1 . We are all unknowingly sitting among heroes, and for the children of Carter Middle School, it was 13-year-old Dillon Reeves who saved their lives.

It was a common afternoon. Dillon was one of 60 children on a school bus when the bus driver ______ got lightheaded and passed out. Earlier, she had started to feel sick and made a(n) ______ through the intercom (对讲机) saying that she would need to ______ . But she had already become unconscious (失去知觉) before she could get to where she ______ to stop the bus.

As Dillon ______ that the bus was running toward ongoing traffic of itself, he dropped his bag, ______ from the fifth row toward the driver spot, stepped on the brakes (刹车), and succeeded in stopping the bus before it would have ______ several cars. He even called for an ambulance (救护车) for the driver. Most ______ , so many children’s lives were saved. It was Dillon’s action in stopping the bus that made it ______ for each child to leave that bus alive. A news conference was held to honor the boy, and there, his parents expressed not only their ______ , but also fear. No one could even imagine what would have happened if Dillon had not taken action.

Many, including Dillon’s parents, ______ how the 13-year-old boy knew what to do to stop the bus. But his father said he usually ______ around with him, and that Dillon paid attention to his driving. Dillon’s parents said that he wanted to be a ______ when he grows up, and many people are ______ that Dillon will be able to use his ______ and quick reactionary skills to his advantage in putting out fires.

2 . Helen was sitting in the garden one evening when she heard a loud crash. As she walked to the front of the house, she could see a small crowd ________ on the road outside. A 19-year-old boy was ________ in a pool of blood near a crashed motorbike. His leg was bleeding ________.

Helen had ________ a British Red Cross first aid course. She used her training to make a quick judgement of the situation. And then she ________ back inside her home to get lots of thick towels to stop the bleeding.

Helen raced back to the scene, ________ in hand. Someone had called an ________, but the other people were afraid to come forward and ________ her. She used the towel as best as she could to apply pressure to the wounded ________ until help arrived.

Helen successfully managed to ________ the bleeding while waiting for help to arrive. Before long the ambulance crew were at the scene.

________, doctors weren’t able to save the boy’s leg. But they did save his life — and Helen’s ________ played an important role. Without the simple but ________ first aid skills Helen used, the result of this crash could have been far ________.

“I take comfort in the fact that knowing first aid helped me to ________ a stranger’s life,” said Helen proudly.

3 . Imunek Williams drives a school bus for the Milwaukee Academy of Science. While driving her usual route recently, she smelt a strong smoke smell. Among the _______ were 37 young students and Imunek’s own unborn child.

While they had only a few blocks to go before _______ their destination, Imunek decided to pull over to ensure the _______of all the people on board. When she _______ her radio to call for help, she noticed thick smoke filling the bus.

With no _______ to wait for help, she sprang into action. She _______ asked all the students to get off the bus and double checked for any _______ children. She departed the bus last, and minutes later, the _______ went up in flames (火焰). Imunek’s quick _______ and calm action saved many young lives.

When Imunek first ________ the strange smell that morning, she noticed it differed from the usual smell of exhaust (废气) coming off nearby vehicles in traffic. As she ________ driving, the odd smell intensified. By listening to her intuition (直觉), she made the ________ decision to stop the bus.

Firefighters arrived on the ________ as the smoke and flames poured out of the yellow school bus. Onlookers expressed amazement and gratitude that everyone ________ without injury. The Milwaukee Academy of Science and the students’ parents offered their praise and great appreciation to Imunek for her ________ action.

4 . Last Sunday, I was standing still and watching traffic, so I could cross the road. Traffic was coming from the right side. When I saw it was _______ , I moved just a step forward.

All of a sudden, an electric bicycle driver came from the left side. A part of the electric bicycle _______ my right leg. Luckily, he came from the left side. It is the_______ side, so he had to drive against oncoming traffic, which was why he was driving_______.

I had open bleeding wounds. The driver drove me to a nearby_______ to buy cotton bandage (绷带) and alcohol wipes.

The driver tried to _______ what I bought, but I did not agree. Letting him pay may_______ sad feelings in him and make him feel guilty (愧疚的) as well. I told him not to_______.

Nothing in this world happens without a _______. Whatever bad thing happens to us is the effect of our past ________. I will treat this accident as a(n) ________ and be more careful when going out.

I came to the hospital later and visited my doctor, who ________ me carefully and fixed the wounds with bandage. He also gave me some ________ , so that I could better deal with the wounds at home.

The driver did hit me, but I didn’t think it would be a big problem, about which the doctor ________ . I thank myself for helping me to stay________ and forgive (原谅) the driver.

5 . A car with three teenage girls ran into the Pascagoula River accidentally. The car floated 25 yards into the river and then began to ________. The girls ________ to the vehicle’s top where they screamed for help.

A strong and confident swimmer since childhood, Corion Evans, 16, heard their calls. He ________ threw down his phone, ________ his shirt and shoes and jumped into the river. With the vehicle nearly out of sight, he ________ the situation called for quick action. He ________ task of pulling the girls to safety as quickly as possible. Corion helped calm the ________ girls when he reached the vehicle. Finally, he guided the three girls safely back to the shore.

The girls were all treated at a nearby ________ and are expected to make a full ________. One of the ________   survivors became emotional as she reflected on the scary ________. She thought it might be the end of her ________ as she hopelessly tried to stay afloat.

