1 . Changes in our society in recent years have weakened (削弱) our family life.

One change is that today’s mothers ______ much less time with their children. Half a century ago, Dad worked full time. Most families ______ on Dad’s salary (工资), and Mom ______ at home looking after children. But now many mothers work outsides. As a result, children have to ______ an after-school program, or go back to their ______house.

Another ______ is that the television and the mobile phone have taken place of family conversation and togetherness. In the past when there were daily ______, family members would have a chance to eat together, talk with each other, and ______ events of the day in a leisurely (悠闲地) manner. But now families are more likely to be ______ TV or chatting on the phone rather than talking to one another.

Clearly, modern life is a challenge to our ______life.

2 . Manners are necessary. If you want to get something from a shelf in a supermarket, and a person is _________ the way, say “Excuse me, please.” Or ask the person “Could you please _________ me the cereals（谷物）?” and then _________ him or her. If you do like that, he or she will like to help you.

It is very important to give others _________ feedback(反馈) when they did the right things. Here is an example:

Recently I was at a public celebration event, and two boys (they did not _________ to be brothers) were in front of me in line for some_________. It was a _________ day, and the line was long, but they stood there _________. The younger boy was asking the other about the price politely. At the reply of “$ 4,” he looked _________, and said in a low voice, “I only have $6, and I can’t buy one for each of my grandparents.” The older boy said__________, but after the younger boy bought one, the older boy paid $16 for three. He talked with the boss about __________the younger boy’s money. At last the boss agreed and asked the younger boy to get his money.

And then I heard the younger boy say “Thank you very much, my __________will feel cool in such a hot day!” to the older boy __________. The older boy smiled, and said, “You are a __________boy, you are filial(孝顺) to the elders, it’s my honor to help you.”

Several days later, I saw the older boy again and I told him, “That was a very nice thing you did for the little boy.” He was a bit shy. I know he was happy inside to be noticed for doing it of __________.

In all comes back to the old saying, “What goes around comes around.” Manners are like a boomerang. Use them, and be kind, and people will respond likewise.

3 . Wheeling her red chair and scissors around, a salon owner gives out-of-luck strangers a gift — one free hairdo at a time. To date, Steller has given about 30 such haircuts to _________ people around the city. “It’s _________ a haircut,” she says. “I want it to be a _________, to show value and respect, but also to get to know people. I want to build _________.”

Steller knows that a haircut can _________ a life. As a teen, she suffered from a disease so severe that her hair _________ greatly. Her mother arranged for Steller’s first professional haircut. “To have somebody talk to me like a person, it helped me feel _________ and less alone,” she says. After that, Steller knew she wanted to have her own salon so she could help people _________ the way she’d felt that day. Not long after finishing school, she began her Red Chair Project. “I can’t _________ their problems, but maybe I can help them feel less alone for a moment,” she said.

A branch of her project is the Steller Kindness Projects in which people who __________ acts of kindness are invited for a free hairdo. __________, they tell their stories, which Steller shares on her website. Her hope is that by reading about kind acts, others will be __________ to spread their own. So far, it’s working, she says.

It all began with a belief in __________ acts of kindness, such as a free haircut. “The way you __________ in the world matters,” says Steller. “You have no idea what people are going to do with the __________ that you give them.”

4 . A 27 week pregnant woman got on a bus to go to the nearest hospital. She was having labor pains. The bus man knew this. As she approached her stop she got up from her seat. The driver told her to _______. He then announced to the _______ of the passengers that he was taking a detour(绕行)for the _______ four bus stops and they could get off the bus and get another new _______ if they wished. The driver then _______ the expectant woman to the doors of the hospital, got off the bus with her and brought her _______to the hospital doors.

The following day, the woman rang the bus _______ from hospital hoping to find out _______ the driver had got into _______ . She found that only one person on the bus filed a complaint. The driver also rang the company after he returned to the bus and explained the situation. The bus company gave ________ to the driver.

