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].

[Q]: 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.
[A]: Pam Price


[Q]: Don McLean is selling the original manuscript and lyrics to pop anthem American Pie, including a 'lost verse', which included a line about the music being 'reborn'. The singer-songwriter's 16-page collection is expected to fetch up to $1.5million (£1,006,303) at auction today, which offers tantalising new details about the famous anthem, originally released in 1971. In an interview published by Christie's auction house New York, where the manuscript is up for grabs today, McLean says American Pie is about 'heading in the wrong direction'. Scroll down for video Original song: Christie's curator Tom Lecky holds the 16-page notes and manuscript for singer Don McLean's American Pie at Christie's auction house in New YorkOriginal lyrics to U.S. pop anthem American Pie up for auction todayNotes on Don McLean's 60s hit expected to fetch up to $1.5millionThe 16-pages also includes deleted verse about music being 'reborn'. 
 Question:_'s New York is estimating that  the American Pie manuscript will sell for $1million to $1.5million.
[A]: Christie


[Q]: Dozens of aging U.S. veterans, many in their early 90s and some in wheelchairs, gathered on the tiny, barren island of Iwo Jima on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most iconic battles of World War II. More than 30 veterans flown in from the U.S. island territory of Guam toured the black sand beaches where they invaded the deeply dug-in forces of the island's Japanese defenders in early 1945. They were bused to the top of Mount Suribachi, an active volcano, where an Associated Press photo of the raising of the American flag while the battle was still raging became a potent symbol of hope and valor to a war-weary public back home that was growing increasingly disillusioned with the seemingly unending battle in the Pacific.More than 30 veterans flew to the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, on SaturdayThe 1945 battle was one of the bloodiest of World War 11Represents a major invasion and win for the U.S.The Battle of Iwojima lasted about a monthAbout 22,000 Japanese soldiers and 7,000 U.S. servicemen died 
 Question:The United States returned the island to _ in 1968.
[A]:
Japanese