“Mr. Evans is a true ________. He displayed incredible bravery and selflessness by ________ his own safety to help people in danger,” she added. “If Mr. Evans had not assisted, it could have possibly ________ a tragedy（悲剧）instead of all of us rescued safely.”

6 . Life can change in the blink of an eye. For Bridgette Ponson, one of those _________ took place in the parking lot of her workplace, Layton Christian Academy. While she was in the parking lot with her 2-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl, a car _________ them. This left the mother and her kids _________ beneath the car.

_________, the driver wasn’t going very fast when she hit them. At that moment, she was blinded by the sun — this is the suspected _________ of the accident. However, as soon as she _________ what had happened, she jumped out of the car to help. Plus, she wasn’t the only one who came to _________ Bridgette and her kids.

Soon, Chris Crowder, CEO of the school, became _________ of the accident. Without _________, he rallied (召集) together a group of students to help.

“It was a split second,” Chris recalls. “I immediately just ran into the classroom building because I knew I had to get a lot of people to lift this car. We have about 220 __________ kids and over 300 international kids at the school. They just __________ me shout. All these kids from different countries just came __________ out and lifted it up.”

A whole group of kids could be seen working together to lift the car enough for Mom and her kids to get __________. The 2-year-old was flown to Primary Children’s Hospital while the 3-year-old and Mom were taken by ambulance to the hospital. Although Bridgette and her kids suffered from __________, all three of them are __________ to make complete recoveries.

7 . Brandon Leseberg and his sons, Louie, 6 years old, Everett, 3 years old, headed for their farm one afternoon. When the sun set, Brandon_______ feeding his cows and decided to go back. His two boys ran ahead of him. Louie_______at a water tap on top of an old well to drink water. However, the board on the well had grown fragile(易碎的) over time. When Louie stepped on it, it was_______. Louie fell into the well! Brandon didn’t notice the_______until Everett told him. Brandon ran to the well with worry and jumped in, and luckily, he_______Louie.

Knowing they couldn’t stay in the ice-cold water for so long, Brandon put his own legs against the narrow walls to_______himself when he lifted his son, _______his body was still partly sliding down. Though tired, Brandon shouted to Everett, “You have to be_______. Run to the road and stand by the mailbox until someone stops. Tell them we need _______.” Everett did as he was________.

Minutes passed like hours for Brandon. He’d been hoping for the________of strangers, but there was no sign of anyone. ________, about 15 minutes later, Christi and Mark, their neighbors, were coming to rescue them when they heard Everett crying for help. Finally, Brandon and Louie were________by the neighbors. Brandon was________for all the rescuers’ action. “If there is a(n)________in this story, it’s three-year-old Everett. He’s a real lifesaver”, the neighbors said.

8 . 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.”

9 . It was January 2016, and Jeremy and his girlfriend, Molei, were leaving Denver for a weekend of fun with friends on the slopes in Colorado.

The snow came earlier than they’d ________, but Jeremy wasn’t worried. He’d driven this ________ a thousand times, and he knew ________ what to do. “Take it easy. You’ll get there, and when you do, it’s going to be ________.” As the car began the twisting climb toward the resort town, Jeremy felt an overwhelming wave of excitement.

“Life was really great,” he says. Then, within a blink of an eye, everything ________.

A truck that came out of nowhere hit them. One minute, Jeremy’s Ford SUV was ________ quickly through the falling snow; the next, he was sitting in his crushed SUV by the side of the road, ________ his seat by the wheel, his body screaming with ________. To his right, he saw Molei. He could think only one thing to say: “Don’t die. I love you.”

Statistically, Molei should have died. Inside her neck, the vertebrae (脊椎) had basically been crushed. Her head was attached to her shoulders by ________ but skin and muscle.

Henry Rodriquez, an officer on holiday, was driving on the same road not far behind the Ford and ________ instantly when he saw the accident.

________ his wife calmed the trapped and terrified Jeremy, Rodriquez worked swiftly. One wrong move could have ________ Molei dead or paralyzed. Protecting her head and neck, he carefully removed her from the twisted car and ________ her on the road by the side of the car, covering her with coats to keep her warm.

For 45 minutes, Rodriquez ________ her chest to bring her heart back to life. Thanks to Rodriquez’s timely ________, Molei made it to Anthony Hospital and recovered gradually.

10 . One day, I was driving my truck on the Harare-Mutare Highway in Zimbabwe. When traffic _________ to a crawl (徐行，爬行), I realized there was an accident _________. Drawing closer, I saw that a bus had _________ into a fuel tanker, and the bus was on fire. More than 60 people were _________ inside the bus when the accident occurred, so without a thought for my own safety, I jumped from my truck, _________ into the fire.

I was one of the _________ people on the scene. I knew the passengers in _________ needed my help. _________, I ran into the bus and started pulling out victims. By the time the rescuers arrived, I’d single-handedly rescued eight people from the fire! _________ all the people were rescued, I was covered in __________ third-degree burns.

I was taken to Kadoma General Hospital to be __________ for my wounds. When word about the accident __________, people all over Zimbabwe praised me for risking my __________ to save people I didn’t even know. People from all over the world have sent donations to aid in my __________. A stranger even sent me $250, 000! Now my condition is __________ and I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of kindness and generosity I have since received.