2 . My dad is easy-going and has a gift for chatting. He _________ a fast food restaurant called Queenie’s Weenies, which is specialized in hot dogs. I _________ with my dad at the restaurant.

One Saturday, we went to the _________. With everything we selected in the basket, we got into the checkout line. Then something _________ my eyes: our cashier (收银员) looked very _________! She offered no smiles, no _________ and no small talk. Her “anger aura (光环)” was obvious and I was _________ when seeing it. When we waited to _________, I was thinking that we should just pay for our things and leave quickly. My dad had a different idea. When it was our _________, he started talking to her.

Dad said, “Hi, how are you today? This is my __________. I have a restaurant, and we work together. It’s named Queenie’s Weenies. Drop by my restaurant sometime and I will __________ you to my hot dogs. I’m good at __________ them.” By the time we finished checking out, the cashier was __________. She said, “Thanks, umm. I hope you and your son have a very nice day.”

Back in the car, Dad said to me, “The cashier was obviously in low __________ today. It happens to everyone. Smile warmly or give a few kind __________, which is all it takes to make one a little more delighted.”

3 . A man was driving when he found a lady needed help. So he stopped. When he was coming up to her, she was worried _________ nobody had stopped for hours. Besides, he didn’t look safe as his appearance was so ugly and _________. He could see how scared she was, so he tried to calm her, “I am here to help you. Don’t worry. My name is Bryan Anderson.”

The car _________, so he had to crawl (爬) under the car to repair it. When the job was done, she asked how much she should   _________ him for his help. Bryan smiled, “If you really want to pay me back, the next time you see someone who needs help, _________ the person help. And think of me.”

Several days later in a small _________, the lady saw a waitress nearly eight months pregnant (怀孕的). The waitress gave her a friendly smile although she was _________ after spending the whole day on her feet. Then the lady _________ Bryan. The lady paid for her meal with a $100 bill. When the waitress got change and came back, the lady had gone. She _______ a note on the napkin (餐巾纸), “You don’t owe me __________. Somebody once helped me, just like now I’m helping you. If you really want to pay me back, don’t let this chain of __________ end.” The waitress found four more $100 bills under the napkin.

That night the waitress came home earlier, wondering how the lady could know how much she and her husband needed money when the   __________ would soon arrive. She knew her husband worried about that, so she was very __________ to tell him the news. Then she kissed him and __________, “Now everything will be all right. I love you, Bryan Anderson.”   

The help you give to others shall always get back to you, so please don’t __________ to offer a helping hand whenever someone needs help.

4 . I’d like to share my story of kindness. I had a car _______ and needed to get a new car as soon as possible, but I don’t have _______ . Everything is more _______ these days. So I saw some second-hand cars for around $5000, but then I found that one _______ about $4000.

This car has some _______ and only one key, but it has good steering (转向装置), windows, safety airbags and newer tyres. So it is much _______ than my old car. After a test drive, I said I _______ to buy it. The seller, Richard, said that he expected me to pay only $3500 as I was the _______ person whom he had hoped would buy it. He said he’d had some terrible interactions with people pressuring him to _______ it to them. I’m a single parent with an eleven-year-old child. I think he was touched by the ________ of how I had an accident and that my car was not ________ anymore.

I paid the money and the next day he was ________ enough to drive the car to my house. Then he told me that he’d ________ the tank with gasoline and bought me an extra key! The total costs amounted to almost $300. How ________ ! We have been driving around feeling so safe and happy. He has made such a ________ to our lives!

5 . It is just past five o’clock on the Chinese New Year’s Eve. The dinner table is already ________ with white china plates and bowls, full of all sorts of dishes. Luo Yan, ________ the cover of a large bowl to breathe in the ________ smell of the soup his wife and mother have prepared. His son, Bofeng, happily takes a ________ of the chicken his grandfather has already ________ for him.

Six-year-old Bofeng has not ________ his grandparents in person for almost a year, and he is full of joy and excitement. ________, the whole family could not be happier to be together. Despite (尽管) the ________ outside, their happy faces fill the air with warmth while merry ________ rings (环绕) throughout the house. The young couple and their son have settled in the ________ city. Every year, like most Chinese, they travel a long way back for the Spring Festival. It’s ________ for Chinese to get together to enjoy the joy of “three generations under the same roof” on this special day.

After, dinner, the whole family ________ around the television to watch the Spring Festival Gala, while eating snacks and ________ each other excitedly. In the warmth and ________ of the room, Luo Yan talks about his plan for the future. “I hope we won’t have to be separated again,” he says, looking at his ageing parents. “We’ll come back more ________. After all, home is where all family members are together.”

