1 . Brandon Leseberg and his sons, Louie, 6 years old, Everett, 3 years old, headed for their farm one afternoon. When the sun set, Brandon_______ feeding his cows and decided to go back. His two boys ran ahead of him. Louie_______at a water tap on top of an old well to drink water. However, the board on the well had grown fragile(易碎的) over time. When Louie stepped on it, it was_______. Louie fell into the well! Brandon didn’t notice the_______until Everett told him. Brandon ran to the well with worry and jumped in, and luckily, he_______Louie.

Knowing they couldn’t stay in the ice-cold water for so long, Brandon put his own legs against the narrow walls to_______himself when he lifted his son, _______his body was still partly sliding down. Though tired, Brandon shouted to Everett, “You have to be_______. Run to the road and stand by the mailbox until someone stops. Tell them we need _______.” Everett did as he was________.

Minutes passed like hours for Brandon. He’d been hoping for the________of strangers, but there was no sign of anyone. ________, about 15 minutes later, Christi and Mark, their neighbors, were coming to rescue them when they heard Everett crying for help. Finally, Brandon and Louie were________by the neighbors. Brandon was________for all the rescuers’ action. “If there is a(n)________in this story, it’s three-year-old Everett. He’s a real lifesaver”, the neighbors said.

2 . A woman in her 20s from Aztec, New Mexico, went on a hiking trip in the Deer Park area along the Colorado Trail. She __ off-path and didn’t follow the pathway. __ , she headed south along the Animas riverbank.

That’s when her worst __ happened. She fell off along the mountain’s side while taking photos. She also broke her leg and was forced to spend two nights in the cold ___without knowing how she could get out. Slowly but surely, she found a place where she could easily be __ and started calling for help.

The Silverton Narrow Gauge Train was carrying people to appreciate the beautiful ___of Silverton. One train __ noticed a woman who was crying for help. She told the train conductor, who __ asked for an emergency response team to __ them in their rescue. The two train conductors, Nick and Kylah stopped the tour train and asked the passengers to wait as they __ to rescue the woman. Nick got supplies and materials on the train to __ the hiker’s broken leg. Kylah stayed with her and kept her __ until the Silverton Medical Rescue Team arrived. The woman was rescued and sent to __ . Luckily, aside from the broken leg, she __ just fine. She thanked all the people involved, especially the train conductors. The __ could have happened but for the train passenger who noticed her asking for help.

3 . There are some disabled people in the world who fight an unseen battle within themselves every day. They never cry and ________, but with a big smile on their face. I call such people ________ because they know the art of living life.

Six-and-a-half years back, I was in a car accident. The driver slept, and the car fell in the ditch, as a result of which, I suffered ________ injuries: the radius and ulna(槎骨和尺骨) on my right arm were ________; three vertebrae of my backbone were crushed. But what ________ my life and personality completely was the spinal cord(脊髓) injury. We did try to find an ambulance but ________, so I was thrown in the back of a pother jeep, and then ________ to the nearby hospital. Unfortunately, I was ________ for there was no first aid. After several attempts, I finally ended up in a comparatively better hospital, where I ________ three major and two minor surgeries.

The days I spent in the hospital were ________. I was in severe pain, especially ________, I was fed up with wearing the hospital gown, looking at the white walls, sitting idle. I was so ________ that I felt life was almost pointless and ________. But then I realized that instead of crying for what I had lost, I had people around who were concerned about me. Thus, there came the best ________ that I took in my entire life — painting, a magic way to color my life.

That’s how this ________ helped me in exploring an artist in me and how this art kept me alive through the whole journey.

4 . A car with three teenage girls ran into the Pascagoula River accidentally. The car floated 25 yards into the river and then began to ________. The girls ________ to the vehicle’s top where they screamed for help.

A strong and confident swimmer since childhood, Corion Evans, 16, heard their calls. He ________ threw down his phone, ________ his shirt and shoes and jumped into the river. With the vehicle nearly out of sight, he ________ the situation called for quick action. He ________ task of pulling the girls to safety as quickly as possible. Corion helped calm the ________ girls when he reached the vehicle. Finally, he guided the three girls safely back to the shore.

The girls were all treated at a nearby ________ and are expected to make a full ________. One of the ________   survivors became emotional as she reflected on the scary ________. She thought it might be the end of her ________ as she hopelessly tried to stay afloat.

“Mr. Evans is a true ________. He displayed incredible bravery and selflessness by ________ his own safety to help people in danger,” she added. “If Mr. Evans had not assisted, it could have possibly ________ a tragedy（悲剧）instead of all of us rescued safely.”

5 . Hunter Kittle, 24 years old, was driving through California’s Mount Baldy when his night took an unexpected turn. As he was going down the road, his car turned _________suddenly and fell directly 70 feet into a valley.

The young man amazingly_________the fall, but he wasn’t fully in the clear. He _________in his broken car with an injured lung, a fractured (骨折的) skull and a broken leg. His_________must have been beyond description.

Due to his_________injuries and the shape of his now destroyed vehicle, Hunter was unable to make his way out of the vehicle. He had to deal with his huge pain alone until someone found him.

The Kittle family were also_________ about where their son could be and as each day passed without any_________, the situation became worse.

After a total of three nights, a motorist_________and noticed the car wreck (残骸)in the _________. The ambulance was called__________and ran to the scene to keep Hunter alive. Soon, Hunter was airlifted to the__________, on his way to recovery.

When Hunter was in his hospital bed and says, “I was so happy that I was finally being __________, and that I still had a chance left to survive” He goes on to __________“Mainly, it was mind over matter (精神的力量). ” My desire to live long enough made it, one way or another. I didn’t want that to be my final chapter in my life book.”

Thanks to his__________to live and a keen-eyed stranger, Hunter survived this tragedy and now had a new perspective on__________.