1 . Torri’ell Norwood, a 17-year-old teenager, has a story to tell here. She was ________ through Saint Petersburg with her ________ friends when the accident happened. As they approached a crossing, a truck T boned them, sending their car crashing into the yard of a nearby home.

As smoke rose from the truck, a bystander shouted, “It’s about to ________!”Along with two of her friends, who’d also managed to ________ out through the window, she ran for her life. But she then suddenly realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood dashed back to the ________, only to find Simmons stuck in the back seat,________. She threw open the back door, pulled her friend out and ________ Simmons with all her effort a few feet to ________. Having carefully checked her pulse and________, which indicated no sign of ________. Norwood started CPR.

Had the accident happened a few ________ earlier, she might not have known what to do. As luck would have it, Norwood had ________ her CPR certificate just the day before, with an intention to pursue a career in________. Kneeling and looking down at her ________ friend, Norwood knew she had precious little time to ________ what she’d learned. She started pumping Simmons’s ________ with her interlocked fingers and breathing into her friend’s mouth, hoping to ________ her lungs with the kiss of life. After the 30th compression, Simmons began coughing and gasping for________.

Soon, paramedics arrived and ________ Simmons to the hospital, where she received timely treatment. Indeed, true friends are those who are always there to share, to support and even to save our lives,________ the conditions.

3 . I often read of incidents of misunderstanding or conflict. I'm left puzzled. Why do these people create mistrust and problems, especially with those from other _______?

I was growing up in Kuala Lumpur(吉隆坡) in the early 1960s, _______children from different races and religions played and studied together in harmony. At that time my family lived a stone's _______ from Ismail’s. And no one was bothered that Ismail was a Malay Muslim(穆斯林) and I was an Indian Hindu(印度教徒)—we just accept our differences. Perhaps, our elders had not filled our heads with _______ advice.

Ismail and I were nine when we became friends. During the school holidays, we'd _______ the countryside on our bicycles, hoping to _______ the unexpected. At times Ismail would accompany my family as we made a rare shopping trip to town. We would be glad of his _______ .

When I was twelve, my family moved to Johor. Ismail’s family later returned to their village, and I     _______ touch with him.

One spring afternoon in 1983, I stopped a taxi in Kuala Lumpur. I _______ my destination. The driver acknowledged my________ but did not move off. Instead, he looked   ________ at me. “Raddar?” he said, using my childhood nickname(绰号). I was astonished at being so ________ addressed (称呼). Unexpectedly! It was Ismail! Even after two ________ we still recognized each other. Grasping his shoulder, I felt a true affection, something hard to describe.

If we can allow our children to be ________ without prejudice, they'll build friendships with people, regardless of race or religion, ________ will be by their side through thick and thin. On such friendships are societies built and then we can truly be, as William Shakespeare once wrote, “we few, we happy few, we band of brothers”.

4 . I was on my way to the library to do some studying for history class. That’s when I ____ my my friend and her family knocking on doors.

As I was standing outside one house my friend’s brother ____ past me and went to the ____ of the house. When the resident（住户） answered,I ____ him say,“Excuse me. Hi! I am raising ____ for my mom.She needs to have a surgery(外科手术)______ we don’t have enough money. Could you please ______ with a donation?”

The lady _______ him some coins and he said,“Thank you so much! God bless you.”Then he walked on to the next house.

I could see he didn’t have ______ and I also saw he had been crying.

Instead of going to the   ______ , I went to the bank,.I told them I wanted to ______ all my savings.The lady in the ______ said to me,“But, sweetie, I _____ you were going to use that money to get into university.”

I told her something else   _____ so she gave me the money. Then I walked to my friend’s house. They had only ______ nine hundred and sixty dollars, which wasn’t even a quarter of what they_______ I told my friend to take my money. When she saw it, she_______immediately it was my university money.

The idea of going to ______ had been a very exciting one for me----assuming I got accepted----but she needed the money _____ I did. Now her mom will be going into surgery in the next two days.

I hope all goes ____ for her and her family. My love and prayers go out to them.

5 . By the time we reach adulthood, many of us have had the good fortune to have at least one best friend. If we have_______around or changed our life situation_______,we may be lucky enough to have had several. The best friend relationship is often our earliest_______peer relationship, and it can be a source of great warmth and_______throughout our lives. The characteristics of best friendship change as we grow up and grow older, but the heart of it remains the _______. Our best friends are a warm shelter in which we feel free to be fully ourselves, to share our deepest secrets, to _______when we are overtaken by tiredness, to have a _______when there is something nice to happen in our life—a place in which we feel completely welcome to give and receive that most _______of all gifts, love.

Most close relationships do face_______from time to time, and one of the characteristics of an enduring best friendship is its ability to________the storms and to remain unbroken even as it faces changes. Our best friends are those who manage to love us through all of our________, as we do the same for them. We find ways to hug and ________the differences between us and offer love and________no matter what. We allow each other to be ________as we are at a given moment, even as we allow each other to change over time. ________, best friends sometimes feel like family. We know we will stick together ________we take our individual roads.

We may be on the phone with our best friends every day, or we may not have________with each other for a year, yet we know that our bond will be strong and________when we do________each other. This bond ties us together even when are apart and draws us delightfully back into the warm________of each other’s company when our paths bring us together again.

6 . When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant _______ Miller King, who was the best _______ at our school.

Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for _______.

Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from _______. He looked very _______, but he didn’t cry.

That season, I _______ all of Miller’s records while he _______ the home games from the bench. We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player,_______ I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller’s _______.

One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller __________ going over a fence—which wasn’t __________ to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept __________ from. But even that challenge he accepted. I __________ him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally __________ on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did __________ .Thank you for filling in for __________.”

His words freed me from my bad __________. I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was __________ ahead of me. I was right to have __________ him. From that day on, I grew __________ and a little more real.