6 . My day started just as usual. I left for the train station at 7:35 to arrive at work by 8:30. While on the train I would always choose a seat away from the crowd so I can read the newspaper peacefully and _______. I didn’t know why but for some reason when I got on the train today it was unusually _______. I sat down in the only seat available beside a middle-aged man who had his head down and seemed to be _______ in his thoughts. I was glad that he didn’t notice when I sat next to him because he just _______ to look down towards the floor.

Shortly after the train left I found myself _______ what could be so important that he didn’t even see me. I tried to forget about it. However, for some strange reason this inner _______ kept forcing me to talk to this man. I tried to ignore the voice _______ there was no way I was starting a conversation with a complete stranger. Finally I _______ and came up with an excuse to ask him a question. When he _______ his head, I could see that he had some tears rolling down the side of his face ________ his feeble (微弱的) attempt to wipe them away. We talked for about 20 minutes and in the end he seemed to be doing ________.

Several weeks had passed when I noticed an unaddressed envelope on my desk after returning from lunch. It only had the word ________ written on it. When I read the note inside the ________ I was so filled with emotions that I couldn’t ________ myself. It was a letter from the man I met on the train thanking me again for talking to him and ________ his life that day. Clearly he had some very hurtful personal problems that were ________ uncontrolled that he was planning to take his life that day.

In his letter he explained that he screamed out to God in despair (绝望) ________ if God really cared about him he would ________ someone to prevent him from taking his life. In his eyes I was that someone, that Angel sent by God.

So next time you feel prompted (冲动) for no ________ reason to talk to a friend, relative, neighbor or even a complete stranger please remember my story. You just may make a ________ to someone’s life when you listen to your inner voice.

8 . For a long time Gabriel didn’t want to be involved in music at all. In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at music students, _______across the campus with their heavy instrument cases, _______at school for practice hours _______ anyone else had to be there. He swore to himself to_______music, as he hated getting to school extra early.

_______, one day, in the music class that was _______of his school’s standard curriculum, he was playing idly (随意地)on the piano and found it _________to pick out tunes. With a sinking feeling, he realized that he actually _______doing it. He tried to hide his _______pleasure from the music teacher, who had ________over to listen. He might not have done this particularly well, ________the teacher told Gabriel that he had a good________and suggested that Gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there ________him. There he decided to give the cello(大提琴) a ________. When he began practicing, he took it very ________. But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was ________to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.

This ________, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, ________his heavy instrument case across the campus to the ________looks of the non-musicians he had left________.