1 . Dillon Reeves is a student in Michigan. He was honored as a hero for preventing his school bus from _________ after the bus driver lost consciousness (知觉).

On April 26, 2023, the bus driver was taking students home from the school when she began to experience a faint (昏厥). She attempted to _________ but didn’t make it._________ she lost consciousness.

The bus began to turn to oncoming traffic._________, Dillon took action. Dillon, who was _________ about five rows back, got up from his seat, ran to the front of the bus,_________ the steering wheel (方向盘) and brought the bus to a stop in the middle of the road in _________.

In a video released by authorities at the news conference, Dillon was seen taking _________ of the steering wheel and then shouting at the other passengers to call 911.

The police and fire departments responded quickly to the scene to _________ to the driver and the students were loaded onto another bus to be __________ taken home. No injuries to the children on the bus were reported.

The city was very __________ of the hero! The little boy reacted quickly when his school bus driver experienced a __________ emergency, bringing the bus to a stop and __________ a very severe accident. Dillon has been a hero.

“Dillon has really been a __________ guy” , his mother said. “However, to do something like that really makes my heart stop __________.”

2 . One of my earliest memories is playing “shops” with my grandad. After leaving school at 15, I worked in a fruit shop, but I had no ________ to run my own shop.

Things have changed since I was married. I had my family and I must ________ them. So my husband Eric decided to do something ________ to make ends meet. We bought a shop within three months.

We were a bit ________ at shopkeeping. Eric often didn’t know what the ________ were asking for, but he soon learned.

People’s shopping habits have ________ over the years with the development of the Internet. More people shop online, but they still come to my shop for things missing from their ________, or if they want something, they’ll call me and have it delivered.

I’ve ________ technology and have a card reader to adapt to the development of technology, but the shop itself hasn’t changed much. The customers didn’t ________ it at first, but they soon got used to it.

Gradually, the business of my shop is getting better and better. There are customers who come in two or three times a day, even several ________ of some big families. I become friends with some of my customers. They often tell me their problems and I offer ________ if I can.

Now, I wanted to do something ________. I will write a book about my time in the shop.

Lots of other village shops have ________ because they do not change with the development of society. So I think I must be doing the ________ thing. This shop has been my ________. It encourages me to try different things and keep pushing myself.

3 . Joseph Salmon, 17, was practising ice fishing with his mom on a lake in Iowa. Suddenly, Salmon saw a jeep, driven by an old man, Thomas Lee, ________ off the ice and into the water. As soon as Salmon saw it a short distance away, he called 911 and ran over to help. For a(n) ________, he was right standing on the ________.

Then another young man waved at Lee and tried to ________ to him to get out of the jeep. However, it seemed that Lee, ________, didn’t really know what to do next, just sitting on the seat. ________, he couldn’t move at all.

Things looked extremely ________. As Salmon and the young man became ________ in face of the emergency, more people came. Then someone found there was an animal in the jeep. Salmon immediately jumped into the ________, got to the jeep and tried opening the back door. It was locked, and he had to ________ the back window and ________ to get Lee out, whose foot was ________ because of being caught between the center console (控制台) and the seat. So Salmon gently pushed Lee back towards the front. Just then, four more passers-by ________ over to help pull Lee and his dog to safety.

Finally, the rescue workers arrived. Lee was transported to a nearby hospital. Neither he nor his dog was injured while Salmon was only treated for a minor ________ from the broken glass. How ________ they were!

4 . It’s the e-book that helped feed the hungry.

For years Patrick Bonner has been telling his daughter, Stella, the same bedtime story, _________ more to the tale each night. About a year ago they decided to write the story down, but _________ to find the time. However, that changed during quarantine (隔离), and they finally finished their _________.

Patrick _________ they get their book published while Stella had other _________. “Some people don’t have the money to put food on the table, or get clothes for themselves, or send their kids to school,” she said. “I wanted them to have that _________.”

_________ by other online fundraisers, they decided to _________ a campaign on the Internet for a nonprofit that managed a network of food stores and soup kitchen. Anyone who donated $10 or more received a(n) _________ copy of the Bonners’ book.

Patrick originally set the fundraising goal at $500, __________ mainly family members and some friends to __________. “We thought we’d get maybe $200,” he said. To his __________, the campaign met its __________ goal less than two hours after going live on May 7. So far, it has collected over $26,500 from more than 670 donors across the world.

Every $10 donated can provide more than 10 __________ to children and families in need, so they estimated their fundraising would be able to __________ over 2,650 meals.

__________ the money raised, Patrick was amazed by the __________ of the campaign. “It is this togetherness about it that is really the best part of it,” he said. “We __________ exceeded (超过) the number we wanted, and it also helped us __________ the isolation (孤独) of quarantine when we feel __________ to other people.”

5 . I live with my husband about miles from the beach. Every few years, the whales come into the _______ while they are migrating. November 2020 was one of those times, so we set off to watch the wildlife feeding on silverfish. We _______ when whales turned their side fins as if they were waving at us.

The next day I asked my friend Liz if she wanted to see whales. “I’m scared,” said Liz. “There is nothing to worry about,” I _______ her. After much _______, she agreed to join us. I didn’t want her to miss this _______ experience.

Liz and I got out on the water the following morning. After a half hour, we had our first whale _______: two whales swimming toward us. How amazing to be that close to a creature that size! Suddenly, our kayak (皮艇) was _______ out of the water about six feet. Liz and I slipped out of the kayak into the whale’s _______. As it closed, Liz _______. I just kept thinking. I’ve got to ________ this. Whales have ________ mouths but tiny throats. They spit out anything they can’t ________. That included us! In just 10 seconds, we were thrown out. ________, we survived.

