1 . A 71-year-old Swedish man “can’t put into words” how thankful he is for the new technology that saved him from sudden cardiac arrest (心脏骤停).

The _________ occurred while he was clearing snow in his _________. In such situations people _________ have about ten minutes to _________ help, but ambulance response times are often too long to save a patient’s life.

Luckily, an _________ call for emergency service was made, and the man lived in a region that had partnered with an innovative _________ program called EMADE.

EMADE drones (无人机) swiftly delivered an automated external defibrillator (AED), a device to save a person’s life during a sudden cardiac arrest, to the _________ —and the time from the alarm to the safe _________ of the AED was just over three minutes.

_________, a doctor drove by. “I was on my way to work at the local hospital when I noticed a man __________ in his driveway and I immediately rushed to help.” says Dr. Mustafa Ali. “The man had no pulse (脉搏), so I started __________ CPR while asking another bystander to call the ambulance. Just minutes later. I __________ something flying above me — it was a drone carrying an AED!”

After receiving on-site treatment, the patient was __________ to the hospital upon the arrival of the ambulance.

“This is a truly __________ technology that needs to be established everywhere.” said the patient who now has made a full __________ and returned home. “If it weren’t for the drone. I probably wouldn’t be here.”

2 . Several high school football players made their hometown very proud when they rushed to help a woman trapped in her car after having an accident.

On a recent morning, Cesar, Treyvon, Antwion, Messiah, Tyson and Alto were on their way to school when they heard _______ from a crashed car. A woman, believed to be in her 50s, collided (碰撞) with another vehicle. The _______ made both her passenger’s and driver’s side doors shut.

Together, the young men worked to open the passenger door in a(n) _______ to save the woman trapped in the car. But they soon _______ they would also have to open the driver’s door in order to _______ the woman from her badly damaged car.

“We’re pretty big people. We’re _______ . We play football, so we lift weights a lot. We used all our muscles, but the door was just _______ bent and broke,” said Treyvon Adams.

As the players helped the woman out from her crashed car, Treyvon _______ the driver of the other vehicle to ensure his safety as well.

Meanwhile, inside the school, math teacher Luis Goya called 911 when he _______ the crash. Mr Goya later ________ with CNN, “We are very ________ of them. This is the kind of news that we ________. That is more positive.”

After the group of guys ________ in freeing the woman trapped in her car, they received significant ________ for their heroic act. But Treyvon said, “We’ve been ________ in a lot of different ways. We appreciate it, but I feel we just did the right thing.”

3 . Firefighter Warfield, a mother of two kids, is wired to help others. So when the pregnant 30-year-old was a passenger involved in a multi-car collision, she brushed aside her unborn baby to save a person _______ in their vehicle.

Warfield explained that she initially got out of her car to help to direct _______. But then she saw a car was overturned. “I started to climb in there, but then I was like, ‘What am I doing? I’m nine months pregnant.’”, Warfield _______. “I ended up holding onto the _______ to keep her in place because I wasn’t sure of her _______.”

Shortly after ambulance arrived to _______, Warfield decided to go to hospital to get herself checked out. The _______, unbeknownst to Warfield, had knocked the baby into a sideways position. “I don’t know how I can stay _______ because the pain was so bad.” Warfield said, when asked how she was able to get down on the ground and help.

Warfield _______ a healthy little girl named Charlotte, less than 24 hours after the crash.

Charlotte ________ siblings Ellie and Jameson

“We take pride in our ________ fire personnel and congratulate Warfield and her family and appreciate her service,” Fire Chief Rund wrote. The Fire and Rescue Department praised the “selfless” mother on its Facebook page. “________ any chance she could be injured, Megan immediately exited her vehicle and began providing care to a person in the overturned car,” the ________ reads in part. “After all patients were evaluated, Megan agreed to an evaluation herself.”

The department ________ Warfield as a “true public servant.” Warfield said she had been doing administrative work during her pregnancy and missed her old duties. “I’ve been desiring to get back out,” she admitted. “It’s what I was ________ to do.”

4 . Nicole Salgado and and her family woke up on New Year’s Day to panic knocking at the front door of their home in Avodale, Arizona. Her house was on fire, but she didn’t know it. “We were all ________,” Salgado said. “Then all of a sudden around 7:30 in the morning, we heard banging on our door and our doorbell was ________. And we kind of got ________.”

Salgado, a mother of four, ran to ________ the kids while her husband hurried to the front door. There, they found their next-door neighbour, Carolyn Palisch, urging the family to leave the house. He opened the door and their neighbour Carolyn said their house was on fire and told them to leave. Salgado ________ grabbed her kids and ________ from the burning home. No one was wearing socks or shoes ________ her oldest child.

