Thanksgiving was just around the corner. The menu had been set. The shopping list was made. Everything seemed perfect. I could taste turkey and mashed potatoes（火鸡和土豆泥）. Pictures of different pies, fruit and vegetables came into my mind. I couldn’t ________!

The day before Thanksgiving my dad called a family meeting. He said we needed to practice being ________.

The next morning, we got up ________. I followed my father to the shelter with my sleepy eyes. I had no great expectations and felt ________ all the way. As soon as we arrived, we got to work. There was so much to be done. But all I could think about was the dinner I couldn’t enjoy. However, those thoughts soon ________. Over the next few hours, I watched hundreds of people come through the shelter. For some, this was the only hot meal they would eat that week. For others, it was the first time to eat a Thanksgiving meal. The shelter was filled with ________.

Through this ________, I learned that Thanksgiving is a time to think about your blessings（祝福）and look for ways to bless others. When I ________ what I had wanted, I discovered how much I have. It is much better to give than to receive. In the end, that Thanksgiving became an unforgettable experience.

4 . Tom is waiting for his school bus with his lunchbox. A little child calls him. He looks very _______ and wears a dirty shirt.

“Who are you and what do you want from me?” Tom asks.

The little boy asks for _______ with his low voice. But Tom says, “How can I help you? I am a little boy and don’t have anything to _______ you. The best thing you can do is to ask your parents for help.” The little boy says _______, “I don’t have parents.”

Tom feels sorry for him. But he still doesn’t know how he can help the little child. The little boy _______ Tom’s box and asks, “What do you have in it?”

“My lunch. My mum packs（打包）it for me every day with _______ food.” Hearing this, the boy’s eyes stick to the box.

“Can you give me some of it? I’m quite _______,” asks the boy.

Tom gives his lunchbox to the little boy and gets on the _______. He cannot say a word from his mouth when he sees the _______ on the face of the little boy.

That makes Tom understand something. We can also be _______ if we show a kind face to someone who needs help.

Kaitlin Riffel’s dream to end poverty (贫困) started when she was visiting     1     father, who worked for the homeless.

“I never realized there were people in the world     2     didn’t have home or food before.” said Kaitlin, who is now eighteen. “I knew there was something I had to do about that.”

    3     the age of eight, she started raising     4     to build a playground. “     5     took me two years,” Kaitlin said. “We started small .We want to do something to     6     a difference.”

In 2014,     7     Kaitlin was thirteen, she visited Central America, and saw people going hungry and families living in houses which     8     made of cardboard. That year they set up Kids on a Mission,which has helped hundreds of people there.

“The rooms were smaller     9     my bedroom, but there would be eight people living in each one.” Kaitlin said. “We also got to see the rivers that those people were drinking out of.”

Providing clean drinking     10     , food and clothes for people living in poverty is now an important task for Kids on a Mission .“This young lady is changing the hearts of people,and also changing the world.”said the headmaster of Kaitlin’s school.

6 . I am a doctor and I work in a hospital. Please allow me _______ you a story about one of my patients.

One day I went to the ward (病房) to visit my last patient. She was _______ old lady and she lived in the ward for several months. I wanted to tell her about her illness. But she stopped _______ , “Sit down, doctor. Please sit down and listen to me.”

After I _______ down, she began to tell me something about her only son. He lived near her house, _______ he hadn’t visited her for five years. She believed that this was the main reason _______ her health problems. After hearing her story, I asked _______ there was anything else I could do for her. She said no and smiled. All she wanted me to do was to listen.

Each story is different. Some are true; _______ are not. But it doesn’t matter. _______ thing is that her story is heard.

From the story of the old lady, I learned that listening to someone’s story does not ________ a lot of money, but it is much better than expensive medicine.

7 . I remember sitting in an airport one day, waiting for my flight. I was _________ because I had a first-class(头等的) ticket. Actually, I had the _________ seat on the whole plane! Seat 1A. Before boarding, I noticed a young lady who had _________ big suitcase(手提箱) and several carry-on bags holding a crying baby. Suddenly, the handle(把手) of her suitcase _________ and the suitcase fell to the floor. She tried lifting the case and her bags landed on the floor, too.

“Let me help you,” I said to her. I threw her suitcase over my left shoulder, put her bags on my right and asked, “Where to go?”

“Gate 20,” she said, and showed me her ticket, Seat 24B.

“Oh, we are on the same flight.”

Boarding started, and I realized that she needed the first-class ticket. “It looks like you could use the first-class ticket more than me. I know _________ hard it can be flying with a kid. Why don’t we trade tickets?”

“Are you sure?” she asked.

“Yes, just take my ticket and give me _________. I really don’t mind. I’m just going to be working the whole time, anyway.” “That’s very kind of you,” she said, and expressed her thanks as we traded our tickets.

Then we boarded the plane. I was surprised _________ the good feeling it gave me while watching her sit down in Seat 1A. In fact, Seat 24B or wherever I was sitting didn’t seem that bad at all. At one point during the flight I wanted to see what she was doing. _________ I stood up, walked to the first-class section, and had a look. There she was with her baby, _________ asleep. Seeing they were sleeping in big and comfortable Seat 1A, I felt like a million bucks. I’ve got to keep __________ this kind of thing.

On winter nights, the wind usually blows strongly. Most of us stay inside our warm homes. Few of us think about the homeless. These people have no     1     (choose) but to sleep on the streets. Some of them are so poor that they have no money to buy food.

A young man in Birmingham, England, decided to do something meaningful. Every night, he puts     2     a Spider-Man suit and gives food to the homeless. The local people call him “Birmingham Spider-Man.”     3     young man believes that his action will show others everybody deserves a helping hand,     4     (hope) more people may join him.

The 24-year-old man started his work in 2015. Every night at nine, he     5     (buy) some sandwiches. Then, he finds a street and puts on his “uniform”     6     (secret). After that, the “Spider-Man” starts handing his food out to people     7     are in need.

The man said he wore the Spider-Man suit     8     he wanted to draw attention. Without the suit, few people took a second look at him when he was handing out food. When people see the “Spider-Man”, however, they come over and ask what he is doing.

“The Birmingham Spider-Man”     9     (draw) lots of attention already. Many people offer to raise money for him. But the young man never accepts it. Instead, he encourages people to go out and give a hand by themselves. He said, “If more people offer a helping hand, the cold winter nights will be     10     (warm) than ever.”

10 . A new coffee shop opens on Shanghai’s Yongkang Road. It doesn’t have seats _______ tables. It doesn’t even have a door. There _______ only a wall with a hole（洞）in it and a bear paw（爪）reaching（伸）out. After you pay money with _______ mobile phone, the bear paw will give you _______ cup of coffee.

Many people like this coffee shop. “I like the idea of _______ a coffee from a bear paw. It is really interesting.” one customer says. And if you are _______, you may even get a friendly pat（轻拍）_______ the head from the “bear”.

The idea is fun, but _______ is not the only thing to make the shop special. Some of the workers _______ problems in hearing or speaking. The shop manager says that they like working behind the paw. They feel __________ about it. The manager hopes that more shops will give jobs to people with disabilities（残疾）.