1 . 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.

2 . 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.