When my parents were alive，they were not very rich．Yet they helped their two older     time after time．When Daddy passed away，his notebook showed debts      from several of his children．I was not among them．I     borrowed money and when I did，I set a repayment plan and     to it．It was a matter of      with me．I couldn’t stand owing my parents-or anyone else-mmoney because I watched them     to help out my older sisters when they were in financial difficulties themselves．
These days，after the death of my parents，I am one of those people who can be     to for help when they need it．Just as I can’t stand    other people money，I can’t stand saying no to whoever needs help．I don’t     helping others，but I would be more than glad if they would make a(n)     to handle things themselves，perhaps by doing some     planning-like planning not to speend money they don’t have!
Being ready to help others is a     ，but sometimes the result will be    to what you expect．I     remember as a child what my father always said， “If at first you don’t succeed，try，try again!” Helping my children too often has     them from learning to keep trying．Use your    ：who among my children will     to walk if I supply the money to buy a car? Helped often，my children lost gradually the ability to     problems themselves．
In most       ，when people find you can     help，they will ask you more and more．That's human，you know．

There are many taxi drivers in our city．They often like to chat with passengers to      time when the taxis are caught in traffic jams．The other day，I went home by taxi．Knowing I was a student，the driver told me that he was once a student twenty years ago．   ，his family could not afford the school fees，so he dropped out of school at an early age．He    me to work hard and go to a good college．I was moved by his kindness，but what really impressed me next was his     ．After arriving home，I soon realized that I had      my cell phone in the taxi．Greatly worried，I immediately called my number，   the driver would answer．Then came the driver's       from tlle other end．He told me he had been     my call and that he would gladly return my phone where he dropped me off earlier that day．Thanks to the driver，I got my phone     ．I believe honesty is one of the greatest     a person should have．Thank you ever so much，Mr．Taxi driver．

It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.
"Any old papers, lady?" asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say “no” __  __looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin scandals (凉鞋),wet with heavy snow.   
“Come in and I'11         you a cup of hot cocoa.”
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet shoes left       on the floor．I     __  them cocoa and toast with jam        the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget. The silence in the front door __  __me. I looked in. The girl__   the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat       ," Lady ．．． are you rich?"
"Am I rich? Mercy,         !"  I looked at my shabby slipcover(家具套)．The girl put her cup back in its saucer（茶碟）      .
“Your cups match your saucers．”
Her voice was ___  __with a need that no amount of food could supply．They left after that, holding their       against the wind．They hadn't said thank you．
They didn’t         to. They had done more than that. Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they  __  __.
I tasted the potatoes and stirred(搅动)the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a     __ over our heads, my man with a good steady job—these things matched, too．
I moved the chairs back from the fire and      the living room．The muddy prints of small scandals were still         on my floor. “      them be for a while,” I thought. Just        I should begin to forget how         I am.

Once, my father and I were waiting to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there only one family  _    us and the counter, who made a big       on me. There were eight children, all probably under 12. You could       they weren’t rich. Their clothes weren’t expensive but      . The children were well-behaved., standing in line behind their parents and      talking about what they would see that night.
One could      they had never been to the circus before. The mother was holding her husband’s hand while the father was smiling in      . The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He proudly      , “Eight for children and two for adults, please.”
The ticket lady told him the price. The man’s wife let go of      hand, her head dropped, and his lip began to tremble. The father leaned a little      and asked, “How much did you say?”
The ticket lady      the price. The man didn’t have enough money.      was he supposed to turn and tell his kids that he didn’t have enough      to take them to the circus? Seeing this, my father put his hand in his pocket,      a $20 bill and dropped it on the ground. Then my father  _   down, picked up the bill and said the man, “Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket.”
The man knew what was going on. He wasn’t begging for it but certainly      the timely help in such an      situation. He took my father’s      in both of his, squeezed(紧捏) tightly onto the      , and with a rear running down his cheek, he replied, “Thank you, sir. This really  _   a lot to me and my family.”

I’m sitting in a quiet room at the Millcroft Hotel, a peaceful place hidden back among pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It’s just past noon, late July, and I’m       the desperate (绝望的) sounds of a life-and-death       going on a few feet away.
There’s a small       burning out the last of its short life’s energies in a (an)     to fly through the glasses of the window.        , it’s not working. The great effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically (讽刺地), the struggle is part of the trap. It is      for the fly to try hard enough to succeed in       through the glass. This fly is doomed (注定失败). It will         there on the windowsill.
Across the room, ten steps    , the door is open. Ten seconds of flying time and this small creature could reach the outside world it      . With only a small effort now being     , it could be free of this self-set     . The breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so      .
Why doesn’t the fly try another approach,         dramatically different? How did it get so locked in on the idea      this particular route and determined effort offer the most promise for success?
No doubt this way makes     to the fly. Regrettably, it is an idea that will kill it.
Trying hard isn’t necessarily the solution     achieving your goal. It may not offer any real      for getting what you want out of life. Sometimes, in fact, it is a big part of the problem.
If you       your hopes like the fly for a break-through, you may       your chances for success.

