1 . Every year, Dale Marks puts up a massive Christmas lights display at his home in Des Moines. It’s part of a neighborhood ______. For decades, people have come by the carload every December to the Beaverdale community to ______ the Markses’ house Christmas lights display. The holiday display _________ good cheer. The Markses put boxes at the end of their driveway and ask visitors to ______ money and food to the Food Bank of Iowa as they drive past.

But this year, after ______ a heart attack, Marks was too _______ to hang lights while his wife was too busy with his care to _______the job. Bob Coffey, a stranger who owns a local construction company, heard the couple’s ______ and offered to help. So Coffey brought a group of ____ to their home to put up thousands of lights. Coffey and four of his workers spent ______ putting up lights and decorations throughout the yard. He _____ that there were at least 10,000 lights. Everyone ______, when at the end of the day, he plugged two cords (电线) together and ______ the display.

“The _____ of that afternoon will last a lifetime,” Coffey said, explaining that seeing Dale and Julie Marks watching from the porch made it all ______.