3 . When I came to my new school three years ago, I was surprised at how lonely I felt.

Then one of my classmates invited me to her house for a dinner_________I was a little anxious, but finally I gladly _________ .

Not really knowing how_________ the bus ride should be, I _________ when I saw the landmarks (路标)_________on my classmate’s hand-drawn map. But when I got close enough to the _________ , I found none of the streets were shown on the map. I was_________ on a busy road with cars driving past without a person in sight. I had no _________ when the next bus would come,_________when a bus did come, I __________got on. I told the bus driver where I wanted to go and he said that I had caught the __________ bus, but he let me stay on. After he had finished his scheduled bus route, he __________to help me out. I gratefully showed him my little hand-drawn map but__________ did not help much.

He finally __________ me off at a main road to catch a different bus and was __________ that he could not help me more. After I walked for a few minutes, a bus stopped beside me. It was the __________ bus driver. He explained that he didn’t want to leave me there __________ He sent out a call and someone radioed back, saying that the bus I needed to catch was about ten minutes away. At last I made it to the dinner party __________ I was over an hour late.

I am forever thankful for the __________that this bus driver had for me. His act of kindness left a __________on my heart.

5 . On June 23, 1970, I had just left the Army after completing my one-year duty in Vietnam. I was on plane returning home in Texas. I had been warned about the _______ of our fellow countrymen and I was worried about that. There was no _______ welcome for us when we came home from that unpopular war.

I sat, dressed in soldier clothes, in a window seat, _______ eye contact with my fellow passengers. No one was sitting next to me, which added to my _______. A little girl suddenly appeared in the passage. She smiled and, without saying a word, _______ handed me a magazine. I accepted her _______, her quiet “welcome home”. All I could say was, “Thank you.” Her small gesture of _______ was the first I had experienced in a long time.

I always believe in the connection between _______ when they reach out to help. That girl _______ has no memory of what happened years ago. She might have been told to do that by her mother. It doesn't matter why she gave me the magazine. The ________ thing is that she did.

Since then, I have followed her ________ and tried in different ways for different people, to do the same for them. Like me on that plane ride long ago, they will ________ know why a stranger gave a hand. But I absolutely know that my ________ since then are all because of that little girl. Her kindness of giving a magazine to a tired and lonely soldier has been ________ all through my life. I have to believe that my small ________ will have the same influence on others. And to that girl, now a woman, I would like to say again: thank you.

6 . I log onto a computer at the doctor’s office to say I have arrived and then wait until a voice calls me into the examination room. There, a robotic nurse ______ me onto the scales and then takes my blood pressure. Some time later, in steps the ______, who is also a robot. He notes down my ______ and gives me a prescription (处方). I pay for my visit using a credit card and return home without having met another human being. This is my terrible vision of the future, which hasn’t happened ______ yet.

I should say I really do like many aspects of ______. I am a big fan of air conditioning in summer and heaters in winter. But I am writing this because I don’t want machines to ______.

When I call my dentist’s office and actually get a human being on the line, I am ______. But when I see the introduction of yet more self-service checkout stations at the grocery store, I feel like ______ “When it comes to cashiers (收银员), make mine a(n) ______, please!”

After all, human cashiers sometimes ______ you a store coupon (优惠券) for items you are buying.

Even more than that, real-life cashiers often take an interest in particularly cute children, which can ______ young mothers’ day. A cashier may also show pity on an elderly person ______ to get that last penny out of his purse.

Machines can be ______ and cost-effective and they often got the job done just fine. ______ they lack an element so important to everyday life.

Call it the spirit, the soul or the heart. It is ______ no machine will ever have. It is human being that encourages us to smile at others, which nay be what they need at that moment.

7 . Kindness is a key value that God desires us to have. When you give kindness to others, it will be returned to you. Finally, we _________ having the whole house painted today. It was hard to work in this situation. But I _________ good coffee and beautiful biscuits, which made our work easier. We didn't complain and moved the furniture each night, so the painting could be completed _________.

I became friends with this young _________ over the two weeks while he painted. We weren't going to paint the bathroom area _________ painting there possibly made it inconvenient to use the bathroom. Instead, we planned to paint it later. But he _________ a suggestion about getting it _________ quickly for me and also painted the front door in this shiny paint.

When we went to _________ him, he refused my money. He said the bathroom and the door were free of _________, which was a gift to me. Because I had never experienced such things before, I felt surprised. He explained that I had made him so __________ that he wanted to do this.

On the last day, I also bought him a __________ to go to the entertainment center in the city in order to __________ himself. We went there. A meal was part of it and the seats lay back, which were very safe and __________ to sit on. He was thankful and satisfied. I told him that I wanted to show my __________ on how well he had been working in my __________. I said I would really like to thank him. He loved my treat. We did have a good time there.

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 the 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.

However, 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 wandered over to listen. He might not have done this particularly well, because 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 chance. 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 pitying looks of the non-musicians he had left   ___________.

9 . There was a boy who was sent by his parents to a boarding school（寄宿学校）.Before being sent away, this boy was the _________ student in his class. He was at the top in every _________ , always with high marks.

But the boy changed after _________ home and attending the boarding school. His grades started _________ . He hated being in a group. He was lonely all the time. And there were especially dark times when he _________ committing suicide（自杀）. All of this was because he felt worthless and no one loved him.

His parents started _________ about the boy. But they even did not know what was _________ with him. So his dad decided to travel to the boarding school and talk with him.

They sat on the bank of the lake near the school. The father started asking him some casual questions about his classes, teachers and _________ . After some time his dad said, "Do you know, son, why I am here today?"

The boy answered back, "To _________ my grades?"

"No, no," his dad replied. "I am here to tell you that you are the most __________ person for me. I want to see you __________ . I don't care about grades. I care about you. I care about your happiness. YOU ARE MY LIFE."

These words __________   the boy's eyes to be filled with tears. He __________ his dad. They didn't say anything to each other for a long time.

Now the boy had everything he wanted. He knew there was someone on this earth who cared for him deeply. He __________ the whole world to someone. And today this young man is in college at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him __________ !

10 . A man was employed to paint a boat. He brought paint and _________ and began to paint the boat as the owner wanted. While painting, he _________ there was a hole in the body of the boat and decided to repair it. When he finished painting, he received his _________ and left.

The next day, the owner of the boat visited the painter and_________ him with a cheque (支票), much higher than what he was paid for the painting work. The painter was _________.

“You’ve already paid me for painting the boat, sir!” he said.

“This is not for the paint job. It’s for repairing the _________ in the boat.”

“Ah! But it was such a small service.” the man said. “Certainly it’s not worth paying me such a high amount for something so _________!”

“My dear friend，” the owner said, “You don’t understand. Let me tell you _________ happened. When I asked you to paint the boat, I _________ to mention the hole. When the boat dried, my kids took it and __________ a fishing trip. They did not know that there was a hole there. I was not at home at the time. So when I __________ and noticed they had taken the boat, I was hopeless. Imagine my __________ and joy when I saw them returning safely from fishing.”

“Then, I examined the boat and found that you had repaired the hole! You now see what you did? You __________ the life of my children!”

Each of us has a moral duty to offer help, wipe tears, listen carefully and repair all the “hole” we __________ in our life journey, because a small act will make a big __________ in the future.