On a December morning in 1951, Malone left his home in downtown St. John’s in Newfoundland, to buy some butter for his mother. When he _________ the corner to Central Street, he saw _________ coming from one of his three-storey houses. A woman at its window _________, “Save the children! Save the children!” Malone _________ toward the burning house, through the front door and up a flight of _________, where he found a five-year-old girl. “I grabbed (抓住) the child,” he says, “but she _________, ‘No, no, my sister! You’ve got to get my sister!’” Malone _________ felt compelled (必须) to cross the hall and check the other bedroom. He reached under the bed and found the girl’s _________, silent three-year-old _________. As the ____________ intensified (增强), Malone carried the children safely out to the street and the waiting people. Then he ____________ pushed off — he was late for ____________ the butter for his mom!

Over the years, Malone thought about the fire and the children he had ____________ and wondered what had happened to the girls.

Malone and his wife, Liz, spent four ____________ in Ontario until last October, when they ____________ to Newfoundland. The couple settled in Conception Bay South, 30 kilometers from St. John’s, in a house ____________ the water.

Shortly after they moved in, two of their new neighbors ____________ with a housewarming ____________ —frozen cod and salt fish. Malone and Liz invited Fowler and her husband in for a ____________, which is how Malone and Fowler, who are both in their seventies, ____________ a connection.

This happened when I was ten. On a normal Sunday, I went to the barber shop where I always went. That day, along with the barber there was an assistant, who had recently ___________ the shop.

So I sat for the haircut. The uncle asked me how ___________ I wanted it. I answered, “Just do as my dad had ___________ you the last time.”

He smiled. Before starting the ___________, he added, “What if I keep it long?”

I ___________ he was joking. So I joked too. I said, “I can’t ___________ what would happen to your shop then!”

The moment I said itthe assistant ___________ from behind. “How dare do you say that! Who are you to threaten us, eh?”

I admit I was too ___________ at that moment and the uncle standing beside me was giving me an ___________ look.

From that day on, I ____________ stopped joking about anyone’s profession and works. It is one of the most ____________ incidents in my life, which taught me to ____________ the profession and works of a person, no matter how ____________ they are.

I’m ____________ that the assistant responded in a way that made me rethink the power of my words. Words do make a ____________.

Charles Darwin once said, “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Well, quite simply _________: life is short. Spending eight hours every day sleeping _________ you’ re losing a third of your life to _________. So, is eight hours the _________ amount we need, or just a myth (神话)?

While most scientists _________ that between seven and nine hours a night is a proper amount, this is just a rough _________. In truth, it’s a little more _________ than that. It seems that the amount of sleep you need _________ your age—with babies needing much more than _________. Apparently, around seven and a half hours’ sleep is a good amount. In a study __________ at the University of Surrey Sleep Research Centre, the __________ of sleep were monitored.

One group slept for six and a half and the other for seven and a half hours per night. While some findings were __________—annoyance and lower __________ in the group who slept less, there were some more surprising findings. The genes of people with less sleep were __________. Genes associated with the immune (免疫) system, stress response and __________ risk of cancer became more active.

One of the biggest problems is that myths with __________ to sleep constantly exist. For example, have you ever heard that you can __________ yourself to need less or no sleep? It’s simply not __________. Eight hours might not be the exact sweet __________, and there are __________ like age to take into consideration, but there is a certain amount we do actually need.