1 . Harry Burleigh headed into the woods for a camping trip with his fishing equipment. A few days later, his wife Stacy grew _________ when he didn’t come home as planned.

Stacy called the _________ to report her husband’s missing. Search and rescue teams _________ began their work and went on for days, but there was no _________ of Harry anywhere. Everyone was worried — the temperatures were quite low some nights, and it had even snowed.

On May 15, the rescuers finally caught a break when they _________ a shelter and his fishing equipment. They _________ support from over 16 rescue organizations, and they explored every possible _________ but with no luck. Therefore, the rescuers _________ him a lighter and a note telling him to make a _________ and they would be back. Two days later, a team found another __________, but this time, Harry was nearby and heard his name called! It turned out he was __________ along the path with minor pain.

__________, the crew radioed for a helicopter to take him to the hospital for a complete evaluation after spending 17 long days out.

“This was the __________ we all have been looking for in this case,” a rescuer said. “It is our __________ search and rescue teams and the partnerships we have with other teams that helped __________ Mr. Burleigh and his family.”

2 . Tim was working in his office when he was asked to check on Tony. Feeling _______, Tony had taken himself off to a quiet meeting room to _______ . When a colleague (同事) found him, something was _______wrong.

When Tim walked into the _______, he saw Tony sitting in a chair, looking poorly and breathing very rapidly. He _______ that Tony was having a heart attack.

Tony was in his fifties and generally a _______ man. But the symptoms of a heart attack were there. He was sweating and _______to breathe. He was also complaining of chest pains, so Tim called for a(n)_______ .

Tim offered Tony an aspirin pill to _______ slowly, which can help to thin the blood and may help someone who is having a heart attack. He made sure that Tony continued to ________ in a comfortable position. For peace of mind, he asked a colleague to find an automated external defibrillator (自动体外除颤器), ________ Tony became unresponsive and stopped breathing. ________ he didn’t need to use it.

Tim continued to ________ Tony until the ambulance arrived and Tony was then taken to hospital where he had emergency surgery on his heart. Despite the ________ of the situation, Tony was saved and is now fully recovered.

“Without the first aid skills I learnt, I don’t know if I would have been so level headed when this happened.” Tim said when asked about his ________ actions.

3 . On July 10, 1980, I was aboard an old destroyer (驱逐舰), sailing from Singapore to the Philippines. The day was grey with threatening clouds. There was a typhoon _________ our way. All of us were looking forward to arriving in the Philippines as quickly as possible.

Suddenly, the lookout _________ an object floating. He announced that it was a boat with many people on it in a _________ area with reefs (礁石). The captain announced that we were heading towards the boat to offer _________. Everyone prepared for the possible rescue. I made my way to the back end of the ship. The ship _________. But along the way, I heard most of the crew were _________ about assisting the people. And I even heard an engineer _________ said, “We ought to leave them out there to die!”

We got close to the boat and sent out the whaleboat with a small crew to _________ it out further. The crew reported back it was an old wooden boat _________ with about 50 men, women and children, who were very weak. Our ship became even more __________ after that news. Some gathered any dry clothes they could __________ and I prepared the area for rest and all the medical items.

We __________ got alongside the boat, and the first thing I noticed was the strange sound of babies crying. Then came the sound of the men and women excitedly talking with pain in their voices. All their faces __________ great tiredness. We helped get them __________. The weakest received __________ while the rest got a place to rest.

During those hours after the __________, I noticed a big change in the __________ of the crew. The same __________ even helped in caring a baby girl. Outside, the weather was growing worse, but inside, everything felt __________ and pleasant. Our new friends were very happy as if they were on a luxury ship __________ an old destroyer.

4 . One morning last summer, bus driver Tim Watson was about halfway through his daily route when a(n) _________ from his company flashed across his dashboard screen (仪表盘). A kid had been _________ miles away, the message read, and it asked that drivers should _________ for the boy.

The victim was described as a three-year-old child in plaid shorts and red shoes; the _________ a young man wearing a black sweatshirt and carrying a backpack. Tim’s heart _________ when he realized that a man with a kid had boarded the bus just ten minutes earlier.

