Without Hesitation

On a bright Friday afternoon in spring, Sumeja Tulic had every reason to enjoy walking the streets of New York, a city she 【小题1】（move) to nine months earlier from London to attend journalism school. “When the weather is good, it’s very hard to find a reason 【小题2】 (be) dissatisfied with the city “ she said.

At the City Hall station, she settled onto a bench. It was just after 2 p.m. Only a few people were at the station . A man leaned against a pillar （柱）, the way anyone might, 【小题3】（wait) for the train. The stillness was interrupted by an announcement that the next train was two stations away. Then Tulic saw the man at the pillar collapsing forward onto the tracks.

The man who had fallen was not moving. Two more men jumped down to help.

“I don’t know 【小题4】 these men got the quickness,” Tulic said. “The man fell was about six foot tall. He was kind of 【小题5】 (jam) in the tracks. It was frightening to know that the train was coming.”

On the tracks, the unconscious man was held up to a sitting position by the three men, who then lifted him from below to others who pulled him from above and rolled him onto the platform. Then the rescuers 【小题6】 (rescue) by helping hands. 【小题7】 they were all clear, the train pulled in. “People getting off the train walked around this unconscious man,” Peterson said. He was not, however, alone. Two of the men 【小题8】 had jumped onto the platform were holding his hands. “They were saying, ‘Buddy, you’re going to be fine,’” Tulic said. “This was an additional layer of goodness.”

The ambulance arrived, and the man was taken to a local hospital 【小题9】 serious but non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

“That is the 【小题10】 (great) thing,” Tulic said. “The infrastructure （基础建设） in this city of millions is the people themselves providing, being there for others. Without even knowing the person, who he is. It was beautiful to see.”

Cruz Genet, 11, and Anthony Skopick, 10, couldn’t agree. Were the birds out on the ice ducks or geese? There was only one way to find out. So【小题1】a chilly January evening last year, the two friends ventured onto the frozen pond near their homes in Frankfort, Illinois, 【小题2】(get) a better look. First they cast a rock onto the ice to test it, Cruz told NBC5 Chicago, “Then we stepped on it.” 【小题3】(convince) the ice would hold their weight, Anthony took a few steps, then...FOOMP. He crashed through the seemingly frozen surface. “There was no sound, no crack,” he told ABC 7 Chicago. “I just fell through instantly. ”

Cruz rushed to help his【小题4】(panic) friend. FOOMP — the pond swallowed him too. Cruz managed to lift himself out of the frigid water and onto a more solid section. He then carefully worked his way toward Anthony. But the ice didn’t hold, and in he【小题5】(fall) again. This time, he couldn’t get out.

The boys were up to their necks in icy water and quickly losing feeling in their limbs. Any chance of their【小题6】(free) themselves was slipping away. Cruz was sure he was going to die. Anthony’s older sister had seen the boys fall through the ice and started screaming for help. John Lavin, a neighbour driving nearby on his way to the grocery store, 【小题7】(hear) her. He quickly pulled over. Seeing the boys, he grabbed a nearby buoy, 【小题8】(kick) off his shoes, and ran into the slushy water, 【小题9】(chop) his way through the ice with his free fist.

Lavin made his way to Cruz and Anthony and dragged them back to land. They were taken to the hospital, where doctors discovered that their five-minute stay in the water【小题10】(lower) their body temperature nearly ten degrees.

Fortunately, the boys have fully recovered, though they are still kind of awestruck by their fearless neighbour. “Just to think,” says Cruz, “if he wasn’t there, I could have died.”

Miners have dangerous jobs because occasionally the earth sinks or falls apart. When this happens, miners are 【小题1】(trap) underground. They are buried 【小题2】 they don't have air to breathe, food to eat, and water to drink, they will die. They 【小题3】 not go without any of these things for long, but the first is the most important. 【小题4】is difficult to figure out where miners are and reach them in time. Trapped miners dream of 【小题5】   (be) free and don't give up.

In August 2010, 33 miners 【小题6】 (go) to work in a mine in Chile, All of a sudden, a wall broke apart and rocks and dirt filled 【小题7】 mine's exit. At first,people thought all the miners died. 【小题8】 , after working for 17 days, people at the surface learned the miners were still alive. 【小题9】, people on the surface figured out where the miners were and dug a 【小题10】to send them food and water.