3 . There was ice on the road, and the doctor’s car hit a tree and turned over three times. To his surprise, he was not hurt. He got out of the car and walked to the nearest house. He wanted to telephone the garage (汽车修理站) for help. The door was opened by one of his patients.

“Oh, Doctor.” she said, “I have only just telephoned you. You must have a very fast car. You have got here very quickly indeed. There has been a very bad accident (事故) in the road outside. I saw it through the window. I am sure the driver will need your help.”

5 . It was a day like any other. I awoke and stretched as the summer sun lay casually ________ my sheets. This summer was going to be different—I had my ________ and my car. With my new found freedom fresh on my mind, I leapt out of bed and ran to the kitchen. My mother was bent over the sink with her phone. “Yes…I’ll be there soon,” she said, then ________ “You need to drive me to ________ my truck.” she said, turning to me.

As we ________ our way to the car dealership, my mother kept ________ me this highway was dangerous, and always _______ with rushing cars. When we drove back home, I followed _______ behind my mother. Everything was fine at first. My mother put her right ________ on, indicating that we were to the exit. The only problem was that I was one lane over and my ________ was blocked by a giant truck in the right lane. Stupidly, I sped up and ________ to pass the truck. However, I judged everything ________. The most horrifying and unimaginable ________ announced the collision, and my car began to spin off the road. There were bloody ________ up and down my legs and arms, but everything ________ worked like it should.

Tears ________ in my mother’s eyes as she hugged me tight. Hours seemed like minutes, and ________ I knew it we were driving home in my mother’s truck. It didn’t ________ me until later that day, just how fragile life is. Sure, I could easily have been killed. In half a second, all my achievements and ambitions would mean ________. Everything I’d ever done would be all I’d ever be remembered for. Life is so fragile and deserves to be lived ________

6 . A couple from Miami , Bill and Simone Butler , spent sixty-six days in a life-raft (救生艇)in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.

Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their boat, Simony, they met some whales(鲸鱼). “They started to hit the side of the boat, ” said Bill, “and then suddenly we heard water. ”Two minutes later , the boat was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go under the water.

For twenty days they had tins of food , biscuits , and bottles of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water-two things which saved their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw(生的). Then the line broke. “So we had no more fish until something very strange happened. Some sharks(鲨鱼) came to feed , and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands. ”

About twenty ships passed them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea, their life- raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and picked them up. They couldn't stand up. So the captain carried them onto his boat and took them to Costa Rica. Their two months at sea was over.

All-out search and rescue efforts were underway on Monday     1     a China Eastern Airlines aircraft     2     (carry) 132 people crashed in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in the afternoon — ending China’s 12-year air safety record.

Flight MU5735 left Kunming, capital     3     Yunnan province, at 1:11 pm and     4     (schedule) to arrive in Guangzhou at 3:05 pm. Air traffic controllers lost track of the plane over Wuzhou, Guangxi.     5     flight was carrying 123 passengers and 9 crew members. In the afternoon, fire and rescue teams discovered aircraft debris scattered in the forest. No     6     (remain) of passengers had been found yet.

President Xi ordered swift action to be taken     7     (find) out the cause of the crash     8     to strengthen the safety of the civil aviation sector (航空业) to ensure the     9     (absolutely) safety of the sector and     10     (people) lives.

8 . A plane was flying somewhere to cut an abandoned oil pipeline. The pilot Downs ________ eight employees of the oil company and a man named Eliot on board.

Halfway, the plane was ________ by a sandstorm. It was ________ to successfully land. While the ten men were ________ for the survival, they found themselves in the depth of the desert. The plane was badly damaged and all the communication equipment didn’t ________. There were quarrels among the eight ________ for different escape plans. Soon, they ________ to fight against each other. Natural disasters had not killed them yet, but ________ disasters were about to destroy them ________.

At the moment, Eliot ________ shouted, “I’m an airplane designer. The main parts of the plane are not ________. As long as everyone works together, we can mend the plane.” People immediately stopped fighting and were ________ in their hearts. Under Eliot’s command, they began to be ________. Food and ________ could only last for ten days so they only ate two meals a day and ________ drinking water as planned. The repair work_________ in an orderly manner. Eight days later, the plane had not been ________ yet, but a camel team of businessmen passed by and ________ them.

Later, Downs knew that Eliot wasn’t an airplane designer at all and asked Eliot why he cheated them. Eliot said calmly, “If I hadn’t ________ then, could everyone live to this day?” Downs suddenly realized: being trapped in the ________ is terrible, but what is more terrible is that there is no hope for survival!

I was riding my bike to a corner shop in a Saturday morning while I was attracted by a cute boy who was walking his dog. Suddenly my neighbor drives past and honked (按喇叭) at me. I was so surprising that I crashed into an old lady walk down the street. Lucky, the old lady wasn’t hurt, but I fell off my bike and landed in the hole. My neighbor saw me to fall, so she stopped her car and rushed out to help her. The worst part was that the cute boy stopped to watch all happen. What an embarrassing but dangerous day！