5 . At around 9 a. m. on Friday, Bonnie Raitt stopped at a picnic area along a highway. She began walking her two-year-old sheepdog, Cady, along a path when a mountain lion ________ and attacked Raitt, injuring her left shoulder. She screamed, and Cady, who had been wandering ahead, immediately returned to ________ her owner. The mountain lion then turned its ________ to the dog and bit onto the bodyguard’s head. Raitt attempted without success to fight ________ the lion with stones, so she ran up to the road to get help.

Lindsey Stirling, who was driving by, saw Raitt and ________. After learning about the mountain lion attack, without ________, Stirling jumped out of, her car with her pepper spray (喷雾剂) and also grabbed a stick. The two women ________ to the scene in the forest, where, the struggle was going on, with the mountain lion still refusing to ________ the dog. They both started hitting it and yelling loudly ________ it finally set loose the ________ dog.

Cady eventually ________. Stirling pepper sprayed the mountain lion in the face, and it immediately turned away and ________. Cady was ________ injured, and Raitt hurriedly drove Cady to a vet (兽医). After spending several days there, the dog was released. Now Cady, lying on her own bed, with her favorite toys, is on the road to ________. “My dog is my, hero, and I ________ her my life,” Raitt said.

6 . The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me.

On the afternoon of that _______ day, I guessed from the hurrying to and from in the house that something unusual was about to happen, so I went to the door and _______ quietly on the steps, full of expectation.

Before my teacher came and educated me, I, a deaf, dumb (哑的) and blind 7-year-old girl, was like a tense and _______ ship without a compass (指南针) feeling its way in a thick fog, not knowing how near the _______ was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of _______ shone on me in that very hour.

I felt _______ footsteps. I stretched out my hand _______ I would to my mother. Someone took it, and I was held close in the arms of her who had come to _______ all things to me, and more than all things else, to love me.

The morning after my teacher came, she led me into her room and gave me a _______ . When I had played with it a little while, she slowly spelled into my hand the word “d-o-l-l”. I was at once ________ in this finger play and tried to imitate (模仿) it. When I finally succeeded in making the letters correctly, I ________ childish pleasure and pride. Running downstairs to my mother I held up my ________ and made the letters for doll. I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation. In the days that followed I learned to spell in this uncomprehending (不理解的) way a great many words, ________ them pin, hat and cup. ________ my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a ________ .

8 . Adventure is in my blood. And I had been considering how I was going to celebrate my high school graduation. I didn’t just want a small ________ in the backyard, I started thinking about doing a solo (独自的)________ somewhere out of the ordinary. I took out the ________ and drew a 1, 500-mile route along which I would be ________ from the northernmost point in Norway to the southernmost section of Sweden. When I ________ my plan with my dad, he ________ as I thought he would. Because I got my adventurous ________ from him, he was all for it.

I had only been away from my home for three days, but there was an inner ________ going on. Part of me was homesick and doubting whether I really could ________. The other part of me was ready to ________ to myself and my family that I could do it by myself.

On the road, I met another bicyclist who was quite a bit older than I was. He started his journey alone by bike at the southern part of Norway and just finished. I could tell he had a great sense of ________. It encouraged me not to ________.

As I listened to my favourite artists on my MP4 player, I pedaled with my feet. There was nobody around me for miles. ________, that wasn’t entirely true. There were millions of mosquitoes (蚊子). My arms were so dotted (布满) with ________ that they looked like a topographical (地形的) map. But however ________ it would be, nothing could stop my advance on the destination. As you know, adventure is in my blood.

9 . I have seen many things and many people that can touch me deeply since I was born. What I have seen has left a deep _________ on me. When I was free, I used to write a blog post or _________ a diary in my notebook. I have made it a rule to do so. I regard that kind of good acts of kindness as nice _________given to me, which _________ my mental world and makes me delighted and happy.

On a regular, cold Friday morning in an icy train station, I _________ something that brought a tear to my eye. It’s not every day that you get to feel the _________ of humanity in train stations. _________ , it is the place where people _________ from one end to the other, where they quickly buy a breakfast lunch snack and where they wait with _________ for their often delayed mode of transportation.

Right __________ I walked out into the main hall on my way to my next connection, I saw a young woman leave something next to a sleeping homeless man. I was __________ and I wondered if she had put some money there. Instead, I saw a sandwich between the bench he was sleeping on and his blanket. What made this moment so __________ to me was that it was done anonymously(匿名地), and that it was not about __________ , but to help a homeless person and make his life just a little more bearable.

This made me __________ how it really is the smallest thing that can make a difference. I can’t help but wonder about all the other little acts of kindness that happen every day and go __________ . And what a gift it is when you get to witness them.

10 . On 20 December, in Newdale, a series of huge waves caused by an undersea Earthquake raced across the ocean near Goldshore. Worse still, it _______ thousands dead. Goldshore Beach was the only local beach to _______ the disaster without any loss of life. A10-year-old girl, Sabrina Andron, helped around100 people escape danger with her _______ of tsunamis.

The day began like any other on Goldshore Beach. People were walking, running or simply sitting on the sandy beach, _______ the warm sea air and enjoying the soft _______ that brushed their hair. Sabrina was one of the happy tourists until she noticed something _______ . “The water was like the bubbles (气泡) on the top of a beer,” she later explained. “It wasn’t _______ and it wasn’t going in and then out. It was just coming in and in and in.” It struck her that these were the _______ of an upcoming tsunami, which Sabrina had just learnt about in a Geography lesson.

Sabrin a was _______ , but she soon kept her head. She warned her parents of the ________ , though at first they just thought she was ________ . However, Sabrin a was certain that a terrible disaster was ________ and kept asking her parents to talk to a safety officer. To her great relief, the officer ________ realized the coming danger. The beach was rapidly ________ of people, just before the huge waves ________ into the coast.