3 . I had the pleasure and honor of serving as Newport Beach ocean lifeguard (救生员) for five years. One day, I was working at Tower 15. Two blocks to my right was another _______ named Mike, who was working at Tower 17. He called me over the phone and said, “I have noticed a couple of kids. I am going to give them a _______. Keep an eye on them.”

I said. “Sure. ” And he _______.   

Anytime you got out of your tower, you were _______ to let somebody else know, so as to avoid accidents. And sure enough, as soon as he hung up the phone, a rip current (离岸流) snapped up under these two kids, and they were getting sucked (吸) down into the _______. Mike saw it and he ran at full speed to the ocean.   

I called for backup (支援) and said, “Two children _______ in water. Call for backup. 17 was out. I’m going.”

By then, the mother of the two kids had _______ what was happening. She screamed (大喊). I started rushing toward the ocean, but _______ I was even halfway there, Mike had reached the kids — a boy and a girl. Mike told me later that he _______ to the boy first, and when he turned to the girl, he had to dive into the water and catch her by the hair to __________ her out.   

When I reached the mother, Mike was __________ in waist-deep water. The kids were so __________ that they couldn’t walk, so Mike got one kid under each of his arms and brought them onto the beach.   

I __________ the mother and said, “Hey, it’s going to be OK. They’re safe now.” I saw that the __________ look started to disappear from her face.   

What a frightening experience! What a __________ Mike is!

4 . A homeless man spent two days tracking down a woman after finding her handbag in the street．Daisy Owen，20，____ a bag containing her wallet，cash and her iPhone on a night out in Bolton．

Paul Calderbank found the handbag outside a pub and began a search for its ____ ．He walked around the streets for two days ____ people who looked about Ms Owen's age if they knew her．He _____who she was from her driving licence．Mr Calderbank，who has been _____for four years，attached a note to the bag explaining his mission （任务）_____ he feared people would think he had stolen it. He planned to walk to Ms Owen's house to______the bag but met some of her friends. They ___   her on Facebook and arranged for the two to meet ．

Ms Owen from Bolton was very thankful that Mr. Calderbank had returned the handbag to her．"There needs to be more kind people like this in the world，" she said．She has started to raise money ______to help Mr Calderbank pay for some clothes, food，and a home．The web page has raised more than ￡1,100 in two days. She said Mr Calderbank had gone hungry _____ buying food with the ￡10 cash in her bag. In the three-page _____ he attached to the bag, Mr Calderbank wrote, "I want to find the true owner and ______ hand all her belongings back to her．I want to do this because I am an honest person，and because to me it feels good to do it．Ms Owen is ______to raise ￡1，500 for Mr. Calderbank. She asked him what he wanted to do with the ______．He said that he really wanted to get a______ ．"I've decided to find this man a home,   "said Ms Owen．

5 . Hawthorne worked as a clerk in a small company. He suffered a heavy blow when he lost his job. His boss had spoken _______, “Your services are no longer needed.” Hawthorne left the building filled with despair. By the time he reached home, he was in deep _______. When he entered his house, he blurted out(脱口而出)to his wife Sophia, “I lost my job. I am a complete failure.” A tense silence followed. _______, a smile crept across Sophia’s face. “What great news!” she responded, “Now you can write the book you have always wanted to write.”

“But I have no job and no prospect of a job,” he objected completely without hope. “If I _______ to be an author, then what will we _______? Where will the money come from?”

Sophia took her husband by the hand and _______ him to the kitchen. Opening a drawer, she took out a box that was full of _______. “Where on earth did you get this?” Hawthorne asked. “To whom does it _______?”

“It’s ours!” Sophia replied. “I always knew that one day you would become a great writer _______ you were given the chance. From the money you gave me for housekeeping every week, I have __________ as much as I could so you would have your chance. Now there is enough to __________ us a whole year．”

What a(n) __________! What a wife! The __________ husband did concentrate on writing that year, and the novel he wrote became a literary masterpiece．The book is The Scarlet Letter. Sophia had an even greater __________,—she turned Nathaniel Hawthorne from a poor clerk into a world famous __________.

6 . A father and his teenage son were out together at a shopping mall one day. The son wanted to buy a new pair of _______ at the sports store.

As they were making their way through the crowded store, a young woman holding a number of bags _______ and the things in her bags spilled (洒落) across the floor.

The son stepped around the woman and continued with the flow only to ________ that his father wasn’t next to him. Looking around he ________ his father bending down and helping the woman ________ the spilled items.

Feeling a bit bad he hadn’t thought to stop and help, he simply stood and _______ from the distance. He was ________ when his father handed the woman her things and she simply took them away without ________ him and said “I can do it myself!” When his father returned, the son expressed his ________ at how impolite the woman had been.

In the sports store the son was so upset about the incident that he spent most of the time complaining. They soon left without the shoes.

Later at ________, the son told his mother the story, expecting her to be just as angry as he was at the woman’s _______. His mother looked at her husband ________ enjoying his meal and said, “Son, your father left that woman behind hours ago. Why are you still with her?”

