1 . During the day, I heard something happened at the Twin Towers. But nobody seemed to really ____ what was going on. Not until school let out did I realize 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 mum told me that the Twin Towers had been attacked, and that my dad had gone there to ____. I remember only bits and pieces, like my mum calling hospitals all over New York City, ____ to find my dad. Hopelessly, she told me that he was probably ____.

We didn’t learn exactly what had happened to him 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, saving as many people as possible. Just three minutes later, the tower ____.

Twenty years later, I still ____ my dad every day. He instilled (灌输) in me a ____ for my community, and his ____ encouraged me to volunteer.

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

3 . This is a story about Yesenia Diosdado, a girl of 11, who helped _________ of a car accident using sign languages.

On a cold afternoon in January 2015, Yesenia Diosdado, _________ a school bus in Lenexa, Kansas, near the apartment building where she lives with her family. When the bus pulled away, Yesenia saw police and emergency workers _________ victims of a three-car accident that had occurred at a busy crossing nearby. Yesenia joined a small crowd of _________ across the street.

She noticed that an injured woman was trying to _________ with an emergency worker using sign language, _________ he couldn’t understand her. “I heard him ask for an interpreter,” Yesenia says.

She ran over to the emergency worker to help — her mother, a former sign language interpreter, had taught her how to _________.

“Thank goodness. I didn’t know what to do and she said, ‘I sign. Can I help?’” says captain Chris Winger.

Yesenia was able to tell that the _________ neck was injured and tell them the name of the local _________ she preferred. “She looked really hurt,” says Yesenia. “I’m __________ that I got to do something to help.”

When her mother, Suen-Mittsore, 36, heard about Yesenia’s heroics, she wasn’t __________. “It’s in her nature to help.” says Susan. “But I was impressed that she, just a child of 11, __________ the seriousness of the situation and took immediate action. Most __________ wouldn’t have done that.”

A few weeks later, paramedics __________ Yesenia with a gold coin and a certificate of appreciation at her elementary school.

“My mom always says that you never know__________ sign languages might come in handy,” says Yesenia, “That day, it did.”

4 . On an ordinary day, Debbie’s doorbell rang suddenly. Sixteen-year-old-Amy from next door was there—“help, my brother Dylan is bleeding,” she _________.

Debbie and her sister Ellen _________ to their house to find eight-year-old-Dylan bleeding _________ from a huge cut in his arm. Debbie had recently taken a first aid _________ and knew what to do. “I knew I needed to _________ pressure to stop the bleeding. I _________ a towel from the bathroom and used it to press on the _________.” she said.

Dylan was crying and _________ so Debbie told him not to panic while pressing on the towel to stop the blood _________. She told Ellen to call for an ambulance since she knew the cut would need medical treatment. Just as the ambulance __________, Dylan’s mum came home. She was deeply shocked but __________ held his arm, then the two of them travelled to the hospital together in the ambulance without __________.

A few weeks later the cut __________ and Dylan went back home. “His mother thanked Debbie and Ellen the day after the __________. I’m so happy that I learned first aid,” Debbie said. “I __________ thought I’d need to use my first aid skills so soon, but I’m very glad I knew what to do.”

5 . Years ago, in a small fishing village in Holland, a young boy taught the world about the rewards of unselfish service.

Because the entire village lived on fishing, a volunteer rescue team was needed in case of _______. One night, the winds _______ hard, the clouds burst and a strong storm overturned a fishing boat at sea. The _______ were in trouble and they sent out the SOS. The captain of the rescue rowboat team sounded the alarm and the villagers quickly gathered in the town square, _______ the sea. When the team started their rowboat and fought their way _______ the wild waves, the villagers waited nervously on the beach, holding lamps to _______ the way back.

An hour later, the rescue boat reappeared and the hoping villagers ran _______ the volunteers. Falling on the sand, _______, the volunteers reported that the rescue boat could not _______ any more passengers and they had to leave one man behind. Even one more passenger would have surely overturned the rescue boat and all would have been ________.

Anxiously, the captain called for another volunteer team to ________ the survivor. Sixteen-year-old Hans stepped forward. His mother grabbed his arm, ________, “Please don’t go. Your father ________ in a shipwreck (海难) 10 years ago and your older brother, Paul, has been missing at sea for three weeks. Hans, you are all I have ________.”

Hans replied, “Mother, I have to go. ________ everyone said ‘I can’t go, let someone else do it’, there will be ________ going to help. Mother, this time I have to do my duty.” Hans kissed his mother, joined the team and ________ into the night.

Another hour passed, which seemed to Hans’ mother like a ________. Finally, the rescue boat came into sight in the distance with Hans standing up in the bow (船首). Cupping his hands, the captain ________, “Did you find the lost man?” ________ able to control himself, Hans excitedly cried back, “Yes, we found him. Tell my mother it’s my older brother, Paul!”

6 . The phone rang, but I was annoyed to answer it. Seeing the _________number, I supposed it was the endless_________ to sell me something I had absolutely no _________ in.

“Daddy.” It’s Alyce, my 12-year-old daughter. “Mommy was just in a car accident.” My heart _________ and then began pounding. A deep _________ came, “I’m all right, but Mommy...”

