1 . I stopped at a local store the other day after a fitness class to buy some food. After I got the food, I got in ________ behind a lady who looked about twenty years old. She had quite a lot of things in her shopping basket. She ________ her credit card to the shop assistant but the shop assistant told her it had been refused. The young lady ________ she had paid it off the day before. The shop assistant replied, “Maybe it hasn’t got through the system yet. Do you want to ________ someone?” The young lady took out her cellphone and was looking through it. ________, they opened another counter (柜台) to let me ________ out.

I was walking out to my ________ when I thought, “Okay! You’re always wishing you could help someone. Now it is time for you to do it!” Immediately, I made a ________ to help her. I got out of my car and ________ with my bank card in my hand. The young lady was still looking through her phone. She looked a little ________. I returned to the counter, handed my card to the shop assistant and said, “I will pay her bill.” She ________ her head and took the card.

As the shop assistant gave the card to me, the lady was still ________ her phone. And I didn’t think she had even ________ what had happened! And I told her that I had paid her bill and then I left before she expressed ________   to me.

The bill was about $52. However, the feeling inside me was ________! I realized that helping others did make me happy.

2 . A woman, Li Li, aged 25 in China, recently decided to have an operation to reduce the size of her stomach. She had begun to take weight-loss pills seven years before but had put on 100 pounds instead of losing weight.

Li Li bought some weight-loss pills after seeing a (n) _________ on TV. She weighed around 100 pounds at that time. However, she felt like she needed to lose a bit of weight. If some _________ could help her do that, then why not? The young woman said that the experiences were _________ at first, but as soon as she stopped taking the pills, she not only put on all the weight she had _________, but added a few extra as well. Little did she know that this was the _________ of a vicious (恶性的) cycle that would see her spend around 200,000 yum on weight-loss pills, only to have her weight double.

Li Li’s _________ was recently published by Chengdu Business Daily. She arrived at the Chengdu Peopled Hospital and told the doctors there that she had _________ for seven years. But to her disappointment, there was nothing positive to show for it, so the operation was her only _________.

The woman said that after her first experience with weight-loss pills, she _________ going online and searching for other pills and weight-loss plans. But the results were always the same. She couldn’t even __________ all the different drugs she had taken in the past seven years, but what she did know was that none of them worked as advertised. Yes, some pills __________ helped her lose 29 pounds a month, but as soon as she stopped taking them, she soon came back to her previous weight and even __________ more weight.

Li Li said she wanted to remind people not to __________ advertising which was different from reality when it came to weight loss products, because she was a clear __________ of that. Losing weight is a long-term process, no matter how __________ the advertising for weight-loss pills is.