2 . Inside a library in a seaside town is a room changed into a cafe. There might be a homeless man _______ coffee for a sad mother, an elderly woman _______ a young man advice and strangers sharing stories. This community open space _______ to solve the central problems that commonly lead to homelessness: _______ and a lack of purpose.

It’s the _______ of Maff Potts. While working with charities for the homeless, he felt _______ because they weren’t reducing homelessness. All the shelters only helped people once they’d already lost everything, _______ trying to solve the problems that led to their homelessness in the first place. A main _______, he discovered, is that many people who ended up at the shelters were alone. Their relationships had broken down, they didn’t have a(n) _______ system, or they had no one to show them __________.

Potts understands how altruism (利他主义) can help. Over the years during his work on homelessness, when he met people in their __________ moments, Potts began asking them to do him a favour. One man __________ he’d been a painter, so Potts started __________ how the reception area could use redecorating and asked the man for his __________.The man ended up offering to __________ it himself. The task gave him a __________, a reason to keep living.

“The thing that led to a lasting transformation was when they __________ somebody else,” Potts said. “That was __________ time.”

So Potts started thinking there must be a way to __________ the lives of people who are __________ not by making them feel like they’re always receiving help, but by giving them a space to help others — and in the end, help themselves.

3 . It was 7 in the morning. I was on a train to another city when I started a(n)______with a young man sitting next to me. From what he said, I______that he came from a farming family and was now doing very well in the IT industry. He was______enough to give me a window seat, help a co-passenger when he dropped his coffee, etc. These small______showed what a good person he was!

I was lost in reading a biography(自传) on Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold Schwarzenegger has played a huge role in my life______I haven’t met him. Reading a_______about him is great fun.

Now my co-passenger______to see the book, so I handed it to him. Minutes passed into hours. From the train window, I______him reading the book carefully. Towards the end of the trip, I even saw him______everything about the book including the publishing house and code number. He turned to me and asked where he could buy this book.

“You can_____ it,” I said. “This is the second time that I’ve read it anyway.”

I was lying! Actually it was last weekend that I bought it. I loved it so much and how I______to hold on to it myself! ________, when I thought of his kindness, I thought I should do something too. “Wow,” the man said to me. “This is really_______. Thank you so much.”

“No problem. Don’t worry about it.”

I got off the train and walked into the new city with a sense of_______. I did not regret giving the book to him as I believed_______each other is really a good thing.