2 . Today I had lunch with Cynthia, a former student of mine. The go-to restaurant I use for _________ like this is Merit Vegetarian. It’s a good _________ to vegan food and everyone I’ve _________ there has loved it.

As I was waiting for my friend to _________, I overheard a man and his wife saying they needed to go to their car to fetch cash in order to pay for something. When they _________ outside, I spoke to a worker and _________ to pay their bill. As it _________, it was just for a piece of cake and I asked them to just add it to my _________. I handed the cashier a Smile Card, _________ her to give it to the man. When the man came back with his money he was pleasantly __________.

I thought I had done a good deed, but there were more surprises to come. Cynthia and I were __________ a conversation and our lunch when Bill, a worker at the restaurant,__________ us. He explained that the couple on table 1 had paid for our lunch, including the cake. Bill didn’t understand why but I guessed it was just ripples (涟漪) __________. My Random Act of Kindness was magnified (放大).

When we were getting ready to leave, I asked Cynthia to __________ a table so that we could keep the journey of kindness going.__________ they all looked deserving, she just chose one. I called Bill over and said I wanted to pay for their lunch. He was wild with __________, smiling from ear to ear. I don’t think he had ever __________ anything like this before. Cynthia __________ that she’d never experienced anything like this, either.

In the past 7 years I’ve been able to witness so much generosity and kindness in __________. Whatever the reason, it’s not a __________ . I feel deep gratitude to you, and the rest of humanity.

3 . I entered a restaurant and ordered some food. Later, a group of people _______ in and ordered theirs. To my _______, they got served first. I watched as they began to eat and laugh heartily. I _______ heard one of them talking proudly about how he’d _______ someone in the restaurant, which made me feel angry. Unable to _______ it anymore, I called the waiter.

He _______ told me, “Yours is a special order, which is being carefully prepared by the head chefs. Their order was prepared hurriedly by the apprentices (学徒). That’s the___________why they were served first. Please have some juice as you wait.”

I calmed down and waited _______. Shortly after, my meal was served. Unknown to me, the owner of the restaurant, who was an old friend of mine, saw me when I entered and decided to _______ me. She changed my simple meal to a five-star meal. The people at other __________ were shocked. They couldn’t stop staring and they __________ about why they didn’t get such service like me.

Such is life! Some people are ahead of you and talking about how they are __________ than you, and how they are enjoying __________. You are waiting tirelessly __________ why it’s taking so long.

The owner doesn’t want you to be served a __________ meal. You’re waiting long because yours is a special meal, which takes time to prepare and deserves waiting.

4 . One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I _______ that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, _______ he knew me. The man had a newspaper _______ in front of him, which he was _______ to read, but I could _______   that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my _______ the man was clearly puzzled (困惑) by the   _______ way in which the waiter and I _______ each other. He seemed even more _______ as time went on and it became ________ that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the ________. When he came out, he paid his bill and ________ without another glance in my direction. I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had ________. “Well,” he said, “That man was a detective. He ________ you here because he thought you were the man he was ________.” “What?” I said, showing my ________. The owner continued, “He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I ________ say he looked very much like you! Of course, ________ we know you, we told him that he had made a mistake”. “Well, it’s really ________ I came to a restaurant where I’m known.” I said. “________, I might have been in trouble.”

5 . England is a highly developed country. Many people think its people lead a luxurious (奢侈的) life.

One day my friend and I _______ a restaurant. There was a table where a young couple was having their meal. There were _______ two dishes and two cans of beer on the table.

There were a few old ladies on another table. When a dish was _______, they would finish every bit of the food on their plates.

As we were hungry, our friend _______ more food for us. When we left, there was still about one third of _______ food on the table.

When we were leaving the restaurant, the old ladies spoke to us in English. We understood that they were _______ about us wasting so much food.

“We _______ our food, and it is none of your business.” My friend told the old ladies _______. The old ladies were angry. One of them immediately took her phone out and _______ a call to someone.

After a while, a man ________ uniform from Social Security organization (社会保障组织), looking like a policeman, arrived. Upon knowing what had happened, he gave us a 50 euro (欧元) fine, which surprised us.

The officer told us in a serious voice, “________ is yours but resources belong to society. There are many poor people in the world who are ________ hunger. So you have no ________ to waste resources.”

Their attitude to eating put all of us to ________. We really need to reflect on this. We have been given a lesson: Yes, money is yours but resources belong to the society. We can't ________ to waste them.

6 . This morning I went out for breakfast. It was a lovely day. But what wasn’t so lovely was the lady who took our ______.

It was not a big deal, only that I noticed something unpleasant about her ______. She spoke in a way that was unhappy, certainly not friendly, and kind of ______.

When it was my ______ to approach her and order, I thought to myself, “What can I do to make her day, to ______ her, and make her smile?”

____ there must be something for which I can appreciate(赞赏) her. Then there it was and I noticed it ______.

It was her ______. She had the most unbelievably beautiful voice. It was so good. So

So after she served me in the same ______ way, I said, “I hope you don’t mind me saying but you have the most amazing voice. It’s so clear, well-spoken and ______ so professional that I think it is ______ for announcements or even radio.”

Her whole face ______. She smiled—the first time I had seen her do so. As I ______, I noticed the ______ in her. The customer behind me received a totally different kind of ______, a happier one. It was all because of what I did. Something so ______!

There was a time when I was too ______ to say such a thing. But now I know I must do so. Why? Because I have the ______ to change someone’s day by something as simple as a few kind ______. And you have this power too. We all do.

7 . The other day, my husband and I took the kids for dinner at a branch of Pizza Express. There was a very friendly lady _________ alone at the next table. When the time came for her to pay the _________, her bank card was declined. The waitress told her, in a very kind way, that there was a _________ but that she would call her manager for help. Seeing this, my husband _________ got up and told the waiting staff that we would pay for the lady's meal. _________, when the manager arrived, he explained to the lady that although she couldn't use her _________, there was no need to _________. Pizza Express authorizes(授权) the restaurant to _________ two free meals per month and on this _________, they would like to provide her with a free meal.

She was extremely grateful and apologetic that she had been __________ to pay. We were relieved that the lady had been __________ with dignity instead of being placed in a __________ position.

Then, the manager __________ our table. He said that, __________ we had shown such generosity, he would like to donate the second free meal that the restaurant was able to __________ to us! We were absolutely __________! I had never heard of any chain restaurant behaving in such a(n) __________ way. We were quite __________ with gratitude. I made sure that the lady was able to get home OK, and then we __________ the staff and left ourselves. I was really impressed by how the restaurant had treated this __________ case.