2 . 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.

3 . On July 24, 1916, a natural gas explosion trapped 32 men working in a tunnel 250 feet below Lake Erie. The first rescuers who entered the tunnel were _________ by gas, and for hours no one else dared to enter the suffocating (窒息的), _________ deathtrap.

Then, late that night, someone had an idea: _________ Garrett Morgan and his new invention. Garrett Morgan was a successful factory owner in Cleveland. The son of freed slaves and the seventh of 11 children, mechanically minded Morgan had opened his own sewing machine shop, which he soon _________ to a tailoring factory with 32 employees.

In the early 1900s, factory buildings were crowded and untidy. They were often made of wood, with no fire escapes. Fire could cause serious _________. Concerned about his employees, Morgan _________ with a “safety hood” (头罩) that would allow the wearer to _________ despite a fire’s poisonous smoke.

Morgan knew smoke rises during a fire. Therefore, he created a heat-resistant hood with a long tube reaching to the floor. Wearing Morgan’s hood, a firefighter could breathe the _________ air near the ground. Morgan lined the breathing tube with a sponge-like material that was wetted before use to ___________ the air. A second tube was designed to __________ exhaled (呼出的) air.

Called to the scene on the night of the tunnel explosion, Garrett arrived with samples of his safety hood. Still in their nightwear, he and his brother Frank put on the hoods and bravely entered the tunnel. It was a dangerous __________ of the invention, but they saved two lives and __________ four bodies before officials closed the __________. Morgan knew that more lives might have been saved if he had been called sooner.

The daring __________ made Morgan famous and brought requests for safety hoods from fire departments around the country. But his greatest __________ was knowing that his invention would now save more people.

4 . It was the day before Thanksgiving and Kaleb Benham was wandering outside his home. His 90-pound dog, Buddy, was _________ nearby, doing what dogs do: getting into _________. Only this time, Buddy was getting into a real trouble.

The unmistakable _________ that no one wants to hear alone in the woods caught Benham’s _________. It was the deep roar of a bear. Benham _________ around to see the beast, which weighed around 350 pounds, 100 feet away. _________ the bear seized Buddy’s head and started dragging him away.

Benham, aged 24, chased after them. “_________,” he told CBS 13, “the only thing I could think of was ‘save Buddy.’” With extraordinary _________, he dashed and struck the bear. But it even _________ its grip (掌握) on Buddy. Benham tried prying open its mouth, but the jaw was ____________ tight. Finally, Benham turned to street fighting. It ____________. The bear dropped the dog and ran off into the woods.

Buddy was badly ____________. “My first thought was that I was going to lose him,” Benham said. He ____________ him to a nearby vet (兽医). Buddy’s ____________ took nearly four hours. Benham was ____________ to watch the process through a window as Buddy was operated on.

This was the second time Benham had rescued Buddy, says CBS13.

5 . Norwood was driving through St. Petersburg, Florida. The laughter and chatter from the four teenage girls inside the car quickly _______ screams. Suddenly, another car _______ into them, sending their car sailing into a nearby yard, coming to a(an) _______ only when it crashed onto a tree.

Smoke poured out from their car, and it’s about to explode. Norwood crawled out through the window. Along with _______ of her friends, who’d also _______ to free themselves, she ran for her life.

But then she realized her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood ran _______ to the spot and found Simmons _______ in the back seat. “She wasn’t moving.” Norwood threw open the back door and _______ her friend out. She dragged Simmons a few feet to _______ and laid her on the ground. “I ________ her pulse. Nothing. Then I put my head against her chest, but no ________ of life. That’s when I started CPR (心肺复苏).” said Norwood.

After the 30th ________, Simmons began coughing and breathing. The CPR had ________! Soon, doctors arrived and ________ Simmons to the hospital. And then she heard how Norwood had saved her life. “I wasn’t ________” Simmons told CNN. “She will always help any way she can.”

6 . “Fire! Fire! ” What terrible words to hear when I _______ in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, _______ house — the sort that burns easily — and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and stepped out into the passage. It was full of _______.

