A 70-year-old Air Force veteran (退伍军人) from Salem, Illinois is being praised as a hero for his good deed.

Marshall Helm had been ______his granddaughter to the bus stop early in the morning when the smoke and ______ arising from the house next door ______ his attention. Helm ______ to the endangered home and threw open the garage door only to find flames climbing up one of the building walls. ______, at that very moment he did not ______ to charge past the flames and into the house so he could make sure his neighbors were______.

Gary and Kathy Benjamin had been ______ upstairs when they awoke to hear Helm shouting about the fire. Although they were confused by the ______ and had no time to figure out what had happened, they ______ to run into the hallway and escape with Helm through the back door just as the flames were swallowing the ______ through which he had come in only a minute before. Thanks to Helm’s quick ______, the Benjamins suffered smoke intake-and even though only ______ they lost their home in the fire, they are simply ______ to Helm for saving their lives.

“Lifesaver-lifesaver is all I can say,” Mr, Benjamin said. His wife added, “Hero, he’s our______.”

Some of us look at a mountain and wonder how tough it would be to _______ it. Others decide to make it more challenging by taking a mountain _______ . And then there is an exceedingly small number of people who say, “Pah, two wheels is far too _______, I’m on my unicycle.”

A young man was riding a unicycle towards the_______. Was this a camera moment? Was Mike Murphy going to jump out from behind a rock? But there was no _______ crew around and the man continued to merrily wind his way up the mountain.

This man was Souryan Dubois. The French unicyclist was so keen on it that he took to the Wicklow Mountains every _______ he got. It turns out there is an activity more interesting than unicycling and that activity is _______ unicycling.

Souryan said he spent many _______ hours unicycling around the mountains of Ireland, drowning in the real fun of the activity. He started it when he attended a circus workshop, aged nine, and has been unicycling since. When he arrived in_______with his unicycle, he hoped to find a community of____________ enthusiasts. He spotted a unicyclist on a Cork street, and met a Polish unicyclist living here but was forced to conclude, that, like his chosen method of transport, the Irish competitive unicycling community is very ____________.

______________, it was a great way to meet the Irish who were very ____________about the one-wheeled vehicle. He got the usual helpful people pointing out that he was____________ a wheel or had forgotten his handlebars.

The Irish didn’t realise they were talking to a unicyclist ____________ his game. The 21-year-old took six medals at the last Unicycling World Championships in South Korea, including gold in the 42km race. (309words)

My husband has worked in Ecuador for a year. Having heard about the low _________ of living, mild climate and delicious produce of the country, I was _________ to move there with him. I believed I would find a _________ and life would be easy there. However, when I arrived in the capital Quito, I was _________ disappointed. I didn’t like the food there, and our _________ house was dirty and cold. The _________ thing is that even after a month I still couldn’t find a suitable job. I felt my life totally a mess, so I _________ to move back to the UK.

I thought I was the most _________ person in the world. However, I soon heard of other people’s disappointments. A friend’s wedding was _________ and another had lost her dream job and a neighbor had been __________ with cancer but was still hoping to travel around the world. I looked at people who were fighting real __________ and felt inspired by their strength. I became more mindful of the things I had taken for granted. In the UK I got a job that brings me much __________. My family were healthy and though __________, my husband and I were much in love.

A psychologist friend told me the difference between regret and disappointment. Both are the result of __________ expectations. However, regret __________ something that we believed was within our control, whereas disappointment arises from events __________ our control. We can’t control what disappoints us, but we can control our __________ to it.

Now, I am filled with optimism by __________ myself of what really matters and taking action to change the disappointments. I feel __________ and inspired, and I know I can __________ everything.