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​Unit1

       Bus Driver and Passengers Save an Old Man

At 9:00 a.m. yesterday, bus No. 26 1       (go) along Zhonghua Road when the driver saw an oldman 2     (lie) on the side of theroad. A woman next to him 3       (shout) for help. The bus driver, 24-year-oldWang Ping, stopped the bus without 4        (think) twice. He got off and asked the womanwhat happened. She said that the man had a heart problem and 5        (go) to the hospital. Mr. Wang knew he had toact 6      (quick). He told the passengers that he 7        (take) the man 8        the hospital. He expected most or all of thepassengers 9       (get) off and wait for the next bus. But tohis 10      (surprised), they all agreed 11      (go) with him. Some passengers helped Mr. Wangto move the man on the bus. Thanks 12      Mr. Wang and the passengers, the doctors savedthe man in time. "It's sad that many people don't want 13     (help) others because they don’t want anytrouble," says one passenger. "But the driver didn't think about 14      (he). He only thought about 15         (save) a life."

 

He Lost His Arm But Is Still Climbing

Aron Ralstonis an American man 1        is interested in mountain climbing. 2       a mountain climber, Aron is used 3    (take) risks. This is one of the excitingthings about doing 4      (danger) sports. There 5       (be) many times when Aron almost lost his lifebecause 6      accidents. 7     April 26, 2003, he found 8       (he) in a very dangerous situation when climbingin Utah

On that day,Aron's arm 9     (caught) under a 2,000-kilorockthat fell on him when he was climbing by himself in the mountains. Becausehe 10      (not free) his arm, he stayedthere for five days and hoped that someone 1        (find) him. But when his water ran out, heknew that he would have to do something 2          (save) his own life. He was not ready 3 (die) that day. So he used his knife 4        (cut) off half his right arm. Then, with hisleft arm, he bandaged himself so that he would not lose too 5         (many) blood. After that, he climbed down themountain to find help.

After 6       (lose) his arm, he wrote a book called Betweena Rock and a Hard Place. This means being in a difficult situation that youcannot seem 7       (get) out of. In this book, Aron tells of the 8        (important) of making good decisions, and ofbeing in control 9       one's life. His love for mountain climbingis so great that he kept on 10       (climb) mountains even after this experience.

Do we havethe same spirit as Aron? Let's think about it before we find ourselves “betweena rock and a hard place”, and before we have to make a decision that could meanlife or death