1 . Firefighters were called to the scene when fire broke out inside Crystal Lamirande’s apartment. While they worked to ______ the flame, Crystal tearfully told firefighter Andrew Klein that her 10-year-old dog, Nalu, was ______ inside the home.

Firefighters are devoted to saving lives, and Nalu’s life was no less ______ to him than Crystal’s. He _____shouldered his pack and headed inside the building, moving on his hands and knees through the ______ home quickly to search for the ______ Eventually he saw the dog, but she was ______.

Andrew said Nalu, was “totally lifeless” when he ______ her. He carried her outside to fresh air, then began life-saving ______ he acquired during his training.

For the next 20 minutes, kneeling down, Andrew performed mouth-to-snout resuscitation (复苏) on Nalu. Crystal sat near Andrew, ______ and afraid, as he tried to bring her four-legged companion back to life. Soon other firefighters ______ them, silently hoping for a positive_____.

After seemingly endless minutes, Nalu ______! Andrew comforted the dog as she ______ came back to life. The animal was ______, but otherwise unharmed. Nalu was taken to a vet (兽医) and placed inside an oxygen tent for about 24 hours. When she left ______, she was back to her normal. If Andrew hadn’t ______ so quickly and used his ______ so perfectly, what would have happened?

Nalu made a complete ______ , all thanks to this extremely kind firefighter! No matter whether Andrew ______ people or animals, he clearly puts life in the highest place.

2 . A severe outbreak of cholera (霍乱) cast a shadow over Londoners’ life. Faced with two apparently contradictory theories about the possible cause, John Snow, a brilliant ________ scientist, was determined to ________ the disease once and for all.

Instead of using a microscope to study the ________ , he marked on a map where the victims ________ . He noticed that multiple deaths were near the water pump (水泵) in Broad Street ________ some households who drank free beer given by the pub they worked in. John Snow ________ that the pump water was to blame but still he needed concrete ________ . He had the handle of the pump________ so that it could not be used. Through this ________ , the disease was immediately under control.

John Snow subscribed to the view that there was a link between the________   and the Broad Street outbreak. He continued to discover that the water had been________ by raw waste. He announced his findings and urged that people drink ________   or boiled water. Soon, there was a substantial ________ in cholera cases. ________ his solid work, people were able to defeat cholera. Furthermore (此外), his use of maps and statistics transformed the thinking of the scientific world towards ________   diseases. That is why he is considered “Father of Modern Epidemiology (流行病学)”.

3 . My best friend, Connie, is two years older than me. We ______ a lot of time together.

Connie has long dark brown hair and her eyes are big and round. People say she is ______ and looks like a doll. When we go out, people often ______ that I am older than her ______ she is shorter and slimmer.

Connie is positive(乐观的) even when things go ______. Last week she got her examination ______,which were not very good. I thought she was going to be______. Instead, she simply decided to do ____the next time. Then, every day after class, ______ teachers are free in their offices, she will______them for help.

Connie gets on well with others. Everyone in my family ______ her, even my younger brother. When you hear her laugh, you will naturally laugh ______. When I feel unhappy, I will talk to Connie and she will make me feel ______.

I think my______ with Connie is very valuable, and I hope we will______ be best friends.

4 . Flooding was fairly usual for a Queensland summer. This time, however, there had been a lot of rain and flash flooding further north which _________ ran down to the river.

My younger brother was getting _________ and thought we should evacuate. We spent hours trying to _________ him down. The water had never gotten to less than 1 to 2 meters away from our street level. After a few more _________, the water levels were getting much higher than we’d seen before and we thought it best if we moved our cars to the higher _________ just in case it got to the street level. Later, we _________ a lot of furniture and electronics upstairs.

Finally, we decided to _________. The water was getting close to the street level, which only meant another foot from _________ our bottom floor. We left to spend the _________ with my cousin who lived in a neighborhood close by. We heard that the water had __________ further, but had no idea how far as it was dark and we couldn’t see anything from our cousin’s house.

The __________ moment was when we finally got to see our house. There is a high school behind our house, which __________ at the base of this large hill, with an elevated sports oval (高架椭圆形体育场) right behind our house. The water at its __________ was about 2 inches from being level with the oval. We __________ it to survey our house. Seeing water lapping (轻拍) at the windows of our bedroom on the second floor of our house was the most unbelievable __________ I had ever seen.

5 . On a cold snowy winter evening, Joe was driving home on a country road. Ever since the local restaurant closed, he had been_________.

He didn’t know he’d soon come across a stranger who would change his _________. That stranger was an old lady, a restaurant owner, whose car got a flat tire, _________ on the road. She had a _________ tire attached to the back of her car, but she was unable to handle it. And unfortunately, her cellphone had been _________. She had to turn to passing cars for _________ . Nevertheless, no one had _________ to help for the last hour or so.

After driving for a while, even in the _________ light of evening, Joe could see an old lady needed help.

So he pulled up in front of her car and got out. Seeing the flat tire, Joe believed that he could _________it.

Then, he let the lady wait inside her car while he was __________ the tire. Finally, he finished. The lady offered Joe some money to show her __________ but Joe declined. Then, the lady chatted with him and learned about his __________ . Joe expressed his eagerness to find a job to make ends __________of his family. They exchanged phone numbers before waving goodbye. Days later, Joe __________ a new job in the old lady’s __________. Sometimes a good turn deserves another.

