2 . The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was _________, so he became _________ when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree._________, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy.”

The man was _________ by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found out the box was     _______. He _________ at her, stating, “Don’t you know, when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be something inside? The little girl_________ at him with _________ in her eyes and cried,” Oh, Daddy, it’s not empty at all. I blew _________into the box. They’re all for you, Daddy.”

The father was __________. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her __________ .Only a short time later, an accident __________ the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many years and, whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an __________ kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.

In a very real sense, each one of us, as humans beings, has been given a gold container fled with__________love and kisses...from our children, family members, friends, and God. There is simply no other possession, anyone could hold, more __________ than this.

4 . Our neighbors had a loud party last night. We weren’t _______ but this was one of those celebrations that I didn’t mind. They are a bunch of young, single guys and I would have felt out of place.

What _______ me was the way they behaved. Ono of the young men came over _______ in the day to “warn” us of the upcoming event and said it would be over at about 11 p. m. That was the first step. Even more _______ was what they did next. “Here’s my _______”, offered our neighbor _______ “Text me if it’s too noisy.” That was a level of _______ I had never experienced in all my years of being a neighbor!

And it really worked in their favor. My husband and I were so friendly that even when the event went past the _______ end time, even when the music reached high decibels(分贝), and even when we couldn’t get through to the phone number, we felt no _______. We knew they would stop and ________ to it eventually.

It takes such little effort to make people feel that they ________ and get people on your side. Everyone needs to ________ every now and then, especially in these uniquely tough times. But people who do it without disturbing others are few and far between. I hadn’t fully ________ my neighbors until this week. But now I see them in a new light and with greater ________ . They didn’t just bring the noise to the neighborhood; they showed us a good manner of ________ in life.

6 . As an only child, Nicole Renae often felt lonely in her youth. But that all _________ when her grandmother surprised her with a (n) _________ puppy “Chloe” for her 10th birthday.

The two were inseparable, because they were best friends. Chole always _________ her face. But when Renae was 14, her father got a new job: He’d be working from home without _________ . With no option, the family surrendered (被迫交出) noisy Chloe to a humane society although Renae didn’t want to _________ her dog.

In time, Renae had a child of her own. Remembering the _________ that having a dog had brought her as a kid, Renae wanted her daughter to _________ the same. Then one day, she saw a     _________ on Facebook about a senior dog named Chloe that needed a new home. _________ she decided to adopt this dog.

When Renae met Chloe, she was struck with a __________ feeling. The dog ran up to her and started licking her face. Chloe __________ Renae so much of her old dog that the __________ overwhelmed her. She knew it was her Chole. __________, ten years had passed since they last met, and her whole family thought she was crazy.

Luckily, there was a way to __________ the theory: Her Chloe had a microchip with the ID number. Sure enough, the dog also had a microchip and the numbers were a __________ . Renae was overjoyed to have her back.

7 . I was travelling on an overnight bus from Kolhapur to Aurangabad in India. The bus—an ordinary, non-air-conditioned one—was more than _________. All 55 seats were taken and there were some 20 people _________ in the aisle (过道). The hot day _________ the discomfort of the 10-hour journey. Because I was travelling on a student bus pass, I had no choice but to stand.

After around two very long hours, I was _________ with sweat in the noise of the bus. I suddenly sensed a hand tapping my hand, asking for _________. Turning around, I found a middle-aged man with a kind smile looking up at me. He stood up and said I could _________ his seat for some time. I was pleasantly _________ and immediately accepted his offer, my entire body feeling a sense of relief. And the man stood next to me, _________ around. After about 20 minutes, I signaled him to _________ his space. A man, who was sitting by the window on the other side of the bus, had observed our __________.

Just then, something __________ happened. Our observer stood up and offered his seat to another standing man. All of a sudden, we had caused a chain reaction: almost all the standees got a(n)__________ to be seated. More surprisingly, people even started chatting with each other while exchanging positions, and soon began sharing jokes. Needless to say, the rest of the journey was quite __________.

The bus reached its destination in the next morning. As I stood in the early morning light, waving goodbye to the groups, I was __________ of an important life lesson—that we can all __________ what we have, including our burdens, and help our co-passengers in the journey of life.

8 . My wife and I moved into our home two years ago. We had a yard with a lot of ________. Very often when we have flowers, Denise or I would plant some between the rocks, just to add some ________ to the area.

Last summer, I found a tiny little plant in the yard that I could not immediately identify. I knew I didn’t plant it and Denise said she didn’t either.

We decided to let it ________ growing until we could find out what it was.

Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the ________ plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. I decided to ________ the weeds (杂草) around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something ________.The sunflower had not ________ where I saw it begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the ________.

That’s when I ________ that if a tiny little sunflower didn’t let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have the ability of doing the same thing. If we ________ ourselves like that little sunflower, we can reach where we ________ to go and get what we need for growth.

We need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the ________ to achieve our goals. Like the sunflower, it knew it had the ability to get over the rocks because it had ________ in itself that it would succeed. Stand tall like the sunflower and be ________ of who and what we are, and then the environment will begin to ________ us. We will find a way to go under or around any “rocks” in order to reach our goals.

9 . A tradition for my wife and me is to make holiday snacks and die around town to deliver them to about 15 friends. We have done this over two years and gained a lot of ______. Last night, a thing______our heart and made us determine to ______it.

First, we showed up to deliver treats to our 95-year-old neighbor ______she was ready to go to sleep. Next, we delivered treats to friends who had just finished dinner and were expecting something______to eat. An eighty-five-year-old neighbor was talking with friends online about what Christmas meant and he said that our______was the______example.

One friend was not at home when we ______. We could judge that she was______on the phone, but when we told her that we were leaving some______for her. She told us she was on her way and asked if we would______. She said that she really needed a______. She told us that she had just______from the ER (急诊室). Her husband had an accident and suffered ______to his spine(脊柱) and needed an operation. We gave her hugs. From a perfect dessert after a good meal to supporting a friend who was worried about her husband, our sweets ______a lot to many.

10 . Claire and Larry Belmont, the owners of a flower shop, were surprised to discover that someone had graffiti (涂鸦) a fence outside their shop. But the real _________ came after they posted the incident on Twitter.

Discovering the graffiti on their property was _________ but Claire and Larry decided to take a more _________ way instead of calling the _________. They shared what had happened online, explaining that they were _________ to give the fence an update with a mural (壁画).

“Calling all _________!” they wrote, looking for someone who has a talent for painting. It was _________ what they asked for. “We are looking for something that will bring hope, and _________ our community!”

As their post gained attention online, the very people they had least _________ to see again turned up!

One day three __________ came into the flower shop. The teens looked terrified __________ they found the courage to __________ for graffitiing the fence and they promised to repaint it. Shocked at their __________ choice to return to the shop, Chaire and Larry instantly chose forgiveness.

After the graffiti was __________, the amazing couple received a call from Shower. The people, a charitable organization in Nashville. They were __________ by the couple’s story and decided to create a free mural for them.

What a powerful demonstration of forgiveness! It just goes to show that one act of kindness can have a domino (多来诺骨牌) effect.