3 . I’ve learned a lesson that accepting kindness is important, too. I’m a social worker and have been ______ more time recently with those unlucky people that some might say are less ______. I had a wonderful interaction (互动) this past week, when I had the ______ of being the receiver of kindness. I was speaking to a gentleman who has bad luck and is in ______. We were just talking for a while and getting to ______ each other.

Towards the end of our evening he said he wanted to ______ me a hamburger at the nearby fast food restaurant. In time before, I would have ______ that he let me buy him a meal, since he had a greater _______ than I. But my kindness experience has taught me the ______ of being a good receiver, too. So I told him if he ______ wanted to do that I would be ______ to share a meal with him.

It was great! He was so happy to be able to ______ something like that and he was ______ the entire time. I felt glad to ______ the wonderful feeling of someone’s giving. We ______ some great conversation and I could see it ______ so much to him.

As we parted ways, instead of me feeling bad that he probably spent his last few ______ on our meal, I smiled and felt with a wonderful ______ of connection and gratitude. It’s not only fun to be a receiver of kindness, _______ this also gives someone else the chance to be the ______. That is important, too.

Fireworks are beautiful and we all enjoy appreciating them. But let’s stop and think about the price that we_______for just a few minutes of_______

To begin with, the amount of money we spend on fireworks is_______ The excitement is gone_______ Let’s face it, what we really are doing is burning_______ Yet, year after year, thousands of cities and towns spend our tax dollars on fireworks displays. Those tax dollars would be put to much better_______feeding our hungry and housing our homeless.

Second, there is the matter of_______ Fireworks contain chemicals that are harmful to people and animals. Over the years, these chemicals will_______the air we breathe and the water we drink.

Third, let’s_______the trash left behind after a fireworks display. What a__________! One would probably expect that those who__________the fireworks would have the politeness to__________the trash afterwards__________, they don’t. The mess they leave behind__________the kind of attitude many Americans have toward our__________

Fourth, fireworks are__________ Some fireworks can damage your hearing, especially the fireworks used in public displays that give off a big BANG. Losing your__________is too high a price to pay.

__________ all the safety warnings, we still see injuries and deaths as a result of fireworks. Approximately 10,000 Americans are injured every year by fireworks.

In my view, all consumer fireworks should be__________ Public fireworks displays should be kept to a minimum and should be paid for through volunteer funding, not tax dollars. Finally, those people in__________of fireworks displays should be responsible for cleaning up the mess they make.

5 . A long time ago, in a small house in Scotland, two friends lived together. Their names were John and Bobby.

John and Bobby were not _______, and they had few things except friends, _______ they were happy. They lit a warm fire when it was cold outside. They had food to eat when they were hungry. They were never _______ because they had each other.

John and Bobby _______ to take long walks together. After their _______ John usually cooked the dinner. John and Bobby ate the dinner and then _______ in front of the fire. They had a(n) _______ but happy life.

Then John developed a(n) _______disease and died in the spring of 1858. He was _______ in a grave (坟墓). After that, Bobby stood at John’s grave and shouted. “Come on, Bobby,” John’s ________ said. “It’s time to go home.” Bobby went home, but later he returned to the grave. He ________ near it. He stayed there all night.

Bobby stayed at the grave site the next day, and the day after another. For the next 14 years, Bobby never left the ________. When the weather was cold, he slept in a small house near the grave. When it was ________, he slept on the ground near John’s grave.

________, in 1872, Bobby died, too. John’s friends buried him in a ________ grave near John’s. Why was Bobby’s grave so little? Bobby, John’s best friend, was a dog.