1 . On a wild July night, the storm was getting worse and worse. Kate Shelley, who lived between Honey Creek and Des Moines River, was _________ looking out of the window, wondering _________ it would wash away the bridges over them, when suddenly came the loud _________ of breaking wood, then followed by a great splash (飞溅的水花). She realized the bridge over the creek was _________. At that time, the midnight train was almost due. If no one told the engineer to _________ the train, it would fall into the creek with a hundred or more _________. The situation was so urgent that Kate _________ to go to Moingon Railway Station to get help. Immediately she _________ out into the storm with her father’s railway lantern.

Moingon lay on the far side of Des Moines River. The only way to get there was to cross a long wooden railroad bridge. Even in the daytime, it was _________ to walk on it because there was no foot walk or railing (栏杆) except only rails and ties. The ties were __________ enough apart for the girl to fall through.

Kate stopped when she came to the __________. She had never seen the river rising so high that she was shaking. What’s worse, she broke her lantern while __________ her way, exposing herself to the __________. She had to climb on her hands and knees.

It seemed like a long time. At last she reached the other side.

She stopped just long enough to catch her breath. Then she ran __________ to the railway station. When she finally got there, she was out of breath, wet all over, her hat blown away, her hands and knees still bleeding and her eyes looking __________. She told the station man what had happened to the Honey Creek Bridge before her fainting. Finally, the passengers were saved.

The girl’s heroic deed was rewarded. For her courageous act, Kate enjoyed a right of getting on or off the train at her door when she wanted.

2 . As 17-year-old Torri’ell Norwood drove through St, Petersburg. Florida, last February, the laughter and chatter from the four teenage girls inside her car quickly ________ screams. As they approached a crossroad, another car T-boned them, sending their black car sailing into the yard of a ________ home, coming to a stop only when it crashed into a tree.

As smoke billowed from the other car, a bystander shouted, “It’s about to ________. Get out!” she ________ out through the window. Along with two of her friends, who’d also managed to ________ themselves, she ran for her life.

But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, A’zarria Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood ran back to the wreck and found Simmons slumped (蜷缩) in the back seat. “She wasn’t ________.” Norwood told Inside Edition. She threw open the back door and ________ her friend out, avoiding the broken glass as best she could. She dragged Simmons a few feet to safety and ________ her on the ground. “I checked her pulse.” Nothing. “I put my head against her chest.” No ________ of life. “That’s when I started CPR.”

Had the accident happened a few weeks earlier, she might not have known what to do. But Norwood had earned her CPR certificate just the day before. ________ on the lawn and looking down at her dying friend, Norwood knew she had ________ little time to practice what she’d learned.

She started ________ Simmons’s chest with her interlocked fingers and breathing into her friend’s mouth in the ________ of filling her lungs with the kiss of life. No response And then, after the 30th compression, Simmons began coughing and ________ for air. The CPR had worked!

Soon, paramedics arrived and rushed Simmons to the hospital, where she received stitches for a gash (伤口) in her forehead. And then she heard how her best friend had saved her life. “I wasn’t ________,” Simmons told CNN. “She will always help any way she can.”

3 . One day I was driving to the marsh (湿地) for bird-watching. The weather forecast called for the possibility of fog. As I _______ the destination, the fog began to _______. At a turning point, I lost _______ of the car and ran into the wet land.

I tried to open the door, but it was locked as the water had _______ the electrical system. I remembered I had a fire extinguisher (灭火器). I _______ it and gave the window a _______ hit. Itmerely bounced off. I hit it again, with the _______ result.

The water level had risen and soon I was swinging (挥动) the extinguisher underwater. I had to _______for air and down to take as many _______ as my breath would allow. I was nearly ________. A part of me just wanted to give up. But then another thought came to mind, “You have ________ more time. What will you do with it?” “I’m going to try ________,” I responded.

I ________ swinging the fire extinguisher as hard as I could and suddenly the impact felt different. I ________ my left hand and felt a hole in the ________. I knew I was going to live.