1 . Leigh Ann Sondrup, a devoted nurse at Valleywise, earned the title of a hero after a remarkable off-duty rescue.

The extraordinary chain of events unfolded as Sondrup was heading home from _________ one morning. Having just completed her fourth straight night shift, she was _________. Driving on State Route 143 near Sky Harbor, Sondrup suddenly noticed a horrible situation in the distance. As she _________, she found a concrete truck had overturned, with a man _________ inside.

Emergency first responders had not yet made it to the _________. Despite her tiredness, Sondrup didn’t _________ to make a decision to intervene.

She _________ her car. No other cars were moving on the road, _________ her to safely walk across the usually busy highway. She got closer to the truck and then quickly _________ the situation. She discovered the driver was still conscious, but severely injured and losing __________ at an alarming rate. Every second counted. She __________ crawled (爬) underneath the overturned truck. In a display of resourcefulness, she __________ the man’s belt to stop the bleeding.

Months later, the man who had suffered a life-threatening injury reached out to Sondrup to express his gratitude for a second __________ at life. The Phoenix Fire Department recognized Sondrup for her __________ actions. When interviewed, Sondrup said she maintained a strong __________ that everyone serves a purpose in life and that she was glad to have done her part when duty called.

2 . One hot afternoon decades ago, Thea Rhiannon was driving her old Volkswagen bus down the highway. When she _______ down her window to let in some fresh air, her car registration paper blew off the sun visor (遮阳板) and onto the ________.

She leaned down to get it, and as she did so she ________ pulled the steering wheel (方向盘) to the left. When she ________ back up again, she realized she had got into oncoming ________. In a hurry, she over corrected and pulled the wheel sharply in the other ________. The truck rolled over three times, and Rhiannon was ________ onto the road and was bleeding from a train of injuries.

A passer-by ________ her and stopped to help. Rhiannon remembers him as a man in his late twenties, with a ________ manner and a calming voice.

“He stayed with me until the ambulance got there,” she said. “He ________ me with a blanket and gave me emergency first aid, including apparently putting a tourniquet (止血带) on my left arm, above where I’d hurt it so ________ .”

At a hospital in California, an emergency room doctor spent hours ________ all the pieces of window from her _______ , and gave her necessary treatment. The next day, one of the doctors told Rhiannon that, ________ the tourniquet, she would have probably bled to death before the nurses arrived.

“Thank you for your ________ and concern,” she said to the passer by in tears.

3 . White dressed up as Captain America for the annual Anti-Bullying (反霸凌) Superhero Day. But when spotting ________ one afternoon, he couldn’t ________ any superpowers.

It was rush hour. White was ________ home when he noticed a pickup on the opposite side of the two-way street. It was hard to ________, for it was crashing into the curb (马路牙子) before course-correcting, only to hit it again. As the car drew closer, White got a good look at the ________: The driver appeared to be asleep. He had to ________ that vehicle.

________, White made a U-turn, facing in the same direction as the pickup, but there were four cars ________ them. White pressed his horn, hoping the cars in front would move aside. They didn’t. Trapped, White pulled his car over. He ________ up the sidewalk, cut into the road and ran around to the driver’s side. White ________ the frame (框) of the open window, his legs moving in step with the pickup, and with a mighty ________, jumped in.

DeAngelis, the man behind the ________, had unexpectedly faced dangerously low blood sugar, and just come to. He was ________ by the odd sight of a stranger lying across his stomach. White immediately brought the pickup to a stop. DeAngelis was rushed to a hospital, where it was determined that had his blood sugar gone lower, his life could have been endangered.

White ________ a superhero, but his quick thinking and daring ________ made him a real-life hero.

4 . It was rush hour in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this September. Timothy White was ________ home when he noticed a gray four-door ________ on the opposite side of the street. It moved on ________. As the pickup drew closer, White spotted the ________ appeared to be asleep.

Pretty soon, this guy’s going to ________ into a house and kill himself or kill somebody else. White ________ to stop that vehicle. White made his car a U-turn and was now facing in the same ________ as the pickup, but there were four cars ________ them. White honked his horn, hoping the cars in front would move aside. They didn’t.

Trapped, White ________, jumped out and dashed up the sidewalk. The truck was going slowly. He ran around to the driver’s side. The window was down on this temperate ________ day. White grabbed the frame of the window and with a ________ strength, leaped in. White was now inside the truck.

The driver, Todd DeAngelis, was just a bit ________, unexpectedly facing dangerously low blood sugar. White worked quickly. He ________ the pickup into park and called the police.

An ambulance soon arrived and took DeAngelis to hospital. “You kept me ________ a much worse accident than it could have been,” DeAngelis said after his ________. “I’m always trying to help, where I can, when I can,” White smiled.

7 . Bella arrived at the parking lot at about 12:00 p.m. She ________ into her car, and began the 40-minute ________ home. She’s just worked so much and felt quite ________. She almost drove on auto-pilot (自动驾驶仪). A few minutes later—wham! Out of nowhere a truck ________ her backward 100 feet onto the railroad tracks. She sat in the car, injured by the hit.

As it happened, Peter was going to bed ________ he heard the loud noise of metal on metal and ________ glass coming from not far. As a volunteer firefighter, without ________ Peter grabbed a flashlight and ran out. He came to the truck that had ________ Bella’s. Once Peter concluded the driver was OK, he ________ himself and spotted Bella’s car trapped on the railroad tracks. Just then he heard an urgent bell sound: a ________ was coming!

Peter ________ to Bella and knocked at the window. She just looked at him, her eyes ________. Peter thought he had to get her off right now. He pulled the handle ________, but the door was damaged and jammed shut. Peter ran to the passenger’s side and threw open the door. He grabbled Bella’s arms, and pulled her until he could ________ her out and bring her to ________ behind a signal box a few feet away. Within six seconds, the train crashed into Bella’s car!