1 . I guess a boss must be pleased to hear that his employees are sorry to hear he's leaving and that they respected him and appreciated the job he'd done. Cards and e-mails are great, but maybe it's just ________ heartwarming to know that kind words are being said ________ "behind your back".

I like to do the ________ for my students. Of course I give them my own compliments, but I love to let them know when other adults have noticed their good behavior and attitudes. I want them to know that we aren't spending our lunch and meeting times ________ about them all the time! I want them to know that we often express our pleasure in working with this ________ group of kids, and I want them to know why!

I ________ myself when someone finds how my teenage grandchildren are turning into such fine young people. Then it's absolutely necessary to let them know it too! I want them to know that people notice them, and that it ________ when what they notice is good and praiseworthy.

I've known, from the other side, how much this can ________ . I often lack confidence in my own abilities as a teacher, so it gave me quite a ________ when a friend who works with families in the community mentioned that he has heard several times from parents how glad they are to have their kids in my class. It just feels more important ________ to have the words said by people who don't know I'll ever hear-when they can be totally honest. Great to hear it and great to ________ !

Sure, it's pleasant when we can say nice things about other people. It feels good! And I think it's a ________ compliment for people to know of the times when others are saying nice things even ________ ear shot.

Watch for your next opportunity to be the ________ ! Make sure to tell them about the nice things being said behind their backs! Because how will they know ________ we tell them?

2 . An act of kindness doesn't have to be a grand gesture. Even those small acts of kindness can make a difference in someone's day. That was just the case for Amie Mickey when she____________a bumper sticker on her car reading: You Matter.

Amie started to do this several years ago. At first, she wondered if people would________________it. However, much to her surprise, she began seeing a flood of____________every time she hit the road. More often than not, people________________slowly near her car would roll down their windows, raising their____________________,waving and smiling. Sometimes, she even found some sticky notes left on her windshield saying things like “You________________too! “Once while she was driving down the highway, she became____________when a man driving a sports car at a high speed pulled his car alongside suddenly, waving and mouthing, “You matter!” Though it took her some time to recover from the________________, she still felt happy. Last year, someone____________________her car while she was waiting for her friend in the car by the roadside, saying to her, “It is a(an)________________sticker. I’ve seen various stickers before, but none of them have touched me as your sticker has done. “The two small words on the sticker seem simple enough, but they really struck a chord with many complete strangers who___________to catch sight of the sticker.

Stories like Amie's really________________the rest of us. Sometimes a kind word or gesture may lift our____________and it doesn't cost a thing except for a little extra thought. Maybe it means offering a friend a hug, praising the children when their children________________well in school, helping someone out or volunteering at animal shelters or shelters for the homeless. Acts of kindness are waiting everywhere. Small as they seem, they can make a____________impact on the world, and help form general goodness.

3 . Byrd is in her eighth year of teaching at Wilder Elementary in Mansfield. She has taught fifth grader Fisher Croney every year since he was in kindergarten. Fisher _______ in the class by helping in Byrd's classroom whenever he has free time after class.

Byrd also _______ Fisher's mother, Shannon Croney, as an acquaintance. They would occasionally chat at their boys' baseball games. She had heard that Croney was having some _______ problems. In January 2019 Croney received a routine blood test and found her kidneys （肾）were not _______ normally. After going through a string of tests, doctors could not figure what caused her kidneys to _______. But Byrd didn't know what the _______ was until she saw a Facebook post from Fisher around Christmas of 2019. It was _______ to help his mother find a kidney. Byrd did not _______ to help. In March, Byrd, learned that she and Croney were a close _______ Even doctors were ________ that they were not related in blood.

Byrd was in the hospital for ________ in June. She was never ________ about the transplant（移植）. Actually, she felt honored that her donation enabled another person to live a totally ________ life.

Today, both women are doing well. They are turning their ________ to another member of their community, who is also sick and ________ a kidney transplant.

4 . Michael rises every morning at 4: 00 and walks into his sandwich shop. By5:50, he's making the rounds of the shelters on Centre Street. He_______out 200 sandwiches to the homeless before beginning his workday.

