3 . It was Sam’s first visit to England, and he was looking forward to his first journey on London’s Underground Railway. And against his friends’ ________, he was determined to travel________ .

He entered the station shortly after five o'clock in the afternoon. This is a________ time to travel in London, ________crowds of people go home from work at this hour. He ________to join a long line of people waiting for tickets. When at last his ________ came, he had some difficulty in making himself understood by the ticket seller.________, he got the right ticket in the end and by asking people the________, he also found the right platform. It was________with people. He did not ________in getting on the first train, but he was able to move nearer to the platform so as to be in a better________to get on the next one. When this train came in, Tom was________forward onto the train by the________of people from behind. The doors closed and the train moved off. He was unable to see the ________of the stations where the train________, but he knew that the station he wanted was the sixth ________along the line. When the train reached the sixth station, Sam got off, feeling ________ that his journey had been so easy. But he suddenly realized that he had come to a station he had never ________. He explained his________to a man who was standing on the platform. With a________on his face, he told Sam that he had caught a train going in the opposite direction.

4 . Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about eighty miles. It was late. Several times I got stuck_________a slow-moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left. and I was clenching(紧握)my fists with_________.

At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now. but as I_________the light, it turned red and I braked. I looked left, right and behind. Nothing. Not a car, no_________of headlights, but there I sat, waiting for the_________to change, the only human being for at least a mile in any direction.

I started wondering why I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of being_________, because there wa_________no policeman around, and there certainly would have been no danger in_________the crossroads.

Much later that night, the question of_________I'd waited came back to me. I think I waited because it's part of a__________ we all have with each other. It's not only the law, but it's an agreement we have, and we trust each other to__________it.

Trust is our first inclination(倾向). We have to make a deliberate decision to mistrust someone or to be__________. Those attitudes don't come naturally to us. The whole construction of our society__________mutual(共同的)trust, not distrust. This whole thing we have going for us would__________if we didn't trust each other most of time.__________, we do what we say we'll do; we show up when we say we'll show up; and we pay when we say we'll pay. We trust each other in these matters, and when we don't do what we've promised, it's the__________of the normal. It happens often that we don't act in good faith and in a__________manner, but we still consider it unusual, and we're__________with the people who violate(违反)the trust we have__________them.

I was so proud of myself for__________for the red light that night.

5 . This past October, I took an early morning hike in a Valley. Knowing that bears are _______ throughout the area and not wanting to _______ one, I yelled out, “Hey, bear!” every 30 seconds.

About three miles in, I _______ into a meadow(牧场) and yelled again. A few more steps and I _______ a brown bear on the trail at the upper _______ of the meadow. When she saw me, she ran up the trail. But then she stopped, turned, and _______ straight for me. I yelled so she would know I was human and hopefully turn back. No_______ luck.

I wrapped my arms around the back of my neck for _______. She was on top of me, biting my arms, shoulders, and backpack. The force of each _______ was like a sledgehammer(大锤) with teeth. After what felt like hours, she disappeared.

________, I carefully picked myself up. I was able to walk, so I went back down the ________ toward my truck. Despite bleeding wounds, I knew I would ________ and thanked God for getting me through this.

About five minutes down the trail, the bear reappeared. I was lucky after the first ________, but could I survive a second?

Again I protected the back of my neck. She bit my shoulder and arms. My hand instantly went ________, and the wrist and fingers were limp (无力的) and unusable. I knew I couldn’t ________, so I huddled (蜷缩), motionless.

Suddenly she stopped. There was dead silence ________ the sound of her heavy ________ and sniffing. I could smell the terrible odor(气味) she gave off. She stood there for 30 seconds . Then she was gone.

I tried to peek out(偷看), but my eyes were full of blood. I knew that if she ________ a third time, I’d be dead, so I ________ the blood from one eye and looked around. No bear. I stood up, moved quickly, got into my truck and drove to the hospital.

The next day, I woke up ________.

6 . A doctor is praising a Minnesota state police who stopped her for speeding, but gave her N95 masks instead of a_________. Dr. Janjua thanked State Police Brian J Schwartz for his act of_______during the coronavirus pandemic in a Facebook post.

Dr. Janjua, a doctor_______in the area, explained she was_______after driving over the speed limit on March 21.Police Schwartz told her it was irresponsible for her to be_______because it would take up resources if she got into a(n) _______and she would not be able to help her_______. She waited for him to write a ticket, but to her_______, he let her off with a_______warning-plus five medical masks. They came from a supply that the state had given him for his own__________.

“I________at once,” she said. “Maybe it's just because of the cold weather, and I also saw him shed(流出)a few tears, before__________me well and walking away.”

Like many of her fellow health care workers, Dr. Janjua said she had been feeling__________for not having proper protective equipment and worried about what would__________if she fell sick far from home.

“This__________stranger, who owed me nothing and most__________is more on the front lines against the pandemic than I am,__________his valuable masks, without even__________me first,” she added.

While the coronavirus pandemic has__________the world as we know it, the kindness of people like Trooper Schwartz is a reminder that nothing can take away our__________in times of crisis.