By that evening, Nicholas was really hungry. He ate snow and     1    （drink）water from a nearby stream so that his body wouldn’t lose too much water. Not     2    （know）how much longer he could last, Nicholas did the only thing he could-he huddled（蜷缩）    3     his cave and slept.

The next day, Nicholas went out to look for help,     4     he couldn’t find anyone. He followed his tracks and returned to the snow cave, because without shelter, he could die that night. On Tuesday, Nicholas went out     5    （find）help. He had walked for about a mile when a volunteer searcher found     6    . After two days stuck in the snow, Nicholas was saved.

Nicholas might not have survived this snowstorm had it not been for TV. He had often watched Grylls’     7    （survive）show: Man vs. Wild. That’s where he learned the tips     8     saved his life. In each episode(一期节目) of Man vs. Wild, Grylls     9    （abandon）in a wild area and has to find his way out.

When Grylls heard about Nicholas’ amazing deeds, he was impressed that Nicholas had made it since he knew     10    （well）than anyone how hard Nicholas had to work to stay alive.

She looks like any other schoolgirl, fresh-faced and full of life. Sarah Thomas is looking forward to the challenge of her new A-level course. But unlike her school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term resting. Instead, she is earning £6500 a day     1     a model in New York.

Sarah     2     (tell) that she could be Britain’s new supermodel earning a million dollars in the next year. Her father Peter, 44, wants her to give up school to model full-time. But Sarah,     3     has taken part in shows along with top models, wants to prove that she has brains as well as     4     (beautiful). She is determined to carry on with her education.

She has turned down several invitations to star at     5     (show) in order to concentrate on her studies. After school she plans     6     (take) a year off to model full-time before     7     (go) to university to get a degree in engineering or architecture.

Sarah says, “My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at     8     moment, school comes first. I don’t want to get too     9     (absorb) in modeling. It is     10     (certain) fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal. I don’t want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can’t model any more.”

Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asia’s biggest building, and fancy new hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top attraction.

Once there lived a rich man    1    wanted to do something for the people of his town. But first he wanted     2     (find ) out whether they deserved his help.

In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed    3     very large stone. Then he     4    (bury) himself behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow.

“Who put this stone in the centre of the road?”   said the old man,but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead , with some difficulty he passed around the stone     5       (slow) and continued on his way. Another man came along and did the same thing ; then another came, and another .   All of them complained about the stone but not tried to remove    6    . Late in the afternoon a young man came along . He saw the stone,    7    (say) to   himself ,”The night will be very dark. Some    8    (neighbor) will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone.”

Then he began to move the stone. He pushed with all his    9    (strong) to move it. How great his surprise was at last! He found a bag of money    10     the stone ,.

While thousands of college students headed for warm climate to enjoy sun and fun during their week off from classes, seven local students had other plans.

The Northern Essex Community College (NECC) students and one of their teachers spent part of their spring break in New York City, helping repair an area     1     (destroy) by the hurricane. “I wanted to see for myself what happened,” said Terry. “I couldn’t imagine    2    it is like to lose your home and everything that you know and the    3    (power) effect the hurricane had on those people. I wanted to do something, to understand their feeling of helplessness.” The group headed into Brooklyn’s Red Hook district, which was hit hard by the hurricane. There they met people from other parts of the country,     4    had also volunteered to help. Together, those volunteers and the NECC students worked     5     (clear) rubbish out of a three-story building. They put on protective suits and gloves    6    they entered the building.

Inside the building, the students saw nothing but broken walls and doors and pieces of the building     7    (lie) all over the place.

The students returned to school with     8    sense of achievement, a feeling     9    they helped people in need. I was remarkable how a community lost so much and was still able to recover, and this left the deepest impression    10    the students.

After starting a piggy bank (存钱罐) to save up for a snowmobile (摩托雪橇), one five-year- old girl didn’t hesitate (犹豫) to give     1     all away when she realized someone else needed the money more than she did.

This past October, Jackie noticed her 5-year-old granddaughter, Sunshine,     2     (empty) her piggy bank and was     3     (great) surprised when she found out     4     she planned to do with the money. She was taking it to school for milk. Jackie explained that she     5     (pay) for her milk for the month already. “I am taking milk money to school for my friend, because my friend’s mother doesn’t have money to buy milk,     6     I want my friend to get it, too,” Sunshine offered the     7     (explain). Since Sunshine’s act, Hausher, the teacher, started a GoFundMe account     8     (raise) money to pay for milk for her entire class for the     9     (two) term. In just a month, she’s raised over $ 13,500.

“The money will help Sunshine to make sure her friend get milk,” Jackie explained. “Thanks to Sunshine’s act of kindness for one student, it has grown so much that it now includes everyone, which     10     (make) me happy,” Hausher added.

Every Saturday night the whole family would get together and count out their money. If Mama could put a little money     1     a box as their “Little Bank”, they wouldn’t need to reach for Mama’s Bank Account,     2    always existed in the downtown Bank, as their mother told them. And they all felt it was their strong support. Every time some     3     (expect) thing happened, they usually     4     (gather) around. The money in the “Little Bank” would be taken out and counted. If it was not enough, everyone would figure out their own measures     5     (collect) the money, even giving up their free time or hobby. When they     6     (final) got enough money, they felt relaxed for     7    (keep) Mama’s Bank Account untouched again. In this way, they went through countless     8    (emergency). However, when the child named Katrin asked her mother to put her first salary into the Account, to     9     (they) surprise, there was no Account at all. In fact that is only     10     white lie, which their mother makes up to spark the whole family to struggle ahead.

The day began like any other on Goldshore Beach. People were walking, running or simply sitting on the sandy beach,     1     (enjoy) the warm sea air and the soft wind that brushed their hair     2     Sabrina, one of the happy     3     (tour), noticed something odd. She had just     4     (learn) about tsunamis in a Geography lesson.     5     immediately occurred to her that these were signs of     6     approaching tsunami.

Sabrina was     7     (frighten), but she soon kept her head. She warned her parents     8     the danger, though at first they just thought she was joking. However, Sabrina was certain that a terrible disaster was on its way and kept asking her parents     9     (talk) to a safety officer. To her great relief, the officer immediately realized the coming danger. The beach     10     (clear) of people rapidly, just before the huge waves crashed into the coast.

On 20 December, a series of huge waves caused by an undersea earthquake raced across the ocean near Goldshore and left thousands dead. Goldshore Beach was the only local beach     1     (survive) the disaster without any loss of life. A 10-year-old girl, Sabrina Andron, helped around 100 people escape     2     (dangerous) with her knowledge of tsunamis.

The day began like any other on Goldshore Beach. People were walking, running    3     simply sitting on the sandy beach,     4     (enjoy) the warm sea air and the soft wind that brushed their hair. Sabrina was one of the happy    5     (tourist) until she noticed something odd. "The water was like the bubbles on the top of a beer," she later explained. "It wasn't calm and it wasn't going in and then out. It was just coming in and in and in." Sabrina had just learnt about tsunamis in a Geography lesson. It immediately     6     (occur) to her that these were signs of an approaching tsunami.

Sabrina was frightened, but she soon kept her head. She warned her parents of the danger,     7     at first they just thought she was joking. However, Sabrina was certain that a terrible disaster was on     8     (it) way and kept asking her parents to talk to a safety officer.     9     her great relief, the officer immediately realized the coming danger. The beach was     10     (rapid) cleared of people, just before the huge waves crash into the coast.