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.”

A dog named Tinsley caught the attention of New Hampshire State Police when they responded to a call about a loose dog running down a highway. Tom Sandberg and Daniel Baldassarre arrived at the scene and _________ a large dog looking scared. They were trying to get the dog off the highway to keep it _________. However, as soon as they got _________ to the dog, it would run and then _________ and look at them, trying to get their _________. Finally, the dog _________ at the top of the embankment (路堤) and looked down.

The officers _________ a damaged section of guardrail and when they looked down, they saw a badly damaged pickup truck that had _________. Two men inside the truck had been _________ from the vehicle and were injured and hypothermic (体温过低的).

The officers called for medical ____________ and while at the scene, they learned Tinsley ____________ one of the injured men.

“It’s really quite ____________. This dog definitely ____________ their lives. I don’t think they would have ____________ the night given the temperatures,” Baldassarre said.

As emergency rescue workers began their medical care of the ____________, the dog sat there nice and calm right next to its owner. Both men were then taken to an area hospital for ____________. Tinsley’s owner, Cam Laundry, said he was ____________ Tinsley came to his rescue after the ____________. Laundry was not seriously ____________, and said Tinsley would be highly rewarded for ____________ such intelligence and devotion.

Mac was cycling along a road in Canada's Yukon, halfway through a 2,750-mile bike tour to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. He was carrying a 30-pound camping bag, ___________ he wasn't moving very fast. Suddenly he heard loud breathing behind him. "Man, that's a big dog!" he thought. He looked to the side, but to his great___________, he saw that it wasn't a dog, but a wolf, running hard to___________ him.

Mac's heart jumped. He reached for the___________ from his bag. With one hand on the handle bar, he___________ the spray. A bright red cloud covered the wolf___________, and it fell back, shaking its head. But a minute later it was by his side again. He sprayed a second time, and the wolf fell back again, but only to quickly restart its___________.

The wolf was getting closer and closer, ___________ a dozen yards away. Mac waved and yelled at passing motorists, but meanwhile___________ hard. He knew clearly that he must be careful not to slow down. Otherwise, he would become a____________ of the wolf.

Paul and Becky were driving along the same road. From a distance, they spotted what they   ____________ was a dog running after a man on a bike. As they got____________, they realized it was a wolf.

Mac heard a car coming up behind him, and he slowed down. The car turned around the____________, then suddenly stopped in front of him. Mac____________ off his bike and dashed for the back door of the car. It was locked. Paul quickly unlocked the door so as to let Mac in, and the____________ man dived in, shutting the door behind him.

It was quite a while before Mac became calm and cried out: "I thought I was going to die!"And Paul and Becky were glad that they had given a helping hand to people in need.