Making sure that everyone was out, they realized the full extent of it. They were just in ________ as they watched their home burn. According to Salgado, minutes after they escaped, the ________ collapsed and smoke filled the inside of their home. ________ said if the family had still been sleeping when the roof fell down, they would have breathed the smoke and immediately ________.

“We are so grateful to just be ________,” Salgado wrote in a post to social media. The doorbell camera caught the moment when Palisch saved their lives. Salgado said the family decided to post the video to share with the world what Palisch did for them. The video has now been ________ almost 7 million times on Tiktok.

In the footage (一段镜头), Palisch is seen yelling outside the Salgado family’s door, surrounded by smoke and ________. She ________ to knock at the door loudly and repeatedly until she is able to help the family escape. “If it weren’t for her, it would be a totally different story,” said Salgado. “We feel so thankful to her. She saved all of us.”

5 . A couple of days ago, we were in Edmonton helping one son move there to live with his brother. _______ we were leaving from their apartment, we noticed a man driving by very slowly. We commented on how _______ it seemed and as we looked back in the _______ we saw he had run off the road into a tree.

We _______ stopped and jumped out of our vehicle. My _______ son reached the car and turned off the man’s vehicle and my husband and older son tried _______ the old gentleman but got no response. Fearing he might have choked (窒息), they struggled to get him out of the vehicle. I quickly threw a _______   from our car onto the wet ground. They _______ him on his side where he started choking and spitting up.

My younger son was on the phone to 91l while my husband and older son each held one of the man’s hands and continued trying to talk to him. I sat beside him and told him that _______   was on the way. When he started to get ________ , we talked calmly to him and kept him quiet. I was so amazed by the number of people who ________ and asked if help was needed, and everything was all right.

When the ________ arrived, the medical workers assured us that we had done what we possibly could. They ________ us and took him back to the hospital as soon as possible.

I told my husband and sons how ________ I was of them for not being afraid to ________ . They joked later that day to their friends that they were real “heroes”.

6 . Last year, Kristen Yaldor celebrated her thirty-seventh birthday with a travel in Zimbabwe. But an unthinkable _______ happened to her: she was _______ by a hippo (河马). She was left with serious injuries but her journey towards _______ is very encouraging.

Kristen was rowing a boat in a lake when something terrible appeared below her boat—a broad, rocklike back. She was immediately _______ into the air and fell into the water. Kristen _______ to get back to the surface. She was working her way towards the _______ fast, and was pretty close to the lakeside. When an animal clamped (夹住) her right leg, she remained _______ and reached for the animal’s mouth hoping to make it loose. At that time, she still had no idea what the animal was! Then she discovered the _______ came out badly. In the meantime, her husband Ryan tried to _______ her, together with her mom and the others. He shouted loudly and the hippo left. Hippos may not be as ________ as sharks, but they have teeth strong enough to break a boat in half.

Kristen certainly was ________ . After experiencing operations and physical treatment, she stood, and then ________ . Kristen was a woman full of ________ before she got the injury. She used to run about 10 miles every day. Now with her husband, she’s able to take part in a long running race.

Kristen’s story is evidence of one’s power over the body. Although she’s got serious injury, she never lost the ________ to push her limits. We all have the power to achieve what we want like her, though we might face ________ from time to time.

7 . A family in New Tazewell, Tennessee, recently found out that when the situation is _______，there isn’t much their 7-year-old foster son (养子）Eli wouldn’t do to help his loved ones.

On December 8, Chris and Nicole Davidson were enjoying a nice，quiet _______ at home with their three kids. They are both former firefighters who have _______       34 children, including Eli. They have also adopted Erin, who is 22 months old, and Elijah, who is 2.

That night _______ like any other. The whole family was asleep in their beds when Nicole suddenly _______ to the smell of smoke. In a _______ ,she and Chris grabbed Eli and Elijedi and _______ for the door，but by the time they got to the room where Erin was sleeping in her crib (婴儿床)，the fire had   _______their path.

That’s when the family decided to try another _______ Racing outside, they went to Erin’s bedroom window on the ground floor, but Chris couldn’t quite ________ it to lift himself inside. Instead, they ________   to Eli, who has lived with them for about a year.

“The smoke was so ________   that there was no way I could get to her.” Chris explained. “We went outside to get to her from the ________ But there was nothing for me to stand on to reach up there. So I picked up Eli, who ________ the window and was able to grab her from her crib.

________, the fire ended up destroying everything the family owned. A GoFundMe was set up to ________ them get back on their feet, and so far, it has ________ more than $ 362,000! While they are still recovering from the ________ event，they are in awe of(敬畏）their brave little boy. Though he was ________，faced with an overpowering situation, he still   ________   to the challenge.