In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

A couple from Indiana barely escaped with their lives after being trapped in their bedroom for more than half an hour as flames and smoke tore through their home last Saturday morning. In a panicked phone call to 911, Pam Price and her husband, Tom, from Muncie near Indianapolis called the emergency services saying: 'The fire people just got to our house and we're stuck on the second floor. We can't get out.' The inferno which began started in the couple's garage and Tom went downstairs to check it out. By the time he got back upstairs to fetch his wife, it was too late for the Ball State University professor to get back downstairs and out the front door.Tom and Pam Price were trapped in an upstairs bedroom of their homeFirefighters attempted a rescue but it was too dangerous and had to leaveAs floor collapsed, Mrs Price made two 911 calls, hanging up each timeA final third call convinced firefighters to make another resuceThe couple were pulled out alive, virtually unharmed without a single burnNeighbors are in disbelief and a calling it 'a miracle' 
 Question:Please help us,' _ panted in response, as choking, thick black smoke began to fill the air.
Pam Price

Dallas, Texas (CNN) -- When Leo Manzano won second place in the 1,500-meters final at the Olympics, he celebrated his well-deserved victory by waving two flags, that of the United States and Mexico. He has every right to do so: After all, he has dual citizenship for both countries. Some observers disagree with Manzano's action. On CNN.com, Ruben Navarrette voiced his concerns that Manzano was showing disloyalty to the United States even while he's wearing the USA jersey. Opinion: U.S. Olympic athlete, Mexican flag? Judging by the volume of comments in response to Navarrette's opinion, one would think that Manzano had committed treason. One reader wrote, "He is pathetic. ... Go back to Mexico. You're either American OR NOT!!" OK, calm down. Let's not get too worked up here.Jesús Chairez: Leo Manzano has a right to wave two flags in his victory lap at the OlympicsChairez: Manzano has dual citizenship for the U.S. and MexicoHe says Manzano wanted the world to know that he didn't forget his heritageChairez: There is no doubt that Manzano loves America, his adopted country 
 Question:Viva to _ for being proud of who he is: someone who is American, but also has a part of Mexico in him.
Leo Manzano

MoscowAnna Alimova works on the front lines of Russia's growing HIV epidemic. On a Friday night, the mother of two with a shock of bright pink hair stands outside a 24-hour pharmacy in a leafy Moscow neighborhood. She cheerfully offers plastic bags full of clean syringes to Russians dashing into and out of the store. "Mostly drug users have hepatitis," she says. "And many of them have HIV." According to the United Nations' UNAIDS program, Russia had the third-highest number of new HIV infections globally in 2015, behind South Africa and Nigeria. Russian government statistics show that more than half of new infections are transmitted through intravenous drug use. And the rate of infection is rising.Russia has the third-highest number of new HIV infections in the worldA federal center reported 1.1 million diagnosed cases of HIV in Russia 
 Question:Critics argue that legalizing distribution of methadone substitutes for street drugs would simply promote addiction in _ society.

Russia