2 . My 12-year-old niece was staying with us for a little while. One night we stayed up talking about how we used to _________and take part in random acts of kindness. We talked about how so much had_________, and how difficult it would be to do so many of those things now, _________ when it came to helping out strangers.

The next day, I _________ something from downtown and took her to shop. We were walking around _________we heard a beautiful male voice singing. We turned around to see a middle-aged man sitting on a corner with his guitar. A couple was sitting on a bench nearby and listening to his _________.

After I ran my errand (杂事), we_________to sit at an outdoor restaurant across from him on the other side of the street. My niece kept_________and saying how wonderful his singing was. Seeing how moved she was by his music, at the end of our_________, I gave her a $10 bill and asked her to put it in his bowl.

She was __________, and headed over. As she __________, the man was just finishing a song, and they had a conversation. She told him how __________ she was by his music, and he told her she__________his day. As she was excitedly talking about the __________with me, she mentioned, “He didn’t even know how much it was. He just__________ that someone was enjoying his music.”