It was rush hour in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Timothy White, 38, was driving home from the nonprofit he and his mother run, called AMiracle4Sure. He noticed a gray Nissan four-door pickup on the opposite side of the two-lane street. It was hard to miss, since it was moving abnormally before correcting the course.

As the pickup drew closer, White got a good look at the problem: The driver appeared to be asleep. Pretty soon, this guy’s going to crash into a house and kill himself or somebody else, White thought.

While many people would have kept on driving, that’s not how White-whose girlfriend refers to him as Captain Harrisburg because of his perpetual instinct to help out-operates. He had to stop that vehicle.

White made his car a U-turn and was now facing in the same direction as the pickup, but there were four cars separating them. White honked his horn, hoping the cars in front would move aside. They didn’t. He tried to swing into the left lane and pass everyone, but oncoming traffic made it impossible.

Trapped, White pulled his car over, jumped out and ran up the sidewalk. The truck was going 10 to 15 miles per hour, White estimates.

He dived into the road, running around to the driver’s side. The window was down on this temperate autumn day. White grabbed the frame of the window-his legs moving in step with the pickup-and with a mighty strength, jumped in.

White was now inside the cab of the truck, waist deep, his legs dangling out the window. The man behind the wheel, 64-year-old Todd DeAngelis, was just a little conscious to be aware of a stranger jumping in, and he said in a weak voice that he had low blood sugar.

White worked quickly. They were coming up to a busy intersection, he recalls, “so I was trying to stop anything before it happened.”

White forced the pickup into a sudden stop.

DeAngelis woke up in the ambulance after a while.

5 . It was in Australia. By mid-afternoon on Thursday, Adrian Main was working outside in the _________. Over the years, he had _________ many animals while digging around in soil, but he knew how to _________ the dangerous ones.

Now his shovel (铲子) was in his car, parked 50 meters away. He considered getting it, but the job was _________. So he used his hands instead. Just as his fingers slid under the pile of _________, he felt a(an) _________ pain in his left hand. Adran quickly _________ out his hand, seeing a spider biting his finger.

Adrian knew immediately that the spider was a Sydney funnel-web (漏斗型蜘蛛), the _________ in Australia. He _________ his hand up and down to throw off the spider and after three or four seconds, it finally let go and dropped to fallen leaves again.

He __________ to his coworker, Phil, who was working close by. Phil __________ his shovel and ran over. The pair calmly walked to the car while Adrian pressed down on his finger to __________ the spread of venom (毒液) into his bloodstream. They both knew a bite like this, if left untreated, could __________ death within an hour.

__________, the forests where they had been working was not very far from the hospital. Adrian walked into the emergency department with __________ still streaming down his finger. He calmly told the nurse that he’d been bitten by a Sydney funnel-web, and was quickly brought to a bed. He finally was saved.

Lionel, Fandi and Iskandar often got together to play football. They dreamt of one day growing up to be professional footballers. The empty field beside the block of neighbourhood was where they would meet for their football sessions.

One sunny afternoon, they were at the field as usual. They were in the thick of their game when Fandi aimed his foot at the ball and gave a heavy kick. He himself was surprised by his strength. The ball flew past the goalposts (门柱) breaking into a glass window of the house behind. The boys were too shocked for words. They were half expecting the annoyed home owner, Madam Leong, to storm out through the front door and give them a good tongue criticizing. They knew she was an ill-tempered old lady. Actually, she had scolded (责骂) them several times before for being too noisy.

When no one came out of the house after ten minutes, the boys were quite surprised. They had prepared themselves for a scolding and were ready to apologise to Madam Leong for breaking her window. Out of curiosity, Fandi adventured into Madam Leong’s yard. The gate was unlocked and he went in while the other two waited outside. Fandi knocked on the main door. No reply. Looking in through the broken window, Fandi let out a loud scream. Lying on the floor in a pool of blood was the old lady. There was a big cut on her forehead. She must have been cut by pieces of glass, flying across the living room.

In panic, Fandi immediately dialled ‘911’ for an ambulance. As they were unable to enter the house without a key, there was nothing they could do but wait for the ambulance to arrive. Although the ambulance arrived soon, to the boys, the annoying wait seemed like forever. The ambulance attendants forced open the door and rushed to Madam Leong. She was unconscious (昏迷), but still breathing. One of the ambulance attendants applied pressure on the wound and wrapped it. With its emergency lights flashing, the ambulance rushed off to the nearest hospital.

Three boys decided to stay behind to wait for Madam Leong’s son to return and explain to him about the accident.

To everyone’s relief, Madam Leong received immediate treatment.