1 . Jason Warnock, then 29, is a high school teacher. He was driving along the hillside road in Lewiston, Idaho, in April 2023 when he came upon a ________ tree in the middle of the road. Being _________, Warnock looked up at the side of a cliff (悬崖). At the very _________, where the tree should have been, was a ________ rocking on the edge, held back from falling to the road by a heavily damaged chain link fence. Looking inside the car, Warnock could see a ________ man beating on the passenger side window.

That’s when Warnock took ________ action. He crossed a nearby footbridge and climbed up the cliff to get to the vehicle. When Warnock got to the car, he tried ________ the window with a tool he had on him, only to ________ that it was shaking the car and might cause it to slip down the hill. He stopped to ________ the driver enough to get him to open the window. “Give me your hand,” Warnock said. “If the car falls, I want to have a hold of you so I can ________ get you out of there.” Before reaching for Warnock’s hand, the driver made one _________, “Can I grab my iPod?” Soon enough, Warnock had ________ both the man and his machine.

The accident was caused when Sitko, the driver, who suffered only small injuries, lost ________ of his car. For his part, Warnock ________ he came to Sitko’s aid for one simple _________: “I just did what I teach my students to do.”