Tim _________ in one of his mirrors and saw the pair sitting in the last seat at the back of the bus. He wanted to _________ their identities. Pulling into a parking lot, he announced that he needed to look for a lost bag. He moved slowly down the aisle (走道), as if he was searching for it carefully, until he _________ the last row. “I saw the boy’s red shoes and plaid shorts,” says Tim. “But I knew I had to keep _________.”

To avoid any possible __________, he went back behind the wheel and waited a few minutes, then radioed the bus operator. “I have the kidnapping suspect on my bus,” he said, keeping voice __________.

The operator directed Tim to continue to his final stop, where policemen would be waiting. “As I’m driving, all I can think about is what I’m going to do if I get there before the police,” he says. So he reduced the speed __________.

When Tim arrived at the final parking lot, he saw police pulling up behind the bus silently. He stopped the bus and opened the doors. As the man got off the bus with the boy, a policeman grabbed the child out of his arms, and another __________ him to the ground and handcuffed him behind his back. Soon afterwards, Tim checked that the boy was sitting __________ in the front seat of a police car, without a tear in sight. “I smiled at him,” Tim says. “I knew he was safe.”

Several weeks later, Tim received a certificate of recognition from the company. Still, he is __________ about his actions. “I just want to teach my kids to look out for people who can’t defend themselves,” he says. “And that’s what I did.”

5 . It was a bright May afternoon along the coast. Bauer and his 13-year-old daughter, Ava, were taking _______ of it. They were driving with the windows down as they headed home on a narrow bridge. Suddenly, the calm was _______ by the squeal (摩擦声) of tires.

Not far ahead of them, a truck was _______ from one lane (车道) to the other. It crashed into a concrete barrier, and _______ hanging over the railing (栏杆) of the bridge. Bauer stopped the car _______ to avoid it.

The truck driver’s door opened. A man climbed out and _______ to the ground. Bauer ran up beside him. He pointed down, saying something in Spanish. In the water was a car seat, a girl, about two years old, _______, floating on her back and screaming.

Matters quickly went from bad to frightening when the girl _______ onto her stomach. Bauer waited for the driver to do something, but he didn’t. Maybe he was _______.

Bauer jumped into the water without __________. He swam to the girl and lifted her out of the water. Standing, he laid her against his shoulder and knocked on her __________ with his hand. Come on ⋯ come on ⋯ Wake up! __________, her eyes were opened now, focused on him. He pulled her close, hugging her to protect her from the __________. Minutes later, the girl was sent to __________. The girl suffered a broken shoulder but was otherwise uninjured.

Ava Bauer was __________ by her father’ actions that four months later she became a cadet (实习生) firefighter so that she, too, could save lives.

6 . A ten-year-old boy saved his mother from choking on a pork scratching (猪肉脆片) after _________ the Heimlich manoeuvre at a school demonstration just days before.

Dom Hollinshead used the _________ he learned in school after the snack got _________ in his mother Lisa’s airway while she was watching TV alone. She was left gasping (喘气) for air. _________, Dom found his mother in distress (痛苦) after leaving his bedroom at 10 pm to find his hat.

Ms Hollinshead said: “I was in absolute _________— I couldn’t make a noise or shout for help. It was a _________ feeling. I couldn’t even get any air through my nose. I tried dislodging (取出) it by coughing, then I tried to get some water but it didn’t _________. I just couldn’t catch my _________. But Dom ran down and gave me four massive Heimlich manoeuvres. When it came up, I started crying. I was lying on the floor laughing, crying and hugging him — he _________ my life.”

And the youngster did so by using skills she had no idea he had. Volunteers from St John’s Ambulance had been visiting the school to give a(n) __________ to pupils. __________, the lesson stuck with Dom. “I did the Heimlich manoeuvre on her stomach and it __________ came out,” said the boy.

Ms Hollinshead said: “He is my __________. It just goes to show what a(n) __________ job St John’s Ambulance does. Someone, somewhere, someday will try and nip it in the bud (防患于未然) by saying first aid costs too much but it clearly saves __________.”

7 . A Wisconsin fourth grader, Essence was in class last Tuesday afternoon at Fratt Elementary School in Racine, Wisconsin, when she noticed a _________ classmate needed help. “I was eating my food. She brought her lunch. When she was about to swallow her food, she _________ . ” Essence told Good Morning America.

