1 . 17-year-old Norwood was driving three friends home in St. Petersburg, Florida, on February 20. As they reached a crossroads, a black car _______ them. Their car sailed into someone’s yard and crashed into a tree.

As smoke rose from the car, a bystander shouted, “It’s about to blow up! Get out!” The _______ had caved in Norwood’s driver’s side door, jamming it shut. _______, but otherwise OK, she climbed out through the window. Along with two of her friends, who’d also managed to _______ themselves, Norwood ran for her life.

But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood ran _______ and found Simmons in the back seat, unconscious. She threw open the back door and pulled her friend out, avoiding the broken glass as best as she could. She _______ Simmons to safety and laid her on the ground. “I checked her pulse (脉搏), and put my head against her chest. No sign of life,” Norwood told CNN, “That’s when I started CPR. Fortunately, I _______ my CPR certificate yesterday.”

She started pumping Simmons’s chest and breathing into her friend’s mouth in hopes of filling her lungs with the kiss of life. No _______. And then, after the 30 compressions (按压) and two rescue breaths, Simmons regained consciousness. The CPR had _______!

Soon, paramedics (急救人员) arrived and rushed Simmons to the hospital, where she heard how her best friend had saved her life. “I wasn’t ________,” Simmons said. “She will always help any way she can.”

2 . When Tony took up running as a hobby he was 42 years old. Now 42 years later he’s a national champion and a world record holder.

He never imagined at the age of 84 this is where he’d be, but then he doesn’t meet many people in their 80s who are out training four times a week.

“I can see it’s a bit unusual, yes. But it’s been my life,” he told the reporter. The retired officer runs at a track near his home in Leeds.

At an event in Italy last month he set a world record in the 80 metres hurdles（跨栏）with a time of under 17 seconds. But he sees no reason to slow down and his ambition（雄心）is still to be competing when he passes a hundred.

“I probably won’t be doing a crouch start（蹲式起跑）, but it’s only 16 years away,” he joked. Like anyone his age, he’s had health problems. He’s had a string of severe heart attacks, but doctors have told him as long as it makes him feel good, he should carry on running.

“I can’t let my heart get in the way of my training. When I am sprinting I have to give it my absolute all. My heart is the last thing on my mind. ” he said.

He trains every other day, dances and plays hockey and he recently cuts down on alcohol （酒精）and chocolate. He said “ I’ve heard alcohol can lead to dementia and I don’t want that. I’ve cut down to one glass of wine every other day. I now have to stay as fit as I can be to keep up my lifestyle.”

Tony’s next birthday is next September. And the first thing he wants to do is become the world’s fastest 85-year-old.

3 . Devon Gallagher, a college graduate from Philadelphia, wants the world to know exactly where she’s been during her worldwide vacation in a special way.

The traveler, who was born with a bone disease, had her right leg amputated (截肢) at the age of four. Although the amputation caused setbacks for Gallagher early on, she now sees it as inspiration for living her best life.

To spread that message, Gallagher has taken to social media, where she shares photos of her travels across the globe. Besides, she writes her location across her artificial leg before taking a picture.

Now she has been taking pictures across the Continent, which show her cycling over the canal in Amsterdam, relaxing on a wall overlooking the city of Barcelona, posing with a waffle (华夫饼) in Brussels, taking spectacular pictures in Athens and enjoying a river cruise in Budapest, with all the well-known locations written on her artificial leg.

“I get a new leg every two years and I can choose the design on it. One day I had a sudden thought to get a chalk-board,” Gallagher said. “My mum and grandmother weren’t too keen on the idea, but my friends thought it was great and told me to go for it, so I did.”

Gallagher said people often stare when she’s writing on her leg, but once she shares the photos, she receives only positive feedback. My leg hasn’t stopped me from doing anything I’ve wanted to do,” she said, “I don’t know if it’s my determination to prove to myself that I can do it. Bur regardless, I’ve been able to keep up with my peers and lead a pretty great life.”

