1 . Most people can't live to 100． Those who do live so long can hardly walk， let alone take part in any activities． A few people， however， take part in dangerous activities even though they are more than 100 years old﹣ They keep going and going! There is a great grandmother who likes challenging herself although she is 101 years old this year．

Mary Hardison believes that people should always be cheerful and more importantly， take on all kinds of adventures while they physically still can． So， instead of celebrating her 101st birthday with a boring party， she decided to go paragliding（滑翔跳伞）﹣ an idea she got from her 75﹣year﹣old son who recently took it up as a hobby．

So on her birthday， cheered on by her big family， she tied herself up together with expert instructor Kevin Hintze， and jumped down fearlessly from the sky near her home in Ogden， Utah． And， it was not just a simple jump either． According to Kevin Hintze， the grandmother encouraged him to turn around， as they made their way down．

This is not the first time that Mary has done something "wild" and "crazy"． For her 90th birthday she rode all the adult rides at Disneyland． And， she is not done yet﹣ For her 102nd birthday she hopes to go down the 3，000 feet Alpine Slide at Utah's Park City Mountain Resort!

Not surprisingly， this great action has made Mary Hardison very famous and also earned her a place in the Guinness World Records where she broke a 2007 record set by a 100﹣year﹣old British woman． What an amazing lady!

2 . The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She _______ the driver and, using her hands to feel the _______ of the seats, walked down and found the _______ which the driver had told her was empty. Then she settled in.

It had been a year since Susan, 34, _______ a medical misdiagnosis (误诊), was suddenly thrown into a world of _______. Mark, her husband, was an Air Force officer and he loved Susan with all his heart. He _______ her how to rely on her other _______, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt herself to the new environment. He helped her befriend the bus drivers who could _______ for her, and save her a seat.

_______, Susan decided that she was ready to try the ________ on her own. Monday morning arriving, she said good-bye and for the first time, they went their ________ ways.

On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was ________ the bus, the driver said, “Lady, I sure ________ envy you.” Susan had no ________ what the driver was talking about, and asked, “What do you ________?”

The driver answered, “You know, every morning for the ________ week, a fine-looking gentleman ________ military (军事的) uniform has been standing across the corner ________ you as you get off the bus. He ________ you cross the street safely and he watches until you enter your office building. You are one lucky lady.”

Tears of gratitude (感激) poured down Susan’s cheeks. He had given her a gift more powerful than sight, a gift she didn’t need to see to ________— the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.

3 . Every Saturday night my family and I go out and feed the homeless in the city of Orlando.

We want to see what it is like in the life of a homeless person. One special thing I like to_______is, my family and I do not eat_______we begin our journey so we know how it feels to be hungry. We all get together in the_______and prepare the food. Some of the meals are sandwiches and cookies and a bottle of water. Sometimes my mum_______a steaming hot delicious meal. We then bag them all up to feed 30 or more people. 

Before my family and I get into the car we ask God for _______in a family prayer. A lot of people_______homeless people. Not all homeless people are drug addicts or bad people. Some are really nice; some of them just had bad things happening to them. 

_______when my family and I go out on the street we have to earn their trust, because a lot of people are_______to them for no good reason. But now that they see us every week they _______us. We even know some of their names. We all have to remember that these are people with________.Some of them shake our hands for giving them food. Some of them do really funny dances because they are happy. 

We have become really close________a man named Tony and his wife. They have all of their personal________in shopping carts. After________us several times he has told us a lot about his life. He graduated from Howard University. He________teach French and Spanish. 

After we finish feeding the homeless, it makes me ________ what I have at home. I love feeding the homeless and making a difference in someone's life.

4 . In 1969, watching the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon on TV from his parents’ farm in Canada, Chris Hadfield was amazed and excited. On that day, at only nine years old, Chris made the most important decision of his life: He was going to be an astronaut.

There wasn’t even a training program in Canada to become an astronaut; but Chris was determined. He spent a great deal of time studying and fixing engines. After school he joined the Canadian army where he learned to fly many different types of planes. Chris did a lot of research for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States and had special training. Finally, in 1995 he rode his first rocket into space.

Chris became the first Canadian astronaut to walk in spare, and went on a number of space missions throughout his career. The most memorable was his five-month stay on the International Space Station (ISS) as commander, between December 2012 and May 2013.He posted on social media thousands of photos of Earth and videos of himself explaining how things work in zero gravity. His followers could watch him sleeping, brushing his teeth, washing his hands, or preparing “space” snacks in zero gravity, which turned him into a social media phenomenon.

