3 . Compean, fond of hiking, had hiked the park near his home in Southern California numerous times. But after taking risks along a _______ path last April, he was lost.

With no flashlight, only a bottle of water and a power bar in his _______ , and less than ten percent batter _______ on his cell phone, Compean was unprepared for anything more than the two-hour hike. _______ increased.

Compean climbed to a spot, where he found at least one bar of _______ . "SOS. My phone is going to be out of _______ . I'm lost," he texted a friend, _______ a photo showing where he was.   The shot showed his legs hanging against some _______ .

Sixty miles away in Ventura County, Ben Kuo was working at home visiting the website when he _______ a tweet from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, showing an image of a man's ________ . The Sheriff's search-and-rescue teams had spent the ________ night unsuccessfully looking for Compean, so they released the photo to the public, hoping someone might know the ________ .

Ben is skilled at looking for where photos are taken and always ________ . When he saw the image of Compean's legs surrounded by an endless landscape of rocks and plants, he immediately ________ a satellite map beside his laptop. After comparing it to the satellite map, Ben soon ________ the location.

That finding tightened his search, leading him to an area that resembled the place in the ________ . The final step was cross-referencing the original photo with 3-D images of the area from Google Earth. The locations ________ ! He quickly called the Sheriff's department with the exact coordinates（坐标） ________ by Google Earth, Soon, a search-and-rescue team ________ was in the air, hovering（悬停）above Compean.

After spending 27 hours ________ in the wilderness, Compean cried, "I'm safe!"

6 . 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.

7 . 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.

9 . In 1970, Alan Ayers was participating in a skydiving team competition in Gainesville, Florida. He would be ________ out of a Cessna 172, a small four seat passenger plane. In preparation, the passenger door and front passenger seat were ________, but the passenger side seatbelt remained.

Ayers’ teammates skydived first, ________ him and the pilot as the only two people remaining in the plane. It was Ayers’ ________. But as he stepped out into the air, his foot got ________ in the passenger side seatbelt.

“I was completely out of the plane on my back, ________ at the belly (腹部) of the Cessna, with only my boot ________ to the pilot ... I tried to pull myself up to reach the buckle (锁扣), but I just couldn’t,” Ayers remembered.

Thousands of feet in the air, hanging from the plane, Ayers was out of ________.

“And what happened next was ________,” Ayers said. “The 23-year-old pilot unbuckled her seatbelt, crouched (蹲) down in the door of the airplane, with both hands off the operating handle, and ________ my ankle.”

Ayers dropped away from the plane, opened his parachute, and landed ________.

More than 50 years later, she often came into his ________. “To this day, I can see her two ________ hands reaching out of the door to unbuckle the belt,” Ayers said. “I owe my ________ to this person and will always think of her as one of the ________ people imaginable.”

10 . Nicholas Bostic works as a pizza maker. He was on his way to get gas one night when he saw_________ leaping from a house. He turned his car around and pulled into the driveway. Then he _________ he’d left his phone at home and couldn’t dial 911.

He ran to the back of the house, found an unlocked door, and _________ inside. All he saw was smoke. He _________, “Anybody here? Get out! Fire!” Not hearing a response, he was about to _________. Then he saw a teenager at the top of the stairs with some younger kids. Seionna Barrett, 18, was babysitting her four brothers and sisters while their _________ were out. Bostic pushed everyone outside—then Seionna told him a baby was _________.

Nicholas ran inside but he couldn’t find her. When he got to the stairs that led downstairs, he heard some slight _________.” The staircase was full of _________, and the heat seemed unbearable, so he __________ for a moment before plunging (猛冲) down the stairs. He held his breath and followed the crying in the __________ until he reached the baby and quickly lifted her up. He broke open a window with his right fist, __________ wrapped the girl around his left side and leaped two stories to the ground, __________ on his right side, sparing the girl from the force of his fall.

Bostic had saved five __________ in under 15 minutes. There’s only one way to define his action: __________ and heroic.”