20 years ago, when Michael_______a homeless man named John, he began to help him with effort then. Day after day, he brought John some food and, when it was really cold, a_______place in his car while he was working. Once he asked John if he wanted to get cleaned up._______, John said，“Are you going to wash me?” Michael knew that he was_______his promise. It was at that moment that Michael_______to help the homeless. He just wanted to do some good in his way.

Michael made 200 sandwiches every day in the past 20 years. I don't simply give them away. I shake their hands and_______them a good day." Once mayor（市长）Koeh came to make the rounds with him. They_______the media, and it seemed like it was just the two of them. But of all Michael's _______, working side by side with the mayor was not as important as working next to someone else.

A man had__________from the sandwich takers, and Michael worried about that. He hoped the man had moved on to a more__________environment. One day, the man came back, greeting Michael and carrying__________of his own to hand out. He said Michael's daily food, warm handshakes and wishes had given him the__________he badly needed. After achieving some success, he decided to do the same thing as Michael.

The moment needed no__________. The two men worked silently, side by side, handing out their sandwiches. It was another day on Centre Street, but a day with just a little more__________.

5 . I never forget the single act of kindness that changed my life over 25 years ago. During a vacation trip, I needed to find my_________to the Greyhound bus station, some 30 miles away. Being a_________student, I had little money to get there.

I_________to call various taxis and shuttle services but they were all too_________   or too far away to pick me up. Then, I got one person on the_________who managed to make out that I needed a ride to the Greyhound station but only had limited financial_________and he agreed to transport me! He came to pick me up about 45 minutes later. The driver was older and I remember_________why the shuttle didn’t have a meter（计时器）but his ID was there and I could see this was his business. The driver was so kind. He knew I was_________he distracted me with stories and good_________. He said I looked like his granddaughter.

At one point, I asked him why he__________so little to the others. Then, he patiently explained that he was__________retired and hadn’t removed his number from the phone book but when I called, clearly upset, he felt driven to help. This man drove an hour out of his way to help a person he didn't know for a fee that only__________his gas, if that! Because of his kindness, I knew things were going to be okay. This man's kindness warms my heart every time I think of him.__________, I didn’t get his name and his face has disappeared gradually from my memory but he is on my mind often and I wish I could thank him__________.“Thank you Mr. Angel Shuttle-Man! I hope your granddaughter knows what a (n)__________grandfather she has!”

6 . When I was a teenager I was in a group of students who took a trip to Pittsburgh. Being a country boy, I found it_______just being in such a big city. While most of the students headed for the mall then I decided to tour the streets_______.It was almost Christmastime and the store windows were filled with_______displays. I bought several cinnamon sticks(肉桂棒) to ward off (挡住) the_______while walking and looking at the sights.

At some point,_______,the stores became less and less and the bars became more and more. I realized I had crossed into a not so_______section of town. I saw a small bus stop and decided to sit and take a rest before walking back. The bus stop was just in front of a_______store and before long an old woman in an old coat came out. She was carrying two large_______in one hand. Her other hand held a cane that steadied her slow,_______walk. Her young, dark-haired granddaughter clutched her coat as they__________their way to the bench.I__________at them both and we talked a bit about how cold it was before the bus__________.When it arrived I picked up the old lady’s bags and carried them up the steps. Then I helped her granddaughter up while the lady slowly climbed on behind us I pulled out my__________cinnamon stick and gave it to the sweet girl while her grandma smiled her__________to me. I got off the bus and looked up to the window where the little, curly-haired Child of God was waving goodbye to me. Then I started back to meet the other students a little__________at heart if not in body. As I was__________the corner, though, a voice called out from an alley. “Hey man! Want to get__________?” I smiled and said. “No thanks. I__________got. ”

No drug in the world can ever__________the high that comes from one__________act, one shared laugh, one second of giving love.

7 . Wheeling her red chair and scissors around the city, Katie gives out—of—luck strangers the gift of visibility.

Last summer, Katie saw a man sitting with a _________ asking for help. She asked, “Hey! I’m giving _________ haircuts. Do you want one?”

The man, named Edward, was in his 60s. “_________,” he said, “I have a funeral to go. I was really _________ to get a haircut.” After Katie was done, Edward looked in a mirror. “I look _________!”

