1 . When I was in my twenties, I travelled alone through the UK. In order to _______locations that the public transportation couldn’t get to, I bought a(n) _______car, drove in around for three months and sold it before I returned to Australia. The car cost most of my money, so I lived mainly on _______during that trip, it being cheap and filling In Ireland, my _______was stolen, and it was impossible to get another. So for the rest of the trip I _______out in my car, being too poor to afford bed and breakfast.

One morning, I _______in my old Skoda under a twisted tree on a remote lane in the Irish countryside, with no more than a _______house in sight. I had a terrible desire for a _______cup of tea and some hot water to make porridge with _______I would not have to eat the cold leftovers from the previous day.

My thermos (暖瓶) had gone cold overnight sol knocked on the door of the house. A woman opened it. Hot water? She ________let me get away with just that!I was invited indoors, seated at the breakfast table with the ________and given a delicious breakfast, as much as I could eat. I was ________to eat something more than porridge! I ________being friends with the whole family.

That was only one of many acts of ________strangers showed me when I was traveling alone in foreign regions. One London businessman rushing to work, seeing me ________offered to pull my ridiculously heavy suitcase ________several flights of stairs in the underground. After he’d done so, with a smile and a wave, he ________into the crowd.

Kindness gets ________. The other day, I was able to point out a rare parking spot to a young man who had been driving around the railway car park, looking ________desperate. His grateful smile was all the ________I needed as I dashed off to catch my train.