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A Heroic Driver

        Larry works with Transport Drivers. Inc. One morning in 2009. Larry was 1

along 165 north after delivering to one of his    2   . suddenly, he saw a car with its bright lights on.   3    he got closer, he found 4   vehicle upside down on the road. One more look and he noticed  5 shooting out from under the 6   vehicle. Larry pulled over, set the brake and   7  the fire extinguisher (灭火器). Two good bursts from the extinguisher and the fire was put out.

The man who had his bright lights on 8 and told Larry he had 9 an emergency call. They 10 heard a woman's voice coming from the wrecked (毁坏的) vehicle. 11 the vehicle, they saw that a woman was trying to get out of the broken window. They told her to stay 12 until the emergency personnel arrived, 13 she thought the car was going to 14 . Larry told her that he had already put out the fire and she should not move 15 she injured her neck.

      Once fire and emergency people arrive, Larry and the other man   16    and let them go to work. Then, Larry asked the    17   if he was needed or  18   to go. They let him and the other man go.

One thing is 19 —Larry went above and beyond the call of duty by getting so close to the burning vehicle! His 20 most likely saved the woman's life.

    The summer before I went off to college, Mom stood me in her usual spot behind the ironing board (烫衣板)and said, “Pay attention: I'm going to teach you to iron.”

    Mom clearly explained her1for this lesson. I was going to be2and needed to learn this vital skill. Also, I would be meeting new people, and properly ironed clothes would help me make a good3 .

     “Learn to iron a shirt,” Mom said, “and you can iron anything.”

But ironing shirts was not4work. It didn't make use of long muscles we used to throw a baseball，and it wasn't a5operation like ice-skating. Ironing was like driving a car on a street that has a stop sign every 10 feet, Moreover, an iron produced steam and it carried an element of6.If you touched the wrong part of it, you'd get burnt. If you forgot to turn it off when you 7,you might bum down the house.

    As for technique, Mom8me to begin with the flat spaces outward, always pushing the iron forward into wrinkled (有褶皱的）parts. Collars had to be done right. Mom said they were close to your face, where everyone would9them.

    Over the years, I've learned to iron shirts skillfully, which gives me a sense of 10Whatever failures I suffer in my life, an ironed shirt tells me I am good at something. 11,through ironing I've learned the method for solving even the most troublesome problems. “12wrinkles one at a time,” as Mom might have said, “and before long everything will get ironed out.”

    Diane Ray was completely self-centered and very spoilt. Her parents gave her1she wanted, knowing that she would throw a temper tantrum(耍小孩脾气)if they did not. She would scream and kick and2on the floor drumming her heels. Her parents always3.

    That was why she was alone on the4, wearing an expensive swimsuit. It has taken a massive tantrum to5her parents to buy it. They were back at the beach-house,6from the tantrum she had thrown when they told her that it was too dangerous to go diving7. “Dangerous?” she had said. “You just don't want me to have8. I'm going and if you try to stop me, I'll scream.”

    “What are you doing ?” a voice asked. Diane jumped. She did not know that the man was there9  he spoke .

    “I'm going diving, ” she answered.

    “You shouldn't swim that day, ” the man10. “There is a storm coming up.”

    “You should mind your own11!” Diane replied and walked into the gentle waves.

    “If you go out there you'll be12,” the man called after her. She did not bother to reply.

    Diane slipped into the water and dived13until white caps began rolling in and it became harder to14against the current (水流). Saltwater hit against her face, making it15to breathe. Oh, why had she not listened to advice.

    Panicking, she began to16. Then, just as it seemed as if she would slip beneath the surface, she heard a17voice. “Hold on ! I'm coming.” With18, she saw the old man rowing an ancient-looking boat towards her. “I hope you've learned a lesson. You put us both in19, ” he shouted angrily, as he dragged her over the side of the20. Gratefully, Diane thanked him and ran towards the beach-house.

    A little girl took out the bottle. She 1 the coins carefully. The total number had to be exactly perfect. No chance for2.

