2 . On a freezing January morning, Jonny Benjamin, then a 20-year-old college student, climbed on the edge of Waterloo Bridge in London. That morning, Jonny_________ from a mental health hospital, where he’d been diagnosed (诊断) with a severe disease. He headed straight to the_________, convinced that his disease was a life sentence.

Hundreds of people passed by. Only one man called Neil Laybourn, then 25, _________ and quietly walked to Jonny’s side.

“You’re alright, man? Why are you sitting on a bridge?”

At first Jonny wanted Neil to leave him _________, but something in Neil’s calm, down-to-earth manner touched him. Jonny felt _________, like he could talk to him.

“It’s cold here. Why not have some coffee in a warm cafe? Everything will be OK.” For the first time after the diagnosis Jonny felt perhaps it really might. He walked back.

The police, having received calls from passers-by, were waiting there. They quickly put him into a police car, _________   he was to panic and jump. He lost sight of Neil, the person who’d brought him hope.

Jonny ended up back in hospital. Eventually, he was well enough to return to university and finish his degree. Over the next six years, Jonny often thought about the   _________   who had talked him round. _________   to thank him in person, he posted a Facebook message nicknaming the good man Mike. His Find-Mike post was _________   millions of times around the world, as far as Canada.

Jonny was overexcited when Neil called him two weeks after his post. They had a reunion, finally having that coffee they had first planned all those years ago.

“Many people walked past, but because of Neil’s __________   and sympathy, I’ve lived a good life.” Jonny said.

3 . It was just about this time last year that my wife announced that she was no longer going to cut our lawn (草坪); instead, she wanted to let it go wild.

In fact, I did not accept her announcement. First, I could cut the lawn myself, something I hadn’t done for years and was unwilling to do. Second, I could try to hire a ____to do it but the teenagers here didn’t seem exactly the type of people to be interested in_____lawns. Third, I could acquiesce(勉强同意) to her suggestion.

Putting aside my pride and kissing goodbye to any hope of winning the first place in the shortest cut lawn competition, I drained (抽干) the oil in our lawn mower, pushed it into a corner and_______it with a plastic cloth. I hope that once the lawn began to look too high, my wife would_______her decision.

By the end of the third week of her “not work”, things were not working out as planned. The grass of the lawn was almost a foot in______, and the neighbors were beginning to________. “ Hey Mike, what’s the matter? Is your lawn mower on strike?” one______ joked. I replied, “No, the lawn mower isn’t. My wife is stopping working.” After six weeks, the lawn had begun to _______ a wild look, the sort of look that an old house has. But like a_________haircut that turns out to be great once it grows, by the end of spring our lawn was beginning to show signs of real promise.

When in summer, people were stopping to look at the “jungle”. They stopped to admire the island of green. The once lifeless yard was filled with birds hunting for the bugs that now crawled on the moist ground. The_________ of the birds filled the air from dawn to dusk. Many a night we lay in bed listening with pleasure to the birds chattering about their day’s events.