1 . It was rush hour in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this September. Timothy White was _____   home when he noticed a gray four-door ______ on the opposite side of the street. It moved on ______. As the pickup drew closer, White spotted the ______ appeared to be asleep.

Pretty soon, this guy’s going to ______into a house and kill himself or kill somebody else. White ______ to stop that vehicle. White made his car a U-turn and was now facing in the same ______ as the pickup, but there were four cars ______ them. White honked his horn, hoping the cars in front would move aside. They didn’t.

Trapped, White ______, jumped out and dashed up the sidewalk. The truck was going slowly. He ran around to the driver’s side. The window was down on this temperate ______ day. White grabbed the frame of the window and with a ______ strength, leaped in. White was now inside the truck.

The driver, Todd DeAngelis, was just a bit ______, unexpectedly facing dangerously low blood sugar. White worked quickly. He ______ the pickup into park and called the police.

An ambulance soon arrived and took DeAngelis to hospital. “You kept me from a much worse ______ than it could have been,” DeAngelis said after his ______. “I’m always trying to help, where I can, when I can,” White smiled.

2 . “Whenever I am in a group of people, I feel like everyone knows what to say except me. When I try to join in, I get anxious and have a struggle _______ words. This happens at parties or meetings and I feel _______ — as if I were being interviewed for a job. People think I am a loner. Maybe I am?”

Individuals experiencing this type of social _______ often avoid eye contact, because it makes them feel _______ and judged. The feelings of awkwardness and not fitting in with others are often frustrating. It prevents these individuals from defending and _______ for themselves in social environments, though they may be _______ at holding on to their opinions in environments that are focused on a task rather than _______.

Fitting into groups of people requires _______. You need to be interested in the topics that others in the group are interested in and talk about them the way they do. Becoming a part of these groups requires that you _______ some of your individuality in order to accept others’ __________ and values.

Some individuals are like chameleon (变色龙) in that they __________ pick up the patterns of different groups and __________ themselves accordingly. For them, this is automatic and they don’t even come to the __________ that they are changing themselves to fit into groups. If you are one of those people who feels __________ in most social group settings, it may be because you __________ changing the way you think in order to feel part of a group and this shouldn’t be a weakness or a failure.

3 . UPS deliveryman Ryan Arens was making his rounds near a pond, when he heard a strange sound. It was December, and about 15 feet from the frozen bank was the _________ of that sound — a brown-and-white wire-haired hound（猎犬）had fallen through the thin layer of ice. An elderly man was already on the _________, determined to save her. He was trying to _________ the pond and was striking the ice with a rock to create a(n) _________ to the dog, but seemed to be struggling.

Arens, 44, thought he _________ a better chance. “Animals are my weakness,” he said, explaining _________ he chose to take off his overcoat, even though the temperature was minus 15 and _________ the rescue task.

After breaking the ice using the man’s rock, Arens jumped into the icy water. He surfaced in time to see the dog going under. Arens swam about five feet toward the dog, grabbed hold of her collar, and _________ her out of the water and onto the ice. He then put the dog into the boat and slid it back to the bank, where _________ bystanders carried the dog to the home of the rowboat’s owner, a retired vet. __________ in the house himself, Arens jumped into a warm shower with the dog. A few more minutes in the pond, the vet told Arens, and the dog would have likely __________.

The next day, Arens was again making his __________ in the neighborhood when the dog’s owner came __________ to thank him for saving Sadie. “Would you like to meet her?” he asked. Then he opened the door of his pickup, and Sadie jumped out. She went __________ toward Arens, leaping around him and kissing him. Arens said that special delivery was the __________ of his UPS career.

4 . It’s common to post on social media to keep a record of the fun things you do. Although social media has its positive aspects, it can also have some serious _________ results. For example, have you ever been bored and decided to check social _________, only to find out that your best friend is at the Great Wall, one of your classmates is eating delicious noodles at your _________ restaurant, and one of your basketball teammates is visiting the giant pandas in Sichuan? Oh! You’re really _________ ! At least that’s what you might think.

Have you ever had that feeling that others are experiencing things and enjoying life _________ than you are? Researchers call that feeling the fear of missing out or FOMO.

FOMO is a real _________ that over 75% of young people experience from time to time. Social media is the cause, because it’s so easy today to _________ through to see what your friends are doing, eating, buying and talking about. _________, it would be impossible to enjoy all the same activities we see others take part in on social media. Rather than _________ this basic truth, though, we often let FOMO lead us to compare our lives to those of others on social media. This __________ leaves us feeling dissatisfied. Why? We know all the aspects of our lives—both good and bad. But all we see on social media are the __________ moments others share. FOMO makes us check social media more frequently, leading to a negative cycle that can be hard to __________. Researchers have found that social media and FOMO can cause feelings of __________, loneliness and boredom. Researchers advise that we stop looking for __________ on social media. If we let FOMO __________ us, the only thing we’ll really be missing out on is our own life. And life’s too short for that!

