4 . Every morning, Catherine takes exercise around some gardens in our neighborhood. One morning, she was walking _________ than usual, and it was still dark.

As she was walking, a cyclist (骑自行车的人)came up to her, _________ her handbag and sped off. She ran after him shouting “thief, thief”. A man further ahead must have _________ her or seen what had happened. He was washing a car with a bucket (桶)of _________ near him. He took the bucket and poured (灌)it onto the cyclist.

The cyclist drove off the street and _________ his bike. Some other people rushed over. My friend Catherine was worried that the people would beat him. She begged them not to _________ him.

She asked the boy why he did this to her. He _________ that he was the son of a farmer and that this year their crops had failed. He said that the money lenders would beat up his father and hurt his _________ if he didn’t pay on time. He said that he was hopeless and didn’t know what else to do. He was very _________.

Catherine was __________ moved by his story. She looked into the boy’s eyes and then took out some ________ from her handbag and gave it to him. She told him that stealing was __________ and that he shouldn’t do it again. He said he would follow her __________. He told her that he was in fact well brought up and that he had made a terrible __________

The boy left thankfully. Catherine sincerely __________ that this would be the last time that the boy tried to steal something.

5 . “Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. “If you _________, something good will happen someday.”

Mother was _________, as I discovered after graduating from college, I had _________ myself for a sports announcer. So I went to Chicago to knock on the door of every station and was _________ every time. In one station, a _________ lady told me that large stations wouldn’t employ a person without _________ since I just graduated. “Go out of the town and find a small station that might give you _________,” she said.

I returned to Dixon, where I had finished my high school education and had _________ in the school football team. My father said that our town had built a store and wanted a man to _________ its sports department. The job sounded just __________ for me but I wasn’t hired(雇佣).

My disappointment had __________ as if by design. “Everything happens for the best,” Mom __________ me. Dad lent me his car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio Davenport. The program director told me they had already __________ an announcer. After I left his office, I asked aloud “__________ can a fellow get to be a sports __________ if he can’t get a job in a radio station?” __________, I heard the director calling. “Do you know anything about __________?” Then he asked me to __________ an imaginary game. It was easy, and I did it without difficulty. The director was __________ and told me I would be broadcasting a game on the __________ Saturday.

8 . Avi Hatami had his ear buds(耳塞) in, studying for a medical exam. He didn't hear the first call for _______ help on the train out of Syosset. When another_______came about a minute later, the would-be doctor pulled out the buds and_______.

Hatami, who graduated from medical school in Mexico 10 months ago_______to the next car. He found a man had collapsed(昏倒) in his seat and looked very _______.

Hatami put Brad Wieboldt on the floor, and started _______CPR(心肺复苏), pressing down on his chest.

Soon, some color returned to Wieboldt's face. A crowd aboard the train had_______ the scene, and people started cheering and_______Wieboldt to hang on." The people could see his color coming back, so...they got _______, Hatami said. But he knew Wieboldt was __________near death.

After the train pulled into Westbury. Nassau County police EMTs(紧急救护技术员) came aboard and __________Hatami backed away, letting them do their job. Then Wieboldt was__________to a hospital in Mineola, where doctors treated him for a heart attack.

Wieboldt did__________. He woke up five days later, though he remembers__________of what happened. He was____________from the hospital last Thursday, and doctors say he is doing well.

For days, Wieboldt did not know the__________of the medical student who saved him. But after Wieboldt's story appeared in the media last week, the two__________through a common friend who posted one of the stories on social media. On Wednesday, they met face to face__________on the platform of the station in Syosset, where they both had boarded the train on March18. They hugged, and Wieboldt thanked Hatami for __________ his life.

"Without you, there is just no question I wouldn't be here," Wieboldt said during the__________

A few months ago I left my hometown for Canada to study. I felt nervous because I was going to     1     new place with new people. What worried my at first was that I couldn’t speak English     2     (fluent), and I also couldn’t understand     3     (they) customs. Everything was different     4     my own country. I had to deal with everything alone.It was a sad moment     5     I had to say goodbye to my family and friends at the airport. Suddenly, I felt unwilling     6     (leave) my hometown because I grew up there and had wonderful     7     (memory) of the familiar place. However, I know studying abroad was a     8     (decide) that I made myself. I had to accept the challenge. By now I     9     (get) used to the new life here already, though I’m looking forward to     10    (spend) the coming vacation with my old friends back home.

10 . My First Marathon（马拉松）

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train. Yet, I was determined to go ahead.

I remember back to my 7th year in school. In my first P.E. class, the teacher required us to run laps and then hit a softball. I didn’t do either well. He later informed me that I was ＂not athletic＂.

The idea that I was ＂not athletic＂ stuck with me for years. When I started running in my 30s, I realized running was a battle against myself, not about competition or whether or not I was athletic. It was all about the battle against my own body and mind. A test of wills!

The night before my marathon, I dreamt that I couldn’t even find the finish line. I woke up sweating and nervous, but ready to prove something to myself.

Shortly after crossing the start line, my shoe laces(鞋带) became untied. So I stopped to readjust. Not the start I wanted!

At mile 3, I passed a sign: ＂GO FOR IT, RUNNERS!＂

By mile 17, I became out of breath and the once injured ankle hurt badly. Despite the pain, I stayed the course walking a bit and then running again.

By mile 21, I was starving!

As I approached mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign. She is my biggest fan. She never minded the alarm clock sounding at 4 a.m. or questioned my expenses on running.

I was one of the final runners to finish. But I finished! And I got a medal. In fact, I got the same medal as the one that the guy who came in first place had.

Determined to be myself, move forward, free of shame and worldly labels(世俗标签), I can now call myself a ＂marathon winner＂.