2 . “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.

3 . The sound that woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning was so loud that he thought it came from inside his house in Wade, Maine. As he _________ to examine, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from _________. Looking out of his bedroom window, he saw smoke from a car about 500 yards away, its engine in _________.

“I grabbed (抓住) buckets of water,” Languell told BBC News. Then he and his girlfriend ran to the crash site. The badly-damaged car looked _________ up close. The car, a 1998 Buick, running into a tree, was broken nearly _________ two. No one should have _________this crash, and, _________ there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, whose _________ face was pressed against the driver’s side window, _________. Languell, 35, tried ____________ the fire with his buckets of water with no success. “When the flames got into the front seats, I realized I had to get him out of there,” he told WAGM-TV.

Languell ____________ the Buick’s back door and crawled (爬) in. Thompson was struggling to get ____________, Languell says. “That’s ____________ I noticed how bad his legs were.” Using a pocketknife he’d had brought with him, he ____________ through Thompson’s seat belt.

Now that Thompson was free of the ____________, Languell pulled him out a back window of the vehicle, and then pulled the teen to safely “before the ____________ car was in flames,” the police said.

____________ Thompson hurt his legs, and face, a social media post described him ____________ “looking great, smiling, and joking.” Languell thinks about that day often. “My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so ____________.”

Languell is one of the real-life ____________ changing the world.

4 . 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!

5 . Luke is a cute dog, living together with me for five years. We get lots of   _________   in our area during the summer season. Many forests are badly _________ by fire each year. That hot summer, not far from our shelter, a forest   _________ fire. It was July, and there had been a heat wave going on for three days.

Somehow, Luke rushed toward the forest. There was no longer any hope at that moment to wait for Luke to come back to the _______. In fact, I was waiting for firefighters to tell me that he had _______ in the forest. Suddenly, a fireman burst into my office and     _______     me that Luke had succeeded in saving four kittens who had been _______by the flames. I _______   accompanied the fireman to the forest to get him back. _______ we got to the scene of the incident, we didn’t see Luke. Then we heard the   ________ of a dog barking in the forest. I ________the barks as Luke’s. The firemen ________ the tracks of the dog until they found him barking loudly by the side of an injured ________. Thanks to Luke, four kittens and a fireman were saved. This true story shows us that pets are loving, caring and compassionate. We should love and ________them. Little animals can do     ________     things for humans.

6 . 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 ______.

7 . 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.

8 . I was eleven years old standing outside in just my underwear (内衣) while I saw our house burnt to the ground. A few minutes earlier I had been sound asleep in my bed when a _________ woke me up. My nana’s _________ was just next to my brother’s and mine. A fire had broken out there and awakened her. Hearing her shouting, my older brother _________ quickly. While I was walking difficultly in the _________ and darkness, he ran from room to room _________ everyone in the house. The house, however, was over 50 years old and made of wood. Before we could _________ anything, the fire destroyed it.

I stood there _________ when the fire destroyed my books, clothes, and toys. I watched_________ while my mom cried and my dad sighed (叹息). I _________ what was going to happen to us since we had __________ all of our things. As I looked around, though, I __________ something for the first time: The things that __________ aren’t things. I saw my older brother running to get __________. I saw my nana and dad sitting together and my mom __________ our little dog. I realized at that moment that we were all__________. Everything that was essential (必要的) had survived the fire. Our __________ would continue. We were so __________. We would all be around to love each other for many years to come. And that was all that mattered.

I __________ think of that fire that helped me to become who I am today. It showed me for the very first time what is truly __________ in my life. It helped me to learn that the__________ we share is far more important than the things we own.

9 . John was repairing his motorcycle in the yard while his mom was cooking in the kitchen. Suddenly the motorcycle ran through the glass door while John was still ________ on it. So he was ________to the floor inside the house.

His mom, hearing the________, ran out and found John badly________ lying on the floor, the motorcycle lying next to him and the glass door________. The mom called an ambulance (救护车) quickly. After the ambulance arrived and took John to the________, the mom pushed the motorcycle outside. Seeing the ________on the floor, the mom got some paper towels to clean it, and threw the towels in the________.

After John’s wound was ________, he left the hospital. After arriving home, he ________at the broken door and the damage done to his motorcycle and felt very ________. So he went to the bathroom, sat on the toilet and ________a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he threw it into the toilet bowl.

The ________in the kitchen heard a loud explosion (爆炸声). She ran into the bathroom and found John lying on the floor again and his clothes ________away. The fire was caused by the towels covered with gas in the toilet bowl. The mom had to call an ambulance again.

The ________ambulance crew (工作人员) came again. They were ________to see John was seriously hurt again. When they carried John to the ambulance, one of them ______the mom how John had burned himself. So she told them what ________to John after he was taken to the hospital last time. One of them couldn’t help laughing so ________that John fell to the ground. Then John got a(an) _______arm.

10 . Colorado’s grey peak rises 14,278 feet above sea level, high enough that trees can’t grow toward the top. It was in this unforgiving land of the mountain that Jane was ________ enough to break her left knee.

It was August 2018, and Jane, 56, was on her way back ________ the path with three friends. A storm was on the way, and they were ________ to get off the mountain. When they ________ a rocky drop of a couple of feet, Jane decided that instead of slipping down—the safe way to go—she would leap. She ________ on her left leg.

Then she heard the crack.

Every step after that was great ________. Before long, she had to stop. As one friend ran down to get ________, a number of other hikers, all strangers, attempted to help Jane down the narrow path by walking on either side of her to ________ her weight, but that proved slow and ________. One man “was so close to the edge I could see rocks ________ down from where he stepped on them,” Jane says.

________, one hiker, Matt, asked her, “How do you feel about a fireman’s carry?” ________ she knew it, he had lifted her over his shoulder. “Now, I’m not ________,” says Jane, a former college basketball star. Matt ________ couldn’t carry her all the way down by himself. So six hikers and one of her friends ________ carrying her while she tried to make light of a difficult ________: “I told them I wanted to meet a lot of guys, ________ this isn’t the way I wanted to do it.” Three hours later, this human conveyor belt finally met the medics (医学工作者), who took Jane to the hospital ________.

She has mostly recovered from her ill-fated ________, but knows she’ll never shake one thing from that day: the memory of the band of strangers who came to her ________. “I’m still in awe.”