1 . Achilles was looking out of the windows while his grandchildren were playing around the house. “Look!” One child ______ all of a sudden. Achilles looked up only to see a small plane a few hundred yards away, losing ______. As a former Navy commander, he realized it was going to land in the icy river.

Achilles didn’t ______. He ran down to the waterfront. The plane had slid to a river far from shore and was now ______. The pilot was standing on the wing. Achilles knew from his Navy training that even a few ______ in the icy water could kill the pilot. Achilles tested the ice with his foot and decided not to ______ walking on it. So he and his son, Janson pulled two canoes out from their back deck. The two men ______ , pushing their boats across the ice. It was ______ work. When Achilles reached the plane, it had broken through the ice and sunk, with only its tail ______. With his son nearby, Achilles focused on keeping the pilot calm, ______ , “Just hang on to the boat as if you were hugging your wife.” The pilot ______ grabbed the paddle and the two men were floating together, but Achilles knew he had to get the pilot onto the shelf of unbroken ice ______ the man lost too much body heat.

Just at that time a police officer appeared and ______ for help. After a while, a rescue boat arrived, breaking through ice. It picked up the pilot and ______ him to safety. Achilles recalled. “I’m 60 years old,” he says. “There was no way I could get him to shore.” ______, he was satisfied he’d gone the right way that day.

3 . 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.

5 . The phone rang, but I was annoyed to answer it. Seeing the _________number, I supposed it was the endless_________ to sell me something I had absolutely no _________ in.

“Daddy.” It’s Alyce, my 12-year-old daughter. “Mommy was just in a car accident.” My heart _________ and then began pounding. A deep _________ came, “I’m all right, but Mommy...”

I sprinted(全速跑) a few blocks to what looked like a shoot (拍摄) for a _________ movie. Fire engines, police cars, and ambulances were randomly(随意地) parked in the street; helicopters(直升飞机) _________above. A bus was on the wrong side of the road. In front of it were the _________ remains of Susan’s car. Susan was _________ under the dashboard (仪表盘). It__________ she had broken nearly every bone, and she spent three months in the __________.

Two years later, we were attending an event in __________ of Martin Luther King when Alyce took a __________ look at a woman, rushed to and returned with her. She told us she lived in the building by where the __________ had happened. That night, she rushed to the street, still in her bathrobe and saw Alyce standing by the wrecked car, __________. She approached her, hugged her and took Alyce’s hand to her chest, saying, “Let’s pray together.” Alyce’s phone was out of __________ inside the car. So the woman lent Alyce her phone.

When saying goodbye, we realized we hadn’t been formally __________, so I told her my name was Douglas. She paused, __________ she hadn’t heard me. So I __________. She looked at us and said, “Wait, your name is Susan?” Susan __________. The woman put her hand over her heart, saying, “My name is Susan Douglas.”

7 . 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!"

8 . At approximately 10:15pm, Janice Esposito began the 20-minute drive to her family from the train station in Port Bell, New York. She has traveled the_________so many times and was familiar with it. She first drove to the station road,_________to Montauk highway, and then-wham! Out of_________a car pushed her backward onto a railroad track. Though suffering from injury, she was more stunned(打昏)by the impact and vehicle_________.

As it happened, Pete Di Pinto was about to go to bed. As soon as he_________the book, he heard a loud sound of metal and shattering(破碎)glass not far away. Di Pinto, 64, a retired firefighter, has_________stopped thinking. He grabbed the_________, still in his nightwear, and rushed out of the door. He told My NBC5: "Any firefighter will do what I do. We never_________."

The first car he met was_________2,000 feet from his front yard, the one that__________Esposito. Di Pinto__________that the driver was not injured, and then looked around to find Esposito's car straddling(横跨)the rails. Then he heard a harsh sound: a bell,__________ an oncoming train.

Di Pinto__________to Esposito's car and banged(猛敲)on the driver's side__________. She looked at him and said: "I don't know where I am." She__________unhurt, "Honey, you are on the__________." Di Pinto shouted. "We must get you__________right away!" He pulled the handle hard, but the door was smashed(撞毁)and jammed shut. The train was dashing toward them. Di Pinto ran to the passenger side and opened the door. He__________the open airbag, grabbed Esposito's arm, pulled her towards him, passed through the passenger seat, and quickly led her to__________He__________that within six seconds, the train ran into the car. "It's like a Hollywood movie," the firefighter told reporters the next day.

9 . The sound that woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning was so loud that he thought it came from inside his house in Wade, Maine. As he _________ to examine, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from _________. Looking out of his bedroom window, he saw smoke from a car about 500 yards away, its engine in _________.

“I grabbed (抓住) buckets of water,” Languell told BBC News. Then he and his girlfriend ran to the crash site. The badly-damaged car looked _________ up close. The car, a 1998 Buick, running into a tree, was broken nearly _________ two. No one should have _________this crash, and, _________ there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, whose _________ face was pressed against the driver’s side window, _________. Languell, 35, tried ____________ the fire with his buckets of water with no success. “When the flames got into the front seats, I realized I had to get him out of there,” he told WAGM-TV.

Languell ____________ the Buick’s back door and crawled (爬) in. Thompson was struggling to get ____________, Languell says. “That’s ____________ I noticed how bad his legs were.” Using a pocketknife he’d had brought with him, he ____________ through Thompson’s seat belt.

Now that Thompson was free of the ____________, Languell pulled him out a back window of the vehicle, and then pulled the teen to safely “before the ____________ car was in flames,” the police said.

____________ Thompson hurt his legs, and face, a social media post described him ____________ “looking great, smiling, and joking.” Languell thinks about that day often. “My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so ____________.”

Languell is one of the real-life ____________ changing the world.

10 . I was eleven years old standing outside in just my underwear (内衣) while I saw our house burnt to the ground. A few minutes earlier I had been sound asleep in my bed when a _________ woke me up. My nana’s _________ was just next to my brother’s and mine. A fire had broken out there and awakened her. Hearing her shouting, my older brother _________ quickly. While I was walking difficultly in the _________ and darkness, he ran from room to room _________ everyone in the house. The house, however, was over 50 years old and made of wood. Before we could _________ anything, the fire destroyed it.

I stood there _________ when the fire destroyed my books, clothes, and toys. I watched_________ while my mom cried and my dad sighed (叹息). I _________ what was going to happen to us since we had __________ all of our things. As I looked around, though, I __________ something for the first time: The things that __________ aren’t things. I saw my older brother running to get __________. I saw my nana and dad sitting together and my mom __________ our little dog. I realized at that moment that we were all__________. Everything that was essential (必要的) had survived the fire. Our __________ would continue. We were so __________. We would all be around to love each other for many years to come. And that was all that mattered.

I __________ think of that fire that helped me to become who I am today. It showed me for the very first time what is truly __________ in my life. It helped me to learn that the__________ we share is far more important than the things we own.