4 . This afternoon I was driving home after visiting my mom. I took the route that was more like a canyon(峡谷)drive with beautiful sceneries.________I heard a pop. I knew what happened-a big flat tire! I________ to the side, but this was a canyon drive with not much shoulder space. What’s worse, it________to be around a bend that people couldn’t see me, which made the situation________.

Cars were passing me with no________of slowing down. I got________in the car, feeling very________After what seemed a few hours, I________a car stopping at a distance behind me. A gentleman ________out and signaled to other drivers. With his help, I________to walk out of the car very carefully. Then he moved my car a bit out of the way while I was________the police to seek help. After much back and forth, they said________they gave me priority(优先权)since I was in a dangerous place，they needed at least 20-30 minutes to send________,The gentleman offered to check my spare tire while I was making the call. ________ ,by the time I was waiting, the gentleman had changed my________!I felt a wave of ________ coming over me. I told him if he hadn’t stopped by and helped me, I would have felt________.He just laughed.

Even after we________,I saw in my mirror that the car just followed me to________I was OK.I thought how lucky I was to be the________of such kindness in a hot dry afternoon.

Bad things can happen, but life will bend toward goodness.

7 . The quick action of Nick helped five people escape a fire on Hope Road. Nick said he usually left his house about 5: 30 am to lift weights, but he decided to stay at home to get his daughter ready for school that day.     1    “I saw smoke and flames and ran over and started beating on the side of the house shouting, ‘Your house is on fire! Your house is on fire!’” Nick remembered it was at about 9 am that the firefighters put out the fire.

Beverly Penny and her husband, Clark, along with their younger daughters, were sleeping in the living room, next to the kitchen, when they heard Nick beating on the walls. She opened the bedroom door and black smoke rolled in.     2     Her dog tried to hide under the bed, but Penny caught it by the leg and threw it out of the door.

    3     “When we arrived with our fire trucks, there were heavy flames outside on the house,” Jerry said. He called Nick a hero, saying that without his quick response the result could have been much worse. “The firefighters were fast.” Nick said.     4    

“They did a great job, and I can’t thank them enough,” Penny said, then looked at what remained in the house and shook her head as tears rolled down in her eyes. “Everything I have is gone.     5    ” She said the fire could have been caused by an electrical problem.

8 . Joanne was stuck in a traffic jam in central Birmingham at 5:30, and at 6:30 she was expected to be chairing a meeting of the tennis club. At last, the traffic was moving. She swung quickly racing to her house. As she opened the door, she nearly tripped over Sheba.

“Hey, Sheba,” she said, “I’ve got no time for you now, but I’ll take you out as soon as I get back from tennis club.” Then she noticed Sheba seemed to be coughing or choking. Obviously, she could hardly breathe. Immediately, Joanne realized she would have to take her to the vet (兽医). When she got there, the vet was just about to close for the day. Seeing the state of Sheba, Dr. Sterne brought her quickly into his office.

“Listen, doctor, I’m really in a rush to get to a meeting-can I leave her with you, and go and get changed? I’ll be back in ten minutes to pick her up, and then I’ll take her on to the meeting with me. Is that OK?”

“Sure,” said the doctor.

Joanne made the quick trip back to her house in a couple of minutes. As she was once more entering the hallway, the phone by the door began to ring.

“This is Dr. Sterne,” said an anxious voice. “I want you to get out of that house immediately,” said the doctor’s voice. “I’m coming round fight away, and the police will be there any time now. Wait outside!”

At that moment, a police car screeched to a stop outside the house. Two policemen got out and ran into the house. Joanne was by now completely confused and very frightened. Then the doctor arrived.

“Where’s Sheba? Is she OK?” shouted Joanne.

“She’s free, Joanne. I took out the thing which was choking her, and she’s OK now.”

Just then, the two policemen reappeared from the house, half-carrying a white-faced man, who could hardly walk. There was blood all over him.

“My God,” said Joanne, “how did he get in there? And how did you know he was there?”

“I think he must be a burglar,” said the doctor. “I knew he was there because when I finally removed what was stuck in Sheba’s throat; it turned out to be three human fingers.”