The ________ mum said her newborn son’s life had been saved ________ the bus driver’s actions. Isn’t this just ________! Never estimate the power of kindness especially spontaneous(自发的) kindness. Often those________ need kindness the most would never ask for it. Being sensitive to this need is a kindness ________ itself.

5 . Larry gave us “Direction” in more ways than he could ever know. For the better part of 35 years, Larry’s life has been ________ to searching out the finest music and then sharing his treasured   ________through teaching and directing students and adults alike —always seeking that moment of perfection in ________ and always encouraging and inspiring others to seek that same perfection, both in the performance, and in themselves.

________did he ever realize, that this powerful effect would be greater than the moments ________ practicing a play and fine-tuning the music and would ________ and beyond into other aspects of people’s lives.

For what Larry ________ he was teaching us were the notes and tones and key signature. What he really ________ us, was how to push and extend beyond our own noticed limitations, stand ________ and firm and of great determination at the same time, and — in spite of inner ________—breathe out that note ________ in a clever way that, with angelic________, would go beyond the moment, stay in the air between here and ________, and touch both heart and soul with its ________and perfection.

Larry has been a friend and advisor, teacher and choir ________. He has inspired hundreds of students who, ________ by his direction, have been ________ by the sharing of his gifts and strong feeling of ________for music, and have all been made ________ in spirit, more sure of self and stronger in ________, because of it.

6 . Every morning, Rekha takes exercise around some gardens in our neighborhood. One morning, she was walking ________than usual, and it was still dark.

As she was walking, a cyclist came up to her,________ her handbag and sped off with it! She________ him shouting “thief, thief”. A man further ahead must have________her or seen what had happened. He was________a car with a bucket of water near him. He took the bucket and________ the water onto the cyclist.

The cyclist drove off the street and   ________ his bike. Some other people rushed over and surrounded him. My friend Rekha was________ that the people would beat him. She begged them not to________him.

She bent down and asked the boy ________ he did this to her. He ________ that he was the son of a farmer and that this year their crops had ________. He said that the money lenders had threatened to beat up his father and hurt his________ if he didn’t pay on time. He said that he was hopeless and didn’t know what else to do. He was very________.

Rekha was________ moved by this story. That boy was so thin. She looked into the boy’s eyes and said that she forgave him. She then took out some ________ from her handbag and gave it to him. She told him that robbing was________ and that he shouldn’t do it again. He said he would follow her________. He told her that he was from a good family and was well brought up and that he had made a terrible ________.

The boy left thankfully. Rekha sincerely   ________ that this would be the last time that the boy tried to rob something.

7 . Brothers Michael and Chris were born in the early 1960s and grew up in a black neighborhood in Richmond，California. Both boys were ______ in the primary school(初中) and brought home mostly A’s on their report cards.

But in a black family with eight children, money was always ______ , so the two growing boys often went ______ . They turned to stealing. They stole cookies from the grocery store and bread from the______. They even stole money from their parents to feed.

At the end of his first year in high school，Chris received three A’s and ______ F’s on his report card—the first time he had ______ anything in school. Because Kennedy High School only allowed three failures ______ four years, one more F and Chris would be kicked out of school. That’s when he made up his mind to ______.

Chris made every effort to become______in school. After Chris graduated from college, he worked as a prosecutor(检察官), ______criminals, drug dealers, and gang members. Today Chris is famous as one of the ______prosecutors in the trial of the century, the O. J. Simpson trial!

That decision to change took him in an entirely ______ direction from his brother Michael, who ______changing his bad behavior. After high school Michael continued his anti-social______ —fighting in the streets，taking ______ and stealing. At the age of 42, Michael Darden died from AIDS.

This story______us that what we become is determined by the ______ we make. We can choose to get ______or we can choose to get worse. Chris changed. He changed from being a criminal to prosecuting criminals. His brother Michael，on the other hand, was changed. He was changed by______drugs…and finally, he was changed by a deadly disease. Chris made the right choices. He made the changes in his life that helped him______his great dreams.