6 . One day I took a bus with my girlfriend. It was so ________ that we stood for several stops until a vacant seat was ________ for her.

Then a pretty girl rushed towards me, saying, “Hi, where are you going?” I was so struck by the stranger that I had a hard time trying to ________ her. Clearly she had taken me ________ somebody else. I returned her greeting with politeness, ________ to give explanation to my girlfriend later.

Noticing my dialogue with somebody else, my girlfriend ________ her eyes and found she was pretty. She asked jealously, “Who’s she?” The pretty girl, quite ________ of the situation, spoke out first, “Hi, let me ________ myself. I’m Nancy, used to be ________. Very glad to meet you.” She behaved very ________.

But I was ________ to search in my memory for someone called Nancy among my neighbors. I was worrying how to explain this to my girlfriend ________ the pretty girl again turned to me, “Will you give me your cell phone number so that we ________ keep contacts later?” I had to submit to her ________. Then the girl got off the bus at the next stop.

A minute later I got a short ________ on my phone — from a stranger. My girlfriend ________ my phone and read the note. It was from the girl, who said, “Just now, two thieves tried to ________ your pocket. I had to act as an acquaintance (熟人) to draw your attention. I should have left at the ________ stop but gave up as I noticed these two thieves also ________ to leave at the same stop. Because of the ________ I delayed my departure. Now you’ll understand all I have done to you. Wish you luck.”

7 . I remember one of my last few years at an amusement park. I spent five years working at a booth (摊位) across from a (n) ________ comedian.

His name was Moonie. He was ________   amazing, and his act was done by using gestures instead of words. I remember watching his shows and always being ________. Even when the audience wasn’t ________, or he was having a bad day, he always ________ to keep things funny and fresh. That’s a very hard thing.

When I heard it would be his last year that he performed at the amusement park, I wanted to ________ him for all the amazing shows he had done. He was ________ with the crowd after one of his last shows of the day. As each person dropped a ________ into his basket, he was pointing at them with a huge smile and saying “No, you’re the ________!” to each one.

I ________ him and dropped a twenty-dollar bill into his basket. He turned to me, smiling very brightly, and said,“No, you’re the greatest!” I ________ him directly and stopped him, saying,“No, Moonie, you are the greatest! I have been ________ your shows for five years from that booth right over there. And I just want to say thank you for the years of amazing ________ that you have given me.”

The look on his face said that he was truly touched by that ________. He asked to shake my hand. I accepted and we shared a moment of mutual (相互的) ________ and gratitude.

8 . Life is full of ups and downs. You must understand that you will sometimes__in things and it is okay when that happens. Almost all of our life we have been __ that failure is really bad, and when we fail we must drown ourselves in__. This is an entirely__approach.

From a kid into an adult, you will fail in many things in life but that will only tell you about__ . You will get to learn about the things you are good at, and the things you are__at. Let me tell you how I__ failures in life. In my early years at school, I had__with some subjects and I used to get really bad grades. Sometimes I would get an F and that would make me really__I used to think:“What will I show my parents?” So what I used to do was __those grades. I would turn the F into a B just to__ my parents.Well, the short version of it was that it didn’t work out and eventually, I was__doing that. I learned a lot after that — I knew that I had to__that failure and learn from it. I started doing better with my grades, and that F turned into an A__ .

Whenever you face a failure, you must think of ways to__yourself.

10 . At the door of a flower shop, a gentleman stopped the car. He planned to _________ a bunch of flowers and asked the shopkeeper to _________ them to his mother, who was far away in his hometown.

The gentleman was about to _________ the shop when he saw a little girl crying on the road. The gentleman asked her, “Why are you crying?” “I want to buy a rose for my mother, but I can’t _________ it,” said the girl. Hearing that, the gentleman showed sympathy (问情), and then he _________ the girl’s hand and entered the flower shop. He ordered the bouquet (花束) for his mother and _________ a rose for girl. Holding the rose, the girl was so _________ to the gentleman. Leaving the shop, the gentleman asked the girl if she would like a _________ home.

“Will you really drive me home?” she asked. “Of course,” the gentleman _________.

“Then drive me to my mother. But the place is very __________.”

The gentleman drove along the mountain road and finally came to the cemetery (墓地). The little girl put the flower __________ close to her mother’s grave. In order to present a(n)__________ to her mother who had died a month before, she took a long journey.

The gentleman returned to the flower shop. He __________ the bouquet that would be mailed to his mother and then bought a big bunch of fresh flowers instead. He __________ drove to his mother’s home, a five-hour drive. He would present the flowers to his mother __________.