Emma Jones’ three-year-old son, Eric, was sharing a hot dog on the deck overlooking her friend Sarah Roth’s swimming pool. One moment Jones was watching Eric play around with the other children at this _________ of moms and kids last July. The next moment he disappeared without a _________. She turned to her friend Machel Rawlings and asked, “Have you seen Eric?”

Rawlings stood, _________ the pool and suddenly screamed. Eric was found _________ face down in the deep end. What happened next was a _________ textbook response: As Rawlings dived in the pool, grasped the boy, _________ him over and swam him to the end. Meanwhile, their host, Sarah Roth, dialed 911. At the pool’s _________, Rawlings handed Eric up to his mother. His skin was blue and wasn’t breathing.

Rawlings who’d taken a CPR course just four months earlier, immediately began rescue breathing. Hanging up the phone, Roth, a former flight attendant who’d accumulated _________ experience before, _________ CPR from Rawlings. Three long minutes went by with Roth breathing into Eric’s mouth and __________ chest compressions (按压) while Rawlings and Jones __________ his condition. Gradually his color __________, and as the ambulance was arriving on the __________, Rawlings looked at Roth. “He’s breathing,” she said.

The __________ with which the women acted saved Eric’s life. Emma Jones found any words seemed powerless. She said __________, “They did everything right.”

I’ve worked in the factories near my hometown every summer since I graduated from high school, __ doing the full-time blue-collar work during the break never gets any easier. For a college student like me who __    any class before noon to be impolite, getting to a factory by 6 o'clock each morning is full of    __ . My friends never seem to understand why I’m so __ to be back at school or that my summer vacation has been anything but a vacation.

There’re few people as __ as a college student who has never been out in the real world. People my age ___    seem    to    overestimate  (高估）the value of their time and knowledge. In fact, all the classes did not __ me for my battles with the machine I ran in the plant, which would __ whenever I absent-mindedly put in a part backward or upside down.

The most ___    thing about blue-collar life is knowing your job could disappear overnight. _____ like downsizing (裁员）and overseas relocation had always seemed distant to me __ my co-workers told me that the factory I was working in would __ within six months and move to Mexico, where people would work for 60 cents an hour.

After working 12-hour __ in a factory, the other options have become only too clear. When Fm back at the university, skipping classes and turning in la2y re-writes seems too ___ after seeing what I would be doing without school. All the advice on the value of a(n)____ that used to sound stale (老掉牙的）now    __ true.

These lessons I’m learning, __ valuable, often come with a sense of guilt. Many people pass their lives in the places where I __ work, spending 30 years where I spend only two months at a time. “This job pays __    ,    but    it’s    hard    on the body,” said one co-worker. “Study hard and keep reading,” she added.

My experiences in the factories have inspired me to __ of my college years before I enter the real world for good.

Bear, the Koala Savior

All dogs are good dogs, but Bear is one of the best.

Bear used to be a household pet who was _______ because of a disease named Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, which meant he _______ to get along well with his owner.

_______ , the University of the Sunshine Coast accepted Bear, so it became one of the detection dogs (侦查犬), who were used to _______ wildlife for scientific and ecological studies.

However, with an unusual bushfire season in Australia, Bear was called in to _______ down sick and injured koalas (考拉)in need of help. Bear was trained to sniff out a koala with his nose in the affected area. He is the only dog in Australia who can detect the animals by the _______ of their fur with his _______ ability, meaning he can lead carers directly to the animal itself, so the team and wildlife care experts can give the animals the _______ they need to _______ in the wild.

Bear was sent in to ________ which tree the koalas were hiding in. Once he found a koala, he sat ________ to indicate to his trainer that he was near a koala, at which point he would be offered a ________ which he would run after.

Bear, a professional rescue dog has helped to locate around 100 koalas from bushfire-stricken wilderness in Australia. He is their unexpected ________ .

Bear is such a good boy that Hollywood ________Tom Hanks thinks this “________” deserves his own Disney movie.