1 . “This is the emergency room calling and your son was just brought in with severe burns. We have called for a ( n) _______and are going to fly him to Seattle." Seattle was 350 miles from his college , so we knew immediately this was_______

The doctor described the_______,which caused the burns. At 6 a.m. , our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers. When they_______   the charcoal (木炭), it burst into flames because of the sprayed petrol. The flames shot to my son's head.

_______, one boy was quick -minded, grasped my son, and _______ him on the grass. While he saved his life , there was not enough _______to save him from fearful burns.

After he recovered, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery (整容) for 6 months _______it takes that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling. So, he had to return to college with scars (伤疤) .

When I was a child, my mother told my sister who had a 10-inch very _______ scar on her arm,' "Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not__________it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn't matter to you.                                                                         

I passed this wisdom on to my son. He took my advice to ________and returned to school with his head held high- glad he was alive. Later, he thought the scars did not matter and made the________to give up any plastic surgery.

We all have “scars” that we believe ________people to keep away from us. But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these same________standards. Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value________yourself, and your beauty will shine through.

2 . We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough,_________suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What always_________is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at_________same moment.

Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided (猛撞) and both drivers began to_________. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a_________. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her_________hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown_________, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying_________the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car,_________all of a sudden. The lorry was__________with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet__________angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to__________the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of__________bottles. Only two stray dogs__________from all this confusion, for they greedily ate what was left of the__________. It was just one of those days!

3 . On October 13, a small plane flying to Chile accidentally crashed into a mountain in the Andes. How some of the passengers ______ to live is one of the greatest survival stories ever told.

The survivors ____ inside the remains of the plane, using seat covers for blankets,   and waited for a   ______   that never came. Days turned into weeks. It was urgent to find a way to   ______. Three of the passengers - Canessa, Parrado, and Vizintin volunteered to ______ through the mountains to search for help. When they left, each man wore similar clothes: three pairs of socks, a plastic bag   ______ each foot to keep the water out, boots, four pairs of trousers, and four sweaters. Many of the clothes came from those who died in the crash. The three men ______ that they would survive and bring back help.

For part of the first day, they were glad to make some ______. But as the land and weather changed, climbing became   ______. After several days, they reached what they thought was the top. They had   ______ this moment for days. On the other side of the top, they hoped, would be a ______ leading down and out of the mountains. However, they saw the same snow-covered tops. All hope wasn’t   ______. Although they were still in the middle of the mountains, Parrado   ______ two low tops far away that didn’t have snow. If they get there, they would be out of the Andes.

Within the following days, they walked toward the two low tops. Little by little, the landscape began to change. Snow ______ completely, and flowers were everywhere. “This is the valley,” Canessa said. “This is the way ______.” Then things of humanity started to appear-a few cans on the ground, some farm animals in a field. By December 21, the extremely ______ men made it to the town of Los Maitenes, and a rescue team was sent immediately to ______ for the survivors who were still high in the Andes.

Finally all of the remaining survivors were ______. The memories of the crash in the Andes would be with the friends forever, but for now, their terrible ______ was over. They had made it out ______.

4 . Five years ago. a fire burned Vivienne Palmer's house to the ground and turned all her things to ash She was depressed, but later, a surprising state of _______ set in.

"After _______ the shock. I would think that since it's _______ , let go of it. It felt amazingly free of mind.” Palmer says. Now. she looks around her destroyed_______and wants to get that _______ again. Her plan is to let go of at least ten things every day for a year. That means she must make a total of 3.650 donated or sold _______ a year.

A friend _______ her not to set herself up for failure because that was too much for her.

But Palmer is struggling against the _______ . Everything is a game from the practical thing, such as a large number of   plastic forks and knives she has _______from all her take-out （外卖） orders, to the ________ things, such as the rabbit costumes she made for her young sons for Halloween one year. "You just have to be very ________. she says.

Now, some plastic bags, six tablecloths, four toy monkeys and a toy dog have been ________ .Her husband wants to ________the toy dog because he thinks it's cool.

To keep herself ________, Palmer posts images of her goods on her blog, where she ________ away many things free. And it feels ________

Beyond keeping peace of mind, there's another ________: By selling some items online. Palmer hopes to ________ enough money to arranged family vacation to Southeast Asia.

