Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people to climb the West Face of the Siula Grande in the Andes Mountains. They reached the top 1 but on their way back conditions were very 2 Joe fell and broke his leg. They both knew that if Simon 3 alone, he would probably get back 4 But Simon decided to risk(冒险) his 5 and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope（绳）.

    As they 6 down, the weather got worse. Then another 7 happened. They couldn't see or hear each other and,8 Simon lowered his friend over the edge of a precipice（峭壁）. It was 9 for Joe to climb back or for Simon to pull him up. Joe's 10 was pulling Simon slowly towards the precipice.11after more than an hour in the dark and the icy cold, Simon had to 12. In tears, he cut the rope. Joe 13 into a large crevasse（裂缝）in the ice below. He had no food or water and he was in terrible pain. He couldn't walk, but he 14 to get out of the crevasse and started to 15 towards their camp, nearly ten kilometers 16.

    Simon had 17 the camp at the foot of the mountain. He thought that Joe must be 18 but he didn't want to leave 19 Three days later, in the middle of the night, he heard Joe's voice. He couldn't 20 it. Joe was there, a few meters from their tent, still alive.

    Despite the great progress in medical science, human beings are constantly attacked by cancer, which means death. A woman named Bonnie suffered a 1of discomforts caused by the treatment of cancer. She didn't regard cancer as a 2 disease, but a laughing matter. She treated it in a humorous way. To put it in3way, she is teaching people that even though cancer isn't4 we can treat it in a humorous way.

    Her second child was going to be born three months away5she was diagnosed with cancer. Suddenly, a6 mother turned into a helpless woman afraid for her own7 It was after she had had her baby8that she had an operation9 came chemo (化疗) and her life seemed to be made up of fears and10 But the11moment in her life came after she lost all her hair and a free wig(假发) arrived. She12 it on as her older son Kyler watched.

    “That was when I decided how to 13 it: crying over this bad wig or laughing about it14way would make15remember it.” Bonnie said. She spent a lot of time looking for anything funny from cancer patients. She got a lot out of collecting16 stories. She started laughing a lot, finding it the perfect medicine. Using herself as a bald (光头) model, Bonnie 17 to design her own greeting cards and calendars, making fun of the sufferings of chemo.

    “To have joy, we badly18 to laugh,” she said.

    Clearly, you can increase your confidence to 19 over any disease and trouble20 laughing.

Wings of Angel

    I used to hate myself because I wasn't "normal". Everyone else could play on the monkey bars and ride on a bicycle, but not 1. I had a severe spinal cord disorder(脊髓病) and I knew I would always be much 2than others.

    I hated going to school and I hated 3at me. I hated seeing others smiling broadly and standing 4and tall. And most of all, I hated looking in the5and seeing an ugly and hunchback(驼背).

    My friends found me 6because I didn't let other get close to me. I thought I was going to go on like this for the rest of my life 7Angela appeared.

    That afternoon, I was sitting by myself in a corner of the school—a spot where no one would 8 me. That's when I first heard your voice.

    "Hi. Can I sit down?"

    I raised my head and there she was, with an irresistible smile on her round face.

"What are you looking at?" you asked.

    "Ants."

    "What are they doing?"

    "No 9."

    "I bet they're playing games and make friends. Don't you think so?"

    That was how our 10started and it didn't stop. We talked about everything under the sun—the ants, the clouds, my little niche(处境)—until it was sunset.

    Then suddenly, you saw my 11. She just stared.

    My heart 12. What I feared most had happened and I knew for sure she would13 me now.

    She stood up, pointed at my back and said, "I know14your back is hunched."

    I closed my eyes like a criminal waiting to be15. I begged in my heart for her to16, but you just kept on going. "I know what you've got in there. Do you?"

    "No," I answered 17.

    She bent and whispered in my ears.

    "Your back is bunched because you've got a pair of wings from the angels."

I was18. I looked into your eyes and her19 touched my heart. From that day on, I started to learn to20myself because I have the wings of an angel and a kind – hearted friend.

    My husband and I both were working in a lonely village in northern Thailand. There were many 1, particularly around our housing.

    We 2 our house this past June. Shortly after, while we were working at the office, the 3 removed all the surrounding banana trees and the grass in order to raise the ground level — she had 4 on tearing down our house and building a new one after we left.

    She brought in tons of 5. This left our house in a kind of moat(壕沟), and when the heavy rain came, our house 6. This was upsetting, but it turned into something 7, because when the headmaster at my school became 8 of it, he got my eighth-grade class to come to help 9 up.

    The boys dug into the moat to drain the water, and built a path out to the street, 10 the girls mopped up the water inside and spread newspapers to 11 it. Before the problem was truly 12, however, we had another flood. This turned into a 13, with teachers and students again 14, and our host mother bringing lunch for everyone.

    Another time, my husband suddenly got very 15. It was going to take the 16 two hours to reach our house, 17 my co-teacher arranged for a truck from the government office to take us to meet it--this truly helped greatly by 18 two hours off the ride.

    There were many other 19 of care and kindness. This community is dear to our hearts, and there is no way we can ever 20 them. I plan to try my best to pay it forward by looking for people in need of help.

The parents who adopted (收养) Bruce Hollywood encouraged him to find his Japanese birth mother. But he never became 1 until he had a heart attack, when he realized that he regretted never 2 with his birth mother.

No sooner had he recovered than he began 3 his birth mother. He called the Japanese Embassy (大使馆), but there was no 4 information, which made him really unhappy. Luckily, he met an army man on the plane 5. They had a casual 6. When Bruce mentioned his 7 search, the man 8 Bruce to give him all the information he had 9 and told him he would help him. 10 Bruce had a low expectation, he followed what the man said. Ten days later, he got an unexpected call.

The spokesperson said, "Bruce, we're happy to tell you that, we have found your mother. Because she doesn't speak English, you'd better find a 11." Finally, Bruce got to communicate with his birth mother, who was crying with 12. He learned that it was she who had given him the name Bruce. And he later 13 the restaurant his birth mother had owned for decades in Shizuoka, Japan and found out she had named it "Bruce".

Bruce couldn't 14 the moving words he heard when seeing his birth mother for the first time in 45 years. He learned that love could always stand the test of 15 and distance.

When it comes to emergencies, children are sometimes unsure what to do. 1 9-year-old Aria Lamen was fully 2 when she faced such an emergency. Her mother collapsed in the house and her quick 3 saved her mother's life. She immediately called her father and then called 

911. 

However, she has been 4 most for her calmness. On February 2nd, 2023, when Aria was finishing her homework in the dining room, her mother, Caron Lamen, collapsed. "Out of nowhere, I just 5 . . . I was on the floor and couldn't move or feel my entire left side," said the mother. 

"In the ambulance, they 6 to know my allergies（过敏症）, medications and all that," said Caron. "Aria said, ‘Well, here I have my mother's phone. I know all that 7 is on her phone; let me 8 it. '" At that moment, all that 9 to Aria was that her mother needed 10 . 

Even the police were 11 to hear Aria was so calm on the call. "I've taken calls for 30 years," said Tracie Whalen, the 911 dispatcher（调度员）. "I don't see most adults do as well as Aria did. "

After getting to 12 about what Aria did, Mayor（市长）Richard Irvin rewarded her for her 13 , "Your courage and calmness made all the 14 . Congratulations, young lady. " Hearing that, the 9-year-old is 15 that she knows what to do in emergencies.