A 10-year-old American girl, Selah Schneiter spent five days climbing El Capitan with the help of her father and a family friend and reached the top of the sheer rock on June 12, 2019. It _______ takes skilled climbers four or five days to complete. She may have been _________ the youngest person to climb one of the most _______ peaks in the world.

Reaching the top “was really _______,” Selah said. “I was also kind of sad because it was over,” she _______.

Selah has been climbing since she could_______and had been asking her parents for years to climb El Capitan. And she spent nine months preparing_______ and mentally.

“Our big motto was ‘How do you eat an elephant?’ ‘Small _______,’” said Selah. And the only thing she feared was the possibility of a big _______ because it would mean “having to go down”.

Her mother stayed home and received daily________ about progress in EI Capitan. She knew her husband would turn back if there were any safety________. “I was worried she would ________ serious injury,” she said. “But by day four I knew they would ________. I’m just really________ of her. Her ________ astonished me.”

Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience: the iPad.

Instead of looking at nature, I________my email. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading________newspapers each morning. And that was the problem: I was acting as if I were still in the office. My body was on vacation but my________wasn’t.

So this year I made up my mind to try something________: getting away from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be________, since I’m not good at self-control. But I was________. I started by handing the iPad to my wife. Then, a stroke of luck: The mobile phone________at our cabin was worse than in the past. I was trapped, forced to carry out my plan. Largely________from e-mail and my favorite newspaper websites, I had little way to________the world. I had no________but to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.

With determination and the strong support of my wife, I succeeded in my vacation struggle against the Internet. I finally________that it was I, of course, not the iPad, that was the________.

I knew I had________when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “Don’t need it.” I said. ________, as I return to work, a test begins: Can I survive when I’m back at work? I don’t plan to________my iPad completely. But I hope to resist the temptation (抵抗诱惑) to use it every five minutes.

Ron and Sharon Ross, an old couple living in the town of Otis, woke up in the middle of the night. A neighbor was pounding on their door, _________ for them to get out. A mountain fire was quickly heading its way from nearby Echo Mountain.

With 30 minutes to _________ what they could take and go, they rushed to gather their valuables. But their _________ was for their little puppy, Piper, which was getting _________ with all the sudden movements and started to hide.

Just as they were looking for Piper, the power was _________. They had to find flashlights and locate the puppy in a _________ room. With a recent surgery on her arm, Sharon could only use one arm to hold the flashlight searching for it. Another problem in their _________ plan: their truck was parked behind their garage, which _________ with electric doors, now useless in the power failure. With all their strength, they finally opened it by hand, which ensured them a _________ escape.

Time was ticking. However, they wouldn’t go before helping a friend __________, who was living alone in the same community, only to find nobody in. While going down the mountain toward safety, they saw a __________ walking toward the fire. Despite the thick smoke, they could __________ him. It was their friend walking to his house. Immediately, they turned around, picked him up, accompanied him __________ to his house to fetch something valuable and then drove away together. Fortunately, both the couple and their friend survived.

The fire ended up destroying most homes in Otis, __________ eleven lives and leaving the town hit heavily. Still, it strengthened their sense of community. Soon after, together with many others, Ron and Sharon Ross, who __________ the disaster, instantly started their rebuilding efforts from ashes.