4 . As we all know, swimming is great fun. But it often comes with ________. Drowning (溺水) is a real possibility even for the most ________ swimmers. However, this dangerous situation can be changed with watchful eyes. This summer in Florida, two young men helped to ________   one drowning death.

Griffin Emerson, a 6-year-old child, swam in an apartment block’s pool. He enjoyed the pool’s ________area. But he began to   ________ toward the deeper part slowly, struggling to keep his head above water. All that came about as no one else, including his mother, seemed to ________ him. Griffin’s frightening ________ in the water happened over the course of a full minute, ending up with the child going down to the ________ of the pool.

However, one young man, Noah, did find Griffin in the pool. He told his friend Weston to call 911 at once. And Noah ________ to jump into the pool to ________ the 6-year-old.

Noah made it to Griffin, caught him and ________ him to the surface and then to the side of the pool. Before the emergency services’ arrival, Noah and Weston tried their best to ________   life-saving steps.

________, a few minutes later, Griffin recovered his breath. Griffin’s mother was ________ to Noah and Weston for their heroic actions. But the two young men thought it was no big deal and hoped that this act of kindness would be ________.

6 . No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own ______ .

I learned this lesson from a(n) ______ many years ago. I took the head coaching job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a tradition for the school’s old team to play against the ______ team at the end of spring practice.The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to ______ the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated. I couldn’t ______ I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to ______ that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were depending on me. I had to change my ______ about their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little pride. Most important, I began to treat them like ______ . That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations, we met every day and ______ passing and kicking the football.

Six months after suffering our ______ on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to improve. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a ______ for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest ______ of my life!

From the experience I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can ______ the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and ______ them. I helped them to see themselves ______ , and they built themselves into winners.

Winners are made, not born.

8 . A professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. All students were_________ and waited for the test to begin. The professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down at the desk. Once he was done with _________ the test to all students, he asked them to_________ the test paper and begin.

Students were ___________ to see that there was just a black dot in the center of the page. The professor told them, “I want you to ___________ about what you see there.” The students were___________ confused but got started with the test. At the end of the class, the professor collected all answer sheets and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. All of them___________ about the black dot and tried to explain its position.

Now, professor began to explain, “Here everyone_________ the black dot and wrote about it_________ no one wrote about the white paper. The same is with our lives. The white paper stands for our whole life and the black dot __________problems in our life.

Our life is a __________ given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate—our friends around us, the job that provides us with everything we need. However, we just focus on day to day ____________ like health issues, lack of money, poor relationships, but we seldom see that these problems are very small __________to everything we have in our lives.”

We should try to take eyes __________ our problems and enjoy each moment that life gives us. Be happy and live your life ____________.

9 . My friend Jennifer was going to be at my school. I believed that we would be best friends. She introduced me to her friend Amy and we had lots of ______ together. But things started to ______. Jennifer wanted to be the “______” of our little group. She was controlling, and I couldn’t make new friends. If I made new______, she would decide that I was “mad at her”. Pretty soon being Jennifer’s friend was a ______.

I always waited for Jennifer and Amy after class, but sometimes when they left, they’d walk right past me ______ they couldn’t see me.

Gradually I changed — I became moody, depressed, and ______. I felt so left out.

Finally, I was tired of having to battle for ______. I stopped sitting with Jennifer at lunch and waiting for her after ______. Our friendship fell to pieces.

It was ______ at first. ______, I found many girls whom Jennifer had viewed as “moody” or “mean” to be the sweetest, friendliest people in the world.

Now, I have tons of friends. They ______ me when I am sad, and I back them too. We get along very well. It amazes me how ______our friendship is. There is no struggling to be on top — we are all ______. It doesn’t matter to me if two of them walk away. It doesn’t ______ my feelings or make me feel alone.

10 . A long walk is a good way to work up an appetite (食欲), but for Emma Reade, who is six years old, it’s also a way to solve hunger.

Emma is taking part in the FareShare FootSteps Challenge, promising to walk 100 km to _____________ money to help feed people in need. And her efforts are already _____________. So far she’s clocked up 19 km and is on the ___________ of the Little FootStep leaderboard, well on the way to meeting her fundraising _____________ of $2, 000.

“Moving makes you feel happy and ___________ other people makes you feel happy too,” said Emma. “Every _____________ day I am walking, running or riding 1 km. Then on the weekends, I am doing a lot more.” Growing up in the country with lots of fruit and _____________ in her home garden, Emma understands the _____________ of nutritious (有营养的) food. “It helps us grow and stay _____________. It also helps us stay alive and have lots of ____________,” she said.

The FootSteps Challenge is run by charity kitchen FareShare and is ____________ by its chefs (厨师) who walkabout 15 km a day as they ______________ rescued and donated food into 50, 000 free and nutritious meals for the ______________ each week. The charity rescues ______________ produce from supermarkets, manufacturers, farmers and wholesale businesses, which would ____________ be thrown out because it is surplus (过剩的) and has not been used.

A small team off are Share chefs and 1, 500 community volunteers cook home-style meals for hundreds of charities across Australia, including homeless shelters and community food banks.