1 . After lunch I was napping near the window when there came a big bang. I ______ sat up and looked out. Across the street, a car had just backed into a chain-link fence, which was bent in exactly the ______ of the car’s back end.

The driver got off. After ______ the damage, the man tried to put the fence back into place. His first attempt ______ and he tried a little harder. He grabbed the vertical support pole and pulled with his full ______. All of a sudden, the pole ______ and the man fell hard onto the ground, the entire fence ______ him. I laughed till I cried. ______, as you could imagine, he climbed out of the ______ fence and went away.

That, I thought, would be the   ______ of it. However, the man ______ minutes later with some tools. For the next hour, I ______ out of my window as he doggedly fixed the fence and even ______   it. Now the fence would be stronger than ever.

This man was actually a hero and I was embarrassed by my ______ judgments. Years later, I still look out of my window at that fence almost every day. It makes me ______ what else that man has improved, and how I can make myself more, like him.

2 . It was late, about 10:15 p.m., when Janice Esposito arrived at the Bellport train station; she jumped into her Honda Odyssey and began the 20-minute drive home to her husband and seven-year-old son. She’d just returned from visiting her mother and had traveled the route many times before. She practically _______ on autopilot: a left onto Station Road, then a left on Montauk Highway, and then—wham! Out of nowhere a car T-boned Esposito’s minivan, _______ her to move backward some 100 feet onto the railroad tracks. She _______ in the minivan, bruised (撞伤) but mostly just knocked out by the _________ and the airbags.

As it happened, Pete DiPinto was getting ready for _______. He’d just closed his book   and was getting under the covers when he heard the sound of metal on metal and breaking glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window. A volunteer_______and retired teacher, DiPinto, 64, never _______to think. He grabbed a flashlight and, still dressed in his pajamas   (睡衣), ran out the door. “Any firefighter would have done what I did,” he told Newsday. “We’re always on_______.”

The first car he came upon, 2,000 feet from his front yard, was the one that had _______Esposito. Once DiPinto concluded the driver was OK, he looked around and __________Esposito’s minivan positioned on the railroad tracks. And then he heard a terrible sound: the bells signaling an oncoming __________.

“The gates were starting to come down,” he told Newsday. “I see the headlight of the train.” DiPinto ran quickly to Esposito’s minivan and knocked on the driver’s side window. She __________ looked at him, her eyes unfocused. “I don’t know where I am,” she said. She     seemed unhurt. “Honey, you’re on the railroad __________,” DiPinto shouted. “We have to get   you off right now!” He pulled hard on the __________, but the door was crashed in and __________. The   heavy diesel train, traveling at 65 miles per hour, was moving fast toward them. DiPinto ran to the passenger side and threw open the __________. “Please, don’t let her be __________,” he thought.     He pushed aside the deflating (瘪了的) airbags, grabbed Esposito’s arms, and__________her toward him across the passenger seat until he could help her out and quickly get her to ____________ behind a signal box a few feet away. Within six seconds, he estimated, the train crashed into the minivan. “It was like a Hollywood movie,” DiPinto told reporters the next day.

But this one had a twist. “Last night,” South Country Ambulance chief Greg Miglino told CBS New York, “the__________ arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck.”

3 . Many people panic when things go wrong, but others know how to take charge. For a(n) _________group of students in Topsham, Maine, brothers Connor and Seamus Collins fall into the latter _________. Sixteen-year-old Connor and 12-year-old Seamus were _________ the bus to school one morning when suddenly Connor saw their bus driver Arthur McDougall _________ a medical emergency and hit the floor heavily. The bus was _________ the ditch (沟渠) on the right. Connor who learnt how to drive _________ immediately what he had to do.

“I _________ and pressed on the brake and told my little brother to call 911,” he said, recalling the _________ at the moment. “I need to stop this bus before it goes into the ditch.”

The teenager held the steering wheel (方向盘) while jamming his _________ onto the brake.

Meanwhile, Seamus made sure someone called instead of him and began to __________ the other students to get off the bus __________. All the while, he kept his cool and even paused to __________ a crying student and comfort him.

While Seamus __________ the other kids, Connor and another student had just __________ giving Arthur CPR when the police arrived on the __________. Using a defibrillator (除颤器), they __________to get the victim’s heart going again. Then he was sent to the hospital at once.

