There was a man _______ Mr. Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his free time _______ care of his favourite glass-houses and _______ flowers of every color, with long and difficult names, for competitions. He tried to grow a rose of a new color to win the silver cup（银杯）for the Rose of the Year.

Mr. Flowers’ glass-houses were very close _______ a middle school. Boys were often tempted（引诱）to throw a stone or two at one of Mr. Flowers’ glass-houses. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or near his glass-houses at the beginning and end of the school day.

But it was not always possible to be on watch. Mr. Flowers tried in many ways to protect, his glass-houses, but nothing seemed _______ useful. He went to school to report to the headmaster, _______ this did not do any good. He tried to drive away the boys that _______ stones into his garden, but the boys could run _______ than he could, and they laughed at him from far away. He even picked up all the stones that he could find around his garden, so that the boys would have nothing to throw. But they soon found _______.

At last, Mr. Flowers had a good idea. He put up a large notice made of good, strong wood, some meters away from the glass-houses. On it the words wrote: DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE. ________ this way, Mr. Flowers stopped the trouble.

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Have you ever offered a helping hand to those who are in trouble

One day, two ______ were walking along the road to school when they saw an old woman carrying a large basket of pears. They thought the woman looked very ______. They went up to her and said, “Are you going to town? If you are, we will help carry your basket.”

“Thank you,” ______ the woman, “you are very kind. You see I’m weak and ill.” Then she told them that she was now going to market to ______ the pears which grew on the only tree in her little garden.

“We are all going to the _____.” said the boys. “Let us have the basket.” And they took hold of it, one each side. They walked ______   with the heavy basket, but happily.

The other day, I saw a little girl stop and ______   a piece of orange peel (皮), which she threw into the dustbin (垃圾桶), “I wish ______   would throw that on the sidewalk,” said she. “Someone may step on it and fall.”

Perhaps some may say that these are not ______ things. That is right. But such a little thing shows that you have a thoughtful mind and a feeling heart. We must not wait for the ______to do great things. We must begin with little things of love.