I sprinted(全速跑) a few blocks to what looked like a shoot (拍摄) for a _________ movie. Fire engines, police cars, and ambulances were randomly(随意地) parked in the street; helicopters(直升飞机) _________above. A bus was on the wrong side of the road. In front of it were the _________ remains of Susan’s car. Susan was _________ under the dashboard (仪表盘). It__________ she had broken nearly every bone, and she spent three months in the __________.

Two years later, we were attending an event in __________ of Martin Luther King when Alyce took a __________ look at a woman, rushed to and returned with her. She told us she lived in the building by where the __________ had happened. That night, she rushed to the street, still in her bathrobe and saw Alyce standing by the wrecked car, __________. She approached her, hugged her and took Alyce’s hand to her chest, saying, “Let’s pray together.” Alyce’s phone was out of __________ inside the car. So the woman lent Alyce her phone.

When saying goodbye, we realized we hadn’t been formally __________, so I told her my name was Douglas. She paused, __________ she hadn’t heard me. So I __________. She looked at us and said, “Wait, your name is Susan?” Susan __________. The woman put her hand over her heart, saying, “My name is Susan Douglas.”

7 . On July 20, Yu Yifei, a 26-year-old medical intern(实习生)at People's Hospital of Zhengzhou, made his way home in a subway train on Line 5 after his first day's training. When downpours struck the city, he _________ about a dozen people trapped in a flooded subway train as the rainfall in Zhengzhou reached 201.9 millimeters between 4 pm and 5 pm, a totally new _________ in the history of Zhengzhou.

Flood waters _________ a barrier and entered the underground area. The train came to a sudden stop before the water began _________ in the carriages, trapping passengers inside. Thus Yu, _________ to leave and fearing for his life, made a _________ call to his father.

As water continued to flow into the carriages, passengers' _________ rose. When subway workers arrived to withdraw them, Yu _________ to get out. As he made his way to safety, he heard a cry for help from someone needing a doctor. He quickly _________ the white medical coat given to him at the hospital __________ and returned to the platform to save him. On seeing him, a number of frightened people were greatly encouraged and their spirits __________. Some even applauded him.

As more passengers were pulled from the __________, Yu instructed others in the key steps to save a victim from drowning. He __________ CPR, or first aid, to those in low-temperature shock from the cold water and near death from drowning. One of the passengers, a female doctor, nearly died. After __________ consciousness and strength, she joined Yu in treating others. Yu was __________ and needed all his concentration to perform another CPR procedure.

That night on a subway station platform, he spent an exhausting six hours giving CPR to passengers who narrowly survived drowning. All the people gave him the thumbs-up.

8 . The town of Paradise has suffered a fire, which lasted 17 days and caused a loss of $16.5billion. As a result, the beautifully named place ________ its beauty.

Shane Grammer, Creative Director for Disney's theme parks in Los Angeles, paid close attention to the news of the fire's deadly path. In fact he felt quite ________ to help when seeing the picture shared by his friend, in which only a white chimney of his house ________ after the fire.

“I've got to ________ that chimney.” he said. “I'm not trying to say anything. It's just that I'm an artist And it was a(n) ________ for me express myself and be an artist, wasn't it?”

Grammer spent three hours spray-painting the image of a woman on the chimney in black and white, which was ________ mysterious. Perhaps it served as a(n) ________ of the beauty of life or just life itself.

Then Grammer put its picture on social media. On seeing it, the victims of the fire could not ________ themselves. “Beautiful and impressive,” one of them remarked. And another said, “You bring beauty and ________.”

At this time, Grammer became aware that something ________ had been transformed by a purely artistic expression. “When the first mural(壁画) moved so many people, I knew I had to ________,” he told the journalist. Grammer returned to Paradise eight times in three months, ________ which he completed 17 murals of victims and other figures.

Today, Grammer's efforts have ________ into a movement. He has also painted murals in dark places around the world that seriously need some light.

Ironically, the first painting, on the chimney in Panadise, existed for just several months, ________ the bulldozer(推土机)was a merciless art critic. But Grammer couldn't be more pleased about it, which means the spirit of Paradise is ________ again.

10 . On Thursday morning, two teenage boys were rescued by a drone (无人机) in Australia while lifeguards were still training to use the machine.

The ________, aged 15-17, got into difficulties about 700 feet off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales (NSW). A passer-by saw them ________ in dangerous waves. Lifesavers ________ sent the drone to drop a lifeboat, and the pair made their way safely to the ________.

The drone, known as “Little Riper”, was actually not ________ to be saving anyone just yet—lifeguards were being trained to ________ the machine. When a call came through about the swimmers in ________ the drone happened to be nearby.

Jai Sheridan was the lifeguard who ________ the drone. He described the experience as ________. “The Little Ripper ________ proved itself today. It is a highly efficient piece of lifesaving equipment. I was ________ the drone when the alarm was raised. I directed it towards the swimmers and dropped the ________. With its support they made their way to safety. They were ________, but not hurt. The teens were saved in just 70 seconds with the drone—while a lifeguard would have taken up to six minutes to ________ the rescue.”

John Barilaro, an official of the state,________ the rescue as historic. “It was the world's ________ rescue by the unmanned airplane,” he said. “Never before has a drone been used to ________ swimmers like this.”

Last December, the NSW state government ________ some “Little Ripper” drones for 247, 000 pounds.________ some are designed to spot sharks, others are ________ with lifeboats, alarms and loudspeakers. “It was money well spent,” said John Barilaro.