2 . Manuela got up earlier and bought two bags of cat food. She began going to the _________ barbershop on the corner, making her weekly visit to see Hussein, the old barber. Hussein was both ___________ and delighted to see Manuela and the bags of food. The two hurried over to the tiny food dishes lined up in the alley. Several _________ appeared soon.

As the two _________ and made their way back inside the shop, Hussein’s smile _________ and he explained he was about to _________ the barbershop. He had been told to leave within 7 days. His _________ barbershop simply couldn’t pay enough rent and the landlord had invited another roomer, one who wouldn’t be _________ animals outside.

Manuela’s eyes began to _________ as Hussein expressed his __________ about the homeless cats he cared for. But as fate would have it, there was something better __________ for the barber and his cats. As Manuela’s blog supporters read her __________ about Hussein, they, one after another,  __________ subscribing to him and his cats. Every day for the next week, Manuela went to Hussein with the __________. And on the fourth day, something unbelievable happened when Hussein was able to __________ a storefront in an old building near his shop. No electricity,  __________ there was potential. Manuela and other people __________ to help paint and clear rubbish while electricians made all the necessary __________.

In less than two weeks, the barber was back in __________ again. Through the kindness of strangers,  __________, his and his cats’ whole world was brought back.

3 . My 14-year-old son, John, and I found out the coat which was hanging at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass. All the other coats drooped (低垂)________this one looked as if it were holding itself up (支撑起来). The coat had beautiful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label and a (an)________price of $28, which was popular just then with________, but could cost several hundred dollars new. This coat was even better with that________of classic design. John tried it on and fit was perfect.

John wore the coat to school the next day and came home________a broad smile. “Did the kids like your coat?” I asked. “They loved it,” he said,________folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, a________came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness (作对) and polite discussion replaced rude________. He became more mannerly and________, eager to please. He would generously lend his younger brother his bike, which he________wouldn’t.

When I mentioned this incident to his teacher and________what caused the changes, she said laughing, “It________be his coat!” Another teacher told him she was giving him a good mark not only because he had earned________but because she liked his coat. At the library, we________a friend. “Could this be John?” he asked surprisingly,________John’s new height, assessing (评估) the cut of his coat and extending his hand, one gentleman to another.

John and I both know we should never________a person’s clothes for the real person within them.________there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for________what is on the inside to what is on the outside.

For John it is a time when it is as easy to try on different approaches to life as it is to try on a________. The whole world, the whole future is right ahead, a vast landscape where all the doors are open. And he could________himself walking through those doors wearing his wonderful, magical coat.

4 . One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods from door to door found that he only had one cent left. He was hungry so he decided to ________ for a meal at the next house.

However, he lost his courage ________ a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked ________ so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it ________, and then asked, “How much do I owe you?”

“You don’t owe me anything,” she ________. “Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a ________.” He said, “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger_________, but it also increased his faith in human race. He was about to give up and quit before this point.

Years later the young woman became ill seriously. The local doctors were baffled (为难). They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called ________ to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now ________, was called in for the consultation (会诊). When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light ________ his eyes. Immediately, he ________ and went down through the hospital hall into her room.

________ in his doctor’s gown (长袍) he went in to see her. He ________ her at once. He went back to the consultation room and ________ to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave ________ attention to her case.

After a long ________, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly ________ the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval (批准). He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was ________ that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her ________. She read these words...

“Paid in full with a glass of milk.”

(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly

Tears of joy ________ her eyes as she whispered, “love has spread through hearts and hands.”

7 . An old man lived in a nice farmhouse with a large garden. He was seen tending his flowers     ______. Because of his hard work and care, many colourful flowers blossomed (开花) all the year round. The garden was so beautiful that it attracted every passer­by.

One day a young painter ______     the old man’s garden. He looked at the garden, ______how happy he could be if he lived in such a beautiful place. Then he found the old man was ______. He asked, “Why are you busy tending these flowers you cannot see?” The blind man smiled, “I can tell you ______ reasons. First, I was a(n) ______ when I was young, and I’m really familiar with this job. Second, ______ I can’t see these flowers, I can ______ them. Third, I can smell the sweetness of them. As for the last one, that’s you.”

“Me? But you don’t know me，” replied the painter.

“It’s ______ that I don’t know you. The beauty of my garden will get everyone into a good ______. At the same time, it also gives a       ______       to me to have a word with you here and to ______ the happiness these flowers have brought us.”

The blind man grows flowers in his heart. Though he ______ see the beauty he’s created, yet every flower has ______ with which they can see the ______ of the man’s heart.

9 . A US mum and her six boys decided to grow their hair together. They would donate some hair to children _______.

On Monday, Mary and her six sons had their hair _______ in a special activity. Mary told HuffPost that the hairdresser (理发师) helped the family _______ their goal. The hair was donated to Children with Hair Loss. It is an organization that _______ hair for children and young adults with hair loss for free. The proud New York mum shared photos of the _______ on Facebook.

The family’s decision to grow and donate their hair was a _______ decision.

“Three years ago, my friend _______ her son because of cancer. He was a twin and very close in _______ to my twins,” Mary told HuffPost.

One year after his death, Mary’s eldest three boys donated their hair in honour of him.

“Since their _______ two years ago,” she said, “our lives have continued to be affected by cancer. It’s everywhere. My boys want to __________ the people who suffer from hair loss. Donating their hair is __________ they do it.”

Despite their kind acts, the journey hasn’t been easy for the boys. “They have been __________ by everyone because of their long hair,” Mary wrote in a Facepost. “But they didn’t let that slop them. They had a __________ and stuck to it. They really set a good example to their little sister.

“I am so __________ of my boys,” she said.

The day after their cuts, Mary was still getting used to her newly short-haired sons. “I didn’t __________ my own children,” she told ABC News with a sigh.