1 . It’s cool to be a fool in school, obviously. Research from Florida Atlantic University shows that aggressive, troublesome adolescents often end up becoming quite ________ among their peers (同龄人).

Importantly, researchers explain that being popular and having friends aren’t one in the same. Popularity ________ that everyone knows you, but they may not necessarily ________ you as a good friend. Study authors theorize that certain children ________ popularity to lots of friends. Why?

Being popular is thought a major status symbol for an ________. While it is certainly ________ that many popular children are fun and ________ , others are troublemakers.

The team at FAU performed a study to test their ________ that disruptive (破坏性的) children often start conflicts with their fellow classmates to ________ their social standing and become more popular. The results showed that higher initial levels of peer-reported ________ and disruptiveness were indeed associated with an ________ in peer-reported popularity during the semester. This was especially true for kids reporting frequent ________ with peers.

Aggression, ________ , occurs in the heat of the moment during a conflict of some kind. Researchers theorize that many kids just want to avoid quarrels, or perhaps even ________ harm. In such cases they usually ________ when challenged by an aggressive peer. These ________ “ provide visible evidence of dominance (支配地位) and ___ short-term gains in popularity” for the aggressor, the authors ________.

While researchers don’t think ________ is enough by itself to boost up (提高) one’s overall social status, they do ________ it can be used as an effective way of improving certain aspects of popularity.

2 . Imunek Williams drives a school bus for the Milwaukee Academy of Science. While driving her usual route recently, she smelt a strong smoke smell. Among the _______ were 37 young students and Imunek’s own unborn child.

While they had only a few blocks to go before _______ their destination, Imunek decided to pull over to ensure the _______of all the people on board. When she _______ her radio to call for help, she noticed thick smoke filling the bus.

With no _______ to wait for help, she sprang into action. She _______ asked all the students to get off the bus and double checked for any _______ children. She departed the bus last, and minutes later, the _______ went up in flames (火焰). Imunek’s quick _______ and calm action saved many young lives.

When Imunek first ________ the strange smell that morning, she noticed it differed from the usual smell of exhaust (废气) coming off nearby vehicles in traffic. As she ________ driving, the odd smell intensified. By listening to her intuition (直觉), she made the ________ decision to stop the bus.

Firefighters arrived on the ________ as the smoke and flames poured out of the yellow school bus. Onlookers expressed amazement and gratitude that everyone ________ without injury. The Milwaukee Academy of Science and the students’ parents offered their praise and great appreciation to Imunek for her ________ action.

3 . White dressed up as Captain America for the annual Anti-Bullying (反霸凌) Superhero Day. But when spotting ________ one afternoon, he couldn’t ________ any superpowers.

It was rush hour. White was ________ home when he noticed a pickup on the opposite side of the two-way street. It was hard to ________, for it was crashing into the curb (马路牙子) before course-correcting, only to hit it again. As the car drew closer, White got a good look at the ________: The driver appeared to be asleep. He had to ________ that vehicle.

________, White made a U-turn, facing in the same direction as the pickup, but there were four cars ________ them. White pressed his horn, hoping the cars in front would move aside. They didn’t. Trapped, White pulled his car over. He ________ up the sidewalk, cut into the road and ran around to the driver’s side. White ________ the frame (框) of the open window, his legs moving in step with the pickup, and with a mighty ________, jumped in.

DeAngelis, the man behind the ________, had unexpectedly faced dangerously low blood sugar, and just come to. He was ________ by the odd sight of a stranger lying across his stomach. White immediately brought the pickup to a stop. DeAngelis was rushed to a hospital, where it was determined that had his blood sugar gone lower, his life could have been endangered.

White ________ a superhero, but his quick thinking and daring ________ made him a real-life hero.

4 . On the morning of March 27th,my father took my younger cousin and me to the water park. We had fun. Three hours later, my father had to leave for work, and we were ________ to go home by ourselves. When we arrived at front of our garden, a tall man _______ us, and asked us to show ________ the way to the hospital. I looked at the man ________, and refused. I went in with my cousin quickly.