Liz was shaken up and said her whale-watching days were over. But I was much more aware of the power of the nature than before. Liz, ________, had to laugh. When she took off her shirt, six ________ fell down to the ground — a souvenir from the whales.

6 . When I was a child, my family went to the beach often. However, we _________ played in the sand or swam in the ocean. Nature was to be _________ far away, with the car windscreen in between. We would wave to the sea from our _________, watch the sunset and drive home. My parents were _________ in crowded and polluted cities. Their upbringing made them think maybe it was _________ for kids to stay inside. Without knowing it, I was _________ by their attitudes.

It was my own children who led me to another _________. They liked observing earthworms and jumping in mud. Their such _________ about the natural world allowed me to see it in a _________ way. On beach trips, I found myself __________ to dig into the sand with them and __________ its cool graininess (颗粒感) as they buried me in it.

Last summer, my love for __________ led to us buying a house in a farming town near a mountain. It’s something I wouldn’t have __________ as a city girl. I’ve found a deeper connection to nature and I’m grateful for it. There are miles of tracks around us that I __________ every day. I walk through snow, mud and rain, __________ my boots — which I bring straight into the house.

7 . Nicholas Bostic was on his way to get gas one night when he saw some flames rising from the front of a house in Lafayette, Indiana. He stepped on his_______, turned his car around and pulled into the driveway. Then he,_______he’d left his phone at home and couldn’t dial 911.

The_______man jumped out of his car and tried to_______another driver, but the person just_______him, driving away. He ran to the back of the house alone, found an/a_______door, and rushed inside. All he saw was smoke.

“Anybody here? Get out! Get out! Fire!” Bostic_______.

He didn’t hear any_______and was about to leave when he saw a/an_______at the top of the stairs with some younger kids. Seionna Barrett, 18, was babysitting her three________while their parents were out. Bostic________everyone outside, but then Seinna told him a baby was________. He searched________for the baby in the next few________ . Eventually, when he got to the stairs that led downstairs, he heard some weak________. The staircase was full of smoke, and the heat seemed________, so he hesitated for a moment before rushing down the stairs. Invisibly, he________his breath and followed the crying in the________, until he reached the baby and quickly rushed her out.

________, Bostic had saved four girls in under 15 minutes. There’s only one way to ________his devoted deed: courageous and heroic.

8 . Earlier this year the phone companies stopped supporting the software for my old 3G phone. So like the rest of the modern world, I was _______ to buy a new smartphone. I didn’t use it much at first, only to get a _______ from my daughter or to play a game or two. Soon, however, I found it far_______ to surf the web or check out e-mails on the smartphone than my computer. Even with my limited time, I_______ found myself spending more and more of it on this phone. It happened almost without me _______ it.

Yesterday I was on it, _______ the sea of stories, posts, news, and videos. Then suddenly a long, white, _______nose pushed its way between me and my _______. I started to push it away but that only got me a lick(舔) from my chin to my glasses. _______, I put the phone down, took my glasses off and ________my dog. Soon we were hugging, running around, and playing down the hallways of my home. And I ________ something too. There was a feeling in my heart: a________ mixture of love, laughter, and joy. It was a(n) ________ that I hadn’t got-ten once during all that time I had spent on my phone.

Technology is here to stay. But we shouldn’t let it   ________ us. We should use it only when it ________ us to do the important things like loving each other, being closer to our family, or making this world a better place.

9 . Around 28 years ago, when photographer (摄影师) Liu Shibin first came to the Shitan Village in She County of Anhui Province, he was deeply _________ by the sights there. The 800-year-old village has peaceful lanes (胡同), _________ Hui-style architecture, water scenes, beautiful mountains and a great _________. After that, Liu came to the village almost every year and started to _________ how to use his power to help the village get out of _________.

Spring is the _________ season for photography tourism in the village. As how to attract visitors during other seasons, Liu got a(n) _________. As the sunflower scene in Qinghai Province was quite famous, Liu advised the local villagers to _________ that and plant sunflowers. In April of 2009, the photographer bought, some _________ and paid to villagers to try out the seeds (种子). After the successful __________, Liu spread his sunflower photographs online and the local government then __________ villagers to plant more fields of sunflowers. Thus, more and more photographers and tourists came to the village which brought development to the __________ tourism.

When Liu first came to Shitan Village, there was only one hotel for photographers, which could only accommodate 12 people. However, now the village can __________ nearly 10, 000 people per day at the tourist season of spring.

Over the past years, photographer Liu Shibin has also shot many __________ for local villagers and sent them a copy for free. Liu has “shot” the small unknown village into a nationwide famous photography attraction, helping local people make more money and get on a road to __________ with his lens (镜头).

10 . Krista Sheneman was first diagnosed with diabetes (糖尿病) around five years ago. Since then, health has become a (n) __________ part of her life.

She __________ that a lot of people weren’t __________ of what she went through on a daily basis as a diabetic and that there were so __________ diabetics in her country. Therefore, she __________ to complete a mission to walk 470 miles across three states, which would offer insight into what diabetics go through.

Throughout this __________, people watched her glucose levels (血糖水平) through an app that’s connected to her glucose monitor. The monitor provided real-time __________ when her glucose levels went too high or low. In this way, she shows what it looks like to be diabetic and reminds people to constantly __________ and make sure that they are eating the __________ things. She added that just something as simple as stress can __________ blood sugar.

To _________ for her walk, she spent eight hours a day on a treadmill (跑步机) while managing her diabetes. She thinks it’s important to bear in mind that there must be unexpected difficulties that she has to __________.

After a great effort, she __________ crossed the finish line. Her walk contributed to people’s understanding of diabetes and has __________ other people who are also battling diabetes by showing them that the __________ can’t stop someone from being active or achieving their goals.