“Everything is ________ in my mind：There's the writing, the trip, my wanting to make, money and create a new good habit," Palmer say. It's a hug ________, but its inspiring. And I can't think of anything I'd rather do more.

5 . On September 11, 2001, I was in my fifth grade at Hutchinson Elementary School in New York. During the day, I ____ that something had happened at the Twin Towers. But nobody seemed to really ____ what was going on. It wasn’t until school let out that I realized something might be ____. My dad usually ____ me up, but he wasn’t there. My dad was a firefighter. His ____ was less than a mile from the Twin Towers.

When I got home, my mom told me that the Twin Towers had been attacked, and my dad had gone there to ____. Most of the rest of that day is unclear. I ____only bits and pieces, like my mom calling hospitals all over New York City, ____ to find my dad. Two days later, she told me that he was probably ____.

We didn’t learn exactly what had happened to my father until much later. We ____ that he had sent a radio message at 9:56 am, when he and hundreds of other ____firefighters were in the burning South Tower, trying to ____ as many people as possible. Just three minutes later, the tower ____. The other tower came crashing down about a half hour later.

17 years later, I still ____ my dad every day. He instilled(灌输) in me a ____ for my community, and his ____ encouraged me to volunteer with the 9/11 Legacy Advocates, a group made up of people who ____ family members on 9/11 like me.

When I look back. I don’t think only of the sad ____. I also remember the great acts of so many people, ____ my dad. I’m really ____ to call him my hero.

6 . A mother and daughter were rescued from the wreckage (残骸) of a car crash thanks to an app. It can ______ people anywhere in the world using just three ______.

Valerie Hawkett, 33, lost ______ of her Ford Fiesta while ______ round a sharp bend in Somerset last October. Ms Hawkett's ______went flying over a bush and landed on its _____     in a field.

Her four-year-old ______   Tegan was in the back and the ______ mother called the police to come to her aid — but she didn't know ______ she was.

Officers were able to find their way to Ms Hawkett in the field--- after ______ her the link to a website called what3words. It is able to find the exact ______ of any location on Earth. It told Ms Hawkett the three-word square she was in —“Weekend foggy earphones” — which _______ policemen to a road near a field on the A36 heading out of Norton St Philip, Somerset.

Ms Hawkett, from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, said: “It was absolutely brilliant. It's really, really _______ . I could have been in that field all day ______ the three-word location.”

Ms Hawkett said her car landed on its side, with the only means of ______being through the back passenger-side door. She said:“The only thing ______ me in my seat was my seat belt. But I _________ to get that undone and get me and my daughter out through the back door. I ______ the police after we got out the car.”

Ms Hawkett and Tegan were taken to a ______ nearby to be checked over — but were told they were ______ injured and sent home shortly afterwards.

7 . It was rush hour in San Angelo. Heather Santé was driving her Mazda with her nine-year-old daughter and ten-year-old son in the back. Suddenly, a red pickup truck ________ them off. Santé turned the wheel hard to the right, sending the Mazda ________ off the road and down an embankment (筑堤) that ended in a drop-off after about 50 feet. If the car didn’t ________, it would fall onto the road some 20 feet below. Then a bit of ________: As the car raced toward the edge, its undercarriage got ________ on the concrete lip of the embankment, stopping it ________.

The occupants, however, were far from safe. The car had come to rest on top of a wall, literally (确实地) on the edge of ________. One sudden move by anyone inside could send it over.

Jacob Rodriguez watched the ________ unfold from the company where he works. Then he and four other men ran to the car. They ________ onto the trunk to balance the weight as the ________ kids in the back seat watched.

_____, Julio Vasquez and his nephew, Marco Vasquez, were driving to their jobs nearby. Julio jumped out of the car to help ________ Marco went to the shop, ________ a heavy-duty belt, and returned to the ________ car. He tied the Mazda to a truck that had been driven over by one of the other rescuers. With the car ________, the group carefully opened the ________ doors and helped the children out.

But their departure changed the car’s ________, causing it to tip forward. The men, still on the trunk, ________ Santé to jump into the back seat to re-balance the weight. She did and then inched out the back door. Finally, the men carefully ________ the car. Everyone was safe. Another foot, Rodriguez told USA Today, “and this would be a different ________.”