3 . A ten-year-old boy saved his mother from choking on a pork scratching (猪肉脆片) after _________ the Heimlich manoeuvre at a school demonstration just days before.

Dom Hollinshead used the _________ he learned in school after the snack got _________ in his mother Lisa’s airway while she was watching TV alone. She was left gasping (喘气) for air. _________, Dom found his mother in distress (痛苦) after leaving his bedroom at 10 pm to find his hat.

Ms Hollinshead said: “I was in absolute _________— I couldn’t make a noise or shout for help. It was a _________ feeling. I couldn’t even get any air through my nose. I tried dislodging (取出) it by coughing, then I tried to get some water but it didn’t _________. I just couldn’t catch my _________. But Dom ran down and gave me four massive Heimlich manoeuvres. When it came up, I started crying. I was lying on the floor laughing, crying and hugging him — he _________ my life.”

And the youngster did so by using skills she had no idea he had. Volunteers from St John’s Ambulance had been visiting the school to give a(n) __________ to pupils. __________, the lesson stuck with Dom. “I did the Heimlich manoeuvre on her stomach and it __________ came out,” said the boy.

Ms Hollinshead said: “He is my __________. It just goes to show what a(n) __________ job St John’s Ambulance does. Someone, somewhere, someday will try and nip it in the bud (防患于未然) by saying first aid costs too much but it clearly saves __________.”

7 . I’ve had many opportunities to experience living in a foreign culture, but my first experience came in an unexpected place-my own country. When I was 20, I got an internship(实习职位)in New York City. It was my first time to _________ outside of my home state of Texas.

With my move north came culture _________. I grew up in a big city in Texas. But it was no comparison to the tightly _________ New York with their 8 million citizens. I was used to life at a _________ pace; New York moved fast. The saying is true-this city never _________ . I had to adjust.

My first reaction was fear. Fear I would _________ at my new internship in the 54-story office building. Fear of getting lost on the subway. Fear that the locals wouldn’t have _________ for my frequent moments of confusion. My _________ ranged from reasonable to silly. But I _________ my fears and kept trying.

I learned quickly never to __________ a New Yorker always speaks English. New York is home to people of all walks of life, from all corners of the world. At weekends, I would spend hours __________ along Canal Street in Chinatown—the closest I’d ever been to an __________ country.

By the end of my internship, I was a little older, a little wiser and sick of big city life. I __________ the skyscrapers, tourists and the high price I had to pay for a cheeseburger and fries. But I had __________ , too. I was quicker, smarter and more independent. I knew I would miss that feeling of having the world right at my doorstep. But it was good __________ for the life of travel I’d soon begin.

8 . My father grew up in Chicago and loved the local team Cubs (小熊队) his whole life. I loved my dad, so the Cubs _________ me too. When I went back home after school or work, I always watched the Cubs with him. Two decades after my father’s _________, every time I watch the Cubs on television, I think of him and _________ with him in my head about their game.

Perhaps baseball is too _________ a thing for father and son to connect over. A ball game might seem, frankly, sort of _________ compared with family and career concerns. But that is _________ what makes it ideal for forming relationships. We had nothing to _________ as we watched them play, except for the _________ of enjoying the games together as father and son, which was much greater than it would have been, if either of us had _________ without the other. The Cubs were the “place” where we met to enjoy being __________.

Lots of sports fans have similar __________. Sportswriters find that 42 percent of sports fans were “very __________” with their family life, compared with less than a quarter of nonfans.

If your __________ with family are a little cold, you might be __________ too much usefulness in your activities. Maybe the solution is to develop a taste for baseball, or maybe instead for opera or __________.

9 . Steph Clemence always intended to go to college. But life has a tendency to throw.________in the way. Growing up, she led a(n)________life because her mother, who divorced and remarried several times, was always on the move. By the time she was at senior high, Steph had lived in 25 places.

Still, she had good ________and dreamed to go to college. But when her stepfather died tragically in a car accident, leaving her mother to support three daughters on a(n)________income, paying for college became impossible. After graduating from senior high school, Steph got married, found a job, and tried to ________what to do with a life that was so different from the plans he’d carefully laid out.

The________came one afternoon when she was cleaning her bedroom closet. Inside a box of files she________.an old handout titled “Mrs. Clark’s Book List.” Steph remembered it was given by Mrs. Clark, her English teacher at her junior school, who said to the ________ “Even though some of you might not go on to higher education, you can________to learn.”

And so it ________.The first book was Bulfinch’s Mythology. “I was hopeful and determined to ________myself,” she says. Steph had always read for________— magazines, true-crime books, mysteries, and romance novels. Now she would add Mrs. Clark’s suggestions to the mix. Starting at the top, she would read every book in the order they appeared. When she________went to college, she said that she’d be further along than the other freshmen. Each of those books sparked (点燃) her________to learn more. That made her________other books that weren’t on the list, hoping to________her knowledge.

Unlike many people who crack open a book in bed before sleep, Steph ________to read while sitting in a chair with a cup of coffee. “The books have opened so many doors for me about race, history and politics,” she says. “I’m no ________, but I now have the background to see why things happened and what it might mean.”

Thanks to a simple classroom________, at least one young woman who couldn’t afford college has ________her life by reading the works on the list.

10 . Numan Ertugrul Uzunsoy was performing with his acting troupe (剧团) on the streets in England. As the crowd _________ around the professional actors, the stage was set for an exciting story complete with costumed actors and an enthusiastic narrator telling the _________ on a loudspeaker.

Once the story took a turn, throwing Numan Uzunsoy’s character from an imaginary _________, the actor fell to the ground and began _________ heavily to show the seriousness of his false _________. Though the onlookers more than understood that this was all an act, there was one member of the audience who couldn’t _________ to watch Uzunsoy lying on the ground in great _________. Numan agreed to an interview with The Dodo and recalled his reaction to the _________.

“The _________ I played was injured and painful, ” he told The Dodo. “He’d fallen off a horse, and was breathing hard. I felt ____________ on my face. First, I thought my co-star was approaching me.”

Though some actors might be frustrated that someone ____________ the scene, Uzunsoy quickly broke into a smile as he felt the kisses from a particularly worried dog.

“I was very happy when I felt the dog’s kisses,” Uzunsoy spoke of the encounter. “I was very ____________. He was like an angel who wanted to help me. It was a very emotional moment for me. I hadn’t ____________ it.”

One might assume that the acting troupe would be annoyed, or at the very least, ____________ with this interruption, but everyone seemed to enjoy the dog’s reaction to the scene. The dog displayed its ____________ for humans in a most profound way.