1 . Yesterday, I went to the bookstore to pick up a present for my mother’s birthday. I found one of the books I wanted, but not the other. When I went to ________, I asked the clerk behind the counter if I could ________ the second book.

A lady was standing ________ behind me at the checkout. The clerk said she could order the book for me, but would I mind if she let the lady behind me pay for her ________ first. The lady behind me said no, it was fine, she’d wait.

It took nearly 15 minutes to ________ my order through! The lady behind me had a(n)________ chat with us for the entire time.

When it finally came time for me to pay, I ________ two $10 off cards on the counter. The clerk informed me the offer was only valid(有效的) for the book I was buying in-store and wouldn’t ________ for the book I’d ordered. This meant that I’d have one $10 off card ________.

“You can come back and buy another book.” the clerk ________. “The offer is valid until the end of the week.”

I thought about this for a millisecond and then ________ to face the lady behind me who’d been so patient, kind, and charming through the very long wait at the checkout, “Here.” I gave her the $10 off card.

She was very ________ and said, “Really?”

The ________ didn’t cost me anything. I knew I wouldn’t be back before the end of the week and it ________ someone whose attitude left a smile in my heart. Most ________ a win-win moment.

2 . While shopping I came across a young woman trying on sneakers. She told me she was _________ a baby and that her feet were already starting to swell, so her mom _________ her to get some sneakers. I told her I liked the shoes she was trying on. We talked more about her pregnancy, She was only 14 weeks along and seemed very _________, talking a lot about the coming baby smilingly. She told me that she just moved back in with her mom in expectation of the baby.

As I began to _________ our conversation I told her she should definitely get the sneakers if they were _________because they looked good. She asked me if I knew whether they _________ payment by installment (分期付款) because the sneakers were a little bit beyond her _________, but she really liked them.

Her _________ took me back to my youth. I grew up relatively poor. Kids with more would _________ my brother and me as they watched our mother picking furniture out of the trash. I was flooded with __________ and with a strong desire to help her.

I asked her whether she would buy them if I were to __________ her $ 20 toward the sneakers. She started crying __________. It seemed like she wasn’t sure whether she should say __________. She accepted the money after I made up a little __________ about earning some money the previous day, which of course never happened. She hugged me tight and expressed her __________ many times, and ran right up to the register with the sneakers.

8 . My parents announced I was getting my own room. I was wild with _____, because my sister was not great at sharing. _____, my new bedroom was down in the partly unfinished basement (地下室), usually a _____ place for a five-year-old. Because of that, I _____for a while—until I found my great-grandmothers bedroom next to mine. But even so, I was still _____of sleeping in that big, old, terrible basement.

My grandmother _____ completely and started letting me crawl(爬)in bed with her. It _____ well for both of us for a while. But when my parents found out, they were _____ , saying if I continued to do that, I would never be able to make it alone.

Of course, I screamed and cried but _____ . I was forced back. Struggling through several nights, I suddenly hit upon a(n) _____ . When I was sure my grandma was asleep, I got up and _____ as quietly as I could into her bedroom. It seemed like only minutes had passed when I was suddenly being shaken awake. Get back to your room before your parents get up, just to save us some _____ she said softly. I ran back. My door was opened and then shut again. It _____!

After that the_____    repeated every night. Thanks to my grandma, I never had to sleep by myself, but I still had the _____ of my own room.

9 . Night fell. Loug Falter returned home, teary-eyed and_________. The 33-year-old professional photographer had just run from one end of Hawaii’s Waimea Bay to the other, scanning the water_________his “baby”, a custom-made blue surfboard.

When back home, Falter took his search on line. “Was surfing tonight and _________my baby,” he wrote on Facebook. He hoped it would wash ashore in the coming days and that whoever_________it would have also seen his Facebook post. But instead of pushing Falter’s surfboard to shore, the currents of Waimea Bay swept it out to sea, _________Oahu.

Weeks passed with no _________of the surfboard. Then months. Lyle Carlson, who had customized the board, comforted Falter with the possible reunion but nobody knew when.

Falter never completely forgot about the board. It _________on the remote island of Sarangani in the southern Philippines—six months after and over 5,000 miles away. The local fisherman sold the unusual_________to Giovanne Branzuela, a 36-year-old elementary school teacher for $ 40. For Branzuela, _________the big waves had been his dream.

The once-blue board had turned pale during its journey, with its__________markings still there: the elephant logo and the words “Lyle Carlson Surfboards, Oahu, Hawaii.”

On realizing how far the surfboard had traveled, he__________ Carlson online, who, in turn, contacted Falter. Falter confirmed the board was his with extra shots and was__________to learn his “baby” had floated across the World’s largest ocean and__________.

He was thrilled, but not only for himself. Seeing interest in the sport grow__________a lot to Falter and he couldn’t imagine a better__________to the story.

10 . Here's a remarkable story of a Nepalese family. About a century ago, a boy named Bishnu was not _________ to go to school, while decades later his son helped thousands of Nepalis learn to _________ .

When Bishnu was a child, he was forced to work on a farm. He was so _________ to get an education that he ran away to Kathmandu where the only one _________ was located, walking for three entire days. As his children grew up, with the _________ of being put in prison, Bishnu _________ brought a teacher to teach them. _________, education was finally allowed in 1951. Dinesh,   Bishnu's third son not only went to elementary school, but he _________ college. With a teaching job came the _________ to travel around Nepal.

Dinesh was soon aware of how few poor Nepalis knew how to read. This __________ inspired Dinesh to follow in his father's footsteps as a __________ of education. He and his wife, a lively young woman who was also __________ to helping the poor, __________ an organization called the Non — Formal Education Services Center to educate poor Nepalis.

When they __________ to teach reading and writing, they quickly realized that they needed to do something about the __________ they saw. After talking with the villagers, they made painstaking efforts to __________ the development of the agriculture and production to reduce the poverty. The villagers were required to __________ one quarter of the money they earned. With their savings and some other financial __________       , they sent their children to the schools.

Since then, the campaign has guaranteed 20,000 adults and 5 ,000 children __________ to education as well as helped to __________ them out of poverty. They have built 15 schools and 56 drinking water systems and planted thousands of trees.