1 . I stopped at a local store the other day after a fitness class to buy some food. After I got the food, I got in ________ behind a lady who looked about twenty years old. She had quite a lot of things in her shopping basket. She ________ her credit card to the shop assistant but the shop assistant told her it had been refused. The young lady ________ she had paid it off the day before. The shop assistant replied, “Maybe it hasn’t got through the system yet. Do you want to ________ someone?” The young lady took out her cellphone and was looking through it. ________, they opened another counter (柜台) to let me ________ out.

I was walking out to my ________ when I thought, “Okay! You’re always wishing you could help someone. Now it is time for you to do it!” Immediately, I made a ________ to help her. I got out of my car and ________ with my bank card in my hand. The young lady was still looking through her phone. She looked a little ________. I returned to the counter, handed my card to the shop assistant and said, “I will pay her bill.” She ________ her head and took the card.

As the shop assistant gave the card to me, the lady was still ________ her phone. And I didn’t think she had even ________ what had happened! And I told her that I had paid her bill and then I left before she expressed ________   to me.

The bill was about $52. However, the feeling inside me was ________! I realized that helping others did make me happy.