild daffodils grouped around individual trees rather than ________ together. But as you look north, from beside a huge ancient oak tree, you ________ this is what delighted Wordsworth; group after group of daffodils, spread out to left and right but coming together in your ________ so that they form a beautiful, pale yellow carpet. What you’re seeing at last is nature transformed by human sight and ________.