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Complete the summary of Text A by filling the blanks with a word or a phrase.Heroes among usIn an era of heightened heroism, who are the heroes among us?They can be ordinary people like Daniel Hernandez who ran through danger in a mass shooting to save his boss and Dory Stoddard who saved his wife by 1.____ her from the hail of bullets. Both of them are 2. heroes as they acted with courage and grace when 3. extraordinary circumstance.Then are first responders considered heroes, too? We get the answer from Sergeant. Ryan Russell, who got killed in his efforts to help others but was 4. by thousands of other emergency responders. In the past the word “hero” was 5. for those who performed acts of distinct courage beyond the call of duty or for great leaders, while today heroes can be ordinary people like us. Then, do first responders who 6. to bring about desirable results also become heroes? Ms. McMahon provided the right answer. She strongly argued that it’s 7. for civilians to rush away from danger. In contrast, first responders rush toward danger to help those 8.. So when first responders die doing that, we should 9._ their heroic efforts. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things and, being 10. by them, we can also be heroes when circumstances call on us to act heroically.A hero's aspirationOfficer Jonda's pulse quicken while she was driving because the car ahead of her was 11.___. This 12._ her of the terrible accident in which she failed to save a teenager's life so many years ago. Since then she became very 13._ to signs of potential accidents.Although Jonda and her partner, David, had tried to pull that car over, the car 14. ___the road into the Dalton River unfortunately. With the hlep of faint 15. through the heavy rain, but Jonda could see the trapped driver screaming and banging the window. And the car was filling up with water. Finally Jonda 16. the car's window by a hammer passed by David with all her might and the window 17. little pieces. Then with all her strength, Jonda David 18. _ the slender woman out of her seat and through the broken window and pulled her back to the bank with David. Just as the woman cleared it, it was 19. by the water.Since the accident, the two women have become close friends. Both of them feels grateful to each other and finally, Jonda is 20. ______ and free of the acute nightmares of her past.

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Section ATravel is 1. b_______ and sometimes even unpleasant; then what is the driving force behind our travel? We travel because we need to. Sometimes our travel is a 2. m because we should attend the business luncheon, because we should celebrate Thanksgiving with our mom. We travel because we want to.Owing to the fact that most travel is 3.o_, we just travel following our heart. Most people travel for the sake of 4.r__, but their mind tends to solve the stubborn 5. d_ issues while on vacation. What is the real purpose of travel? Travelling to a new place can make us less controlled by familiar cognitive 6. p that imprison us. As a result, we can better combine the new with the old, the mundane is 7. g from a slightly more abstract perspective.To 8.s travelers, multicultural contrast means that they are open to ambiguity and willing to see the world in different ways, thus to expand the 9. c__ of their “cognitive inputs” as they refuse to settle for their first answers and initial guesses. Of course, that mental flexibility is a side effect of difference and we know what we did not know in the past, by which we become more open-minded and less 10 i_.Apart from its advantages, travel also has it drawbacks, which make us not take great pleasantness. More often than not, we need a vacation after our vacation. We travel because we need to , because distance and difference are the cornerstones of creativity. Travel will change our mind to some extent, which in turn can have effects on everything in our life.

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Section BYou are ready to travel. But You haven’t traveled much and have many problems to deal with. None of your friends or families 1. s that dream. You could go alone though it is a difficult decision. I traveled solo to China and after that to several other countries. My friends, 2.a, co-workers and the natives from the countries I visited consider it strange, 3.i, 4.r and strange. My solo travel has been sometimes a 5.b_, sometimes a 6.c_. Not-so-pleasant experiences in Indonesia, Japan, Italy, China have shown that traveling solo could also put me at risk. Having a 7.c might have 8.s me from some dangers, but it would have made me lose the opportunities to enjoy the trip, eat 9.e food, be nursed by strangers, meet locals in the trip.But you have to be careful not to endanger yourself by throwing caution to the wind. Open your mind, close your eyes and leap in! Everything that happens to you will benefit you in some way. Don’t ever let a lack of companionship 10. c_____ you from doing traveling solo because traveling solo is a blessing overall.

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