1 . As I walked onto the soccer field I had a knot (结) in my stomach. I was too shy to ___________ the year before but decided to go for it this year.

When the coaches came, I felt as if I was going to pass out. With no ___________ ability I began to wonder why I was ___________ here. Everyone immediately took a ball and began to ___________. I stood there, not knowing what to do. My friends came over to ___________ me a few quick moves and drills. I had fun and ___________ enjoyed playing. Every other girl on the team was far more skilled than I. The moment I ___________ that to myself, I was fine.

This ___________ has stuck with me all through high school. Without ___________ it, I learned a valuable lesson about myself. ______________ I tried out for the soccer team, I always wanted to be ______________ at everything. Previously (以前), I would do anything to achieve the high ______________ I set for myself. I was so stressed out over schoolwork that I never had fun. I decided it was time for a (n) ______________________.

Like most high school students, my ______________ with more responsibilities and worries, began to change as I got older. Balancing school and sports has not been easy. But through it all, I have become a ________________ person.

2 . A wave hit my face and I swallowed salt water. My chest was already burning as I struggled to _________ I had no air to call for help. In desperation I _________ one hand and waved it to get the lifeguard’s attention. Two young men were suddenly near me. “Help,” I _________ to whisper.

One of them grabbed my arm. The other grabbed his arm. Together they pulled me toward the _________. The lifeguard entered the water with his _________ “You can stand here,” he said. “The water’s shallow.”

I shook my head. I was too _________ to stand, much less walk. They _________ me over the board.

“You were caught in a riptide (激流)” the lifeguard said _________ the three of them carried me onto the sand, still shaking, trying to catch my breath.

“Are you all right now? ” one of my _________ asked.

I looked up at the two of them and ____________. For the first time I got a really good look at them. They looked ____________ as if they were twins.

“Thank you so much for saving my life. And thank you too,” I said to the lifeguard.

The few others had ____________ on the beach. I felt embarrassed and ____________ to walk back to my towel. After just a few ____________ I looked back again for the twins.

“There you are!” Dom said when I got back to the towel. I looked back at the ____________. Then I sat down with my friends to tell them about the angels.

5 . As 17-year-old Toiri'ell Norwood drove through St. Petersburg, Florida, last February, the laughter from the four teenage girls inside her car quickly gave way to ______. To avoid a truck, their car ______ into a tree.

As smoke rose from the car, a bystander shouted, “It's about to ______! Get out!" But Norwood's driver's side door was jammed shut by the strong impact. She ______ out through the window, along with two of her friends, who'd also ______ to free themselves, and ran for her life.

______, halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn't with them. Norwood ran back and found Simmons ______ in the back seat. "She wasn't moving," Norwood told Inside Edition. She threw open the back door and pulled her friend out, ______avoiding the broken glass. She dragged Simmons a few feet to safety and laid her on the ground. "I checked her pulse.'ⁿ Nothing. “I put my head ______ her chest. " No sign of life. "That's______I started CPR. “

Norwood, who wants to pursue a ______ in medicine, had earned her CPR certificate just the day before. Kneeling on the lawn and looking down at her dying friend, Norwood knew she had ______little time to practice what she'd learned.

She started pumping Simmons's ______ with her interlocked fingers and breathing into her friend's mouth in hopes of filling her lungs with the kiss of ______. And then, Simmons began______ and gasping for air. The CPR had worked!

Had the accident happened a few weeks earlier, she might not have saved the life of her best friend.

6 . Fourth-grader, Sarah Haycox, made it her mission to right a wrong. And in doing so, she has shown the world what one _______ person, with passion, can do.

One day, when _________ by an athletic field near her school, Sarah noticed a small _______ with the name Edwin T. Pratt and the year 1930 - 1969 on it. She _______ who he was and what he did.

After some _______, she learned that he was a civil rights leader who had done many good things to _______ others. Sadly, he was _______ just because someone disagreed with what he was doing.

Feeling that the small memorial was _______ big enough for a man who had so much _______ on others, Sarah ________ to do something!

There was a new ________ going up nearby for young kids. She found out who were ________ the building project and asked them if it could be named after Mr. Pratt. Through great efforts, her vision came to reality! Almost 50 years after his death, Edwin Pratt’s life and impact will be celebrated as the name of the new school.

Most kids simply had walked by the memorial without thinking about who Mr. Pratt was. But Sarah had the ________ to learn more, the vision to imagine something better and the courage to ________ her idea. Her amazing actions have ________ many other young people around the world.