When we hold onto ________ feelings, all it does is to leave us stuck (陷入) in the past and unable to move forward. One of the best things you can do to stay happy is to ________ to let things go. It is okay to show anger and unhappiness.________, don’t let them affect you and how you see the world.

7 . ”Mommy, I got something for you!” Cody ran through the door after school. His face wore the biggest smile ever. He waved something above his head. “It’s a pen. But not just any pen. It’s a lucky pen!” He handed me the pen _______, waiting for my reaction (反应).

I looked at the pen in my hand. There was nothing _______ about it. It looked just like any other ballpoint pen. I had a drawer full of them. At that moment, I didn’t realize how special it was or how much I would come to treasure (珍爱) it.

I had made the decision to be a(n) _______. I had dreamed about it for a long time but I was afraid of being refused by the publishing houses. The night before, I told my husband my _______when I thought Cody wasn’t listening. “What if _______ likes my writing and I fail?” But Cody did _______ what I said. Now he stood in front of me, watching me examine the pen. “You don’t have to be afraid now,” he said. “This pen will make your _______ great and everyone will love you.”

Tears filled my eyes. Refusal (拒绝) and failure didn’t seem like such a big problem any more. Even if I _________sold the first book, I had everything I could ever need. I knew that pen would bring me luck, though. And I felt _________ already, just by having Cody in my life, especially when I heard what he did to get it.

In the lunchroom, Cody heard an older boy talking about having a lucky ________. He decided to get it for me. The boy was a tough negotiator (强硬的谈判者) but Cody didn’t ________. In the end, he ________ his favorite Matchbox car, two army men his brother gave him, a crayon, and a piece of candy — his most important things, for that pen. Just to make __________ feel better.

I still have that pen, though it’s long out of ink, in a cup on my desk. When a refusal letter arrives and I start feeling __________, I look at it and remember just how lucky I am. For while I value that pen, it’s Cody who I really ________ in my life.

8 . When I was 13 years old, a boy gave me an important gift. It was a _______. It was the early autumn of my _______ year at a junior high school, and my old school was far away. _______, no one knew who I was. I was very _______, and afraid to make friends with anyone.

Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing, I felt my heart _______. I couldn’t talk to anyone about my problems. And I didn’t want my parents to _________ me.

Then one day, my classmates talked happily with their friends, but I sat at my desk unhappily _______. At that moment, a boy _______ the classroom. I didn’t know who he was. He passed me and then turned back. He looked at me and, _______ a word, smiled.

Suddenly, I ________the touch of something bright and friendly. ________ made me feel happy and warm.

That smile ________my life. I started to talk with the other students and made friends. Day by day, I became ________ to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now.

One day I asked him why he smiled, but he couldn’t ________ smiling at me!

It doesn’t ________ because all the dark days have gone. Now I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think you are lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back.

9 . Last summer, we went to Hawaii for holiday. During my _______ trip with my husband, we spent most of our time _______ during the day in the sea, and then enjoying walks along the beach in the evenings.

We didn’t take any _______ because we had enough. We had visited the island many times _______. On our way to the _______ we joked that other than our sunburnt skin, we had no way to show that we had _______ there!

As we stood in line at the check-in, we noticed the _______ who had been on our plane the week before. _______, they all had tear-filled eyes this day. On the plane, we sat directly behind them: a mother and her four children without Dad’s _______. We learned that the father had been ____________ in a jet-skiing accident that week, and his wife and children had to ____________ make their way home without him.

We watched the children become ____________ while they were playing cards. But the mother stared at her knees, ____________ to believe her husband’s death. We could ____________ feel her pain as we realized that this could have happened to any of us. ____________ we were laughing and playing in the water, this poor family had been ____________ the sufferings. The vacation they had dreamed about had ____________ the terrible dream they would never forget.

I suddenly ____________ that we had no pictures for this vacation together. I closed my eyes, ____________ that my mind had recorded all the wonderful moments that I had ____________ with my husband that week. What a trip!

10 . In 2009 we were staying at our cousin’s house in Triora, Italy. Settled just above a window was a bird’s nest which my ______ said had been there for many years. Each year, different families of starlings (椋鸟) came back to make it their ______.

We knew they were ______ because the chattering (鸣叫) of six newly hatched chicks _____us early every morning. Standing on a chair, I ______ to look into their nest. The first time I looked, the chicks were ______ and almost featherless. Their parents ______ backwards and forwards, bringing food to ______ their hungry and noisy chicks.

Being ______ parents, whenever they saw me they screamed and flew at the window. So I could only ______ the chicks when they weren’t around.

____ the chicks were only a few days old, I realized the parents were teaching their young to fly. One brave chick beat its wings a few times and then ______ across the street landing on the roof of the house ______. Well done, I thought. The next day, my husband and I left for a tour and I was ______, thinking of how I would miss the rest taking their first ______.

Two weeks later, on our ______, the first thing I did was look in the nest. It was ______. Then, suddenly, I head the beating of ______ and all eight of them were flying toward me. They _____a semicircle, singing to me. I felt as though they were saying, “Thank you for not harming us.” Then they flew off ______ into the blue sky.