1 . A plane was flying somewhere to cut an abandoned oil pipeline. The pilot Downs ________ eight employees of the oil company and a man named Eliot on board.

Halfway, the plane was ________ by a sandstorm. It was ________ to successfully land. While the ten men were ________ for the survival, they found themselves in the depth of the desert. The plane was badly damaged and all the communication equipment didn’t ________. There were quarrels among the eight ________ for different escape plans. Soon, they ________ to fight against each other. Natural disasters had not killed them yet, but ________ disasters were about to destroy them ________.

At the moment, Eliot ________ shouted, “I’m an airplane designer. The main parts of the plane are not ________. As long as everyone works together, we can mend the plane.” People immediately stopped fighting and were ________ in their hearts. Under Eliot’s command, they began to be ________. Food and ________ could only last for ten days so they only ate two meals a day and ________ drinking water as planned. The repair work_________ in an orderly manner. Eight days later, the plane had not been ________ yet, but a camel team of businessmen passed by and ________ them.

Later, Downs knew that Eliot wasn’t an airplane designer at all and asked Eliot why he cheated them. Eliot said calmly, “If I hadn’t ________ then, could everyone live to this day?” Downs suddenly realized: being trapped in the ________ is terrible, but what is more terrible is that there is no hope for survival!

I was riding my bike to a corner shop in a Saturday morning while I was attracted by a cute boy who was walking his dog. Suddenly my neighbor drives past and honked (按喇叭) at me. I was so surprising that I crashed into an old lady walk down the street. Lucky, the old lady wasn’t hurt, but I fell off my bike and landed in the hole. My neighbor saw me to fall, so she stopped her car and rushed out to help her. The worst part was that the cute boy stopped to watch all happen. What an embarrassing but dangerous day！

4 . It was late, about 10:15 p.m. Janice Esposito got off the train at Bellport, New York, went to her car and started driving home. She was so familiar with the route that she almost drove automatically: turned left to the Station Road, then another left onto Montauk Highway, and then—bam! When Esposito’s car had just crossed the railroad tracks, it hit another vehicle and was pushed back onto the tracks. Injured but mostly shocked by the crash and by the airbags that popped up, she was stuck in the vehicle.

As it happened, Pete DiPinto was just about to go to sleep when he heard a sharp noise and saw the accident not far outside his bedroom window. As a volunteer firefighter and retired teacher, DiPinto, who was 65，fetched a flashlight and rushed out without hesitation. “Any firefighter would have done what I did,” he said. “We’re always on duty.”

At first, he spotted the other car in the accident. After making sure that the driver was all right, DiPinto looked around and discovered Esposito’s car straddling the railway tracks. And then he heard the bell ring, which signaled a train’s arrival.

DiPinto rushed to Esposito’s car and broke the window on the driver’s side. Esposito looked up at him, with her eyes glazing over. “I don’t know where I am,” she said.

“You’re on the railroad tracks，”DiPinto yelled. “I have to get you off right now! The train was running toward them at a speed of some 105 kilometers per hour. The driver’s door fail to be opened due to the collision(碰撞), so DiPinto quickly run to the other side and was able to open the door. He put the airbags aside, seized her arms, pulled her toward him across the passenger seat until finally got her out and walked her to safety as swiftly as possible. Several seconds later, the train crashed into the vehicle. “It was like a Hollywood movie,” DiPinto told reporters the next day.

“Last night,” said Gregory Miglino Jr., Chief of the Department in South Country Ambulance, “the hero arrived in pajamas(睡衣裤), not in a fire truck.”

5 . After their business trip, John and Mary returned, eager to see their lovely children. As they drove into their hometown feeling glad to be back, they noticed ________, and they went off their usual route to see what it was. They found a ________ in flames. Mary said, “Oh, well, it isn’t our fire, let’s go home.”

But John ________ closer and screamed, “That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn’t be ________ work yet, maybe there is something we could do.” “It has nothing to do with us,” Mary ________.

But John drove up and stopped and they were both horror-stricken to see the whole house in ________. A woman on the lawn was screaming, “The children! Get the children!” John ________ her by the shoulder saying, “Get a hold of yourself and tell us where the children are!” “In the ________,” cried the woman. “Down the hall and to the left.”

In spite of Mary’s disagreement, John ________ for the basement which was full of smoke and ________ hot. He found the door and two children. ________ he left he could hear some more sobbing. He ________ the two badly frightened children into ________ arms and started back asking how many more children were down there. They told him ________ more and Mary grasped his arm and screamed, “John! Don’t go back! It’s ________! That house will fall down any second.”

________ he ran into the smoke-filled hallway and at last he found both children. As he climbed up the ________ stairs, the thought went through his mind that there was something strangely ________ about the little bodies next to him, and at last when they came out into the ________ and fresh air, he found that he had just ________ his own children.

The baby-sitter had left them at this home while she did some shopping.

Yesterday on my way home, I witnessed a accident. A girl fell off her bike, which head was bleeding heavy. Many people crowded around her. To help the girl, and someone advised moving her to the roadside in the shade. I disagreed and insisted that the girl should be left where she was until doctors get here. She seemed not breathe at that time. I started his breathing using mouth-to-mouth way. Then I covered her wound with a clean piece of cloth and pressing the wound to slow down bleeding. About ten minute later, the doctors arrived and the girl were sent to hospital.

A supermarket employee in Illinois is being called a hero after     1     (run) across the store’s parking lot to save a baby     2     was in a runaway shopping cart (购物车).

Ben Mazur, a worker at a Schnucks supermarket in Alton, was pushing shopping carts when he heard a car horn honking(喇叭鸣响) repeatedly. “It turns out, the     3     (own) of the car was trying to get someone’s attention because there     4     (be) a runaway cart rolling down the store’s parking lot,” according to the supermarket manager.

Mazur quickly noticed it wasn’t just a cart－there was also a baby placed in the child seat. “The mom was putting     5     (she) other kids in the car and didn’t realize what was happening,” Mazur explained. “I stopped     6     I was doing, ran across the lot and pulled the cart back before it rolled into a stop sign.”

Now, both the manager and customers speak     7     (high) of Mazur. “We have a slanting(倾斜的) parking lot so carts can get rolling fast,” said Alton Co-Manager Tom Moore. “Quick thinking on Ben’s part saved the baby. Congrats, Ben, you’re     8     brave man!” “Not all     9     (hero) wear capes(披肩），”a customer added. “You ran     10     (fast) than a speeding baby!” another joked. “Good job, Ben.”

10 . By my third day in the hospital, I realized Owen didn’t visit. I couldn’t understand ________ my best friend wouldn’t come to see me. Struggling against the ________ , I called his ________ . His mom answered, and when I asked for Owen, she got ________that she didn’t tell ________ . “He’s not here right now,” she said. I thought it was ________ me where he was or to have him call me. But I was so weak, I just let it ________ . I found out later that Owen’s mom telephoned my parents right ________ we rang off. My phone call really made her ________ , and she ________ they talk to me. Later that night, my mom ________ . Did I remember drinking? Did I remember being in a car? I had ________ what she was talking about, so she finally told me the news: I’d hit a tree. Owen, in the ________ seat, was thrown from the car and killed instantly. The only reason I’d lived was because of my ________ .

My first ________ was of shock. I’d been drink-driving? Hit a tree? Killed Owen? I felt like the ________ person in the world. Even after I was able to ________ several weeks later, I didn’t want to eat, I didn’t want to talk. I just ________ at the wall in my ________ and cried. The only person I wanted to see was ________ . I didn’t feel like hanging out with any of my old friends.