1 . On July 20, Yu Yifei, a medical student, made his way home in a subway train after his first day’s training. When a downpour struck the city, he _________ about a dozen people trapped in a flooded subway train as the rainfall reached 201.9 millimeters between 4 pm and 5 pm, a totally new _________ in the history of Zhengzhou.

Flood _________ through a barrier and entered the underground area. The train came to a sudden stop before the water began _________ in the carriages, trapping passengers inside. Thus, Yu, _________ to leave and fearful of his life, made a _________ call to his father.

As water continued to flow into the carriages, passengers’ _________ rose. When subway workers arrived to rescue them, Yu _________ to get out. However, as he made his way to safety, he heard a cry for help. He quickly _________ the white coat given to him at the hospital __________ and returned to the platform to save other passengers. On seeing him, a number of frightened people were greatly encouraged and their spirits __________.

As more passengers were pulled from the __________, Yu instructed others in the key steps to save a victim from drowning. He __________ CPR (心肺复苏) on those unconscious and near death from drowning. One of the passengers, a female doctor, nearly died. After __________ consciousness, she joined Yu in treating others. Yu was very __________ yet he gathered up his strength and tried to provide help to those in need. In the end, Yu and the other rescuers managed to save many lives from the flooded subway train. Yu’s actions proved that even in the darkest of moments, there is always hope for humanity.

2 . Growing up in Ireland, Pierce Forde loved motorcycles. His _______ in it only grew as he got older.

One day, Forde was heading straight through a crossing when a car _______ turned left. The vehicle dashed against his motorcycle, whose front wheel _______ to the ground, severely injuring him and he was _______ on the ground.

Out of nowhere, a man _______ at his side. He took Forde’s hand and said, “You’ll be OK, brother.” Even though his _______ , Forde noticed the man’s deep and comfort-giving _______ which reminded him of the singer Barry White.

“What’s your name?” the man asked, “Pierce…” Forde replied.

Forde started shaking. So the man _______ the same questions several times, “What’s your name? What day is today? Where do you live?” He insisted that Forde concentrate on him but not on his _______ .

Luckily, the doctors arrived and took Forde to the ________ . He had been there for three weeks when, one day, the man who had helped him ________ at his hospital room.

“I just started ________ …just tears rolling down my face. My ________ is here,” Forde recalled.

Ford and the man ________ about their life. After about one hour’s conversation, they shook hands. The man wished Forde an early ________ and he walked out of the door.

3 . Years ago, in a small fishing village in Holland, a young boy taught the world about the rewards of unselfish service.

Because the entire village lived on fishing, a volunteer rescue team was needed in case of _______. One night, the winds _______ hard, the clouds burst and a strong storm overturned a fishing boat at sea. The _______ were in trouble and they sent out the SOS. The captain of the rescue rowboat team sounded the alarm and the villagers quickly gathered in the town square, _______ the sea. When the team started their rowboat and fought their way _______ the wild waves, the villagers waited nervously on the beach, holding lamps to _______ the way back.

An hour later, the rescue boat reappeared and the hoping villagers ran _______ the volunteers. Falling on the sand, _______, the volunteers reported that the rescue boat could not _______ any more passengers and they had to leave one man behind. Even one more passenger would have surely overturned the rescue boat and all would have been ________.

Anxiously, the captain called for another volunteer team to ________ the survivor. Sixteen-year-old Hans stepped forward. His mother grabbed his arm, ________, “Please don’t go. Your father ________ in a shipwreck (海难) 10 years ago and your older brother, Paul, has been missing at sea for three weeks. Hans, you are all I have ________.”

Hans replied, “Mother, I have to go. ________ everyone said ‘I can’t go, let someone else do it’, there will be ________ going to help. Mother, this time I have to do my duty.” Hans kissed his mother, joined the team and ________ into the night.

Another hour passed, which seemed to Hans’ mother like a ________. Finally, the rescue boat came into sight in the distance with Hans standing up in the bow (船首). Cupping his hands, the captain ________, “Did you find the lost man?” ________ able to control himself, Hans excitedly cried back, “Yes, we found him. Tell my mother it’s my older brother, Paul!”

Have you seen people who take pictures of food for more than 10 minutes before eating? How about those who beautify their selfie (自拍) so much that they can’t be____? There must be one or more who ____ in your social media. No matter _____they choose to share, they share the best but the most unreal.

Take my friend Chen for example. Every time we went to a restaurant, she would not take a _____ until all the dishes we ____were on the table. Then, she would spend five minutes on______the dishes in a seemingly random but in fact ____ order. Then the most important part: taking pictures. After that, she would choose one of the ____ and click in the filter(滤镜) app. The food eventually looked 10 times more delicious than it really was, but we had no ____ to really enjoy it — it all went cold. Actually Chen's real life is much less elegant. For example, she hates to wash the dishes, so she leaves them in the sink for____.

Many people care too much about others’ opinions and try too hard to ___ others. They find it hard to be ____ and to accept themselves, and thus they are afraid to show their ____ life on social media. What they are trying to prove is____what they lack in reality. But this will not bring any_____ to reality, as they still____ the same old pattern of life.

