2 . “Good Night Lights” began as a game，with the effort of Steve Brosnihan, a cartoonist volunteering at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. He ______ from room to room drawing and chatting and doing whatever else he can to ______ the sick children up. During one ______ to a teenager who would be in the hospital for the last night, he decided to do something ______ for their final farewell.

As he left, Brosnihan told the ______ to watch the corner near the bus stop from his window. Brosnihan ______ to that spot in a Parking area, and flickered (闪烁) his bike light up toward the ______. To his surprise, the teen flickered his own room lights back ______.

Brosnihan made it a(an) ______ to flicker his bike light to kids as he left for the night as a(an) ______ way to say goodbye. When he mentioned this activity to a friend, owner of a ______ restaurant, the friend agreed to flicker the restaurant’s ______ at 8:30 every night for one minute. The nightly tradition became such a ______ that customers started joining in too.

Good Night Lights has been such a simple, ______ powerful, rallying point(号召力) for the community to support the young patients. For 60 seconds, patients were ______ in a luminous(发光的) dialog with residents.

“It would be very hard not to do this ______ you start,” says Brosnihan. “You do it to represent how much you care for kids and families who ______ a lot during their hard times in hospitals.”

Brosnihan hopes it ______ more. “In my grander dreams, I hope other cities that have children’s hospitals ______ the idea and run with it and ______ their own version of Good Night Lights.” he says.

3 . My father sold everything we owned, took all the money and disappeared from our lives. My mother suddenly found herself     ____       to care for five boys. I worried about the situation, but my mother stayed   ______     , and told us that she would keep us together as a _____safe from harm. Although small in size, she could _____heavy horse-drawn ploughs(犁). Besides, she   _____   found time to help us with homework.

As Christmas approached, my mother didn’t seem to smile as much. I   _______ she had no money to buy us presents. Considering myself practically grown, I hid my ______   .

One day, my mother took a saw(锯) into the forest and _________ with some tree branches. She left them in the barn(畜棚) and did not tell her   ________ children what they were for. She worked on her project________ I was in school, but I looked       ______ into the barn whenever I had a chance. Several days later, I still couldn’t   ______ her purpose. When later I saw she used nails and paint, I ____ that she must be making presents for us.

By Christmas week, my mother was her   _______   happy self again. Her project was apparently__ and she obviously kept it secret because I’d looked everywhere without ______     .

On Christmas Eve, I lay awake for a long time,   _____     Christmas morning.

The next morning, my mother handed out the handmade presents happily in front of her delighted kids. Many difficult years would follow that particular Christmas, but I never again doubted my mother’s     ____   to care for us. We were never hungry, and she made sure we got a(n)   ______   in school. She taught us to have faith in our own abilities. That faith ___me still.

4 . I was walking down a dimly(昏暗) lit street late one evening when I heard_______coming from behind bushes．_______ I slowed down to listen and panicked when I realized that what I was hearing were the sounds of a struggle．Only yards from where I stood, a woman was being attacked．

Should I get_______?

I was frightened for my own safety, and I hated_______for having suddenly decided to take a(n)_______route home that night．"What if I'm hurt too? Shouldn't I just run to the nearest phone and call the police?” Although it felt like a century, my thought process had only_______seconds．

But already the cries were growing_______．

I knew I had to act fast．"How could I walk away from this?” I asked myself．

“No”, I finally resolved(决心), I could not turn my_______on the fate of this unknown woman, _______it means ________ my own life．

I am not a brave man, nor am I ________．I don't know where I found the moral courage and physical strength, but ________ I had finally decided to help the girl, I became suddenly changed．

I ran behind the bushes and ________the attacker off the woman．Struggling, we fell to the ground, ________we fought for a few minutes until the man jumped up and escaped．

________heavily, I got to my feet and ________the girl, who was sobbing behind a tree．In the darkness, I could certainly ________ her trembling shock. Not wanting to frighten her any further, I at first spoke to her from a ________.

“It's OK,” I said soothingly．“The man ran away．You're safe now．"

There was a long pause and then I heard the words, uttered(说) in ________．

“Dad, is that you?"

And then, from behind the tree, ________ my youngest daughter, Katherine．

God has a way of allowing us to be in the right place at the right time．