1 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. attempted     B. burden       C. generated     D. commit       E. serve       F. degree    G. missed     H. troubles       I. shared   J. contacts     K. admit

Everybody can be a great ... because anybody can     1    . You don’t have to have a college     2     to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul     3     by love.

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mark was walking home from school one day when he saw the boy in front of him fall over and drop all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a basketball, a glove and a Walkman. Mark stopped and helped the boy pick up these things. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of his       4    . As they walked, Mark discovered that the boy’s name was Bill, that he loved computer games, basketball and history, that he was having lots of     5     with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.

They arrived at Bill’s home first and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch television. The afternoon passed happily with a few laughs and some     6     small talks, and then Mark went home. They continued to see each other at school, had lunch together once or twice, and then they both graduated from that middle school. They ended up in the same high school where they had brief     7     over the years. The long awaited senior year came at last, and just three weeks before they finished high school, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.

Bill     8     to remind Mark of the day years ago when they had first met.“Did you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill. “You see, I cleaned out my locker (储物柜) because I didn’t want to leave anything for anyone else. I had stored away some of mother’s sleeping pills and I was going home to     9     suicide. But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I began to understand that if I killed myself, I would have     10     that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more. You saved my life.”