【16040103】新视野大学英语(第三版)读写教程3

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What's courage? Sure, it can be defined in different ways. To me, however, true courage can be shown when ordinary people performed physically or 1)em... acts of br... or im... acts of bravery. For example, in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and the 2009 Manila typhoon, people demonstrated 2)hu... p.... Natural disasters have hit Asia hard in recent years, taking hundreds of thousands of lives and leaving behind 3)vi... fr.... Survivors and unimaginable destruction but while these tragedies have destroyed homes and lives, creating 4)in... im... on people's lives, they have also created heroes. Everyday men, women and even children risked their lives to save others in 5)i... r..., donated aid when they had little to give and helped rebuild their communities from scratch. Here are two inspiring stories. Story 1: In the Sichuan earthquake, instead of becoming 6)ins... hy..., many parents instinctively acted as shields for their children. A three-year-old girl was rescued after being buried for two days. With 7)c... con..., her parents, who did not survive, protected her from the falling building with their bodies. Rescuers found another baby alive after being buried for more than 24 hours. His mother's 8)b... cou... saved him. She knelt down and put her head and hands to the ground. She even nursed him with breast milk. Before she died, she wrote a text message to him, "Dear child, if you survive, please remember, Mom loves you forever ..." Story 2: As rains and 9)ma... w... surrounded Manila, sweeping away homes and villagers, the 18-year-old construction worker, the 10)wo... re..., jumped to action, moving his family to higher ground. But his bravery didn't stop there. He went back to swim through the floods and pull 30 of his neighbors out of 11)v... wa... to safety. After pushing a mother and infant to shore on a tent, the exhausted hero was lost in the 12)r... wa..., his body discovered the next day. "He gave his life for my baby," said the child's mother. "I will never forget his sacrifice."