2 . One cloudy Sunday, a vendor came to our doorstep, selling bundles of vegetables priced at one dollar per bundle (捆). My mom’s ________ was 50 cents, exactly half the seller’s figure, but she ________ to buy four bundles at that price. Politely declaring that she wouldn’t even recover the ________ at that price, the vendor lifted the basket onto her head and walked away.

After taking four steps ahead, however, she ________ and shouted, “Make it 75 cents a bundle, and I will sell it to you.” Mom shook her head and ________ to her original offer of 50 cents. ________ for a while, the vendor came back to our doorstep. The deal was ________ at my mom’s bid. The vendor was sitting there looking ________ while my mom took her time ________ each bundle.

Finally my mom ________ four bundles to her satisfaction. She took them into the kitchen and came out with the ________ The vendor took the money without even counting. As she. ________, she swayed (摇晃) due to apparent dizziness. My mom held her hands and asked whether she had had any_________ in the morning. The vendor said, “________. I will need to buy some with today’s earnings. ”

My mom asked her to sit down, ________ inside and came back swiftly with some food and drink and offered them to the vendor. The vendor hungrily and_________ finished them all. Thanking my mom for all the food, the vendor placed her ________ on her head and went on her way.

I was ________. I asked my mom why she was so stingy (小气的) in bargaining for 50 cents but was ________ in offering food of a much higher price to that vendor.

Mom smiled and said, “There is no kindness in business, but my treating the vendor kindly is from my morality, which is different from ________. Remember, there shall never be any business in kindness.”

5 . A couple of weeks ago, when we were leaving one of those horrible giant trampoline bouncy (弹跳床) places, my 11-year-old daughter said to me, "I don't think I'm very athletic, you know, like Rocket (her brother). He seems to be really good at _________."

What came out my mouth _________ me: "No, you're kind of not."

Okay, let me _________. As you may have guessed, this child has been with me for about 11 years, so I've had enough time to _________ her engaged in physical acts: jumping, climbing, running, and organized sports.

And the kid is just _________ me: two left feet. If anybody was ever NOT a “natural" _________, that person is me.

But even _________ these facts, my first instinct (本能反应) was to show her with some _________ "Oh, no honey. You're good at sports! You just have to keep _________ !" But I decided to tell her the __________, and I could see it hurt a bit.

So I said more: "Ava, we all have things we are particularly, __________ good at, like you and __________. You're in the 5th grade and read Charles Dickens. That isn't __________, but you've done it without even trying. But all of us also have things that we are __________ in. If we want to get good at those things, we have to put in twice the __________ of the people around us to get to a decent (相当的) point and even harder if we want to be __________.”

She was nodding. She totally __________ it. Why? Because it's the truth. Sometimes I wonder why we run around talking nonsense (胡扯) to our kids when they can __________ the truth. And they can smell rubbish from a mile away. In other words, they can easily recognize you are __________. In addition, if they don't know where they __________ now, they'll never know how to get somewhere new.

6 . Down syndrome is a medical condition that makers someone develop mentally and physically in a different way from most people. However, a small act of_________could have a big influence on a teen with Down syndrome.

Every morning for 10 years, driver Scott Reynolds_________Ty Coppola, who has Down syn-drome，with a smile and a fist bump(拳头碰拳头)when he_________Ty.

“It would start his day in a_________way," Michael Coppola, Ty's father said.

Ty can speak and communicate his basic needs,_________he doesn't have typical conversations like most do.

"Instead, he senses how people_________him whether it's a handshake or a fist bump." Michael said.

Michael admits that many people, _________their best intentions, do not know how to approach someone with_______---including him.

That's exactly_________Michael and his wife sent Ty to Holy Childhood, a__________that serves children and adults with disabilities. Michael says the school has taught his son to be__________and confident despite his disability.

Yet, although Ty has__________to do things on his own, it doesn't mean he doesn’t want affection from others.

"The__________mean a whole lot more than words to him," Michael said.

Reynolds' kindness didn't__________there. He also learned things about Ty's life and asked him questions about his family.

When the Coppolas were__________that Reynolds planned to retire, Michael and his wife decided to do something to ________Reynolds that he meant a lot to their son. With other people's help, the Coppolas held a surprise party in Reynolds'__________. Many people came and paid respect for his years of__________.

"I wanted to show my__________,"Michael said. "I didn't want everything he did to be taken for granted. He wasn't just a__________."

7 . After my husband's Chinese kung fu school was open for about a week, my daughters and I decided to see how it was going. We were deeply __________ to see there wasn't a single student in the school. My husband was standing __________ in the school waiting for customers.

We had to __________ ! We decided to be his __________ until he got some "real" ones. We thought it was better to have five people in the school __________ just him if a passerby looked in the window. He started teaching us __________ and forms. We found that some of them actually were __________ to ballet moves but much more difficult. It was kind of fun but __________, too! We

______ , we got actual students in our school. There were many men and teenage boys, and we _______lots of other girls and women as well. One special student was a __________ sevenyear-old girl. She was going __________ and had other health problems. With my daughters' help and __________, this little girl got to be a real kung fu kid. Although she is now a sightless, grown adult, I'm confident she can __________ herself if she needs to.

I am __________ to say my daughters are more confident in every area of their lives. This experience taught me to __________ things I never would have __________ before kung fu. I haven't been __________ in all of my efforts, but I'll give almost __________ of niceness a try!