I began to _______, but as I was still only half awake, instead of going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I found it hard to _______. The floor became _______ under my feet. I ran into another room and tried to reach the window for fresh air. Suddenly, one of my feet got caught in something _______ and I fell down. The thing I had fallen over felt like a package of clothes, and I picked it up to protect my _______ from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor broke under me and I fell through to the floor below with pieces of _______ wood all around me.

__________, there was a doorway in front, so I put the package over my face and ran. My feet were terribly burned, but I __________. As I reached the cold air outside, my package of clothes gave a __________. I nearly dropped it in my surprise. Then I saw there were many people in the street. A woman screamed (尖叫) as she saw me and came running __________.

“My baby! My baby! ”she cried. Those people cheered loudly __________ she took the smoke­blackened package out of my arms. I almost failed to see who she was — my boss's wife. I had __________ her baby, and I became a hero!

8 . Luke is a cute dog, living together with me for five years. We get lots of   _________   in our area during the summer season. Many forests are badly _________ by fire each year. That hot summer, not far from our shelter, a forest   _________ fire. It was July, and there had been a heat wave going on for three days.

Somehow, Luke rushed toward the forest. There was no longer any hope at that moment to wait for Luke to come back to the _______. In fact, I was waiting for firefighters to tell me that he had _______ in the forest. Suddenly, a fireman burst into my office and     _______     me that Luke had succeeded in saving four kittens who had been _______by the flames. I _______   accompanied the fireman to the forest to get him back. _______ we got to the scene of the incident, we didn’t see Luke. Then we heard the   ________ of a dog barking in the forest. I ________the barks as Luke’s. The firemen ________ the tracks of the dog until they found him barking loudly by the side of an injured ________. Thanks to Luke, four kittens and a fireman were saved. This true story shows us that pets are loving, caring and compassionate. We should love and ________them. Little animals can do     ________     things for humans.

9 . The moon had gone behind a cloud and there weren't many stars in the sky. As I took a glance (一瞥) at my neighbour's house, I saw a flame (火焰) in his_________. I thought he was having a midnight fast food so I went back to my _________.

Soon, there was a burning smell in the air and I guessed something was wrong. _________, I jumped out of bed and went downstairs to _________. I saw fire coming out of my neighbour's kitchen. Right away, I _________ "Fire! Fire!" But there was no one nearby to hear my shouts for help.

I _________ into my house, called the fire department and went back to my neighbour's house. I rang the doorbell, hit on the door and called out my neighbour's name but there was no _________. I managed to _________ the house and rescued a cat and a rabbit.

I tried to throw water through the kitchen window _________ it was no use; the fire was too strong. __________, a fire engine arrived and soon the firemen put out the fire. They arrived just in time as the fire was going to __________ to the other rooms in the house.

When my neighbour came back, he was__________ because his kitchen was burnt down, but he thanked me for calling the fire department and for saving his __________. He wanted to give me some money in return but I did not accept it.

Weeks later, my neighbour repaired and restored his kitchen. He __________ me to see his new kitchen and there he gave me a medal that he had __________ ordered from a factory. It made me feel very happy.

10 . Bus driver Sondra Artis had just picked up the last student on her route. As she headed towards Surry County Schools, the driver _______ a burning smell in the air. When a student asked her what was wrong, she did her best to _______ her growing worry.

“I wiped the window and I said, ‘Is that steam or smoke?’ I said calmly,” Sondra recalled. “As I pressed on the gas, more came out. I just had to get them off that _______ . ” Sondra pulled into a church parking lot and turned to _______ the 20 students on board. She reminded them of the evacuation drills (疏散演习) they _______ at the beginning of the year and directed older _______ to leave by the backdoor and younger students through the _______ .

“I told the kids that,” You know, we _______ in the beginning of the year, but this is going to be _______ , so I need you to be calm,” said Sondra.

The students hurried to the ________ as smoke began to fill the bus. They were ________ , but Sondra remained calm throughout the evacuation. When they were out, she went back onto the bus to make sure everyone escaped ________ .

Seconds after they all disembarked (下车) , the bus ________ fire. Another bus came to the ________ to take the children to school, and Sondra was happy that everything ________ okay.