2 . After their business trip, John and Mary returned, eager to see their lovely children. As they drove into their hometown feeling glad to be back, they noticed ________, and they went off their usual route to see what it was. They found a ________ in flames. Mary said, “Oh, well, it isn’t our fire, let’s go home.”

But John ________ closer and screamed, “That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn’t be ________ work yet, maybe there is something we could do.” “It has nothing to do with us,” Mary ________.

But John drove up and stopped and they were both horror-stricken to see the whole house in ________. A woman on the lawn was screaming, “The children! Get the children!” John ________ her by the shoulder saying, “Get a hold of yourself and tell us where the children are!” “In the ________,” cried the woman. “Down the hall and to the left.”

In spite of Mary’s disagreement, John ________ for the basement which was full of smoke and ________ hot. He found the door and two children. ________ he left he could hear some more sobbing. He ________ the two badly frightened children into ________ arms and started back asking how many more children were down there. They told him ________ more and Mary grasped his arm and screamed, “John! Don’t go back! It’s ________! That house will fall down any second.”

________ he ran into the smoke-filled hallway and at last he found both children. As he climbed up the ________ stairs, the thought went through his mind that there was something strangely ________ about the little bodies next to him, and at last when they came out into the ________ and fresh air, he found that he had just ________ his own children.

The baby-sitter had left them at this home while she did some shopping.

4 . Emma Jones’ three-year-old son, Eric, was sharing a hot dog on the deck overlooking her friend Sarah Roth’s swimming pool. One moment Jones was watching Eric play around with the other children at this _________ of moms and kids last July. The next moment he disappeared without a _________. She turned to her friend Machel Rawlings and asked, “Have you seen Eric?”

Rawlings stood, _________ the pool and suddenly screamed. Eric was found _________ face down in the deep end. What happened next was a _________ textbook response: As Rawlings dived in the pool, grasped the boy, _________ him over and swam him to the end. Meanwhile, their host, Sarah Roth, dialed 911. At the pool’s _________, Rawlings handed Eric up to his mother. His skin was blue and wasn’t breathing.

Rawlings who’d taken a CPR course just four months earlier, immediately began rescue breathing. Hanging up the phone, Roth, a former flight attendant who’d accumulated _________ experience before, _________ CPR from Rawlings. Three long minutes went by with Roth breathing into Eric’s mouth and __________ chest compressions (按压) while Rawlings and Jones __________ his condition. Gradually his color __________, and as the ambulance was arriving on the __________, Rawlings looked at Roth. “He’s breathing,” she said.

The __________ with which the women acted saved Eric’s life. Emma Jones found any words seemed powerless. She said __________, “They did everything right.”

5 . A child wrote a heartbreaking letter about smartphones.When the child’s parents read the letter, they were moved to tears.In the letter, the child ________ his complaint (抱怨) in a very moving way.

The child’s mom ________ to be his teacher and she gave her students a ________ to write a paper on what they would like to be in this modern world. She was ________ the homework in the kitchen and flipping (快速翻阅) from one paper to the next and writing down their grades in between. Then ________ she came to a stop.

The mother could not believe what she was reading. Her husband noticed her ________ and asked her what was wrong. And she told him a child wrote that he would like to be a ________, but the reasons he wrote about were so ________. He felt his parents loved their smartphones so much that they paid more attention to their smartphones than they did to ________. He explained that as soon as his ________ came home from work, he went ________ to his phone instead of paying attention to him. Reading this, the child’s mom was already in tears, but her husband was even more ________ when she told him that it was their son who wrote it.

Stories like this always remind me to be more ________ about the time I give to my smartphone. Too much use of it has ________ my life. So I will start ________ my phone when I am spending time with those I love.

6 . I'm entering my eighth year teaching preschool. I've never got tired of it, because______ year is ever the same. Sometimes our school brings new staff and new students' families who are ______ with the purposeful aesthetic（美学）our school seeks for. So I am eager to show them around my classroom with the of ______ to help them sense our school philosophy ——supporting creativity, learning and ______ for children. Their nodding and smile make me feel it will be another ______ new school year.

All of the walls in my classroom start out very ______They are plain in color. All I will do is give students the great beauty in the physical environment with my philosophy. First, I arrange all the children’ s first names in a circle on the wall, ______ traditional number lines or alphabet order, which may make students feel discriminated. I like it when children see their names and have a sense of ______ to our class community. ______ I have a sign on our paper towel holder that is a ______ of how many paper towels we use, because we are showing our ______ to the Earth and will be starting with what we can do for the Earth within our classroom. I also have a small sign about our voice scale, which gives a ______ to distinguish indoor and outdoor voice level, and then I use the language all the time ______,“Shh — Let's bring our voices down to a Number 2 or 3. ”For the ______ part, the walls belong to the children, and the children will ______ the lively color and decorations in the room through their paintings to relieve their tension between lessons. The walls I place value on give an excellent way to show that students' well-being and the talent of art are valued.

Aesthetics of the walls affect their emotional responses. I am proud I can provide such a class community where my students feel happy, motivated and respected.