    Carefully placing the 3in the bottle, she walked to a drugstore and waited patiently for the pharmacist's (药剂师) 4, but he was too busy.

    She 5her throat. Nothing. 6she put a coin on the counter heavily. That 7!

    “What do you want?” the pharmacist asked 8. “I'm talking to my brother from Chicago whom I haven't9for ages,” he shouted.

    “My brother,” Tess answered, “is really 10and I want to buy a miracle (奇迹).”

    “Pardon?” said the pharmacist.

    “Andrew has something bad growing inside his head. Dad says only a miracle can11 him. So how much does a miracle cost?”

    “We don't sell miracles. I'm sorry,” the pharmacist said.

    “I have money. 12 it isn't enough, I will get the rest.”

The pharmacist's brother asked the little girl, “What miracle does your brother need?”

    “I don't know,” Tess replied with tears. “Mum says he needs a(n)13. But Dad can't14 it, so I want to use my money.”

    “How much do you have?” he asked.

    “One dollar and eleven cents. And it's all the money I have.”

    “A dollar and eleven cents? That's the 15 price of a miracle for your little brother,” smiled the man from Chicago.

    He took her money in one hand and held her with 16, “Take me to where you 17. Let's see if I have the right miracle.”

    That man was doctor Carlton Armstrong.

    The operation was done with no18and soon Andrew recovered. Mum and Dad were happily 19 the miracle.

    “The operation,” Tess's mom smiled, “was a real miracle. How much did it cost?”

“One dollar and eleven cents and the 20 of a little child.”

    When Mrs. Green told her pupils to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful, she thought how little these children in a(an)1neighborhood, had to be2 for. Most of the 3 would draw pictures of turkeys (火鸡) or of Thanksgiving tables full of everything4 to eat. That was what they believed was 5 them.

    What made Mrs. Green 6 was David's picture. David was so disappointed and likely to be 7 close in his shadow as they went outside for breaks. David's drawing was8 this:

    A hand, whose hand? The class was strongly attracted by his image. “I think it must be the 9 of God10us food,” said one student,

    “A 11 said another, “because they 12 the turkeys.”

    “It looks more like a policeman, and they13 us.” “1 think,” Lucy said 14 “that it is 15 to be all the hands that help us, but David could only draw one of them.”

    Mrs. Green had almost forgotten David in her16at finding the class so responsive(共鸣的). Having the others working on another project, she bent over his 17and asked whose hand it was.

    David whispered, “It's yours, Teacher.”

    Then Mrs. Green 18 she had taken David by the hand from time to time; she often did that with the children. But that it should have19 so much to David . . .

    Perhaps, she thought this was her Thanksgiving, and everybody's Thanksgiving—not the things given to us, but the small 20 that we give something to others.

    A talented actor, producer, and singer, Will Smith is a success. In fact, his huge success can1back to some valuable lessons life taught him early on.

    Once Will's father2him an outdoor project. He had to rebuild a long 3wall in the yard. He had to4concrete and place one brick at a time, eventually covering the entire wall. Will felt surprised at their father's demand5 he couldn't even think of completing a project as big as this. However, with the 6of "one brick more", he completed it in six months. Will who7was so pessimistic about the job, felt a sense of 8 , and so did his father. Even today when Will thinks that he won't be able to do 9, he looks back to it and10himself, "one brick at a time."

    As a refrigeration engineer, Will's father often11stores to install freezers. Will mostly12his father. During one such visit, both Will and his father were installing a freezer in a supermarket basement and the employees had 13a rat killing solution across the floor. Both Will and his dad went in 14the place for the compressor(压缩机), and they found a dead rat. Will's dad had to 15the exact place where the rat had died; his dad, 16 even the slightest hesitation held the dead rat with his bare hands. He removed the17and fixed the compressor. This taught Will that one should never 18 about life. this made him realize the value of 19and hard work.

    Every successful man is shaped right from his 20. To achieve dreams, one should be disciplined and determined.