On May 12, 2008, a terrible earthquake happened in Wenchuan, Sichuan. Years later, people there have started their _______ lives. Let’s see some of their stories.

On that day 13 years ago, a house _______ down. 20-year-old Jiang Yuhang was in it. He _______ move his body and stayed under the house for 252 hours. _______ , some firefighters (消防员) from Shanghai saved him. “The firefighters gave me a second life. I wanted _______ one of them.” Jiang said. _______ the end of 2018, his dream came true. Now Jiang is a _______ of the same team in Shanghai.

Dai Guohong and his high school classmates were under their _______ classroom after the earthquake happened. He was saved at last, although (尽管) he lost his _______. __________, most of his classmates died. After that, he used crutches (拐杖) to walk. __________, he met a good teacher and learned __________ in 2009 to keep healthy. Later, he won many swimming games. In 2018.he became a volunteer in Chengdu.

Li Xinyun, a girl from Mianzhu, lost her __________ hand in the earthquake when she was 7 years old. She started to practice __________ with her left hand. And in just three months, she could write quite __________ .She got 625 points (分数) out of 750 in last year’s gaokao, and now she is a student in Central China Normal University.

Stay alive and work hard. While there is life, there is hope.

The yearly Marathon (马拉松) in my town usually happened during a heat wave. My job was to follow the runners in an ambulance (救护车), for_______of them might need medical attention.

“We're supposed to stay_______the last runner, so take it slowly,” I said to the driver, Doug,

We knew we were already watching our "last runner". There was something wrong with her_______, so it seemed almost impossible for her to be able to walk. A marathon was really a challenge.

Doug and I watched in silence as she slowly moved forward. _______, she was the only runner left in sight. Tears ran down my face _______ I watched her push forward with great efforts through the last miles.

When the finish line came into sight, rubbish lay everywhere and the _______ crowds had long gone home. Yet, straight and ever so proud stood a lone man. He was holding one end of a ribbon (缎带) tied to a post. She slowly crossed through, _______ both ends of the ribbon fluttering (飘扬)behind her.

I do not know this woman's name, but that day she became part of my life — a part that I often _______. When think things are too difficult or I get "I-just-can't-do-it," I think of the last runner. For her, it wasn't about beating the other runners or winning a prize, but about finishing what she had set out to do, no matter what. Then I realize how __________ the task before me really is.