7 . John was repairing his motorcycle in the yard while his mom was cooking in the kitchen. Suddenly the motorcycle ran through the glass door while John was still ________ on it. So he was ________to the floor inside the house.

His mom, hearing the________, ran out and found John badly________ lying on the floor, the motorcycle lying next to him and the glass door________. The mom called an ambulance (救护车) quickly. After the ambulance arrived and took John to the________, the mom pushed the motorcycle outside. Seeing the ________on the floor, the mom got some paper towels to clean it, and threw the towels in the________.

After John’s wound was ________, he left the hospital. After arriving home, he ________at the broken door and the damage done to his motorcycle and felt very ________. So he went to the bathroom, sat on the toilet and ________a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he threw it into the toilet bowl.

The ________in the kitchen heard a loud explosion (爆炸声). She ran into the bathroom and found John lying on the floor again and his clothes ________away. The fire was caused by the towels covered with gas in the toilet bowl. The mom had to call an ambulance again.

The ________ambulance crew (工作人员) came again. They were ________to see John was seriously hurt again. When they carried John to the ambulance, one of them ______the mom how John had burned himself. So she told them what ________to John after he was taken to the hospital last time. One of them couldn’t help laughing so ________that John fell to the ground. Then John got a(an) _______arm.

8 . It was 3 am, a cold and wet night, on August 21, 2010. I had just left a local club to travel ten kilometers home when I lost________of my car on Grand Junction Road in Hope Valley.

I ______into a still car that was_______in front of a house, and then hit a tree. I was badly injured!______still, I had no idea that a fire had started______the bonnet(引擎盖)of my car.

___ in the car behind me was a young man, who I later found out was called Jared. He saw the accident occur and ______to help me out of the car. He put his own life in ______when he got into the back seat trying to undo my seat belt.

With my seat belt ______, Jared then broke the driver’s window to drag me out. He_______did this while my car was burning._______by the crash, the homeowners came out to investigate(调查). Jared told them to ring emergency services_______he continued to help me out of the car.

I ______my life to Jared and I consider him a good friend due to the_______bond created on the night he dragged me to safety. I was rushed to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in a _______condition, five bones broken.

I spent a few weeks in hospital, during which time Jared visited me to see how I was _____ .He also continued to contact me after I returned home. He says he doesn’t believe that he did anything special. On that, I ______disagree with him and am very glad that he didn’t get hurt in the _____.

Today, nearly seven years later, Jared and I still ______and often talk about the events of that night. Jared is my   ____ and my friend.

9 . One morning, the door opened and a new teacher, Mrs Cosby, walked in. She looked too _______ to handle us. And we surely gave her a _______ time, but she never lost her temper. And then came the last day of the first month. She _______ a bunch of papers. We feared the worst — a test. But oh no, it was something that _______ surprised us.

Mrs Cosby asked us to come to the front of the class, and gave each of us a _______, in which she had written what the student in question had been _______ at during the last month.

You see no one had ever _______ us. No one ever liked us. We were constantly told how good-for-nothing we were. And here, _______, was someone who had been _______ us closely for a month. We made things as difficult for her as we could. And yet she could find something ________ to say about each of us.

Mrs Cosby did this every ________ from then on. Each month we got a paper that emphasized our ________. She commented on my courage, how punctual I was, how good to ________ arguments if I wanted. Her ________ influenced our class. We did not want to ________ her feelings anymore. We actually started to ________.

At the graduation ceremony, Mrs Cosby hugged us and told us with tears in her eyes how ________ she was of us. Then she ________ each one of us a book. All the encouraging letters through the years wee there, in hard covers.

She said, “I want you each to keep this book and if you feel ________, open this and read how good you are. You can be anything you want to be ________ you believe in yourself. Promise me you’ll remember that!”

10 . It was raining. I went into a café and asked for a coffee. _________ I was waiting for my drink, I realized that there were other people in the place, but I sensed _______. I saw their bodies, but I couldn’t feel their souls _________ their souls belonged to the _________.

I stood up and walked between the tables. When I came to the biggest computer, I saw a thin, small man _________ in front of it. “I’m Steve”, he finally answered after I asked him a couple of times what his name was. “I can’t talk with you. I’m _________”, he said. He was chatting online with somebody—probably someone he didn’t know—and, _________ , he was playing a computer game—a war game. I was_________.

Why didn’t Steve want to talk with me? I tried _________ to speak to that computer geek (怪人), ________ not a word came out of his mouth. I touched his shoulder, but no reaction. I was __________. I put my hand in front of the monitor, and he started to shout, “ __________!” I took a few steps back, wondering if all those people in the café were looking at me. I __________, and saw nobody showed any interest.

________ , I realized that the people there were having a nice conversation with their machines, not with people. They were more __________ having a relationship with the __________, particularly Steve. I wouldn’t want to __________ the future of human beings if they preferred sharing their lives with machines ____________ with people.

I was worried and I sank in my thoughts. I didn’t even ________ that the coffee was bad, __________ Steve didn’t notice there was a person next to him.