1 . I know what courage looks like. I saw it on a flight I took six years ago. When our L9869 left the Orlando airport that Friday morning, we were a chipper, ______ group. The early-morning flights hosted mainly professional people ____ Atlanta for a day or two of business.

Immediately upon ____, it was clear that something went wrong. The aircraft was bumping _____and jerking left to right.   The pilot soon made a grave______that we were about to crash. No sight has ever been so sobering as that fuel, hundreds of gallons of it, streaming past my window out of the plane’s tank. The flight attendants helped people get into position and ____ those who were already hysterical.

As I looked at the faces of my fellow travelers, I was stunned by the changes in their faces. Many looked visibly _____ now---gray in color. There was not one ______. No one faces death without fear, I thought. I began searching the crowd for one person who felt peace and ______ that true courage or great faith gives people in these events.

All around, people cried. Many wailed and screamed. However, I heard a still calm voice, a woman’s voice, speaking in an absolutely normal conversational ______. Finally I saw her. In the midst of all the chaos, a mother was talking, just talking to her child. The woman, in her mid-30’s was______full into the face of her daughter who______to be four years old. The mother’s gaze held the child so fixed and ____ that she seemed untouched by the sounds of grief and ______ around her.

I strained to hear what this mother was telling her child. I leaned over and by some miracle could I hear this soft voice with the tone of reassurance. Over and over again, the mother said: “I love you so much. Do you know for sure that I love you _____ anything?” Then the mother put her body ____ her daughter’s, strapped the seat belt over both of them and ____ to crash. For no earthly reason, our landing gear held and our touchdown was not the______it seemed destined to be. It was over in seconds.

The voice I heard that day never wavered, never acknowledged doubt, and maintained an evenness that seemed emotionally and______impossible. Only the greatest ______and love could have borne that mother up and lifted her above the chaos around her.

2 . I was driving home. A car, driving at high speed and trying to overtake, crashed into a pickup truck. And five other cars also______in front of me. I narrowly______and pulled over. Immediately, I ran to a car which was upside down. I got someone to help and we got a（n）______woman and a large, unconscious man, both upside down, out of the______. I then went to the five other cars to______if anyone else was hurt badly______, no one else was in serious condition. It all took just a few minutes.

At the same time, the traffic had stopped. I looked over and______a group of 12 people, out of their cars, standing in a circle about 15 feet away from a young man, who was______still on the pavement. I asked them what had happened. They said the kind young man had got out of his car to cross the road and______when a car drove along the inside lane（车道）, very fast, to get around the______traffic. Unfortunately, the man was______by it. Many people said he was______; several had checked. But a feeling inside me said, “Can they be certain he is dead？”

He was badly injured, but I checked again and again, and felt a very______heart beat. I______pushed his head upwards. He then coughed, and started taking rapid, shallow breaths. By then, the ambulances had______. When they______, I left the scene and walked back to my car.

Due to the excellent doctors and______of nurses, the young man did______. He was released from the hospital after many months and his______was covered by all the news stations. I smiled to myself and felt very______to be at the right place at the right time, knowing a young man had his whole life in front of me.

3 . I was driving home with my son Giacomo, 15, on the A40 when I suddenly saw a small plane coining down. Out of nowhere, it _______ some 200 yards away from where we were_________, overturning and bursting into flames.

We were going 70 miles an hour and I managed to_______；otherwise we would have crashed into it ourselves. I jumped out, _________ Giacomo in the car. I remember shouting at him to stay there _________we really didn't have time to mess around.

Flames were coming out of the cockpit（驾驶舱）and I could hear screaming, so I climbed under the wing and tried to_____________the windows in but failed, and with the heat of the_________coming over the top of the plane, I _______ I might have to give up or I'd be in great danger myself. I found the small windows at the back of the plane had cracked, so my best bet was to kick those through. It ___________ and, looking back, we were unbelievably ____________; otherwise, it would have been a completely different____________.

I pulled a teenage girl and boy out.____________another guy, Joel Snarr, arrived on the scene to________________at just the right time. I don't think I would have been able to get the______________out—he was a big guy.____________, Joel seized him by the arms and got him out just in time. I could____________straight away Joel had a military background by how he conducted himself. We'd just got all three of them, Stuart Moore, who’d flown the plane, and his nephew and niece, to a safe ____________when the plane exploded.

The emergency services ____________ pretty quickly, and then they did their duty. When I got back to my__________, Giacomo and I stared at each other, almost laughing in __________. It was a very strange moment—things like this only happen in films.

4 . A family vacation has been saved thanks to a stranger who helped the _______ travelers after learning about their trouble on social media.

The Melrose family had been in the _______ of a 4,000-kilometer road trip across Australia when _______ their car _______ down. Daryn Melrose, his wife and Iwo daughters had left their home in Gippsland with two boats _______ together so they could _______ in the National Sailing Championships in Darwin. Since the youngsters had spent all year _______ for the competition, they were heartbroken over the idea that all of their efforts had been in _______ . But with 620 miles standing between them and _______, it seemed as if they had no choice but to __________ their dreams of competing.

Upon learning about their__________，ABC News made a social media __________ with the   hopes that one of their __________ would help the family. As fate (命运)would have it, Darwin liver Rodney Sims saw the plea (请求)of__________ the family. Sims told ABC News that about 30 years ago he met with a similar situation with a broken-down car and someone helped him out. And it was his time to __________ .