“It’s more than a haircut. I want it to _________ value and respect.” Katie knows that a haircut can _________ a life. As a teen, she _________ a disease that was so severe that her hair thinned seriously. Seeing this, her mother _________ for Katie’s first haircut. “To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and not just an illness helped me feel cared about and less __________.” she says.

Katie wanted to help people __________ the same way. In 2009, she began her Red Chair Project, reaching out to people on the streets. Katie listens to peopled stories of loss, addiction, and __________ to get back on their feet. The attention __________ works.

It all began with a belief in simple acts of __________, such as a free haircut. “The way you show up in the world __________,” says Katie. “You have no idea what people will do with the kindness that you give them.”

8 . Jake and Max Klein are twin brothers who have a passion for volunteering. Their family have always done community _______ .At a young age, they chose to _______ family's gifts at their birthday parties, but asked them to donate money to a charity. When they were seven, Jake and Max were interested in _______ with a family friend at the local homeless shelter to help cook. _________， he turned them down because they were too _______ and they had to be fourteen to cook. This led them on an endless _______ to come up with a way to help other kids who were also facing a _______ challenging: wanting to help but _______ because of their age.

So, Kids That Do Good was _______ to show ways to kids or adults, at any age, they could join the community and make a ________ .The small ________ has grown into a large website that brings thousands of ________ visitors each year. Jake and Max say that their website brings 35,000 unique viewers, of those viewers, Kids That Do Good has ________ kids to 16,000 organizations.

Jake and Max are ________ with school and after-class activities and other community service promises. Kids That Do Good also has blog posts that advise kids on ________ their own charitable event.

9 . Driving home from work every day on a long winding country road, I passed a house where an elderly man sat on his front porch (走廊). I had been _____ to him only when I first moved into my home. For these past fifteen years, I have _____ my window, waved, and shouted, “Hi, Charlie.“ I felt _____ to greet him in this way because I couldn’t _____ going through a day without hearing someone say my name. I felt he also needed to hear his name _____ by someone else.

I used to _____ his wife, too, when she was out walking their dog. She was a _____ woman in a long wool coato, whatever the _____. I didn’t know her name, but I’d _____ and say “Hi, Grandma“ and she’d smile and wave back.

But then came the day when she was not ______ walking their dog; instead, Charlie was doing so. I realized he was alone, and the desire to greet him grew ______. My window was rolled down before I came around the corner, and ______ he was not on the porch, I’d shout to him, hoping that in his ______ he’d hear me. As long as there was a ______ on in the house, I felt that he was all right.

But that day came when he had to sell his belongings; Charlie’s pickup truck was ______ on the front lawn. A few days later, a sign was ______, and I knew Charlie was gone. I still wave and ______, “Hi, Charlie” as I pass just as I did in the past. The house is dark now.

It is my ______ that all of us need to be greeted at least once a day and that we need to hear our names spoken aloud by another person, to know someone sees us and ______ the truth of our being. I believe it is our duty to greet each other each day, in this way to prove that ______.

10 . I’ve started driving again. I drive along a road _______ 12 years ago near my home. As I drove tonight, I _______ Kelly.

Kelly was a _______ when it was constructed. She and her brother were _______ by her father after her mother passed away. By her own _______, she was a _______ child, climbing out of windows, staying out drinking etc. She started to settle in college. The year after I taught her, a _______ thing happened.

It was about this time of year and Kelly’s dad was about to turn to the new road. Since he was not _______ with it, he had a deadly accident. The lecturers sent her a _______ card. I wrote that I would help her with one of the 6 ________ she still had to complete. I knew it would be difficult for Kelly but I ________ to help her anyway.

At that time I had just ________ my marriage and was living in rented accommodation alone. Things were ________ but I committed myself to helping Kelly. I brought her to my home and I ________ her the full unit. I got her to complete all the assignments at my home ________ she could stay focused. Kelly made ________ in the unit I taught her, which fundamentally helped raise her overall grades. Kelly’s lecturer was so ________ with this that she got Kelly to ________ to the rest of the class! At last Kelly completed her course. I was so glad she didn’t ________.

A few years ago I met Kelly. She was pushing a pram (婴儿车), her baby sleeping soundly. It’s the ________ she deserved.