On a sunny afternoon, Anthony Perry stepped off the train at Chicago’s 69th Street station. The 20-year-old, who worked nights in a grocery store, was on his way to see his ________.

On the platform, something unthinkable happened: a man fell over the edge and onto the electrified train tracks! As Perry and other horrified passengers watched, he shook uncontrollably as the ________ moved through his body.

“Help him!” someone cried. “Please, someone!”

Perry couldn’t just stand there and ________. He sat at the edge of the platform and eased himself down. ________ all rails between the man and him were electrified, he quickly leaped towards the victim, using a high-knee technique from his high school football days.

Perry soon reached down and grasped the victim’s wrist. ________, he felt a powerful electric shock shoot through his body. Perry jumped back. He reached down a second time, and was shocked again. But the third time he seized the man’s wrist and forearm, and managed to move the guy’s body away from the ________.

“Give him chest compressions!” yelled an old lady on the platform.

Perry was no expert, but for a few moments he worked on the man’s heart until the victim regained ________. Then, first-aiders arrived. Perry let the professionals ________. Heart still racing from the electric shocks, he climbed back up onto the platform, grabbed his things and continued on to his grandfather’s.

The evening news reported the incident, ________ an unnamed hero with saving the victim’s life. To many, Perry’s ________ deeds demonstrated the power of choosing compassion over personal safety.

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.

It was around 3:30 p.m. on Sunday when Talavera saw the children fall into the water from her room’s window. “Before I even _________ it, I was out there on the middle of the pond, _________ two kids out,” Talavera, 23, said at a news conference on Monday.

“_________ was really outside except me,” she added. All Talavera could think during the _________ was “Save the kids”. But as she _________ the third child, the ice gave way beneath her and Talavera, too, _________ herself in the 15-foot-deep pond. She tried to pull herself out, _________ the ice was too slick (光滑), so she tried hard to stay afloat as she struggled to hold the unconscious girl’s head above the _________. She _________ managed to get back onto the surface and pull the 6-year-old to ____________.

As the girl began to breathe on her own, the fire-rescue team arrived and took her to the ____________. As of Monday afternoon, she is in ____________ but steady condition in the intensive care unit at Denver Health Medical Center, authorities said, adding that doctors expect her to ____________.

“The fact that we had her witness these kids fall in there and her ____________ reaction... in putting her life ____________ for the kids to make sure that they could make it another day is ____________,” Deputy Blaine Moulton said. Moulton added that the incident should be a reminder to parents to ____________ their children on ice safety.

____________ Talnvera’s bravery at the news conference moved firefighter Corey Sutton, who has four sons, to ____________. “What she did was amazing,” he said. “We were back at the fire station talking about how ____________ she was... and gosh, I hope if this happened to one of my boys, that somebody like her was close by.”