Sims then drove his truck all the way to where the family was staying. They were   all __________ on seeing Sims, truck coming to __________ them. Then, he brought the family all the way back to Darwin. Needless to say, the stranger's act of kindness __________ all the family members. Daiyn and his family thought it was a legend (传奇)and they all thought Sims was__________ and they could not be more __________ for his efforts.

5 . When two ninth-grade students found smoke coming out of the back of their school bus early Tuesday morning，their bus driver knew just what to do. Thanks to her _______ thinking，more than 50 students’ lives were _______.

While _______ a group of 56 students to their middle school in Duncan，South Carolina，on Tuesday，Teresa Stroble noticed the heavy _______ rising from the back of her bus. She _______ pulled the bus over，evacuated(疏散) the students，and radioed the transportation office to ask _______ to call 911. Firefighters arrived at the scene shortly after the fire began and quickly _______ the fire，which CBS News reported was so _______ that people driving by were able to feel its heat inside their cars. Parents of the children on the bus were _______ the fire，but thanks to Stroble，the news they received was all ____________ not a single child had been hurt.

Since then，Stroble，who has been a bus driver for seven years ____________ also works as a teacher’s assistant(助教)，has been ____________ for her brave actions. “We are so ____________ of our bus driver，” headmaster Scott Turner told local CBS News. “She was ____________ .She also kept the students calm. She made sure they were safe. She didn’t leave the bus ____________ they all left. She is our ____________ today.”

The local fire department is still unsure what ____________ the fire，but some say that this 1995 ____________ has been known to have wiring and electrical problems. ____________ ，we’re so happy that Stroble was able to ____________ on her feet and keep everyone safe and sound.

6 . I always help others instinctively(本能地).No matter how big or small the action, I am_____to help others, such as opening doors, sharing umbrella and so on.

I was driving home on a 6-lane highway. A huge______, involving 5 cars, unfolded in front of me. Subconsciously, I ______100 feet past the pile-up and ran to a car which was upside down. I got the injured out of the car and._______them against the guardrail(护栏).I then went to the four other cars to check if anyone else was hurt______ .

I looked over and saw a young man, bloody and contorted,______still on the pavement. Everyone around said he was dead; several had checked. But a feeling inside me said "1 didn't check him. Can they be________he is dead?”I felt for pulses at different spots and felt _______ Then I checked the carotid artery(颈动脉)once again. At that moment, I was feeling for a very weak_______and rapid heart rate. I pushed his chin upwards. He then________out a big clot(血块)，and started taking rapid,______ breaths.

By then, the ambulance was leaving with other_______.It had been reported on radio that there was a death. So when I motioned to the ambulance driver，____` this person was alive and needed help first. He initially_______my request. But with my insistence, he, together with a nurse, did in fact________the man thought to be dead.

He was admitted to a local ICU. His injuries were serious, with little________to recover. Some foretold he wouldn't______it.

Due to the distinguished doctors and care of nurses, he did_______.When he was released from hospital, the story was ____ by all the news stations. I smiled to myself, happy that I was fortunate enough to be at the right place at the right time, to follow my ______, and did a big deal.

7 . A young English teacher saved the lives of 30 students when he took __ of a bus after its driver suffered a serious heart attack. Guy Harvold, 24, had __ the students and three course leaders from Gatwick airport, and they were travelling to Bournemouth to __ their host families. They were going to __ a course at the ABC Language School in Bournemouth where Harvold works as a teacher.

Harvold, who has not __ his driving test, said, I was speaking to the students __ I realized the bus was out of control. The bus ran into trees at the side of the road and he __ the driver was slumped (倒伏)over the __. The driver didn’t __. He was unconscious. The bus hit a lamp post and it broke the glass on the front door before Harvold___ to bring the bus to a stop. Police __ the young teacher’s quick thinking. If he hadn’t reacted __, there could have been a terrible __.

The bus driver never regained __ and died at Easy Surrey Hospital. He had worked regularly with the __ and was very well regarded by the teachers and students. Harvold said, It was __ that no one else was hurt, but I hoped that the driver would __ .

The head of the language school told the local newspaper that the school is going to send Harvold on a weekend __ to Dublin with a friend, thanking him for his __. A local driving school has also offered him six __driving lessons.

8 . A Heroic Driver

Larry works with Transport Drivers,   Inc.   One morning in 2009, Larry was ______along 165 north after delivering to one of his _______. Suddenly, he saw a car with its bright lights on. _______ he got closer, he found ____ vehicle upside down on the road. One more look and he noticed _______ shooting out from under the _______ vehicle. Larry pulled over, set the brake and _______the fire extinguisher (灭火器). Two good bursts from the extinguisher and the fire was put out.

The man who had his bright lights on _______ and told Larry he had _______ an emergency call. They ________ heard a woman’s voice coming from the wrecked (毁坏的) vehicle. ________the vehicle, they saw that a woman was trying to get out of the broken window. They told her to stay ________ until the emergency personnel arrived, ________ she thought the car was going to ________. Larry told her that he had already put out the fire and she should not move ________ she injured her neck.

Once fire and emergency people arrived, Larry and the other man ________ and let them go to work. Then, Larry asked the ________ if he was needed or ________ to go. They let him and the other man go.

One thing is ________—Larry went above and beyond the call of duty by getting so close to the burning vehicle! His ________ most likely saved the woman’s life.