1 . It’s most people’s nightmare: surviving a plane crash only to be stranded (滞留) in a jungle with no way of contacting the outside world. But this was ________ for four Colombian children.

The children were ________ with their mother from their village in the Amazon to visit their father working overseas. The ________ they were taking experienced engine problems and ________ on May 1, 2023. Bad weather ________ the army from finding the crash site for two weeks, where they later ________ the dead bodies of three adults, including the children’s mother.

How did these children survive conditions that would be a ________ struggle for most adults? They are members of the Huitoto indigenous group (土著群体) and were ________ in the jungle. As such, they have an intimate (深刻的) understanding of the rainforest. They know which fruits are ________ to eat and which plants should be ________. Working with, rather than ________ the Amazon, they survived off of juan soco (a fruit similar to passion fruit) and seeds.

While the children got on with the business of ________, the Colombian army worked with indigenous ________ to find them. After 40 days of ________, the children were found and taken to ________ at a military hospital in Bogota.

Many around the world have taken their survival to be a ________, but others ________ that it is the result of a(n) ________ and intimate knowledge of the rainforest that has been ________ through indigenous communities over the generations. It is their close connection to and understanding of the rainforest that ________ helped the children to survive.

5 . On January 22, 2022, the British-Belgian 19-year-old, Rutherford, successfully _________ her microlight aircraft back at the Airport, from where she had departed 155 _________ ago, fulfilling her dream to be the youngest woman to fly around the world solo.

“I feel _________ not only to break the Guinness World Record, but also to _________ the gender gap by 11 years between the current youngest man record holder, 18 at the time of his record, and the previous woman record holder, who was 30 when she _________ her ‘Dreams Soar’ around-the-world flight.” Rutherford wrote on her blog. Rutherford’s journey _________ five continents and 52 countries began on August 18, 2021. She met many _________ delays along the way. They _________ an unscheduled stop in California _________ the fierce wildfires and a stop in Alaska to __________ her visa. She also faced several __________ in the air. Despite the severe difficulties, the __________ young pilot never gave up on her dream.

Rutherford grew up around __________. Her British father flies commercially for Emirates Airlines, while her Belgian mother is also a pilot. The young girl began __________ how to fly at age 14. And she __________ her flight license in 2020. With her __________ of flying around the world attained, Rutherford now has her sights __________ even higher. She wants to become a(n)__________ and explore space.

She hopes that her journey will encourage more young women to __________ careers in flight. Currently the number of women pilots is just 5 percent. Rutherford says, “It’s an easy thing to say, but just __________ it. If you don’t try and see how high you can fly, then you’ll never know.”

I flew back to New York from a spring break. My flight landed lately in the evening. I decided to taking an airport bus to the downtown area so that I could find a faster and cheap taxi to get home. It turned out that a bus was full of passengers but I was chatting with a few of them. I told that it was unsafe to be waiting for in the street to catch a taxi at midnight. One of the woman in the bus said that her car was parked near the station. So she offered me a ride to my home, drop me safely and did not accept a penny in return. I was so thankful for his kindness.

When visiting a village in Africa, a scientist suggested game to the local children. He put a basket of sweets under a tree 100 meter away. Then he said whoever reached the basket first would win the sweets. But when he said “Go”, instead of raced for it, the children ran to the basket hand on hand. Finally, they divided the sweets out equal. When asked why they did so, they say “Ubuntu”. It means nobody should share happiness with others. He was realized that it is the attitude of Ubuntu which helps bring people together. Generally, this word reminds we of the importance of community and caring for each other.

9 . I used to think my life was perfect. My mom had her dream job and a beautiful office and I had my own room with a computer and a garden to look after. But one Sunday, everything ________. A hurricane swept our neighborhood while we were visiting my grandparents in Raleigh. Our kitchen was destroyed, and our ________ and comfortable home was in ruins.

But something unexpected ________. Our neighbors, the Flores family, came to our ________. They helped clear broken pieces and offered us a place to stay. Their ________ was most impressive. We had never ________ spoken to them before. But they opened their ________ to us and made us feel like family.

We started a(n) ________ tradition of having weekend dinner together. We invited other families from the neighborhood to join us, and our gatherings were ________ with laughter and delicious food. It was a beautiful thing to see our ________ come together in the wake of a disaster.

I ________ knew Rosica, their daughter, before the hurricane. But she quickly became my friend. She had a _______ for story telling and our evenings together were filled with adventure and laughter.

Looking back, I realize that the hurricane ________ unexpected benefit. It brought us ________ to our neighbors and enriched our lives in ways we never could have imagined. Through the ________. I saw the best in people.

10 . There once was an ordinary street in the suburbs where no one cared much for their gardens. The lawns were overgrown, the weeds were _________ and the hedges(树篱)desperately needed to be cut back. It looked very _________. But when the neighbors saw their gardens, they just looked at each other and went away with _________.

It seemed too hard to _________ all the gardens and no one could be bothered to make them better because everyone’s garden was _________ terrible. No one felt it was urgent for a _________. Then a man named Bill _________ here. Bill was a _________, hard-working and patient man who started working in the garden as soon as he _________ in the street. He took his lawn mower(割草机)out to cut back the grass and pulled out all of the __________. Finally, he took up his gardening and started __________his hedges, making them look like flowers, plants, stones, balls, etc.

Attracted by the hard-working __________, the neighbors walked by and __________ the newly manicured(修整的)garden. Over some time, something __________ happened. One by one, the neighbors started to put in more __________ in their own gardens and the sounds of lawn mowers could be heard again. After a few months, the street was __________ from a dirty, unappealing collection of houses to a beautiful avenue that wouldn’t be out of __________ in a stylish magazine.

One person’s action showed everyone what could be __________ with a little hard work. It’s easy for us to __________ the environment around us because no one else cares about it. Remember what you positively do not only brings the __________ to yourself, but also results in a change to the whole world.