4 . A group of Georgia high school football players are being praised as heroes. They ______into action last week to save a woman following a car crash.

The students were on their way to school on Friday morning when they saw the crash______ in front of their school. The football players ______ helped the woman driver escape by tearing open her door as smoke and petrol poured from her badly ______ vehicle.

Luis Goya, a math teacher at the high school, praised the boys’ ______ on the Internet detailing the ______. “The football players in my school really _______ today,” Goya wrote in his post. “They went above and beyond to help.” People could know the ______ story from the teacher’s post. The football players ______ a loud bang and instantly knew it was going to be a bad ______. They quickly took action. They began their attempts to pull the ______ from her car without hesitation. The door was jammed and in ______ shape. They literally started_____ their strength to pry (掰开) the door open, so that the lady could be ______.

Police said the lady was taken to the______ with cuts and bruises. She was______ to be okay. The school football team ______ the players. They said that they couldn’t be prouder of the ______ act and showing the good characteristics of their team. Are the players ______? No doubt they are to that woman and her ______.

6 . A plane was flying somewhere to cut an abandoned oil pipeline. The pilot Downs ________ eight employees of the oil company and a man named Eliot on board.

Halfway, the plane was ________ by a sandstorm. It was ________ to successfully land. While the ten men were ________ for the survival, they found themselves in the depth of the desert. The plane was badly damaged and all the communication equipment didn’t ________. There were quarrels among the eight ________ for different escape plans. Soon, they ________ to fight against each other. Natural disasters had not killed them yet, but ________ disasters were about to destroy them ________.

At the moment, Eliot ________ shouted, “I’m an airplane designer. The main parts of the plane are not ________. As long as everyone works together, we can mend the plane.” People immediately stopped fighting and were ________ in their hearts. Under Eliot’s command, they began to be ________. Food and ________ could only last for ten days so they only ate two meals a day and ________ drinking water as planned. The repair work_________ in an orderly manner. Eight days later, the plane had not been ________ yet, but a camel team of businessmen passed by and ________ them.

Later, Downs knew that Eliot wasn’t an airplane designer at all and asked Eliot why he cheated them. Eliot said calmly, “If I hadn’t ________ then, could everyone live to this day?” Downs suddenly realized: being trapped in the ________ is terrible, but what is more terrible is that there is no hope for survival!

7 . 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.”

8 . 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!"

9 . Surviving Mount Rainier

Bad luck and poor timing left Krasnitskiy and three climbers stuck on Mount Rainier for several long days. They faced mountain climbing’s___________tests. One man suffered___________sickness; ice and rockfall___________down at night; cold nights in a___________that got torn left them hypothermic(体温过低的). Calm confidence, skill and the courage to continue up the___________route, despite illness and injury, likely saved their lives.

The climbers___________on a Friday, camping low on the route the first night because they were___________about rockfall after a climber had recently died in an accident at the route’s typical___________camp.

On Saturday, at about 10,500 feet, one of the climbers became sick from the altitude, which began to slow them down.

By Sunday evening, the ill climber was___________, and they had to make an unplanned camp on steep snow. A____________wind, unexpected and strong, began to break their tent. It was a cold night.

On Monday, they called 911. For several____________, they watched as high winds____________rangers’(护林员) attempts at a helicopter rescue. Their food was____________and they shared a single bottle of snowmelt(融雪水) each day.

Then the icefall____________their tent platform and squeezed them together. It was impossible to climb down. On Wednesday, they decided to____________their climb---____________, carefully, resting when they were weak.

Krasnitskiy thought of all the people who loved him, and it really____________him they must be worried. As he climbed, he just kept yelling out to his____________, “We have to get there.”

However, on Thursday morning, their spirits began to____________. They started to____________they could continue. But then the helicopter arrived. They were rescued.

10 . On a foggy Sunday morning, Amrisha Vaish was sleeping soundly at home in Arlington, Virginia. The sound that woke him at 7:15 was so loud that he assumed it came from inside his house. As he got up to _______ carefully, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from outside. Looking out of his bedroom window, he noticed a tree _______ in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped by smoke around the tree’s base, and its engine was on fire.

Seeing that, he immediately grabbed buckets of water and ran to the crash site. Up close, the _______ looked worse. The car was split nearly in two, and the tree was where the driver’s seat ought to have been, as if _______ there. He thought that no one could have survived this crash, and yet there was 15-year-old Quintin Thompson, still _______ with his terrified face pressed against the driver’s side window, in visible pain. Vaish tried putting out the fire with his buckets of water yet with no success. When the   _______ got into the front seats, he realized he had to get the boy out of there as soon as possible.

Instantly, Vaish tried to open the back door, but he failed. He picked up a stone beside the tree and hit the back door. This time, it _______. The back door was opened and Vaish crawled in. Thompson was struggling to get free when Vaish noticed how _______ his legs were. Using a pocketknife, Vaish sawed through Thompson’s seat belt. Now that Thompson was free of restraints (束缚), Vaish pulled him out of a window, and then dragged him to safety before the car was _______ surrounded by flames. Vaish called an ambulance as Thompson suffered severely. Soon, the doctors arrived and Vaish felt ________.