6 . Sixteen-year-old Corion Evans made a daring rescue to save three teenage girls. The 16-year-old was hanging out with two_______in a parking area near the Pascagoula River in July when a_______with three teenage girls inside propelled off a boat ramp (斜坡) and into the river. It came to rest some 20 feet from land, then sank. Actually, the driver had_______followed wrong directions from her GPS.

It was around 2:30 a.m. by the time Evans and brothers Karon and Caleb got to the river’s _______. In the darkness, they could barely_______the girls holding onto the roof,the only part of the car still,_______, above water. But they could hear_______.

Evans took off his shirt and_______,threw his phone down, then_______into the water, a river he knew alligators (短吻鳄) called home. He helped the first girl he saw and, ________ her head above water, led her ashore.

Just then, Police Officer Garry Mercer________. He dived into the river to help another of the   ________. But halfway back to shore, she ________and went underwater, pulling Mercer down with her.

Evans jumped back in the water and helped them get to the shore until they could stand. “If he hadn’t been there, who knows?” Mercer told the Washington Post.

There was still one girl in the water. Cora Watson, 19, could not swim. She was gulping (吞) water，________, struggling to stay afloat. “I heard Cora screaming ‘Help!’ and I thought she was done for,” Caleb told WLOX in Biloxi. Then, a jolt. “Corion had grabbed her.” The three girls and Officer Mercer were taken to the hospital and released. They’re alive because Corion Evans ________ his life to save them.

7 . In Asia, meetings do not begin until business cards have been swapped. It is no mere ________ Accept the card with two hands and carefully examine it, noting the giver’s ________ and other indicators of rank-essential ________ in business culture. It is so important to ________ this ritual in Japan (just how deep does one bow?) that numerous books and courses promise to transform starters ________ card-swapping masters. If a new acquaintance ________ to give a card to Glenn Lim, the CEO of a Singaporean business-networking company, “it makes me forget them,” he says.

Yet the pandemic has put the business card on life support. Socialization is ________ when white-collar workers have fled to home offices, business lunches have been cancelled and conferences have ________ online. Orders for business cards from Vistaprint, a multinational printing company, dropped by 70% in late March and haven’t yet ________ fully. Mr. Lim normally hands out about 200 cards a month. In the six months following Singapore’s lockdown in March, he only ________ about five.

“I’ve forgotten what business cards ________.” But it is still helpful to know who is who at meetings, even when they ________ online. Companies are ________ reimagining the business card for the era of social distancing. Sansan, a Japanese firm, allows companies to sort scanned business cards so bosses can see which employees have made new ________ . It also offers “virtual cards”. Scanning the code with a phone camera will present the user’s ________ business card. Some 4,300 companies have begun using Sansan’s virtual cards since they launched in June. But Mr. Lim, who uses Sansan’s virtual cards, does not plan on ________ the paper version just yet.

People tend to exchange virtual cards after meetings have started or as they end, ________ participants to ask who does what during the meeting itself. “That’s sometimes a little bit ________,” he says. Many others in Singapore are evidently ________ paper cards, too. Edward Senju, the head of Sansan, still keeps some in his ________ , “just in case”.

8 . For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between ________ countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I ________ and what you do?

Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. ________, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for ________ it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their children’s complete ________. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except ________. Both feel trapped.             

In this article, I’ll describe three no-win ________ that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the ________. The first is quarrels over ________ things. Examples include the colour of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s ________ to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends.

Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the ________ is—politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg—the ________ of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered a(n) ________—someone who actually knows something—and therefore to command ________. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they ________ more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.

9 . Ida Nelson was going to sleep when she heard the noise of a small airplane circling the nearby airport. It was already 11:30 p.m. in a small village of Alaska, and, as she told a local newspaper, “When a plane flies over that _________ you know there is something _________ .”

Nelson rushed to the window and saw the _________: The airport’s runway lights were out. She pulled on some clothes, _________ into her ATV(地形车), and drove it to the airport, where she found a local pilot trying to _________ the lights with his hands.

“_________, if you push the button 10 or 15 times, the lights will just light up,” Nelson said. But not this time. Meanwhile, she _________ the plane was a medevac(医疗直升机) which had a(n) _________ mission---to transport a seriously ill local girl to the nearest _________ 280 miles away.

Nelson had a __________. Driving her ATV to the end of the runway, she shone her headlights for the plane to __________. Great idea, but it wasn’t __________. More light was needed, so a neighbor __________ nearly every home in the village.

Within 20 rminutes, 20 vehicles arrived, many of the drivers still in __________. Following the pilot’ __________, the cars lined up on one side of the runway. __________ by the headlights, the plane finally landed safely. The young __________ was loaded onto the aircraft, and the plane __________ took off again.

In a world filled with uncertainty, the little community’s __________ action was a big deal. However, for Nelson, as she said, coming together “is just kind of a __________ deal.”