1 . For Jennifer Reinhart, it was the nurses’ small act of kindness that helped her through that night, One night, Jennifer Reinhart was ______ in a loft (阁楼) above her living room. At some point, she started to sleepwalk, and ______ falling 10 feet, landing on a table below. In the weeks that followed, she ______ three major operations.

One particular night in the hospital still stands out in her ______. She was on a large amount of ______ to help herself sleep through the pain, but the medicine gave her horrible dreams. When she ______ up, she was wet with sweat and shaking.

She ______ to reach the call button and ask for the nurses to change the ______ used on the bed, The nurse who ______ in was kind. She gently scooped (温柔地抱起) Reinhart out of the ______. Reinhart said, “She held me like I was a little baby. So ______.”

While other nurses changed Reinhart’s sheets (床单), the nurse ______ to hold Reinhart, Then she began to quietly sing a tune. “There was something about the power of her voice, and how gently she was holding me, which seemed to ______ the pain.” Reinhart said. After the nurse set Reinhart back down on the bed, the other nurses ______ her warm blankets.

“I felt sure that I was going to live through this,” Reinhart said. “I ______ she could have known just how much she helped me.”

2 . This morning, my daughter, Helen, and I arrived at a town in Xi’an, China. We came to _________ my husband, James, who had landed a job. We had spent the past four years living in Hong Kong, China, after I _________ my job as a journalist in Sydney. When we saw James, he had never appeared so _________. He happily kept sharing interesting things with us.

The next day, James was busy with his work. So Helen and I _________ the new town on our own. We were _________ about everything on the street. Crowds of people had a strong _________ to know about us, too. A girl asked Helen, “Where are you from?” Helen began to _________ with her, and soon they seemed to be friends. With curly hair and blue eyes, Helen stood out in the _________ and was very popular. People paid too much attention to us, but they meant _________.

Walking around, I was __________ by the town. It was a typical Chinese town filled with traditional buildings and red lanterns lining the streets. With such a beautiful area right by our doorstep, I started to feel __________ about the future.

After Helen __________ an international school in Xi’an city, I had a chance to communicate with some parents of different colors during the school run. Before long we became familiar and close, and I made a few__________ from all over the world. Regardless of (不管) __________, we all shared the basic desire to be loved. After several years, our family __________ to Sydney, but I couldn’t get China off my mind.

3 . James Warren saw a woman sitting in the dirt while waiting for a bus at a seatless stop in Denver. He realized he could put his carpentry(木工)_________to good use. The man decided to_________a bench from scrap(碎片) construction wood and_________a much-needed seat at the stop.

His_________is to make people’s transit riding a little bit _________. Warren has made and placed another seven _________at other stops around the city, with plans to keep going. He _________ the words “Be Kind” on each bench.

With a dad in the construction field, Warren_________surrounded by tools. So figuring out how to create the benches is just in his_________ . “I have always been __________making things, which really makes me very happy,” he said. “Making things really __________me up.”

About five years ago, Warren chose not to drive his car to work__________, he takes buses when he isn’t walking or __________to a destination. Over the years, he has noticed many a bus stop without __________.Thus, it is not hard for him to__________a stop that needs some love.

It__________Warren about three hours to build a bench. Once he places his __________at a stop, he does a survey to find out just how much__________ like them. Everyone who he has asked so far has just been so thankful and__________. But he said the world need more__________ and that he would be doing it even if nobody ever said anything like that.