I began my homework after locking the front door. ________I was doing my homework, my cousin was watching TV in the living room. Suddenly, the ________ rang. My cousin thought it was my father, _______ he opened the door. I went out of my room and saw the ________ man who had asked the way standing outside. I tried to close the door, but he pushed the door very hard and came into our house with a ________. He ordered me to take out all the money. I was too ________ to shout out. My cousin ________ all the time. The man tied us up with a rope, then locked ________ of us in the kitchen. Quickly, he ________ the things he wanted, took what he could, and left immediately. I helped my cousin to ________ the rope. Then he untied me. I wanted to rush out to call the ________, but the door was locked from outside. Luckily, the kitchen window which faces the garden was open. We got out of the house ________ the window, and went to the _______ shop to ask for help. The owner helped us to call my father and the police.

The police came and ________for the man everywhere. Soon, my father came home from ________. We told him the whole story. My father was glad that we were not hurt. He told me that I had done well, but I should have stopped my cousin from opening the door to let the stranger in.

From this dangerous experience, we learned a lesson on ________.

5 . Joe Royers , a helicopter pilot, was driving home from the Nashville airport when he received a call. The caller told Boyers her brother was ____   by rising floodwaters on their roof in Waverly. ______ , the caller had googled (用谷歌搜) “Nashville helicopters” and Boyers’ company was the first to _____. So she called in,

Boyers knew he would go back up. He put the brother’s _____ into his phone, and then he drove back to the     ____ . Soon, he was in the air.

The flooding, which eventually ____   20 lives, had already knocked out power and ____cell phone service, meaning Boyers couldn’t use his phone to _____   the house he was looking for. He flew on anyway to search for people. A teen was found, wet and   ____, holding on to a tree branch. Since there was no place for Boyers to   ___ , he lowered the helicopter and a rescued man   _____ out and waded (蹚水) to the tree to help the teen. After Boyers ____ the teen on a street, he was back in the air.

When   ____   rescue helicopters showed up, he was almost out of   ____   after rescuing 17 people. As for the woman who _____ contacted Boyers, she called back to say that her brother had also been saved.

6 . Daniel Gill has been helping to open young minds as a teacher. He has always been a champion for civil rights because he grew up ______ the ugly effects of segregation (种族隔离) and prejudice.

In the 1950s, 9-year-old Daniel was ______ to a birthday party. He and Archie, who was black, ______ at the party with presents, excited to see their ______ , but the birthday boy’s mother met them at the door. She told Daniel that he could ______ , but that there “weren’t enough ______ ” for Archie to attend.

Daniel ______ to sit on the floor so they both could celebrate their friend’s birthday, but she ______ . The boys broke down when they realized that what the boy’s mother said ______ meant that a black child was not ______ in her home. They both left in tears, and the ______ stuck with Daniel for his whole life.

Since he became a teacher, he has been keeping a (n) ______ chair in his classroom. Every year when he ______ his lesson around Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, he tells his students the ______.

Daniel says that students tend to ______ through symbols, so he keeps the chair there to remind them that everyone can enter his ______.

At a recent festival he mentioned a book idea called “No More Chairs” to publishers, hoping to take his ______ of inclusion and acceptance to an even ______ audience.

Daniel’s story is powerful, and it is a (n) ______ that we are all responsible for making the people around us feel comfortable, and ______.

7 . Smartphones have become a big part of people’s lives. When we can’t find them for a ______ , it causes us to feel anxious, which is ______ nomophobia (无手机恐惧症) or no mobile phone phobia. Most people feel it a little, but some can feel it more ______ , depending on how addicted they are to their equipment. When I first ______ using mine, I’d still look for it before remembering it wasn’t a part of my life anymore. But just like when I gave up smoking, I successfully ______ the withdrawal (脱瘾期). Thankfully, it was short-lived.