One day, my father drove his employer to another city for a business meeting. On the outskirts（郊区）of town, they     for a sandwich lunch. While they ate, several boys playing in the street passed by their       . One of the boys limped（跛行）．Looking more closely, my father’s boss     that the boy had a clubfoot（畸形足）．He stepped out of the car and       the boy, saying that he was able to help get that foot fixed. The young boy was       .The businessman wrote down the boy’s name before the boy joined his friends down the street.
The man        and said to my father, “Woody, the boy’s name is Jimmy. Find out where he     and do your best to get his parents        to let him have his foot operated on. I’ll pay all the costs.” They finished their sandwiches and went on their       .
It didn’t take long for my father to        Jimmy’s house, a small one that needed paint and repair. For almost an hour, my father        explained the plan to Jimmy’s parents.       , they looked at each other. When my father        they still weren’t quite sure about the generous offer from an unknown benefactor (捐助者).
Later, my father’s employer got in touch with the local government with a        to send someone to Jimmy’s home to        the family that this was a lawful offer. Soon, with permission papers signed, my father took Jimmy to an excellent        in another state. After five operations, his limp disappeared.
His parents watched in        as the returned boy stepped lightly toward them. They still could not        that a man they had never seen would pay a large sum of money to have a foot corrected for their son.
The        benefactor was Mr. Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company. He always said it’s more fun to do something for people        they don’t know who did it.

I’d been travelling for long hours on a lonely country road when I had a flat tyre. So I had to        and get the tools to fix the problem. It certainly wasn’t        doing this with a white shirt and suit on.
Nightfall was approaching. Suddenly a car pulled up beside me. A man got out and offered to        me. Seeing tattoos (纹身) on his arm, I became        as thoughts of robberies flashed through my mind. But        I could say anything, he had already begun to take the tools to change the        . While watching him, I happened to look back at his car and noticed someone sitting in the passenger seat. This        me.
Then, without warning, it began to rain. He suggested that I wait in his car because my car was unsafe. As the rain increased, I unwillingly agreed. When I settled into the back seat, a woman’s voice came from the front seat. I replied with much        when seeing an old woman there. It must be his mother, I thought. To my surprise, the old woman was a neighbor of the man who was helping me. “Jeff insisted on stopping when he saw you        the tyre.” “I am grateful for his help,” I said. “Me too!” she said with a smile. He helped drive her to see her husband twice a week in a nursing home. She also said that he        at the church and taught disadvantaged students for free.
Finally, Jeff helped me change the tyre. I tried to offer him money and of course he refused it. As we shook hands to say goodbye I apologized for my stupid        at the first sight of him, and this incident warned us that we shouldn’t judge people by the way they       .

The night was dark, though sometimes the moving clouds allowed a star or two to be seen in the sky.The poor men held on to any bit of ____ they could find. They called to the Marie for        but she was far        the reach of the human voice. At one o’clock in the morning suddenly some        were seen in the distance: another ship! The shouts of the        were heard on board, and willing hands pulled them out of the water. The        of the ship that had arrived at the scene        to save their lives was Ellen. What had        her to the exact spot        the darkness and the pathless sea? Her captain had known        of the wreck and had, indeed,      to sail away from it. But let him speak for himself.
“    I was forced by the wind to change my course, a small bird flew across the ship once or twice and then flew at my face. I     of this until exactly the same thing happened a second time,     caused me to think it rather     . While I was this    , the same bird, for the third time, made its appearance and flew      in the same way as before. I was then      to change my course back to the original one. I had not gone far      I heard a strange voice; and when I tried to     where they came from, I found I was in the middle of people who had been shipwrecked. I immediately did my best to save them.”

One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods ____ she realized that she was lost.
Sitting on a rock and ____ what to do, she began crying. After a while，she____ to walk along a wide path lined with tall trees and thick bushes. ____ it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house. She opened the door and ____ stepped in. Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out of the door and back to the ____. Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a ____.
The girl's parents were out and her dog, Laddy, was at home. Laddy ____ that his mistress（女主人）was in danger. He jumped ____ a window, breaking the glass. He looked in the fields. But he couldn't find his mistress anywhere. However, from the ground came a ____ scent (气味) as he lowered his head. He ____ the scent and walked across the grassland. Barking ____ into the air, the dog ____ through the woods until he found the ____ . But the girl was not there, so he headed back to the woods. Much to his ____ , he saw his mistress's blue shirt in the distance. He ____ over some bushes and saw the little stream, where the girl was ____.
When she opened her eyes and       her dog standing beside her, the girl said, "you      me, Laddy," and she kissed him several times. Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents burst into tears of     . That night Laddy had a hero's supper: a huge meal of steak

Once upon a time there was a little boy who became very ill.He had to spend all day in bed, unable to ____.Because other children weren't allowed to come near him, he ____ greatly, and spent his days feeling sad and ____.
There wasn't much he could do ____ look out of the window.Time passed, and his feeling of ___ just grew.Until one day he saw a strange ____ in the window.It was a penguin ____ a sausage sandwich.The penguin squeezed in ____ the open window, said “good afternoon” to the boy, ____ around, and left.
Of course, the boy was very ____.He was still trying to ____ what had happened, and as more crazy­looking characters appeared out the window, he burst out ____ and found it hard to stop.
The little boy didn't tell anyone about this because who would have ____ him? Even so, those strange characters ended up putting ____ back in his heart, and in his body.Before long, his ____ had improved so much that he was able to go back to school again.
There he got to talk to his ____， and tell them all the ____ things he had seen.While he was talking to his best friend he saw something ___ out of his friend's school bag.The boy asked his friend what it was, and he was so ____ that finally his friend had to show him what was in the bag：
There, inside, were all the fancy­dress suits and disguises(假扮的东西) that his friends had been using to try to ____ the little boy up!
And from that day on, the little boy always did his best to make sure that no one felt sad and alone.