Last August my family was holidaying at Diana’s Baths, where water falls off a series of giant rocks. I was _________ as I saw my kids jump between the wet rocks. “Stay away from all those edges,” I said. But I soon _________ and we were all having fun, my kids laughing under the cold running water. Then, seconds later, every_________ I’d previously had came flooding back to me.

I turned and saw my son Wyatt disappear over the edge. I _________, “Somebody help my son!” My husband was already _________ down the rocks. Wyatt had fallen on his back, straight onto the rocks. While everyone else _________ from a distance, a lady with a mask didn’t _________. She called 911. I couldn’t see her face. But she looked at me so deeply, _________ she was trying to push out every bit of energy, love, and strength in her body. I held on to that energy like a rope that could pull us to _________. She gave Wyatt a towel to put under his head and said to me, “I’m not __________ you.”

A __________ team took us to the local hospital. After some __________ and scans, we got the all-clear. As soon as I knew that Wyatt was going to be OK, I found myself constantly thinking about the kind lady who came to our __________ . Instead of __________, she went toward the unthinkable. Words are not strong enough to express my __________ to her because her kindness shone a light on a dark moment in my life.

Bode Beirdneau, now ten, who started riding snowmobiles hi)at age four saved his father after a serious _______ , showing great courage in the_______, On a bright day last April, Bode Beirdneau. then nine and his father, John Taylor, 54, were having _______snowmobiling around the Lake Tahoe when the throttle of John's vehicle got_______by a small branch. Unable to slow down. John_______to jump off the vehicle_______it crashed into a big tree, but his pant leg got caught underneath it. As he_______six inches into the snow. he could tell both his leg and shoulder were_______Bode rushed to_______out his father, but John stopped him. They had neither supplies ________cell phone service.________your snowmobile, "John told Bode. “ Follow the road, and try to find help”.

After a 20-minute________, Bode spotted a tour group and ________the guide to radio for help. The County Search, The Rescue Unit and firefighters quickly appeared on the scene, and Bode led them________the white wilderness to his dad, who was pale and in pain.

While waiting for a ________to airlift John to the nearby hospital, the________stabilized his leg. Within an hour. he was receiving surgery.

Today, John's leg has________. Since then________have Father and son forgot to carry a walkie-talkie(步话机) with an emergency button on their trip, Tisha Shaw, Bode’s mother. sons________and quick thinking have led her to treat him as more of an adult. She lets him________later at night because “I trust his judgment, ”she say.

The e-mail request came in to a restaurant in Baltimore late on a Thursday afternoon: tempura broccoli(天妇罗花椰菜). Brandon Jones was writing on behalf of his mother-in-law, who _________ the dish. He explained that she was now in the final _________ of cancer at her home in Vermont and that he was hoping to get the _________ to make it for her there.

Steve Chu read the e-mail and quickly replied with an _________ suggestion. “Thanks for _________,” he wrote. “We’d like to meet you in Vermont and make it _________ for you.” Brandon was greatly_________. “I emailed back, saying, ‘You do know that this is Vermont we’re talking about, right?’” he recalled. “It’s a six-hour drive. But Chu responded, ‘No problem. You tell us the date, time, and _________ and we’ll be there.’”

A day after receiving the e-mail, Chu arrived at Vermont with an employee. “It’s just so above and _________,” Brandon said. “It’s an incredible act of kindness.” Mom kept saying “I don’t ____________—you drove all the way up here-to cook for me?” She was ____________ to have that broccoli.

“It was an honor to help ____________ the family’s wishes,” Chu said. “There was a lot of good, ____________ energy in doing this.”

“My mom cried later about their ____________ , and so did I,” Brandon’s wife Rina said. “I’ll carry that positive____________ with me a ways.”