Wuyou Sui, a researcher at the University of Victoria, ______ nomophobia as a dependence that’s been placed upon us. He says, ” ______ nomophobia isn’t a reflection of one’s personal failings, but the behaviour is meant to form ______ . The more we use the smartphone, the more ______ we become.“

Finally, that sense of dependence is ______ . As I’ve found, I can find other ______ —with a desktop computer, at times, or a friend’s phone—to do all the things I need to do. It’s not always ______ , but I know I’m always much better without my ______ .

Now when my son and I are playing, my attention is ______ on him. I can see his smiles. After he’s gone to bed, instead of fixing my eyes on the ______ , I light candles, read a book and enjoy the room I’m in.

8 . Matthew began working on the brakes of his truck immediately he got home late on a Monday. For safety, he couldn’t _________ repairing his truck any longer. His teenage son, Dalin, came to help. Matthew couldn’t get a good _________, so he slid his body under the truck to hit it. But when the rotor (刹车片) bounced off, the truck moved forward and _________ right on top of him.

Matthew couldn’t breathe, move or yell. This was definitely a _________ situation. Seeing this, Dalin was scared. _________, he sprung into action despite his fear and was _________ enough to lift the truck a little. Dalin _________ as hard as he could to get the truck up just enough for his father to roll out.

The _________ left Matthew with a separated shoulder. Matthew was taken to the hospital for his _________. Everything happened so fast, Matthew couldn’t remember how he __________. “Later, we looked at our security cameras and realized Dalin __________ the truck enough for me to roll out. My son is my __________. He saved my life.” Matthew recalled.

Not only the father but also everyone was __________ for Dalin’s bravery and quick thinking. It was a situation that could have easily __________ differently were it not for his quick __________.

9 . Sommaroy is a small island in northern Norway. Because of its _________ days and nights, Sommaroy is already known as the land that time forgot, and the bridge _________ the island from the mainland is decorated with watches instead of the locks we see on other bridges around the world.

_________ the residents of Sommaroy stand the long night when the _________ doesn’t rise from November to January, they try to make the most o£ summer when the sun stays up in the sky from May 18 to July 26. That means the sun doesn’t _________ for a full 69 days during the _________. Traditional timekeeping is actually _________. And it’s not _________ to see people doing all kinds of things at late hours o£ the “night”—say 3 am-like swimming or playing balls in their _________. Since it’s always daylight, everyone sleeps whenever they feel like it.

It’s been like this for __________ , but now the people of Sommaroy want to __________ declare their island a time-free zone(地区). To many of us, it may seem like a promotional stunt(噱头) to attract more __________ -and it’s true that Sommaroy has __________ tourism after the plan was announced. But locals are __________ it seriously. They’ve already handed over their petition(请愿书) signatures to the government. If they are successful, the 300-plus residents of Sommaroy plan to make school and working hours more __________ by ignoring traditional opening hours.

10 . One day, I was on my way to a concert when there was a heavy ________. I took a short sleep in the front of a tour bus while my son was in the back. My husband was in the front with a cellphone talking. ________, I felt the bus stop, so I thought we were there. I ________ my eyes and there was an explosion (爆炸) ________ at that moment. It felt like a bomb (炸弹) had ________. I don't remember the moment of my injury.

The front of the bus was torn away. It was snowing ________ the bus. My husband was looking at me like crazy, ________ in blood. There was a ________ silence after that explosion, but all I could think of was our son. So I said to him, “The baby. ________ him.” He started going towards the ________ of the bus and I was ________ my breath. In the meantime, I was trying to ________ but I couldn’t. So I knew I’d broken my ________. Finally, my son fortunately before the crash had gone to ________ some candy out of his seat and avoided the crash. My husband brought him to me.

I asked him, “Baby, don’t worry. Just hold my hand.” But he was just frightened. A nurse immediately ________ in the door of the bus. She ________ her way into the bus and held my head like a brace (支架). It took an hour and a half for the medical workers to get to ________ us up because there was a seven-mile backup (阻塞) ahead of us. Right now, I have been ________ and I know the first thing they do when you injure your spine (脊柱) is to put you on ________. So the fact that it was snowing inside the bus was the biggest coincidence (巧合) because I was ________.