I discovered the power of fear when I became stuck to my driveway. As much as I tried, I could not move my feet, ______ they were crazy — glued to the ground. The realization that my daughters were playing in Nancy’s house, just one-half block away, paralyzed (麻痹) my ______, making me unable to move. Black ______ was rising from behind the trees on the other side of the street and was enveloping three houses, making them barely ______. Nancy’s house was one of them.

I tried to ______ for my daughters, hoping to see them run safely to my arms, but my voice was ______ stuck — stuck in my throat with no ______ of coming out. There I stood, ______, paralyzed and silenced by ______, unable to protect the two little girls I loved ______ even I had realized.

Although ______ in a body that couldn’t move or speak, I could still hear. I could hear other mothers ______ calling their children. I could hear a ______ silence that covered the neighborhood instead of the usual happy voices of children. And, finally, I could hear the alarm of the fire engine. As the alarm ______, “We’re on our way,” it instantly ______ the crazy glue that had ______ my feet to the ground and it ______ the soundproof (隔音的) box that had silenced my voice.

As I continued down the driveway, two little girls, my two little girls, ran toward me from ______ the street. They had come home to tell me about the fire in the garage next to Nancy’s house. Not only did my feet and voice ______ now, but my eyes were also in good working order and had no trouble producing ______.

Joe Royers , a helicopter pilot, was driving home from the Nashville airport when he received a call. The caller told Boyers her brother was ____   by rising floodwaters on their roof in Waverly. ______ , the caller had googled (用谷歌搜) “Nashville helicopters” and Boyers’ company was the first to _____. So she called in,

Boyers knew he would go back up. He put the brother’s _____ into his phone, and then he drove back to the     ____ . Soon, he was in the air.

The flooding, which eventually ____   20 lives, had already knocked out power and ____cell phone service, meaning Boyers couldn’t use his phone to _____   the house he was looking for. He flew on anyway to search for people. A teen was found, wet and   ____, holding on to a tree branch. Since there was no place for Boyers to   ___ , he lowered the helicopter and a rescued man   _____ out and waded (蹚水) to the tree to help the teen. After Boyers ____ the teen on a street, he was back in the air.

When   ____   rescue helicopters showed up, he was almost out of   ____   after rescuing 17 people. As for the woman who _____ contacted Boyers, she called back to say that her brother had also been saved.

It was 7:15 a.m. and Gary Messina was on his morning run along New York City’s East River. Suddenly something caught his eye — a man shouter for help _________ the current pulled him away from the seawall.

David Blauzvern and John Green _________ their phones and keys on land and jumped in. Messina, a police officer, also joined them in the river. Just as the man was_________, they stabilized him, with Blauzvern _________ his back and Messina and Green holding him _________from either side. After ten minutes, they managed to get to the river’s_________and stayed as close to the seawall as they could.

Fifteen minutes later, a rescue boat turned_________. As they approached the boat, there came a new _________: The wave created by the current was sucking(吮吸;吞没 )them under the boat.

Blauzvern remembers being pulled down just as someone in the boat _________on to the man,__________ Blauzvern to let go. Somehow, he grasped a pole attached to the boat deck and dragged himself __________. The men in the water pushed the drowning guy while the men in the boat pulled him up and, finally, to __________. The man they had saved was taken to the hospital for medical aid. Details on his __________ have not been released.

As for the rescuers, each of them was at work by 10:30 a.m. “I was a bit late,”__________Blauzvern, smiling. “But I had a good __________.”