1 . I was out shopping with my kids doing my best to budget (谨慎花钱) the last of my paycheck. I saw a lady sitting beside my car with a sign that she was________and needed help. I had a few dollars I could.________and a couple of bottles of water in my car, so I handed her the bottles and the_________

The next day I was down to about $ 12 and________day was one day away. On the way to picking up my son from school, I tried to do something________with my 12-year-old son. We stopped by our favorite________for the amazing cow cookies and the chocolate chip cookies. I let the baker know I had to________it under $ 12.25.   When she rang it up (把款项记入收款机), she said, “Oh, it’s $12.43.” I told her, “Sorry, I’ll have to split the payment between my card and some loose________I have in my wallet.”

________, she rounded it down to $12. After I________her and went walking out, she told me to stop and handed me an/a________chocolate chip cookie and two more cow cookies. It was a small________but made me feel so happy to receive. When I told my son about this, he________on how when we do one act of________it gets multiplied by three, I believe that and I know in my heart it always feels good to________and do the right thing.

3 . It was the golden season. I could see the _________ leaves falling with the cool wind. For others, it is a harvest season, while for me, it is a(n) _________ season. I was _________ for the Postgraduate Entrance Examination. But so many unhappy things made me so tired, so I decided to have a walk along the Yanjiang Road in my university.

“Autumn is a lonely season and life is uninteresting. The days in this season always get me _________”, I thought when the sound of a guitar flowed into my ears, like a stream flowing from the mountains. A young girl, sitting on the lawn, was lost in playing her guitar. She was a beautiful girl, _________ when the wind blew her long hair. I had never seen her before. The music was so attractive that I listened quietly.

Lost in the music, I did not _________ that I had been standing for so long. But my existence did not seem to disturb her. Leaves were still falling. Every day when I passed by the lawn, I would see her playing her guitar. She was the only _________ and I was the only audience. During the rest of the days in the season, life became _________ and I could review the courses carefully.

Autumn was _________ over. One day, when I was listening devotedly, the sound suddenly stopped. To my surprise, the girl came over to me.

“You __________ like the music,” she said.

“Yes, you play very well. Why did you stop?” I asked.

Suddenly, a(n) __________ expression appeared on her face.

“I came here just to have a rest because I __________ in the college entrance examination. I felt very disappointed. And it was your listening every day that __________ me,” she said, “and I have to go tomorrow.”

“In fact, it was your playing that gave me a __________ autumn and helped me believe that I have the ability to pass the Postgraduate Entrance Examination.” I answered, “I think it was God who gave us the __________ to know each other and we should be good friends.”

She smiled and I smiled in that beautiful autumn.