One day at dinner, when Caroline set her fork down on the plate, it made a sound. And then something _______ happened. The fork began to shake against the plate, all by itself.   Caroline _______. All the glasses on the table, and even the chairs were _______, too. “Mom?” she asked. She felt _______ .

But as _______ as it began, all the strange sounds ended. It was suddenly _______ in the house. Mom looked at Dad. “I think it was a（n） _______ ,” she said.

Caroline had _______ about earthquakes at school. Once there was a very big earthquake in San Francisco, and many houses _______ .

“Is our house going to be okay?” Caroline asked. “Everything is fine,” said Mom. “Earthquakes ________ all the time, and most are so small that you don't even ________ .Nothing even fell off a shelf, so the house is ________ than that little earth quake.”

Once Caroline heard that, she began to ________ .She wouldn't like to have an earthquake every day, but it was exciting to ________ one in real life. She was glad that everyone in her house and her town were safe. Who knew dinner would be such a(n) ________ ?

Kelly Roundtree was playing darts (飞镖) with his daughter on the balcony of his lakeside home on Aug. 1 when he heard calls for help coming from the other side of Stansbury Lake.

At first, Roundtree said he thought it might be children playing, but after another _______ —this time one of panic, he knew something was _______ .

He then _______ something black in the water and a woman on the phone across the lake. She was talking to emergency responders. Without _______ , Roundtree ran out the door and _______ his car. He _______ the few blocks around the lake. His daughter then stood on the shore and _______ him to the woman in the water.

Officials say the paralyzed (瘫痪的) woman had rolled into the lake while _______ into her motorized wheelchair. By the time Roundtree arrived only a minute or so later, her head was underwater with her face _______ above the water line. Roundtree unfastened the seat belt and held her ________ above water for what seemed like 10 to 15 minutes before officials arrived.

“911 had already been ________ and help was already on the way, but had Roundtree not gotten there before, we may be talking about a different ________ right now,” NTFD Public Information Officer John Smith said. Local firefighters, nursing staff and police officers arrived and were able to help get her out of the lake ________ .

While officials are ________ him as “nothing short of heroic” for his rescue, Roundtree thinks anyone in his ________ would have done the same thing.

Once there lived a noble guru (领袖) known for his wisdom and compassion (同情心). But one of his disciples (信徒) ________ that his guru had not taught him anything valuable despite spending 20 years at his ________. Hearing his complaint, the guru gave him the responsibility of bringing lunch to Gurukul (school) every day from his neighborhood.

While getting ________ from the neighborhood one day, the disciple befriended a(n) ________ parrot, to whom he complained about his guru. The parrot ________: “I have heard great things about the noble guru. Are you sure you were ________ in the process of learning?" The frustrated disciple shouted, "You shouldn't ________ my intelligence." Disappointed with his arrogance (傲慢), the parrot ________ the conversation.

A few days later, the ________ parrot told him, "My master has decided to ________ me in two days, please ask the guru for a ________ to save my life!" The disciple answered ________ : “He has not taught me anything. How would he be________ to you?" But because the parrot had ________, he decided to ask his guru.

The next day, the parrot asked him for the solution. The disciple said: “I told the guru about your ________. When I asked for a solution, the guru simply lay still on the floor for a while, and then went away. I am sorry that he cannot help." The day after, the disciple saw a(n) ________ cage. He met his friend's master to________ the sad death. The angry master ________:“When I went to open the cage, the parrot was lying still. I opened the cage to look at it. Suddenly, it flew away and ________.”

Hearing this, the disciple realized the parrot had ________ his guru without even meting him once. Now he knew where the lack of willingness actually was.