The 9-year-old felt _________ but didn’t hesitate to help. “I was scared but then I took a deep _________ when I was helping her out.” Essence said.

Teacher Samantha Bradshaw was in the classroom with the students when the incident _________. “I didn’t notice at first until I saw Essence _________ across the classroom. I _________ what was going on,” Bradshaw recalled. “And then I saw her _________ the other student, just surround her arms behind and then just do that quick press.”

Before any time was wasted, Essence had _________ the Heimlich maneuver (海姆利克氏操作法) for the first time. She had __________ the move two years ago through a video. __________, the student was able to __________ shortly after the incident and was assessed by a school __________ before returning to class.

Girls Thrive, an afterschool program, held an “Essie Day” to celebrate her and show how young girls can make a __________. The Racine Unified School District is also __________ to honor Essence with a(n) __________.

Despite all the praise, Essence has been __________ about her lifesaving actions. “After everything had settled down, later that day, I told her how __________ I was of her. And she said, ‘I’m just a kid. You know, but keep it coming,’” said Bradshaw. Essence, to her __________, has had one thought. “I hope I don’t have to do it again,” she said __________.

8 .

It was a Sunday afternoon in May. Paul Blachut was busy working at a restaurant in scenic Augsburg, Germany. Many tourists came for food at the pretty place beside the river, where the meltwater was cold at this time of year.

A mother and her daughter were _______ the cooling water by the riverbank. They were playing with an inflatable tube happily when _______ the girl lost her footing and was caught in the river’s current. It happened so fast that the girl desperately grabbed (抓) on to the tube, which her mother was sitting in, throwing her into the river, too.

Blachut heard the sudden shout, “Two women are drowning in the river!” Then he hurried to the _______ , where he spotted them trying to grab anything they could. He was horrified to see that one of them kept sinking. Blachut’s mind _______ , “How can I help them?” _______ having no lifesaving training, he rushed down to the riverbank. Quickly he _______ his T-shirt and jumped into the river. He didn’t care about the cold; all he could think about was saving the women. It was obvious they were _______ .

As Blachut got closer to them, he could _______ that the mother seemed to be in the most trouble. She was drowning. He _______ a film in which a lifeguard grabbed a drowning victim’s body, pulling the person ashore while swimming on his back. Blachut tried this, but the woman’s clothing made her so ________ ; he kept being dragged under, too. He needed a new ________. He quickly dived under the drowning woman, ________ her upward and using that momentum (水势) to take her toward the shore. At that time, an onlooker was able to ________ the woman’s hand, pulling her ashore. Then Blachut jumped into the river again. He swam downstream, got hold of the daughter, and was able to get her out in the same way, too.

Several onlookers expressed their ________ for Blachut following the incident. However, Blachut was ________ about his role, “The whole rescue only took several minutes and I am happy to receive your praise.”

10 . Sha’Kyra was planning a party with her husband at home on a winter afternoon. Outside their house, a_______was sweeping through her city violently. Her three children were_______at one of their friends’ home due to the snowstorm. She suddenly heard a man _______ for help outside her door. She immediately dialed 91l to help the_______trapped in the freezing cold. Due to the dangerous weather, dispatchers (调度员)_______her that they would add her request to the already_______ list of incoming emergency calls.

Sha’Kyra took matters into her own_______. Her husband helped her carry the helpless man into their home so she could care for him until_______arrived.

The man, Joe White, lives nearby in a group disability home. He was_______his usual path home from his job when he found himself________stuck in the storm. The rapidly worsening storm conditions and angry winds made it________for him to continue on his journey home.

Joe’s terrible________included severe frostbite (冻伤). Sha’Kyra used a blow dryer to________the ice from his red hands. She________his body in blankets and kept him as________as possible as he rested. Joe gave Sha’Kyra his sister’s phone number. Sha’Kyra talked with his sister, Yvonne, over the________, which comforted Joe.

Sha’Kyra knew that Joe needed immediate________attention. She pleaded (恳求) for help on social media. Kind community members________to her request and traveled to her home to transport Joe to the________hospital. Joe remained in stable conditions at the hospital.

Yvonne believes that Sha’Kyra’s kind actions saved her brother’s life. She said that she and her brother now “have an________family member”.