5 . 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.”

7 . 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!

8 . Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality（理智）, but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any sensible student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department, famous reputation and lots of good labs and research equipment. But that’s not what I did.

I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts (文科) university that doesn’t even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my career. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by interacting with people who weren’t studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a sensible choice. They told me I was wise and mature beyond my 18 years, and I believed them.

I headed off to college sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering “factories” where they didn’t care if you have values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer: technical genius and sensitive humanist (人文学者) all in one.

Now I’m not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideals crashed into reality, as all noble ideals eventually do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineering courses with liberal-arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile (协调) engineering with liberal-arts courses in college.

The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don’t mix as easily as I assumed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways; together they threaten to confuse. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult.

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

10 . I was on a plane that was about to take off when my phone rang. I felt something________had happened. It was my neighbor saying I needed to get to the ______ at once. She explained that she’d______ my two boys, George, then five, and Mickey, then four, crying. At first, she had _____it, but when the crying continued for a long time, she ______something was wrong. So she came round and discovered my wife, Mary, lying on the   ______ floor. She had been emptying the dishwasher _______a live wire fell and touched her.

Mary was taken to hospital. When I arrived, doctors were trying to rescue her, but there was no______. I explained to the boys that Mum had died; I felt it was important to be_____with them. For a year I was in a suffering ___ of mind. I went through the activities of a father but inside I felt _____.

Later, I felt I had to honor my love for Mary by not breaking _____. She married me because I was a______man and I knew I had to carry on and actively chose to swim rather than_______.

We moved to another city but two years later, I was diagnosed with cancer. The anxiety that had been gone came ______back—would my boys be left with no parents?_______, the disease was in its early stage and doctors could treat it in time.

____ everything happening to me, I realized merely thinking “why me” doesn’t_________. We have to learn to accept and adapt to the__________it has brought about. It is no use thinking about the past or being worried about the future. Instead, just focus on the______.