9-year-old Essence was peacefully eating lunch. _______ , she saw another student needed help. She did not hesitate to spring into _______ .

“When she was about to swallow her food, she _______ . Seeing the urgency, I went to help her, ” Essence told Good Morning America. Essence said she felt a bit _______ at first, but then she took deep breaths to help herself _______ . Teacher Samantha Bradshaw was also present when the _______ happened and she was very surprised to see a fourth-grader _______ in such a way.

Essence shared she once _______ how to carry out the Heimlich Maneuver from a YouTube video a few years ago. It’s fair to say her memory _______ her as she performed the life-saving ________ for the very first time! The student was saved.

The school community ________ Essence’s efforts. The afterschool program she participates in ________ an “Essie Day” by hosting a breakfast for her to show their ________ . The program, called “Girls Thrive”, is designed to show how young girls can make a ________ .

Despite all the ________ the brave student is receiving, Essence has remained ________ . “I told her how ________ we were of her, she said, ‘I’m just a kid.’ She does feel like a kid even though she did do something ________,” said Samantha. Essence said she hopes she doesn’t have to ________ the Heimlich Maneuver again. More than anything, she is ________ her classmate is OK.

Survival in the Andes

On October 13,1972, a small plane crashed into a mountain in the Andes. How some of the passengers_______ to live is one of the greatest survival stories ever told.

The survivors_______ inside the remains (残骸) of the plane, and waited for a _______ that never came. It was urgent to find a way to _______. Three of the passengers — Canessa, Parrado and Vizintin — volunteered to _______ through the mountains to search for help. The three men _______ that they would survive and bring back help.

For part of the first day, they were glad to make some _______. But as the land and weather changed, climbing became _______. After several days, they reached what they thought was the top. They had _______ this moment for days. On the other side of the top, they hoped, would be a ________ leading down and out of the mountains. However, they saw the same snow-covered tops. All hope wasn’t lost. Parrado ________two low tops far away that didn’t have snow.________ they could get there, they would be out of the Andes.

Within the following days they walked toward the two low tops. “This is the valley,” Canessa said. “This is the way ________.”   By December 21, the extremely ________ men made it to the town of Los Maitenes, and a rescue team was sent to ________ for the survivors.

Finally all of the remaining survivors were saved.

He was 11 years old and often went fishing with his father in their boat.

On the day before the bass (鲈鱼) season _________, he and his father were fishing early in the evening, catching sunfish and perch with worms. When his _________ doubled over, he knew something huge was on the other end. He very carefully _________ the exhausted fish from the water. It was the largest one he had _________ seen, but it was a bass.

The father lit a match and looked at his _________. It would be two hours before the bass season opened. He looked at the fish and then at the boy.

“You’ll have to _________ it, son,” he said.

“Dad!” cried the boy.

“There will be other fish,” said his father.

“Not as big as this one,” cried the boy.

He _________ the lake. No other fishermen or boats were anywhere around in the moonlight. He looked again at his father. Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy could tell by his father’s firm voice that the decision was not _________. He slowly worked the hook (钩子) out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the black water, and it _________ soon.

That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. He had never again caught such a __________ fish as the one he landed that night long ago. But he does see that same fish — again and again — every time he comes up against a question of __________.

As his father taught him, morals are simple __________ of right and wrong. It is the practice of morals that is difficult. Do we do right when no one is __________?

We should learn to follow the __________ as the father taught the son. It is a story we will proudly tell our children and grandchildren. It is not about how we had a chance to beat the system and took advantage of it, but about how we decide and how we do the right thing. The __________ to do right will live fresh in our memory.