Today, Chris travels the world giving talks about his work. He once said, “Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you’d be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don’t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don’t want to become.”

5 . Most heroes are not super. They don’t appear in comic books, on television, or in movies. They just do what they believe needs to be done to make their world a better place. Bike Batman is one of them.

Bike Batman is a 30-year-old married engineer who lives in Seattle, Washington. He’s a cyclist who also buys and sells bikes as a hobby.

About three years ago, he was looking for a bike for his wife. He found one on Craigslist, a website where people list things they want to sell. As he often does, he also looked at Bike Index, a popular website that allows users to register their bikes and post reports when they’re taken. The bike, which he was considering purchasing, clearly matched one reported stolen on Bike Index.

Then he called the person who claimed（声称） to be the bike’s owner and arranged to meet him— supposedly to complete the sale. When the two men met, Bike Batman told the thief, “You’ve got two choices. You can wait until a police officer gets here, or you can just get out of here.” You can imagine what the thief did.

After that first success, Bike Batman developed a safer routine. When he sees questionable bike ads on Craigslist, he cross-references the image with bikes reported on Bike Index. Once he has confirmed it with the owner, he arranges a meet-up with the thief and will call the Seattle police department so that officers can participate in the action. In more than half of the 22 cases in which he has got back and returned bikes, the thieves have been caught. In one case, Bike Batman even helped a family recover a wide range of prized belongings that suspects（嫌疑犯）had stolen during a home burglary.

His nickname came from a discussion with a police officer who suggested he be called “Robin Hood”. Since he wasn’t exactly stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, “Batman” seemed a better fit. The idea of a superhero punishing criminals feels pretty silly to him, but the main reason he continues his work is to keep up Seattle’s fame as a friendly city.

8 . Dino Impagliazzo cuts onions like a professional cook. The Italian man makes a great vegetable soup, ________ most of his longtime “customers” can’t ________ pay for a piece of bread. Working with a much younger man, the 90-year-old, Impagliazzo is known as Rom’s “chef of the ________.”

Three days a week, he sets out to gather ________ with other volunteers. They are all part of RomAmoR (RomeLove), a group that he started. The ________ go to markets and bakeries to collect ________ food. The other four days of the week, RomAmoR volunteers cook food and ________ it in different places across the city. Such efforts help Impagliazzo ________ his dream of feeding the homeless.

It all ________ 15 years ago when a homeless man at a Rome train station asked impagliazzo for money to buy a sandwich. “I realized that perhaps ________ buying one sandwich, making some sandwiches for him and for the friends who were there would be better, and thus began our ________,” he said.

He launched (开始从事) his work to ________ the needy with other retired people. Now there are more than 300 volunteers, both young and old. Impagliazzo recently received a(n) ________ from Italian President. He was recognized as a “hero of our times”. He never ________ his idea would become so ________.

10 . Ever since I was young, I have loved professional wrestling. I woke up every Saturday to _______ my favorite “superstars.” My peers would _______ me for following what was called a “man’s soap opera.” So I put my _______ for wrestling on the shelf. Like everyone else, I wanted to be invited to the _________ and hang out with the popular kids. I became pretty successful. _______ my Friday evenings were busy with parties, I’d still wake up early on Saturdays to watch wrestling. It wasn't until freshman year that I_________ I wasn’t being myself. That year, I _______ many new things and activities. In my town, football was the popular sport, so I decided to play football, thinking it might give me a head start in popularity. But I didn’t do it well. That _______ taught me a lesson: I wasn’t a football player. More importantly, it _______ me to be myself. After that season, I went back to being a wrestling fan. I came across a quote: “Don't dream it. Be it.” When I ________ this, my friend Dan had the same ________ I had. “What if we build a wrestling ring?” we asked. We acquired the necessary wood and equipment for its ________. The following weekend, we ________ in his backyard. We worked the whole day to build our great establishment. By Sunday night, our mission was ________. Our hard work had paid off. We had a real ________. We decided to hold an “event.” We ________ for hours, trying to improve our wrestling ability. The date was May 24th. Our ________ had a start time of 9 p.m. To our surprise, about one hundred friends and fans showed up to ________ us. It was the most ________ night of my life and a complete success.

We are now well known throughout school. When I walk down the halls, I'm ________ by my peers, who know I did something I believed in, despite what others said or thought.