4 . In the summer of 2015, Brian Peterson and his wife, had just moved to California. Outside the couple’s apartment, a homeless man often yelled on the street corner. One day, Peterson was reading the book Love Does, when his quiet was ______ by the homeless man. Inspired by the book’s ______ message, Peterson then decided to go out and ______ himself.

In that first conversation, Peterson learned that the man’s name was Matt Faris. He’d moved to California to pursue a career in ______ , but he soon fell on ______ difficulties and ended up living on the street. The story touched Peterson, a ______ of the Cleveland College of Art, who hadn’t picked up a paintbrush in eight years. ______ , he found himself asking if he could paint Faris’s portrait. Faris said yes.

This ______ sparked Peterson to found Faces of Mankind, a nonprofit organization that focused on painting and ______ portraits of those who are unhoused. Peterson put half the money into a “love account” to help his ______ get back on their feet. Many people use the funds for ______ — medical care, clothes or food, but Faris chose to ______ his musical dream. When the album was delivered to Faris, the man finally couldn’t contain his emotions and ______ in Peterson’s arms.

Over the years, Peterson has discovered that the buyers begin to see the homeless ______. They mention that they tend to connect and develop friendship with someone they might have otherwise ______ .

7 . When I was 13,my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant_______Miller King,who was the best player at our school.

Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for_______.

Just before September，Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from_______. He looked very pale, but he didn’t cry.

That season，I_______all of Miller’s records while he watched the home games from the bench. We went 10﹣1 and I was named most valuable player,_______I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller’s_______.

One afternoon，1 was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller_______going over a fence-which wasn’t_______to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept_______from. But even that challenge he accepted. I helped him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally__________on the other side, he said to me， “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did__________. Thank you for filling in for me. ”

His words freed me from my bad__________. I thought to myself，how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was__________ahead of me. I was right to have__________him. From that day on, I grew__________and a little more real.

8 . Brennon had been an experienced barber for a shop for years. He ______ half a year ago because he wanted to do something meaningful. Later, on a busy ______ in Philadelphia, with a chalkboard saying “Haircuts for the Homeless”， he was ______ free haircuts to any homeless person around Philadelphia.

Such a ______ is sure to draw the eye of average passers­by. Sean Johnson was no ______. He was willing to give Brennon a job. However, Brennon said he had to ______ because he didn’t do this to get paid but just to ______ the homeless.

A month later, Sean invited Brennon to his new barbershop after ______ Brennon again who was giving haircuts on another sidewalk. Sean did something ______ when they got inside — he gave Brennon the ______， saying, “It’s yours now.”

“You see many bad things in this city. When you see ______ things, you just want to be a part of them，” Sean said. Brennon saw this as an ______ to do even further good for the homeless and accepted Sean’s ______．

Tuesday through Sunday, Brennon’s barbershop would be just a ______ one, serving the paying customers. But every Monday would be set aside ______ for providing haircuts for the homeless, still free of charge.

9 . Last week, my 8-year-old daughter was listening to Nimo’s song Empty Hands. Suddenly, she put forward, “how about we_______ heart-shaped cards with beautiful messages and hang them on everyone’s mailboxes around the_______?” And her two little brothers also got super excited about the idea and their project was_______ off.

Every day they made a few cards—they cut the cards into shape of hearts, wrote kind messages and wishes and then_______ them. They wrote a lot of_______ like—“Thank you for your kindness;We are all together; Love over fear; Gratitude (感激) over_______” and many more…

Within a week, they had around 50 cards ready to be_______. Every afternoon, the kids were super excited to work for a few hours. One day_______ we were working on the cards, my daughter_______ her head by surprise, “it makes me very happy and energetic when I do this.” She said very________.

Finally, on Friday, July 10^th, kids________ the neighborhood on their bicycles and hung the hearts on everyone’s mailboxes. Their excitement and kindness were just so________ for everyone. They didn’t know how people were going to________ but they were just super happy doing it. They had finished distributing (分发) cards________ the end of the day. And they said they would do it again.

Beautiful souls (灵魂) with so much________ in them.

10 . For a period of a month some time ago, I became a vegetarian. Some people won’t eat meat because they think it is cruel to animals, or because of health _____. My reason is a little ____: it is love.

I simply wanted to honor my grandmother by not eating meat. My grandmother spent a large part of her life as a vegetarian, and some of my happiest childhood ____ in Vietnam were of sharing a meal with her.

In fact, as a child, I learned how to ___ food not from dishes my mother often cooked, but from the simple meals my grandmother ____. Often, dinner with   Grandma would come with interesting stories she had known from her childhood.

Grandma ____ more than a decade ago. Now I am an adult living in San Francisco, and Grandma’s vegetarian suppers and stories have become a ____ past. But one morning it occurred to me that I could no longer hear the sound of my grandmother’s voice, because she had left me forever. So I ___ to become a vegetarian for a month. It is something Grandma would do as a way to ____ those who had died before her. And I could do no less.

In a city famous for its dining experience, this was ____. I turned down several dinner parties for fear of offending(冒犯) the hosts. I ___ walking by restaurants where the ____ of good cooking wafted(漂浮) in the air. My best friend wondered ___ I was going through a mid-life crisis.

In truth, I wanted to change my ___ many times. What got me through that month-long diet was this particular memory of my grandmother. Now, I followed her ____. I invited friends who wanted to taste vegetarian food. And as we ate, I told them stories I had known as a child.