1 . Madison Williams was studying in her bedroom in August 2016 when the door burst open. It was her mother, Leigh Williams, with a horrific and ____ story: “A little boy fell into a septic tank (化粪池), and no one can reach him.” Then she made a ____ : “Can you help?”

Madison and Leigh ran to a neighbor’s yard, ____ they found the boy’s worried mother and other adults ____ a septic tank opening that was a few inches above the neatly trimmed lawn. The boy, who was only two years old, had ____the eight feet deep tank.

Hearing the mother’s____, the adults nearby rushed to help the frightened mum. Madison quickly ___ the situation. It was clear that she was the only one who could ____ through the small hole. Without ____, she told the adults, “Lower me in.”Leigh and others held her ____. “I managed to get through the opening,” Madison says. Inside, the dark tank was ____. In the process, she_____his left arm so severely that the hand was almost useless. ____ tend to her injury, Madison scanned the ____of the water closely. Suddenly she saw the faint ____ of his foot again and shot her good hand out and grasped the foot ____. “Pull me up!” Both were lifted out of the tank, but because he had been ____ of oxygen long enough he couldn’t ____. He was placed on his side, and an adult gave him several hard taps on the back, until the boy coughed up fluids.

It took Madison longer than the boy to ____ in hospital. “Madison’s a hero,” her neighbor Holley said. “I wonder if there is any other girl who will ______ to go into a septic tank.”

3 . We love letters. Just as John Donne, a poet, _________ it, “Letters, to me and my friends mean _________ greetings; they get souls together. Thanks to letters, friends who are _________ speak.” He wrote these words nearly 400 years ago. Today, in the age of instant text message, social media, and email, they _________ ring truer than ever, because writing or receiving a letter has become such a _________ event.

A UK-wide survey undertaken by Sunday Times suggests that one in four of us has not _________ a letter for at least 10 years. That’s ten years without the bitter-sweet _________ of pacing the floor waiting for the _________; ten years without recognizing the handwriting on the envelope and eagerly _________ the letter to read its content.

We ____________ not get them any more, but we still love handwritten letters. In the same survey, one third of ____________ people interviewed say that they ____________ the content of sentimental (充满情感的) letters. Shouldn’t we make ____________ to give our friends and families what they will treasure forever? Ann Bickley went online in 2013 and offered to handwrite a letter to anyone who ____________ her. Her website received 50,000 ____________ in its first three months. Five years later, she is still the main ____________ behind one-million-lovely-letter.com and has personally written 4,000 letters offering hope and ____________ to strangers.

The thought behind a letter ____________ as much as its contents. “I never tell anyone that ____________ is going to be OK,” Ann Bickley says, “I am letting someone know that there is someone in the world who ____________ them.”

Who wouldn’t love to receive a letter like that? Let’s get writing!