Gallagher shows us that you should never let anything stand in the way of your dreams. And if life gives you an artificial leg, make art.

6 . Night fell. Doug Falter came back home, teary-eyed and _________. The professional photographer had just run from one end of Hawaii's Waimea Bay to the other, scanning the water _________ his "baby", a custom-made blue surfboard.

On arriving home, Falter _________ his search online. "Was surfing tonight and _________ my baby, " he wrote on social media. He hoped it would be washed ashore in the coming days and that whoever _________ it would have also seen his post. But instead of pushing Falter's surfboard to _________, the currents of Waimea Bay swept it out to sea, _________ the Hawaiian Islands.

Weeks passed with no _________ of the surfboard. Then _________. Lyle Carlson, who had made the board for Falter, comforted him with the possible reunion but nobody knew when.

But Falter never completely __________ about the board. It __________ on a remote island of Sarangani in the southern Philippines --- six months after and over 5,000 miles away. A local fisherman sold the unusual __________ to Giovanne Branzuela, an elementary school teacher, for $40. For Branzuela, riding the big waves had been his dream.

The once-blue board had __________ to a pale straw color during its journey, but its __________ markings were still there: two elephants and the words " Lyle Carlson Surfboards, Oahu. Hawaii. "

On realizing how far the surfboard had traveled, Branzuela __________ Carlson online, who, in turn, contacted Falter. Falter __________ the board was his and was __________ to learn his " baby" had floated across the world's largest ocean and __________.

He was thrilled, but not only for himself. Knowing someone ocean away shared the same interest with him __________ a lot to Falter. He couldn't imagine a better __________ to the story.

Because of Richard Sears' enthusiasm for    1     (tradition) Chinese culture, he began learning Chinese in 1972.     2     (attract) by the ancient language, Sears often went back and forth between China and America. In 1994, after his recovery from a severe heart attack, he made a    3     ( decide) to make the ancient Chinese characters, Jiaguwen, available online.

From then on, Sears started programming and building a database （数据库）of Jiaguwen.     4     took him seven years to scan the characters in Chinese ancient books. In 2002, the Jiaguwen enthusiast's website    5    （create) though with only a few page views per day in the beginning. It    6     (rise) to 600 , 000 per day in 2011 after a blogger recommended the site on Chinese social media platform. "I became famous    7     ( instant) and was given a nickname “Uncle Hanzi”， Sears said with a smile. Up till now, the website has been continuously updated，    8     gives lovers of the ancient language from all over the world free access to browsing (浏览) in their free time.

At present, the70-year-old American has made his home in China.   Apart from    9     (take)part in some social    10     (activity),Sears devotes all his efforts to the study of Chinese characters.

10 . Do you like running enough to make it a habit? Temey Wolfgram does; she has made running a lifelong career and isn’t stopping.

In February, the 16-year-old from Woodbury High School, Minnesota, US, competed at the 2020 US Olympic Trials. She finished the marathon (42,J95 km) with a tune of 2:42:47 as the youngest competitor in the race and ranked 76th out of 390 runners.

Then, in November, Wolfgram, who turned 17, broke the Women's American Junior marathon record with her time of 2:31:49. The old record was 2:34:32, which had stood since 1984. During the run, Wolfgram once hit a wall pretty hard, but she overcame it to finish. ^“I guess I can say I gave it my all,” she told Runner's World. “When I finished, all I was thinking was that I was super happy,” Wolfgram said.

This was only her third marathon. In 2018, when Wolfgram was 15 years old, she ran her first marathon just because she wanted to see if she was capable of doing it. “I believed that I would get faster as the distances got longer... and I'm still glad that I did it.”

When preparing for that first marathon, she ran up to 120 miles （about 190 kilometers） per week. Although her parents didn't have any background in running, they helped Wolfgram train. At first, her dad would take her out in the morning and run about 13 miles. The distance would gradually increase each day. On top of her runs in the morning, she would do cross-country practice after school.

Next, Wolfgram will think about attending the Olympic Games in 2024 after it's scheduled.