If they really want an elegant life, they should put more____ into achieving it_____fabricating(伪造) it. Being more confident, _____themselves and trying their best to be better is much more meaningful than_____ their life on social media.

6 . As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation.____ you are in the habit of rushing through life, being on the go from morning till night, it is hard to ____   down. But relaxation is ____   for a healthy mind and body.

Stress is a ____   part of everyday life and there is no way to ____ it. In fact, it is not the bad thing that it is often supposed to be. A ____ amount of stress is important to provide motivation and give ____ to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control ____ it can lead to poor performance and ____ health.

The amount of stress a person can bear ____ very much on the individual. Some people arenot afraid of stress, and such ____ are obviously chief material for managerial.(管理的) responsibilities. Other people lose heart at first ____ of unusual difficulties. When exposed to stress, in ____form , we react both physically and mentally. In fact we make a choice between “___ and fight”. And in more ancient days the choices made the ____ between life and death. The crisis we meet today are ____ to be so extreme, but however little the stress is, it requires the same response. It is when such a reaction ____ a long time, through continued exposure to stress, that health becomes ____ . Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and heart disease have established links with stress. ___ we cannot remove stress from our lives, we need to find ways to deal with it.

So what do you think of   ____ ? What is your way to deal with it?

7 . Nineteen-year-old Beau Jessup is studying Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She started her own business ______ she was just 15. She is paying her way through college by helping Chinese ______ find names for their children through her ______ Special Name.

In a TED Talk in 2016, Jessup ______ that during a trip to China about two years ago, one of her father’s colleagues asked her to ______ an English name for her daughter. Based on the ______ from her father of the young girl’s personality, Jessup picked a name that ______ the colleague. This experience ______ her to build the Chinese-language website specialname. cn to ______ Chinese parents pick English names for their kids.

Jessup ______ a database of 4,000 names for the website with five characteristics. Each name ______ what that name means. After parents enter the gender（性别） and characteristics of the child, the website will recommend three ______ and provide examples of famous people ______ to each name.

“The parents involve their family and friends in the final ______, making their chosen name both appropriate and special,” Jessup explained.

Jessup at first provided the service for free, but after naming 162,000 babies, she ______ customers for a fee.

“Most of my customers are parents who ______ that their children will study abroad... The English names used by our Chinese friends are ______ names which is used primarily to help them fit in ______ stand out when they study abroad.”

“The first time a parent sent me a photograph of their baby, a beautiful little girl ‘Ellen’, the mother ______ me for giving her an English name and she said that she hoped this name would help her ______ friends in the future.”

8 . It seems that the great desire among the young is to be popular. And once they achieve ________, they want to keep it and ________ it. But the desire to be popular can________ you into looking and acting like everyone else. You can lose yourself in a sea of ________ hairstyles and thinking styles.

I was forced to ________ popularity long before in a talk I had with my daughter. Margy had to ________ schools when my busy work schedule made it ________ for me to move houses. I suppose that, for a girl in her teens, ________ a new school is as easy as spending a season alone in the tropical jungles. However, as the school year ________ to an end, one student after another came to her. They said they would have liked to be friends sooner.

I told Margy that I would have been more concerned if she had been a(n) ________ social success in her new school. That, to me, would have been the ________ that she had betrayed her ________ self in order to become popular. Sometimes young people try to force friendships into blossom by opening ________ their innermost thoughts to people they have just met. Such friendships are the least likely to ________.

I know that it has become harder and harder for a young person to stand up against the popularity wave and to ________ his or her own way. This leads to a great ________ for the young person who wants to find his or her own ________. But the barrier is worth climbing over. The road is worth ________. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. Well, come on! Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come with the people who ________ you for who you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really ________.

9 . From that day on, when eight-year-old Charlie with gray eyes began riding my school bus, he was a trial. If a fight ______ out, it must have been Charlie. If a girl was crying, ______ were that Charlie had pulled her hair. I practiced every bit of patience, but all ______. However, I spoke to him ______ but firmly, he would stare at me with those big gray eyes without a word.

A little girl sent me a small tin ______. She had written, “To the Best Bus Driver Polly.” One day, I was ______ because of a talk with the headmaster. When I got on the bus, I ______ that the tin heart was gone.“Charlie was the first one on the bus. Check his ______, ”insisted the girl who had given me the heart.

I asked him to come forward, and ______ into his pocket. Then I felt it—the ______ small tin heart. Charlie stared at me for a long time. There were no ______ in those big gray eyes and no plea(恳求) for ______ He seemed to be waiting for what would happen. I was about to pull the tin heart out of Charlie’s pocket when I ______ myself. “Let him keep it,” a ______ seemed to whisper.

Many years later, I was in a department store ______ someone said, “Polly?” I turned to see the big ______ eyes. There was no doubt. It was Charlie. To my ______, he hugged me and pulled ______ from his pocket—the little tin heart that ______, “To the Best Bus Driver Polly.”

“You were the only one who kept ______,” he explained.