The brothers are being praised for their __________. Police say they kept the __________ under control and prevented anyone else getting hurt. “If not for them, we would've maybe __________ a little later,” said Gomez. “Thank them for __________ and being heroes.”

5 . At around 10 p.m., Jane got off the train at Bell port, New York. She jumped into her Honda Odyssey and began the 20-minute _________ home. She was so familiar with the route that she almost drove _________ all the way. Jane had just crossed the railroad tracks when out of nowhere a truck hit her car, _________ her backward some 100 feet onto the tracks. She was _________ the car, injured but mostly shocked by the _________.

As it happened, Peter, a volunteer firefighter and retired teacher, was getting ready for _________. At the _________ noise of clanging metals and breaking glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window, he, still dressed in his pajamas (睡衣), ran out of the door.

He first came upon a(n) _________ truck lying 2,000 feet from his front yard. After _________ its driver was OK, Peter looked around and spotted Jane’s car lying __________ the tracks. And then he heard the bells __________ an oncoming train.

Peter rushed to Jane’s car and __________ the driver’s side window. Jane just looked up at him, her eyes __________. “I have no __________ of where I am,” she said.

“You are on the railroad tracks,” Peter yelled. “I have to get you off right now!” He __________ the handle, but the door was jammed. The train was __________. Without a moment of hesitation, Peter ran to the passenger side and __________ open the door. He __________ pulled her across the passenger seat and dragged her to safety behind a signal box a few feet away. Several seconds later, the train crashed into the __________.

Jane recalled the __________ moment. “I can never repay him for this,” she said, “last night the hero arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck.”

8 . It was a long weekend and my partner, Gabe and I were taking a road trip. We are both _________, and we couldn’t wait to go hiking and exploring.

At around 5:30 pm, we were _________ on a steep mountain road. I was _________ updates to my family and enjoying the view. We weren’t aware there had recently been flooding in the area. When I _________ from my phone, I saw a wave of _________ and an enormous tree rolling down the mountain, right in front of Gabe’s car. He _________ to stop the car, but it was too late.

The mudslide sent our car falling nearly 300 metres down a rocky cliff. It _________ on its side among some trees. I don’t know how long we were _________, but I woke up to the sound of Gabe moaning (呻吟). Every time I moved, I was hit with extreme chest pain and my right _________ was smashed. Parts of Gabe’s skull were crushed and his vision was damaged. But the body is a(n) __________ thing, and somehow we were both able to crawl out of the car.

We had no phone signal, so all we could think to do was __________ for help. But my chest hurt too much to even breathe. So Gabe __________ yelling as loud as he could. We were shocked when, after just a few __________, we heard someone call back.

When the emergency medical technicians __________ got to us, they loaded us into ambulances. I was in the hospital for a week and a half, but Gabe for six weeks. Even after __________, I’ll walk with difficulty for the rest of my life, and Gabe permanently lost the __________ in his left eye.

Before this all happened, we were happy-go-lucky people. We’re even more __________ now. Despite the __________, we’re grateful that we’re still living a pretty __________ life. The experience also __________ us as a couple. We still go on road trips.

9 . 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. It merely bounced off. I hit it again, with the _________ result.

The water level had risen, and soon I was swinging 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.

10 . I was walking along the main street of a small seaside town in the north of England looking for somewhere to make a phone call. My car had _______ outside the town and I wanted to contact the AA Company. Low grey clouds were gathering across the sky and there was a cold damp wind _______ the sea which nearly threw me off my _______ every time I crossed one of the side streets. It had rained in the night and water was dripping from the _______ trees that lined the street. I was glad that I was wearing a thick coat.

There was no sign of a call _______ nor was there anyone at that early hour whom I could ask.I had thought I might find a shop open _______ the Saturday papers or a milkman doing his _______, but the town was _______ dead. The only living thing I saw was a thin _______ cat outside a small restaurant.

Then ________ I found what I was looking for. There was a small post office, and almost ________ from sight in a dark narrow street. Next to it was the town’s only public call box, which badly needed a coat of ________. I ________ forward, but stopped in ________ when I saw through the dirty glass that there was a   ________ inside. He was fat, and was wearing a cheap blue plastic raincoat. I could not see his face and he didn’t even ________ his head at the sound of my ________.

Carefully, I remained standing a few feet away and ________ a cigarette to wait for my turn. It was when I ________ the dead match on the ground that I noticed something ________ red trickling (滴流) from under the door.