8 . A few years ago when my youngest son Matt was about 8 or 9 years old, we were getting things together to take them to the Salvation Army at Christmas time. The boys would _________their old toys and give away what they didn’t “ _________ ”. I always make cookies and get together blankets and clothes. Matt and l were_________the Christmas “package” to our local Salvation Army. We unloaded everything and _________home.

When we took the corner out of the_________lot, Matt noticed that a baseball glove he had put in the bag had_________. He said, “Morn, we forgot my glove.” Just then he_________a little boy and his Mom sitting on a bench on the side of the _________ where the small playground is. He said, “Mom, can we pull over and I can _________ it to him?” I said “Sure.” and we pulled over and went through the gate．

Matt __________ the boy the glove and said, “Here, Santa__________ me to give this to you.” He was so __________ to get it! His Mom __________and gave Matt a HUGE hug. Her eyes were full of __________. She looked at us and said “This was the best __________he could get, all I could get him this year was a baseball.”

When we __________ into the van, Matt said to me “Mum, God must have __________ me forget the baseball glove inside, so that little boy could have it—it was__________ to be!” That moment made me believe again my __________ in my belief that everything happens for a __________ and I have tried my best to get people to see that ever since !

9 . I always got a flower on my suit on Sunday service, I really didn’t think much of it.

One Sunday a little boy _______me when I was leaving. He walked right up to me and said, “What are you going to _______with your flower?” At first I did not know _______he was talking about, but then I understood.

I said, “Do you mean this?” as I pointed to the rose_______to my coat.

He said, “Yes sir. I would use it_______you are just going to throw it away.” At this point I _______and gladly told him that he could have my flower, casually(顺便)_______him what he was going to do with it. The little boy said, “Sir, I am going to _______it to my granny. My mother and father got divorced two years ago, my grandmother_______me and so I want to give that________ flower to her.”

When he finished I could ________speak. And my eyes were filled with tears and I knew I had been ________in the depth of my soul. I ________up and unpinned my flower. With the flower in my ________, I looked at the boy and said, “Son you________have this flower because it’s not enough. If you________in front of the pulpit(教堂讲坛), you’ll see a big bouquet(束)of flowers. Please take those ________to your granny because she deserves (应得)the very________.”

The boy________one last statement. He said, “What a ________day! I asked for one flower but got a beautiful bouquet. I’ll always cherish(珍惜)it.”

10 . My wife called, “Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?” I rushed to the scene. My only daughter, Sindu, _______ frightened. In front of her was a bowl filled with rice. She _______ disliked rice.

“Sindu, why don’t you take a few _______ of this? Just for Dad’s sake. If you don’t, your mom will shout at me. ” Sindu softened a bit and   _______ her tears with the back of her hands.   “OK. Dad. I will eat. But, you should…” Sindu hesitated. “Dad, if I eat the rice, will you give me _______I ask for?” “Oh, sure.” She_______ eating the whole quantity. After the ordeal was through, Sindu came to me, “Dad, I want to have my _______shaved off this Sunday!”

“Darling, we will be sad _______ you with a clean-shaven head.” “Dad, you saw how difficult it was for me to eat the rice. “ Sindu was in tears.”_______ you promised to give me whatever I ask for.” It was ________for me to call the shots. “Our promise must be________.”

With her head clean-shaven, Sindu had a round face. On Monday morning, I dropped her at her ________ Just then, a boy shouted, “Sindu, please wait for me!” ________ struck me was the hairless head of that boy.

“Sir, your daughter Sindu is great ________!” a lady said to me. “That boy who is walking along with your daughter is my son Harish. He is ________ from leukemia(白血病). He lost all his hair due to the side ________ of the chemotherapy ( 化疗). He refused to ________to school for fear of being laughed at. Sindu visited him last week. But, I________ imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of________“My little angel, you are teaching me ________selfless real love is!” I wept.