1 . When I set out to drop my dad at the airport, it was dark and dull. It started to rain on the way. When I left the airport, the visibility wasn’t clear because of the drops of rain. It was before 6 am.

Even though the road conditions were poor, I drove at my normal speed. I was angry with the more cautious drivers ahead of me that were delaying my drive. The exit ramp (坡道) to the highway was a tight spiral (急盘旋). It is a dangerous spot in good weather and totally scary when the weather is miserable or it is dark. But I didn’t want to slow down and arrive home any later than necessary. I drove down the ramp too fast. The road was wet and my car slid, landing face down on the ramp.

I didn’t like to drive by myself at the time and had insisted on taking my husband and son with me on the trip. Thankfully, I was alone in the car. My accident was slight. In fact, I was lucky enough not to have a single scratch. I started to shake when thinking the injuries my son would have suffered had he been in the backseat of that car with no seatbelt when it rolled. After the car rolled three times, I found my mobile phone was lost in a pile of small things that were all lying in the bottom of the car. A lady was kind enough to let me borrow her mobile phone, but without the numbers pre-programmed (预编的), who could I call? I was lucky enough to remember my father’s mobile phone number, and fortunate that he hadn’t yet got on his plane.

You never know when an accident will happen. As a driver, I will keep safety in mind by obeying all traffic laws and have safe-driving habits, especially in bad weather. Insist your children always wear their seatbelts. Life is a journey and everyone should value it and enjoy the ride.

8 . You never really know how you’ll react to an emergency situation until it happens to you. Many people _________ when things go wrong, but others instinctively know how to take charge. Thankfully for a group of students in Topsham, Maine, brothers Connor and Seamus fell into the _________ category. Connor and Seamus were riding the bus to school one morning when Connor saw the _________ Arthur suffer a medical emergency and fall onto the floor heavily. The bus went _________, heading to the ditch(渠) on the right. Connor who learnt how to drive knew _________ what he had to do.

“I rose and pressed on the brake and told my younger brother to call 911,” he said, recalling his thoughts in the moment. “I need to _________ this bus before it goes into the ditch.”

The teenager held the _________ while jamming his foot onto the brake. Meanwhile, Seamus dialed 911 immediately and then began to direct the other _________ to get off the bus quickly. All the while, he kept _________ and even paused to give a crying student a(n) __________.

While Seamus handled the other kids, Connor and another student had just started giving Arthur CPR when the police arrived on the scene. Using a defibrillator(除颤器), they __________ to get the victim’s heart beating again.

The brothers are being __________ for their action. The police say they kept the situation under control and prevented anyone else getting __________. “But for them, maybe we would have __________ the best chance,” said Gomez, a policeman. “Thank them for __________ and being heroes.”