1 . Sixteen-year-old Corion Evans made a daring rescue to save three teenage girls. The 16-year-old was hanging out with two_______in a parking area near the Pascagoula River in July when a_______with three teenage girls inside propelled off a boat ramp (斜坡) and into the river. It came to rest some 20 feet from land, then sank. Actually, the driver had_______followed wrong directions from her GPS.

It was around 2:30 a.m. by the time Evans and brothers Karon and Caleb got to the river’s _______. In the darkness, they could barely_______the girls holding onto the roof,the only part of the car still,_______, above water. But they could hear_______.

Evans took off his shirt and_______,threw his phone down, then_______into the water, a river he knew alligators (短吻鳄) called home. He helped the first girl he saw and, ________ her head above water, led her ashore.

Just then, Police Officer Garry Mercer________. He dived into the river to help another of the   ________. But halfway back to shore, she ________and went underwater, pulling Mercer down with her.

Evans jumped back in the water and helped them get to the shore until they could stand. “If he hadn’t been there, who knows?” Mercer told the Washington Post.

There was still one girl in the water. Cora Watson, 19, could not swim. She was gulping (吞) water，________, struggling to stay afloat. “I heard Cora screaming ‘Help!’ and I thought she was done for,” Caleb told WLOX in Biloxi. Then, a jolt. “Corion had grabbed her.” The three girls and Officer Mercer were taken to the hospital and released. They’re alive because Corion Evans ________ his life to save them.

5 . An ordinary trip turned dramatic (激动人心的) for 18-year-old Justin Gavin, and extremely fortunate for a young family. Walking down the street, he saw something that made him_________. A small SUV drove past him, and it was _________in flames (火焰). His heart beat fast,_________when he saw children inside the car.

Drivers were honking (按喇叭) and getting out of their cars to get the_________of the woman driver. However, it quickly became_________that she could not stop the car.

The officials had already received several calls about a car on fire with a woman and children_________inside. However, without an officer on site, Gavin immediately went into action.

He ran after the car down the street to help the family_________from the burning car. “I’m yelling ‘Stop the car! Your car is on fire!” he said. Gavin finally_________the car when it came to a full stop. Without_________, he helped the mother out of the driver’s__________first. And then with the flames__________, he pulled three children out of the back seat. The flames quickly flooded the__________moments later.

Gavin said, “It’s kind of__________because I didn’t know whether I was able to get everyone out__________. Luckily, I did it.” Afterwards the mother credited the__________with saving her family.

6 . UPS deliveryman Ryan Arens was making his rounds near a pond, when he heard a strange sound. It was December, and about 15 feet from the frozen bank was the _________ of that sound — a brown-and-white wire-haired hound（猎犬）had fallen through the thin layer of ice. An elderly man was already on the _________, determined to save her. He was trying to _________ the pond and was striking the ice with a rock to create a(n) _________ to the dog, but seemed to be struggling.

Arens, 44, thought he _________ a better chance. “Animals are my weakness,” he said, explaining _________ he chose to take off his overcoat, even though the temperature was minus 15 and _________ the rescue task.

After breaking the ice using the man’s rock, Arens jumped into the icy water. He surfaced in time to see the dog going under. Arens swam about five feet toward the dog, grabbed hold of her collar, and _________ her out of the water and onto the ice. He then put the dog into the boat and slid it back to the bank, where _________ bystanders carried the dog to the home of the rowboat’s owner, a retired vet. __________ in the house himself, Arens jumped into a warm shower with the dog. A few more minutes in the pond, the vet told Arens, and the dog would have likely __________.

The next day, Arens was again making his __________ in the neighborhood when the dog’s owner came __________ to thank him for saving Sadie. “Would you like to meet her?” he asked. Then he opened the door of his pickup, and Sadie jumped out. She went __________ toward Arens, leaping around him and kissing him. Arens said that special delivery was the __________ of his UPS career.

7 . I was recently involved in a bad traffic accident. I was knocked unconscious by the impact so I don’t __ anything about the accident. My first memory is being given oxygen as the doctors and nurses tried to ____ me back to life.

As I lay in the emergency room, I found myself ____ my life and thanking God that I was still __. The good news is that nobody else was __.

Since that day, the physical recovery has been __ but not as tough as the emotional recovery. I've learned a lot about myself and about what really ____ in this world. Things that are really important are not“things”. I’m not invincible(无敌的)and I cannot ____ everything that happens in my life. I need to be better at ____ the things that come into my way that I didn’t plan for. As someone who was always in a ____，it taught me to slow down a little. I have learned to live each day honestly and ____.

___ I continue to heal physically and emotionally，I have a different opinion on ____ . When tragedy strikes，you can either let it ____ your spirit，or use it as an opportunity to grow. I have chosen to ____ from it.

I am an outdoor lover and I’ve made it a routine to explore different regions annually with a friend during our vacation. This year, in addition to beauty of nature, I’ve experienced something more.

It was late afternoon. A few hours before sunset, Darcy and I decided to hike to Acomat Falls, hidden in the rainforest.

Expecting to spend no more than an hour at the falls, we wore T-shirts and swimsuits and hadn’t told anyone where we were going. After crossing the wide river at a shallow spot and walking upstream about 100 yards, we reached the falls at around 4 pm. We dived into the green pool and floated on our backs, amazed at the canyon(峡谷) walls.

By 4:30, Darcy reminded me that we needed to head back to the car before dark, but I was waist-deep in the river trying to photograph the falls, the hanging vines(葡萄藤), and the dreaminess of the place. Darcy had to wait on a stone. I finally took a good photo—and then she screamed.

With a crack like thunder, a violent wall of water rushed over the falls, turning the dreamy swimming pool into a churning(旋涡的) monster. Flash flood! I jumped out of the river seconds before the flood crashed over the spot where I’d just been standing. Darcy climbed barefoot off toward higher ground. Darcy and I climbed up the canyon on all fours, grabbing vines to pull ourselves up. I looked over my shoulder and saw that the water had risen 20 feet in less than a minute.

Darcy led us through the dense bush, prickly trees, and ankle-deep mud. After we’d climbed 200 feet, we stopped to catch our breath. Now we had a different problem: The road was on the other side of the swollen river. We were stuck in the forested mountain.

We had no rain jackets and were exhausted from the climb. Darcy asked if I had my phone. It was soaking wet, but still blinked on. No service. We decided to move toward higher ground to get a better signal. It was almost dark. For a moment, I got through, and I heard the faint voice of Grace, our rental host. She said she’d call for help. Then the phone went silent—no signal again.

It seemed that we were in a desperate situation.

Trapped there, we wondered whether and how rescuers could find us.

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！