1 . On a hot afternoon Rhiannon was driving her old van down the highway. As she ________ her window to let in some fresh air, her car registration paper blew off the sun visor (防晒板) and onto the floor inside. When leaning down to ________ it, she accidentally drifted into oncoming traffic. In panic, she over-corrected and pulled the ________ sharply in the other direction. ________, the van rolled over three times, and Rhiannon was thrown onto the road, lying in the middle of the road and bleeding, nearly ________.

A medical student witnessed the accident and came to her ________. He covered Rhiannon with his coat and gave her emergency first aid, including ________ the wound on her left arm before the ambulance arrived.

________, Rhiannon was rushed to a hospital where an emergency room doctor spent hours ________ all the pieces of windshield (挡风玻璃) from her arm, and gave her three dozen stitches (缝针).

Luckily, Rhiannon was saved. Not for the bandage, she would not have ________long enough for the emergency personnel to arrive. Though Rhiannon didn’t know him, she was grateful to the medical student who saved her life. So she ________ the words online, “It’s a pity that I don’t know your name. If you happen to see or hear this story and recognize yourself, thank you for your kind ________.”

Rhiannon also had a message for the other ________ heroes, “Please consider this a pay-it-forward letter of ________— a letter from the ________ you helped who, for whatever reason, couldn’t thank you themselves.”

3 . Curtis retired from the police force, but he never stopped being a true hero.

He was sitting in a car in the Chick-Fil-A drive-thru (汽车餐厅). Suddenly, he saw ________pouring out of the truck in front of him. Without thinking twice, Curtis leapt from the ________ and ran to help.

Inside the restaurant, employees saw Curtis pull out the terrified ________ John, mere seconds before the truck exploded.

When Chick-Fil-A owner David ________ the restaurant’s security footage (录像), he saw the full extent of Curtis’ ________ actions. Not only did Curtis pull John from the truck, but he also helped direct ________ customers and staff members once firefighters arrived. Hoping to thank Curtis in person, David________ a call for help on social media to ________ the hero.

After Curtis was found, David ________ invited him to come to Chick-Fil-A for a meal with the driver he ________ . They all celebrated Curtis being in the right________ at the right time to save at least one life! John and his family are incredibly grateful that Curtis was so ________ to help, and Curtis said he was just pleased no one was ________.

“As far as he is safe, that’s all that ________,” said Curtis.

Once a first responder, always a first responder! Curtis still has those cop instincts (本能), and we’re glad he happened to be there to put them to good ________.

7 . Todd and Donna woke up early one day to take pictures of the sunrise. While walking along the shoreline and enjoying the sights, Todd suddenly _______ down. Donna thought her husband was _______. However, she quickly realized this was no laughing matter. Todd’s heart stopped beating and he turned _______. Immediately she screamed for help.

Tyler Volpe, a _______, was in the water when Todd came down. Volpe is also a physician assistant. He heard Donna’s cries for help. “I knew it wasn’t a _______ scream,” he said. “I came flying out of the water.”

Volpe started chest compression (按压) while Roy, another surfer, breathed into Todd’s mouth. Then, they switched _______ with each other. “I really thought he was _______,” Donna said. _______ Roy and Volpe performed CPR, Todd breathed deeply a few times.

The tide was starting to come in. Other surfers used their boards to form a _______ between the rescue effort and the water. “They kept him ________ until the ambulance got there,” Donna said. “It could have been two minutes or 10 days. I was watching my life ________ with his.”

Doctors used a defibrillator (除颤器) to shock his heart and ________ his heartbeat. On the second shock, he regained his feel.

Todd and Donna planned to drive back home to New Jersey that morning, but decided to first take a walk on the beach. “It is lucky we didn’t ________ because it would have happened while we were driving home,” Donna said.

Donna ________ a message asking if anyone knew the surfers who helped her husband—they wanted to ________ them.

8 . Near the top, Peter and Michael had climbed onto a rock of the pine-covered mountainside to admire the view far below them. While climbing, Peter had _________ awkwardly to the ground, his leg bent at a painful angle beneath him. Unable to _________ , he was forced to wait where he was, wrapped in Michael’s jacket, while Michael _________ down the mountainside to fetch help.

Michael looked down on the mountainside from the window of the helicopter (直升机). He felt increasingly _________ , as it looked totally different from the _________ and the network of tiny paths was mostly _________ from view by the thick covering of pine trees. Worse still, the light was fading fast and a thick _________ of mist was starting to form. Eventually the _________ and the three mountain rescue workers in the helicopter agreed that they would have to go back and continue the search for Michael’s friend, Peter, on foot.

They had left the helicopter in the village and _________ a mountain rescue team of fifteen men. Michael felt scared for his friend’s __________ . Slowly they started searching the numerous paths for Peter. The only __________ were the footsteps and the noise on the walkie-talkies that the rescue workers carried to talk to each other. The mountainside was a __________ place after nightfall and gradually Michael started to __________ that they would never find Peter at all.

Suddenly Michael heard a voice come over one of the walkie-talkies, “We’ve got him. We’re taking him down. ” “I’m sorry,” said Michael to his friend the next day in the warm safety of the __________ , “I didn’t realize it would take so long to __________ you.”

9 . Dung the rush hour in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, White was driving home when he saw a car on the opposite side of the street. It was easy to _________, since it was moving from side to side. As the car drew closer, White saw the ___________: The driver appeared to be asleep. Pretty soon, an accident was _________ to happen, White thought.

White made a U-turn to the same _________ as the car, but there were four cars separating them. _________, White pulled his car over, jumped out and raced up the sidewalk. The car was going 10 to 15 miles per hour, White _________. So he ran around to the driver’s side. White caught the frame of the open window and _________. The man in the car, 64-year-old Todd, was conscious enough to be surprised by the _________ of a stranger by his car window.

White worked quickly. He forced the car into a _________ stop and stepped outside the car. Then White asked Todd if he was OK. “No,” he replied. Todd was __________ facing dangerously low blood sugar.

A police officer went to the __________, and an ambulance soon arrived, which took Todd to a hospital. The doctors ____________ that, if his blood sugar had gone much lower, he could have fallen unconscious.

White’s actions weren’t __________ for him. He and his mother run a nonprofit organization. But White __________ that jumping into a moving car to prevent a(n) __________ was new. “It took me a couple of days to calm down,” he says.

10 . Brendon Birt accidentally took a wrong turn down a street in Red Oak, Iowa. But it turned out it was exactly where he was _________! As he drove down the road, he saw heavy smoke from a family’s home. He knew the home was on fire. Without thinking, he stopped his car, called 911 and ran towards the _________ Brendon ran up and saw most of the downstairs was already full of _________. “I just believed there had to be someone _________ inside the house because it was so late at night,” Brendon said. “I knew I had to act _________. Every second that was going by was just getting worse.” He _________ to the side of the home and started pounding on the windows with _________, calling for the people to get out.

The homeowner, Tender Lehman, was _________ that night but her three younger children ages 8, 14, and 17 were inside being looked after by her _________ son, Bryce Harrison, 22. No smoke alarms __________, so if it weren’t for Brendon’s warning, they might not have ever __________ Brendon was relieved (放心) when he saw the four children run out of the __________ to safety. Days later, Tender came home and went to see the man who __________ all four of her children. “I’m so __________,” Tender said. “My kids wouldn’t have __________ it, without your kind action.”