On a cold November night, Layton was on his way home when he got an urgent call from his mother. “The mountain’s on fire.” she _______, “and many rental guests were up there.”

Layton’s family _______ a dozen rental cottages on Shields Mountain. At the thought of this, Layton _______ the gas on the dirt back road.

He _______ first to Layton’s rental cottages to make sure whether his guests were _______. Fortunately, all his guests were. At that point, he made up his mind to _______ his cottages to rescue tourists _______ other cottages nearby.

Over the next two hours, he travelled through the _______ mountain, knocking on doors and leading _______ people to safety. Knowing the mountain so well, he drove one after another family down the mountain on roads ________ in smoke in his pickup. When one family was ________ from the fire, Layton would take the pickup ________ up the mountain in search of another ________ person. He helped one elderly woman flee barefoot ________ hot road surface to reach his car and found a man unconscious in a burning cottage and ________ him to his car. Thankfully, he helped 14 people out of danger despite that he had ________ escaped the burns.

________ his brave and immediate action, the fire didn’t ________ a single life on Shields Mountain. And though his business were destroyed, Layton remains ________ “I wasn’t worried about the property ________, not when I saw those families trapped on the mountain.” he says, “I knew I was gonna help them.”

It was January 2000, and I had just finished the final term of my year abroad in Auckland, New Zealand. Warm feelings   and happy thoughts______ into my mind. I began thinking about the _____ I was due to take with my friends over the summer, across New Zealand.

I went shopping for gifts to take back to my family in Malaysia. Then I made my way home. I have always been very careful of______ safety. But, for some reason, on that day I quickly ran across the ____ without looking. At that moment, a _____ turned the corner. I was in the driver's______ spot so he did not see me, nor did I see him. I was hit by the minibus and was ______ under its wheels.

When opening my_______, I learned that it took 15 minutes to ______ me from the wheels. A(n)______ team from a local hospital had to lift the minibus off me with their hands.   A tourist in the crowd had come to help, holding my hand and ______ me in the ambulance(救护车). When I arrived at the hospital, _____told me my injuries were life-threatening. They also told me there was a______ chance I could never walk again.

However, although I______a lot, I was not paralyzed(瘫痪的). It took me six months to______. I was sad to miss out on the trip across New Zealand but my friends comforted me a lot. ________I was able to attend my graduation, crossing the stage with walking sticks; it didn't matter, because I was just happy to be______ The accident changed my______; it made me think about the terrible things that could have happened. It regularly______me to step back and think twice about my problems, to be_____for the second chance I got at life.

A group of Georgia high school football players are being praised as heroes. They_________ into action last week to save a woman following a car crash.

The students were on their way to school on Friday morning when they saw the crash_________ in front of their school. The football players_________helped the woman driver escape by tearing open her door as smoke and petrol poured from her badly damaged vehicle.

Luis Goya,a math teacher at the high school, praised the boys’_________on the Internet detailing the crash.“The football players in my school really_________today,”Goya wrote in his post.“They went above and beyond to help.”People could know the_________story from the teacher’s post. The football players_________a loud bang and instantly knew it was going to be a bad_________. They quickly took action. They began their attempts to pull the_________from her car without hesitation. The door was jammed and in__________shape. They literally started __________ their strength to pry(掰开)the door open，so that the lady could be__________ .

Police said the lady was taken to the__________with cuts and bruises. She was expected to be okay. The school football team praised the players. They said that they couldn’t be prouder of the   __________act and showing the good characteristics of their team. Are the players __________?No doubt they are to that woman and her family.