1 . It was rush hour in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania when Timothy White Jr., 38, was driving home. He ______ a gray Nissan four-door truck on the opposite side of the street. It was hard to miss since it was moving from side to side. As the truck drew closer, White saw the ______: The driver appeared to be asleep. If nothing were done, an accident would happen pretty soon. White made a U-turn and faced in the same ______ as the truck, but there were four cars separating them. He tried to pass them, but oncoming traffic made it impossible. He pulled his car ______, jumped out and rushed to the sidewalk. The truck was not ______, so White ran around to the driver’s side. The window was down. White ______ the frame (框架) of the window and jumped into truck.

The old man behind the ______, Todd DeAngelis, was just conscious enough to be shocked by White, and he gave a loud cry.

White worked ______. He took hold of the gear shift (换挡杆) and forced the truck to ______. Then he pushed himself out from the window. The whole ______ was about four seconds.

From outside the truck, White asked DeAngelis ______ he was OK. “No,” he replied.

DeAngelis was ______ facing dangerously low blood sugar. White phoned for an ambulance (救护车) and soon DeAngelis was sent to the hospital.

“He ______ me from a much worse accident than it could have been,” DeAngelis said.

White’s actions that day were not out of character. As a teenager, he once kicked down the door of a house that was ______ fire to see if anyone was inside. “I’m always trying to help where I can, when I can,” he says. “______ jumping into a moving truck was a new territory.”