6 . For almost a century, Kuttiyamma’s daily work had been the same. ________ early in her home in the village in Kerala, the 104-year-old would begin her day’s work of cooking, ________ and feeding the cows and chickens.

But now, every morning, there’s something ________ to get up for. She ________ waits for the paperboy to ________ the local newspaper.

For two hours, she ________ herself reading the news, which kept her ________ about what’s going on in the world.

But it is only in recent months that she has been able to ________ this dream of hers. “I was always ________ about what’s happening around the world,” she said. “I used to beg the younger generations at home to read newspapers to me.”

Age was to prove no difficulty to her ________ to read. After months of evening ________ , she became the oldest woman in her country to take the literacy (读写能力) ________ and she got 89 out of 100!

For most of her 104 years, Kuttiyama would often try to ________ the alphabet (字母表)herself.

She was born in a poor rural family, and there was no education. Many years passed, she got married and had children. Kuttiyama said she was ________ with her life but always felt like something was missing.

It was only with the ________ of her neighbour, Rehana John, a 34-year-old literacy teacher, that Kuttiyamma’s dream of reading came true.

7 . When I was young, my parents did not earn much. They had to save before they could ________ to buy groceries, especially meat.

Every time Mr Lee, the butcher, came to our ________, he would bring along a basketful of meat on his bicycle to his stall (摊位). Everyone would ________ to buy whatever pieces of meat he had because once they were sold out, no one ________ when they would be available again

One day, Mrs Ming, our neighbour, ________ my mother that Mr Lee was coming to sell meat the following day. I ________ very early the next morning because my mother told me to buy some meat. My brother, Ah Seng, ________ himself at his usual spot to look out for Mr Lee’s bicycle. Once Ah Seng saw Mr Lee, he alerted me. With my ________, I then ran quickly to the market. With Ah Seng’s help, I was ________ that I would reach the stall early. ________, when I arrived, a long line of villagers had already formed.

When Mr Lee started selling the meat, the ________ cleared quickly. When it was almost my _________, all the meat was sold out. I walked home with my empty basket, ________. What should I tell my mother?

As I was nearing home, Mrs Ming saw me. She ________ me and gave me some meat. I breathed a sigh of relief. I could not forget her ________.

8 . My husband and I spent a few days in northern Ontario last week. We have _________ a cabin from the same people for several years now. It is an interesting business as it is a convenience store, a liquor store, a take-out restaurant and the owner of the cottages.

As I was paying my bill for the _________, the clerk asked the man behind me _________ things were going. He shared that things were improving but it had been a _________ week. His wife had undergone heart surgery and had just been _________ from the hospital. I asked if I could give him a _________ and he gladly _________ with tears in his eyes. Some may say that it was risky to hug a _________ and yet to me it simply felt right. My mother went _________ a similar surgery many years ago and I could __________ to how he was feeling. A short time __________ my husband went to the same store to purchase a few bagels as we had __________ ours at home. They didn’t have any but sold him four from their restaurant’s kitchen supplies.

While this might happen in a larger city, I have not __________ experienced it. I found that through giving and __________ kindness set the tone for the rest of my day, my heart is __________.

9 . I stood beside the hospital bed where Russ, my husband lay pale and scared. He was diagnosed with leukemia (白血病) and was _________ to stay in hospital at least a month.

A month! We couldn’t afford being in the hospital that long. We were tight _________ .

“Go home and rest. Come back tomorrow,” Russ said, giving me a list of items to _________ . Unwillingly, I left his room.

The next morning, I _________ the car with everything needed for our hospital stay and _________ to school to see my students. Because we live in a small community, they would have heard about my husband’s diagnosis (诊断).

When I _________ my classroom, the chatter stopped. _________ on the platform, I found a(n) _________ with “Mrs Sargent” written on the front.

“What is this?” I asked. The _________ smiled as I opened the card and coins and dollar bills fell out—fives, tens, twenties. My throat tightened with __________ . “I can’t take this,” I said. But their __________ faces gave me no choice. There was __________ in their eyes.

As the adult in the room, I felt __________ for accepting cash from teenagers, but I could not refuse it. More important than the envelope in my hand was the __________ in their hearts and the lesson they had taught themselves: How wonderful it feels to meet someone’s need and to make a difference. I prayed this wasn’t a lesson for the day but for their __________ .

10 . Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dole, France, into a poor family. The French chemist and microbiologist made remarkable scientific _________ regarding the principles of vaccination (疫苗接种), microbial fermentation, and pasteurization (巴氏灭菌法) .

The family was on a very tight _________. However, his parents _________ education and found support to send him to the best schools they could afford. Pasteur had a _________ for painting and drawing. When he realized that art was _________ to earn a living, he changed to _________

He was not a (n) _________ student, but he worked very hard once he put his mind to it. It took him three tries to pass the exam to get into his _________ school. Later, he owed his success to his _________. He impressed senior scientists with his hard work and willpower in __________ some of the most difficult scientific problems.

Pasteur’s__________research was completely self-funded. His wife, Marie, __________ supported his work and acted as his assistant in the lab.

As he became famous gradually, he was able to __________ research positions at more great institutions. Eventually, he was able to establish the Pasteur Institute to __________ and prevent the causes of disease, particularly rabies.

He was highly respected and won just about every award __________ in his field. As a consequence, Pasteur greatly advanced the science of his day.