1 . Christine, an experienced skydiver, was about to complete her 112th jump in Johannesburg. Christine decided that she would _________ a sitting position jump for the first time.

Jumping off the plane from 3,353 meters, she stayed in that _________ until about 1,828 meters, when she flattened her body and _________ her parachute (降落伞) as she had done many times before. Unlike the _________ 111 jumps, however, this time, something felt different, and Christine soon realized that something had gone _________.

The first thing she noticed was that she had not slowed down, _________ she also couldn’t see the familiar life-saving canopy (伞盖) above her head. Christine realized her main parachute had not opened, so she _________ changed to her reserve (备用) chute before cutting away the main. But this effort sent her turning around wildly out of _________.

As she was falling toward the _________, Christine thought about her family and upcoming wedding before realizing she was __________ straight into live power lines. This seemed to be terrible luck at the time but probably saved her life as they broke her fall before she __________ into the earth, suffering a broken pelvis (骨盆) and other injuries. Fortunately, she was __________ during her falling by a passerby who stopped his truck to __________ an ambulance and help the stricken woman.

Christine eventually made a full __________, although she did ask her would-be-husband to change their upcoming honeymoon __________ from their adventurous ideas of skydiving and cage-diving with great white sharks to something less dangerous.

2 . When Chris Ulmer first started teaching children with special needs, he could not have imagined the journey this job would take him on. In the three years he spent with his students, Ulmer discovered that these kids didn’t. ________ have special needs, they were all special people in every other ________ as well.

________ by the dream to show the world what these kids have to offer, Ulmer ________ the Special Books by Special Kids project. The project was ________ planned to be an eight-chapter book featuring eight of his students. However, after his book was ________ by over 50 publishers, he decided to do it all alone. Chris ________ his own Facebook page. Then he began to ________ interviews with his students and post them on social media.

Ulmer also traveled the country to visit children coping with ________ like autism (自闭症) and brain injuries, and interviewed them about life. Not all of the children could ________ themselves with words, but Ulmer treated every single child with ________. He went into each interaction with the ________ that the person could understand him and was capable of communicating.

Through his efforts, the initial 8 video clips have ________ into a massive library of over 500 videos and the Facebook page has nearly 1.5 million fans. “Everyone has the ability to change someone’s life. It can be something as ________ as smiling, saying hello and praising someone. It doesn’t take much to make a ________,” Ulmer says.