I like riding. For me, setting out on a 20-mile _______ ride on a sunny Sunday morning was nothing _______ . But on 9 August 2018, the brake (刹车) on my bike _______ on Bury Hill when I lost control. As a result, I broke my back and was paralysed (瘫痪) from the waist down. But my happy-go-lucky spirit would not be _______ .

From my accident on, I’ve done so much. Since that day I’ve _______ three operations, signed up for a marathon and _______ won several running races in my wheelchair. _______ is a roller coaster of ups and downs, highs and lows and I am so thankful to _______ every day that I have.

Two weeks ago I received a phone call from a _______ about disabled toilets and the government’s plans for updating them. The minister wanted me to get involved (参与) too, how ________ ! It certainly ________ sometimes to make an effort to get things changed. I am so glad that my little amount of effort may have a(n) ________ on other people’s lives.

To ________ the first year from my injury, I jumped out of a plane! Life is meant to be lived, so live it to the ________ , even if you have a disability. Up here no one needs ________ —you fly. It’s such an exciting rush, with the wind ________ past you, deafening you.

I think my story just ________ that no matter who you are, you never ________ what is going to happen to you, but you can ________ how it affects you. You are the ________ of your own destiny (命运).

It was about 10 p.m. on October12, 2020. Paul Wilson and his friend Tina Stern were stepping out of the elevator (电梯) of her apartment building when they _________ smoke. “My dogs!” Tina shouted with _________ as she ran down the hall to her apartment. Paul 54, who is _________, walked carefully toward the smoke.

“I was _________ across from Tina's apartment door, I slowly took four or five steps to the right, and smoke hit me right, and smoke hit me right in the face.” Paul said, “I _________ the door, shouting, ‘Anybody home?’ _________, nobody answered.”

Suddenly the door opened, and more _________ more out Paul heard coughing and reached behind the door, waving his arm until he _________ someone. It was Diane, who lived there. He took her arm and pulled her into the hall, then ran back to the _________ apartment with Tina.

He and Tina picked up the fire extinguisher (天火器). While Paul held it, he __________ Tina to use it to fight the fire. __________, the fire finally died down.

Diane had fallen asleep when cooking on the stove, and it had __________ the fire. She later called Paul to __________ him. “I could have died without your help.” she said.

As it turned out, __________ fires was just second nature to Paul—he had been a __________ with the St. Lucie County Fire District for about 2 years in the 2010s. He __________ a serious eye disease in 2013 and lost his sight.

Last November, the St. Lucie County Fire District awarded (颁奖) him and Tina the Citizen Hero Award for their __________ actions. When asked what he was __________ at that moment, Paul said, “I was not __________ at all. I just knew it was __________ that I had to do.”

Cecilia Chiang died on Wednesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 100. Her San Francisco restaurant, the Mandarin, _________ American diners in the 1960s to the richness and _________ of authentic Chinese cuisine.

Ms. Chiang was born in a _________ family. When she was little, children were not allowed in the _________, but she paid close attention on trips to the _________ markets with her mother and listened carefully as _________instructions were given to the cooks. After her parents died, she _________ the family business in her teens.

After the Japanese occupied Beijing in 1939, she was _________ to join relatives in Chongqin, where she married Chiang Liang, a professor.

Ms. Chiang sailed to San Francisco in 1960 to help her sister. There she met two women who wanted to _________a restaurant that __________ Chinese diets. Later, when the two women __________       , Ms. Chiang decided to open a restaurant herself. The early days were __________ But little by little, customers came __________ for hot and sour soup and pan-fried potstickers. One evening, Herb Caen, the popular columnist for The Chronicle, __________ at the restaurant. In a __________ column, Herb Caen __________ it “a little hole-in-the wall” that was offering “some of the best Chinese food east of the Pacific.”

Overnight the __________ filled. The Mandarin was on its way. In 1968, Ms. Chiang moved the restaurant to __________ quarters, where she could __________300 diners.

“I think I __________ what average, people know about Chinese food,” Ms. Chiang told The Chronicle in 2007, “They didn't know China was such a big country.”