2 . It was a winter night and I was in a foreign country.Though I knew everything here well, I might still _______ other people to help me with _______ .

I took a midnight _______ from the capital to the city where I lived.I was trying not to _______ as I would be home towards 2 am, but funnily enough I fell asleep and _______ my eyes only when the train passed the _______ where I was due to get off.The controllers told me to _______ at the next station and wait for the train to my _______ at 4 am. I got off at the station but it looked like it would be _______ to wait there alone for the next train.

One of the controllers ________ there got off with me, saying he felt it was not safe to leave me there ________ .He invited me to get into his ________ because it was ________ outside.I was a bit doubtful, but I decided to ________ him. Entering the car, we started talking. I told him that I had often ________ this station, but never visited the city. So he________ me a short ride to see Reggia, I was completely shocked, but did not feel anything ________. Therefore, I agreed.

Actually, I found it very ________ .He simply wanted me to see Reggia. He ________ me around and at about 4 am he sent me back to the station.Up to now, I’ve always ________ him with deep gratitude and respect. His help with the emergency made the winter night unforgettable and full of warmth.What I could do was just passing on the kindness in my life.

3 . I was in a big hurry today, I had to be somewhere before noon and the traffic was terrible. As I was making my way through the traffic, I saw an old man standing on one leg and trying to _______ to the passing cars, with the _______ that one of them would stop. No one stopped. He looked very sweaty and I felt so _______ that he had to stand like that in the terrible _______. I decided to help him. As soon as I _______ him, I put my hazard lights on and pulled over. He was _______ to see a woman, and hesitated to come into my car.

I called out to him, “Why don’t you get inside. It’s so hot for you.”

He _______ seemed a little shocked but he opened the door and got into the seat, I _______ the air conditioning for him and then we started our _______.

He kept thanking me and blessing me all the way. He was a ________ army officer and he said he had been ________ for over three hours.

I thanked him for his blessings and asked him where I should drop him off. He said, “I am sure you are a busy lady, ________ let me get down here. It will be ________ for me to get a taxi in this area.” I ________ him a taxi and he got down to bid me good bye, thanking me and blessing me again.

I then rushed on to where I had to be. As soon as I got in, I got a ________ from my husband saying his company had ________ a big contract. This was a very big ________ because my husband’s company was brand new. I was so happy. I ________ that I had done one small kind thing and ________ we had got so much.

I took my husband shopping that day to ________. My husband has asked me to buy something to someone to share some of our good luck.

4 . “Are you going to the audition (试镜)?” Someone asked Connie, as we came out of ballet class.

“What audition?” I asked.

“Oh, nothing,” said Connie. “It’s for The Ed Sullivan Show. You wouldn’t be _______.”

The Ed Sullivan Show was a famous one-hour show on CBS. They constantly needed performers for their new shows. This time they were looking for six dancers to support the star performer Jimmy Durante.

“Why not? I’d love to go!” I _______.

Connie smiled at me and said, “I don’t think you are _______ yet, Eva.”

Later that night, I couldn’t fall asleep. It _______ me. Who said I shouldn’t go to the audition? Only because I was a young novice (新手)? How would I know if I didn’t try?

The next morning, I _______ I was going to the audition. I packed my dancing shoes, and put on bright red lipstick. As I looked at my _______ in the mirror, I saw one thing missing. I put on a smile.

I took the subway to the Eighth Avenue and walked to the rehearsal studio. I _______ and took my place nervously.

Connie and five of my other friends were there. “What are you doing here?” one asked.

I said simply, “Well, I have nothing to lose by _______.”

The look I got said, “Okay. _______.”

The audition began. All the other dancers had confident but expressions. I had a smile. ________

More and more dancers were knocked out. I was still there with my friends. Then we were asked to do a jeté en l’air ________: stand on one leg, kick the other one up and out as close to a split as possible, and then do a turn in the air. Hopefully, you’d land on both feet.

All the other candidates did the jeté beautifully. It was my turn. I took the preparatory step, and with that never-ending smile, I leaped up into the air, turned in mid-air and ________ flat on my back. But even then, the smile never ________ my face.

When everything settled down, my friends were instructed to go to the right. When I was told to go to the left, their faces told they felt ________ for me.

I picked up my belongings and prepared to leave when the choreographer called out to me, “Where are you going? You’ve got the ________if you want it.”

Did I want it? I certainly did. I thought I had been ________!

There were no jetés in the ________. I made my first appearance on national TV. I never stopped ________, and I always landed on my feet.

Had I not believed I could do it, and had I not tried, I would have ________ out on a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

It proved once again that a smile will get one ________ than a frown ever will.

5 . While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job_______at a school about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of_______and wanting to do something_______I applied (申请), _______as I did so, that without a degree and with no_______of teaching my chances of getting the job were_______.

However, three days later, a letter arrived, calling me to Croydon for a meeting with the headmaster. It proved to be a _______journey: a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at _______a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived there, feeling too hot to be nervous. It was clearly the_______himself that________the door. He was short and round.

"The school," he said, "is made up of one________of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen." I should have to teach all the subjects except art, ________he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into ________groups and teach them in turn at three different ________, and I was________at the thought of teaching maths—a subject at which I wasn’t very ________at school. Worse perhaps was the idea of________to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be________themselves at that time.

Before I had time to ask about my salary, he got up to his________. "Now" he said, you’d better meet my wife. She is the one who really________this school.