3 . This morning, before I left for the airport, I had hurt my back. And I could _________ lift my bag off the floor, let alone _________ it into the overhead locker. Luckily, one of the flight attendants put it along with two cases for me.

At that time, a man _________ in front of me must have noticed that I was asking for _________. When the plane _________, he instantly stood up and got my bag down. He also _________ to carry one of my cases down the _________. And then he waited at the bottom of the stairs for me to _________ to get my bag.

A lady walking beside me carried my other case full of things for me. It was obviously _________ for her, but she managed it. She seemed not to want her kindness to be __________, so I silently accepted it. Then I saw her again at the carousel (行李传送带), and she took my bag off the __________.

I would have managed to do all of these things on my own, but these well-meaning humans sensed that I needed help and just __________ in without me needing to ask. It was one of the most __________ experience I had ever had. I couldn’t feel __________ enough to those persons who had taken time out of their lives for a (n) __________. I was so appreciative of their kindness that I would remember it forever.

4 . Peter worked at a grocery store. Recently, he _______ a second job to help pay for his sick friend Dan and his own son’s _______.

Although the job was boring, there were times Peter especially _______. At that time the supermarket was _______, being full of customers. One day, a young woman named Angela caught Peter’s _______ when she turned to her two children, “Sorry, babies. Mommy can’t _______ to get your sweets and snacks, so please put them back, okay?”

The children began to cry and Angela tried to _______ them. Then Peter quickly swooped (接近) in, _______ to help her to pay for the _______. Peter was glad to see the children happy and Angela a little at ease.

The next day Angela returned to the store and explained to Peter, “Thanks for your kindness. It really ________ a lot. I’m a single mother and lost my job, so things are a bit ________.”

“Well, I am ________ aware of your situation. I need help with my friend’s medical bills and my kid’s college. Nothing comes cheap.”

Angela was grateful for Peter’s help. Peter’s actions and ________ touched Angela, and she thought to herself, “This man had his share of ________, yet he was still kind enough to________ and help me. I should pass this kindness on.”

5 . Facing a fear of fish soup

I loved eating fish when I was a child. However, once I _______ got a fishbone stuck in my throat, so I have never eaten fish since.

But recently, my mom made fish soup and I was so attracted by its smell that my stomach rumbled(咕噜作响) .I couldn’t _______ to have the fish soup. _______ suddenly, my consciousness(意识) seemed to bed vided into two halves, half an angel and half a demon(魔鬼).The angel said to me, “Be _________! You must not get stuck again.” But the demon said to me, “Have it! It’s so delicious!” But I still remembered how it felt to have the bone stuck in my mouth—the _______ bone was stuck in my throat, making me heave(呕吐) while it stayed motionless(不动的).

My mother felt very _______ and asked, “Didn’t you say you wanted to have fish soup today?”I _______ my head sharply, not admitting that I had said so.

As I watched my mom eat, the fish soup began to attract me again. I started to imagine the fish soup _______ my stomach. I suddenly thought since the meat in the fish soup had been stewed(炖), the bones must be stewed into the soup. It seems to be a bowl of fishbone soup. It must be dangerous to have the _______ with this fish soup!

I quickly called out, saying, “Mom, don’t have the rice with that soup. If you do that, you will get a bone stuck in your throat!” Mom looked at me with a ________ look, and then she nodded. She gave me a bowl of soup. I was puzzled when I heard my mother say, “It only ________ once! Why won’t you eat fish again? Eat it while it is __________.You won’t get stuck again!”

I ________ the bowl and was about to drink it, but __________, I put it down. Mom laughed and said, “Once ________, twice shy!”

6 . I am excited to be teaching in an introductory history seminar (研讨班) on the world of Thomas Jefferson. It affords a(n) ________ chance to help show students why history is a way of thinking, seeing, and understanding.

I love seeing students try to make ________ of somebody from the 18th century, whether it is Jefferson or somebody whose life was closely ________ with his own. Often, students at first are confident that they ________ an 18th-century person, and that such an individual was inspired by the same things that ________ them today. But then, when I ________ certain things this historical figure said or did, students are often amazed at how ________ the person in fact is, and how unusual the individual’s assumptions, beliefs, and desires are ________ to their own!

With more ________, they begin to see how the peculiar (奇怪的) can appear ________, how the strange can, in fact, seem so appropriate. At the beginning students ________ to force their own beliefs and assumptions on the past, while now they begin to see the past according to its own ________. I am always happy witnessing that transformation in vision, in seeing ________ come to life for students. Such a transformation not only certainly ________ the 18th century and allows students to better understand history, but it also helps them master a(n) ________ that they can use for the rest of their lives.

One day, a baby snail found that he had to carry a big and heavy shell at any time. He didn’t _________   why it was, so he went up to his mother and asked, “Why was I born with a shell that grew so _________ and heavy?” His mother said, “Because we don’t have _________ to hold us up. We can only move slowly, so we need a shell to _________   us.”

The baby snail asked again, “The caterpillar (毛毛虫) has no bones, and she can’t move quickly either. Why can she _________   without a shell?” The mother snail answered, “That’s because a caterpillar will become a butterfly. She can _________ high into the sky. The sky can protect her. ”

The baby snail had one more _________, “But the earthworm moves like us. He has no bones and he won’t turn into a butterfly. Why doesn’t he carry a hard and heavy shell?” His mother said, “He can dig a hole and hide in the _________, and then the earth can protect him.”

The baby snail then cried, “We are so _________   ! We have no protection from the sky or from the ground!” His mother smiled at him. “That’s why we have a shell. My dear, imagine that if we don’t have the shells, what will happen to you? Hot sun will dry out our bodies and we’ll have nowhere to sleep. What’s more, we’ll die in the heavy rain. How __________ it is! We don’t depend on the sky or the ground for protection. We should depend on ourselves.”

9 . When Julius Ibrahim was a final-year student, he had a big love of food and had an even bigger passion for social business. And the youngster had _________ a way of combining the two, opening up an independent café which would train, employ and support the _________ people in London.

“At the end of that year, I _________ to give up my work in the bank and start my own business,” Ibrahim _________. “Second Shot Coffee would be a well-functioning and independent café _________ some of the best coffee, baked goods, and cheese sandwiches that London had to offer. The café would have a vintage(古色古香的)feel with everything in it, from the upgraded furniture to the artwork for sale.”

Ibrahim adds, “We would also work with charities in London to employ people _________. Some people then got the _________ to come and work full-time at Second Shat Coffee, _________ immediately the living wage in London. Our _________ was to use the money we had made to provide free training and __________ in order to help them back to their normal life.”

“Homelessness is something I’m __________ concerned about,” Ibrahim says. “You can walk down almost any busy street in central London and instantly face the __________.”

Ibrahim says he wants to 　______　others.What’s more, as he __________, nothing is more __________ than setting an example.