Jimmy is an automotive mechanic (汽车修理师), but he lost his job a few months ago. He is warm-hearted and make people feel safe. He is very helpful. Especially when people ask him for help, he seldom refuses. But he is very shy. He doesn’t have enough confidence to start up conversations with strangers. So he is always afraid to apply for new jobs.

One day, he gathered up all his strength and decided to attend a job interview (面试). His appointment was at 10 a.m. and it was already 8: 30. While waiting for a bus to the office where he was supposed to be interviewed, he saw an elderly man wildly kicking the tire of his car (踢车轮). Obviously there was something wrong with the car. Without the slightest hesitation, Jimmy immediately went up to give him a hand. When Jimmy finished working on the car, the old man asked him how much he should pay for (支付) the service. Jimmy said there was no need to pay him; he just helped someone in need, and he had to rush for an interview. Then the old man said, “Well, I could take you to the office for your interview. It’s the least I could do. Please. I insist.” Jimmy agreed.

Jimmy got in the old man’s car, feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed, not knowing what to say. The old man broke the silence and after some small talk, he learned that Jimmy was nervous about his interview. Therefore, he said, “Don’t worry, young man. Your good heart will bring you many great things, including a job.”

Upon arrival, Jimmy found a long line (长队伍) of applicants waiting to be interviewed. Jimmy still had some grease (油垢) on him after the car repair, but he did not have much time to wash it off or have a change of shirt. One by one, the applicants left the interviewer’s office with disappointed looks on their faces.

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Finally his name was called. An old man was sitting on a large chair facing the office window.

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Then the interviewer turned around.

In 1989, just out of high school, I was faced with the tough job of deciding my own course of study, which was only three months away from university. In those days in Pakistan, there were limited choices: becoming a doctor or an engineer or entering the financial world after obtaining a business degree. I didn’t have any interest in engineering, so all I had to do was either medical or commercial work. I couldn’t decide.

My uncle, an influential member of the family, recommended that I spend a month in an international company and then a month at a hospital. Then I could make a decision. I thought it was a great idea.

I was accepted for a month’s placement (实习工作) at a foreign bank in Karachi. I had some insight into how the financial world worked, met new acquaintances, and enjoyed the general relaxed atmosphere of the office.

The month passed quickly, and I was soon employed at one of Karachi’s premier hospitals. The experience could not have been more different. There was a tense atmosphere at the hospital. Days began sooner(at seven as opposed to nine in the morning at the bank), and they were full of interminable (无止境的) chores and late-night visits! It was insane (疯狂的), working all day, all night, and then another.

I was starting to think about both of my experiences. The bank had offered a more relaxing environment, better working hours and less pressure. It was exciting and unpredictable in the hospital, but it was hard to learn and practice. It looked like the business choice would win.

Near the end of my month in the hospital, I was on my way back from a particularly hectic (紧张忙碌的) evening call, and there was a public bus in front of me, and there were some kids in it. While the driver threaded his way through the cars, I saw that the boys were swaying left and right.

All of a sudden, a boy fell from the back of the bus.

When I visited him at the hospital the following morning, all his family members stood up with grateful smiles on their faces.

5 . “Do you need a vase for your purple carnations (康乃馨)?” a gentle voice ______ me in my hospital bed. It was one of those few ______ moments when no one else was in the room with me and I had slipped into sleep. Usually the room was full of ______ and their families.

“Yes, these are from a special friend,” I ______ to sit up in spite of my weak body. She was a cleaner and while clearing the desk beside my bed, she ______ the flowers. But why would she care? And she said “purple carnations” ______.

I asked her if she likes flowers. Her eyes lit up and she spoke in an excited ______. She loves flowers so much that every flower in her garden each day gets a special hug and ______ from her before she leaves for work. My God! I can’t believe it!

I told her that I’ve been ______ a lot of flowers from my relatives and usually I had them delivered to the nurse station. And I decided to give her the purple carnations just because of her______ about flowers.

She left, came back and said, “I will be thinking of you whenever I see purple.” I ______. Such goodwill for something so ______? I was really amazed and impressed by this cleaner!

6 . On March 25,2010, Kate and David Ogg heard the words every parent fears: Their newborn wasn’t going to make it. Their twins—a girl and a boy—were born two minutes apart and 14 weeks premature, weighing just over two pounds each. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no improvement. His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he’d stopped breathing. The baby had just moments to live.

“I saw him gasp, but the doctor said it was no use,” Kate told the Daily Mail five years later. “I know it sounds stupid, but if he was still gasping, that was a sign of life. I wasn’t going to give up easily.”

Still, the Sydney couple knew this was likely goodbye. In an effort to cherish her last minutes with the tiny boy, Kate asked to hold him.

“I wanted to meet him, and for him to know us,” Kate told Today. “We’d resigned ourselves to the fact that we were going to lose him, and we were just trying to make the most of those last, precious moments.”

Kate unwrapped the boy, whom the couple had already named Jamie, from his hospital blanket and ordered David to take his shirt off and join them in bed. The first-time parents wanted their son to be as warm as possible and hoped the skin-to-skin contact would improve his condition. They also talked to him.

“We were trying to persuade him to stay,” Kate told the Daily Mail. “We explained his name and that he had a twin that he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to have him.”

Then something miraculous happened. Jamie gasped again—and then he started breathing. Finally, he reached for his father’s finger.

The couple’s lost boy had made it.

“We’re the luckiest people in the world,” David told Today. Eight years later, Jamie and his sister, Emily, are happy and healthy. The Oggs only recently told the kids the story of their birth. “Emily burst into tears,” Kate said. “She was really upset, and she kept hugging Jamie. This whole experience makes you cherish them more.”

7 . Joshua JJ Rowland, a 2-year-old boy, had been missing for 24 hours. It was believed that he left his home while his mom was ______. When his mother woke up, he was missing.

Over 500 volunteers helped in ______ the baby. Nearly 24 hours passed. ______ , they could find the baby nowhere. “That   long period everybody starts ______ the worst, and it’s hard not to. How can all these people search all this and not ______ a clue ?” Roy Link, one of the ______ , said. He decided to start searching on his own.

When he came to an open field he was met with a(n) ______two wooded areas with an open space in between. He ______ the forest on his left and heard the first cry. As it got louder, he ______ JJ. He could sense that the boy was ______. The 2 year old held onto him closely and wouldn’t go to any place without him. “He had scratches (划痕) all over his arms and legs, but he really looked in good ______. You know all the bad things start going through your mind, but then finding him healthy and alive, it’s just ... wow,” Link said. “And I was ______ that he managed to survive a day in the wild. Some adults wouldn’t have made it that long either.”

Online commenters ______ Link for saving the 2 year old and named him the “Man of the Year”. Link was ______ about such a big title.   “How could you not go when you heard that there was a need for volunteers to search for a 2-year-old child?” Link said.   “I was just doing the ______ thing.”