4 . A bus arrived and an old woman got on it slowly. She wore no shoes. A little boy _________ the old woman and said to his mother, “Look, Mum. She isn’t wearing shoes.” “Don’t point at others, Tom. It’s _________.” the mother said and then looked out of the window.

“She must have grown (成年的) children,” said a woman _________ a fur coat. “Her children should take care of her.”

“People should learn to save _________ ,” said a well-dressed man. “If she had saved money when she was young, she wouldn’t be so _________ now.”

Then all the passengers (乘客) on the bus _________ silent.

At the next stop, a young man _________ the bus. He was listening to music. _________ he saw the old woman, he froze. He carried his eyes from her feet to his own. He was wearing his expensive new trainers. He had saved money for months to buy _________ . Unexpectedly, the young man took off his __________ and socks. He knelt down (跪下) before the old woman. “Granny,” he said, “I see you have no shoes. Well, I have.” __________ and gently, he put his socks and trainers on the old woman’s __________ .

Just then the bus __________ the next stop. The young man got off the bus and walked away, wearing no __________ in the snow.

“Who is he?” one asked. “He __________ be an angel (天使),” said another. But the little boy who had pointed at the old woman said, “No, I saw him clearly. He was only a man.”

5 . It was snowing hard outside. Thomas and Mick had to _________ in their house all day. When they went to bed late into night, it was still snowing, and every time they _________ up during the night, they could _________ the wind whistling around the house, and through the branches of the trees.

But the next morning the _________ was bright. What a(n) _________ day! It looked as if the branches of the trees had been covered with gold. “Oh Grandma! Please do make _________ as quickly as possible. We are going out to build a fort (城堡),” cried the boys, running into the _________. Grandma smiled and told them to eat a good breakfast, for building a fort was _________. They were soon out in the snow, and what a great time they had _________, the fort didn’t grow very fast, for they had to ______________ so often to play snow-ball each other. When Grandma called them in to dinner they wondered where the ______________ had gone since breakfast.

After dinner, Thomas was looking out of the window, when he ______________ two little birds standing on a branch of a tree. “Mick! Come here,” he called. “See those ______________ birds. They seem half frozen and so ______________.” “Poor little things,” replied Mick. “Doesn’t it make you feel ______________ to think what a happy time we had this morning out of the snow. Let us get some bread from Grandma and throw it out to them,” said Thomas. The birds soon found the food and ate it quickly. Will other children be as kind as Thomas and Mick?

6 . One day after work, I was using a pay phone when suddenly I found a wallet on the floor. I _________ it and found that it was a man’s wallet. I decided to try to reach the _________ but couldn’t find anything except credit cards. So I called the credit card company and _______ what happened and offered them my name and phone number.

Looking in the wallet a little further, I found a ticket of buying the wallet with a phone number listed. I took a _________ and called it, contacting the man’s wife in the end. I gave her my name, phone number and _________ address in order that her husband could meet me to _________ his wallet. She _________ me and told me he was _________ anxious to find it. Therefore, we _________ a time for her husband to see me the next day.

The next day the man came to my office early. I returned him his __________ and he thanked me for trying every possible means to get his wallet back to him. The credit card company had __________ him that I called. He gave me a hand-drawn boat as a reward, which __________ me. We then sat down and __________ for a while.

But the following thing that happened caught me by __________. The man with the wallet happened to be a client(客户) of our company. Wow, it is a __________ world!

7 . It started 30 years ago with a squirrel. A few months after I moved into a building in downtown Manhattan, my next-door neighbor, Nicole Figaro, knocked, asking for help with a squirrel that had gotten into her apartment.

I ______ Lout the animal and made a new friend. Soon Nicole was ______ me over for dinner or ______ home-cooked food at my door. When I went to my beach house, Nicole picked up my ______ and watered my plants, and when she ______ on vacations, I did the same for her. She'd bring me wonderful ______ from far-away places, but her ______ and best wishes have been the greatest gift of all.

In 1997, I took care of my partner during his ______ days, and it was Nicole who took care of me: Years later, I ______ the favor, helping out when her husband, who was ______ needed her to take care of him for almost everything. More and more, we ______ strength and inspiration from each other.

My father ______ last January. Nicole helped my family prepare for the service. I couldn't have gotten through that day without her. The pandemic ______ then. Nicole and I ______ for groceries for each other, knowing we could get through anything together. And we will. A ______ might separate our apartments, but nothing separates our hearts.

In my memory, playing the shuttlecock game was one of my favorite     1    (thing) during my childhood. My hometown is in northeast China where the winter is very long—almost five to six months. Playing the shuttlecock outside was the main game in the winter.     2     I liked to play this kind of game very much, the shuttlecock became my good friend who always accompanied me in the long winter.

Actually, this game was very simple. In a word, it was just     3    (play) by a person who kicked the shuttlecock with his or her foot and kept it     4     dropping down on the ground as long as possible. Depending on different interests, the player could kick the shuttlecock with different parts of his or her foot. Sometimes we     5    (divide) into two teams, and each team had one, two, or more persons. Then we had a match to see     6     team could keep playing for a long time. The team that could keep playing much longer would win.

    7     was easy to make them by hand. At that time, I always made them by hand and by myself. I used chicken feathers to make the shuttlecock. For the small metal base, I     8    (usual) chose two or three ancient Chinese coins with a hole in the middle. I just put     9     chicken feathers into the hole of the base,     10     then tied them together very well with thread. This, a simple shuttlecock was ready.

As a secretary at an international airport, my sister has a office next to the room in which Security holds suspects. One day, security officers are questioning a man when they were suddenly called away by an emergency. To the surprising of my sister and her colleagues, the man was left lonely in the unlocked room. After a few minute, the door opened, and he walked out. Summoning up his courage, my sister barked, “get back in there, but don’t come out until you told!” The man hurried back inside and shut the door. When the security people returned back, my sister reported that had happened. With a word, an officer walked into the room and told the very frightened telephone repairman that he could go.