I finished my last work of the week and could hardly wait to get home, take off my nursing shoes, and relax.

As I _36_ my car, I saw one of my _37_ standing by the bus stop. I thought it would only take a couple of extra minutes to give her a ride home, and _38_, it was too cold to be standing outside on the coldest _39_ in January. I didn’t know where she lived, but I was _40_ I would be able to find my way back.

We _41_ about our work as I drove and _42_ we knew it, we arrived at her house. I started driving back. _43_ looked familiar, but at first that didn’t _44_ me. But soon I _45_ something wrong. I recognized nothing. But I told myself to stay _46_.

I was _47_ neighborhoods, streets and even streetlights. I no longer knew where I was now. How could I be so stupid! I looked down at my _48_. It was now 2:30 a.m. My gas was slowly running out. I _49_ the car and turned off the engine. In total defeat, I put my head down on the wheel, _50_. Then I raised my head and saw a(n) _51_ down the road in front of me. I turned my headlights on. A car! I drove a little _52_, got out of my car and knocked on the window of that car. An elderly man _53_ rolled his window down.

I said that I didn’t know how to get back into town. In silence, he started driving. I ran back to my car and drove behind him. Finally I _54_ a familiar street. As I turned to head home, the car disappeared. Then I _55_ my driveway (车道) when the warning light for my gas tank (汽油箱) turned on.

Though so many years have passed, I still thank the old man from my deepest heart.

    It was a rainy day and I was riding on a bus downtown to go to work. I was   36   next to a man in a business suit and I paid little attention  37   we both got off at the same stop and walked to the same newsstand to get a morning   38  .  

The man running the stand was obviously having a  39   day. He was rude and unsmiling as we bought our papers, which only  40   more gloom （郁闷）to my day. The businessman   41 my gloomy feeling and smiled brightly,   42   the news stand owner for the paper and for being open on such a（n）   43   to make sure we were able to get our papers.  

As we  44 away, I asked this man why he was so   45   to the newsman when he didn't 46   his expression of thanks and friendliness. The businessman smiled at me and said, " Why would I let someone else  47   what I say and what I feel?"  

We then   48   to go to our own work places. To this day, I still don't know who that businessman was, or   49  he worked. He appeared briefly in my life and disappeared just as 50 . But I've never forgotten the words he said and his   51   which seemed like a ray of light on a gloomy day.  

That was a good 25 years   52  , but the effect this had on my life has lasted. I  53   had a chance to thank him personally, but the way I look at life has changed  54   those words. I have learnt that we cannot control people and   55   that come to us, but we can always control our response to them.  

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　　It was 11:30 in the evening. A  1 American lady of about seventy was standing on the side of an Alabama  2 trying to bear a pouring rainstorm. Her car had  3 and at the moment she  4 needed a ride. Wet to the skin, she decided to flag down the next  5 . A young white man stopped to help her generally unheard  6 in those conflict-filled (矛盾冲突的) 1960s. The man  7 her to safety in his car, and  8 a taxicab (a kind of car) for her. She seemed to be in a great  9 . She wrote down his  10 , thanked him and drove away. Several days went by and a  11 came on the man's door. To his  12 , a very big color TV was delivered to his home. A special note was  13 to it. It read:“Dear sir, thank you so much for assisting a (an)  14 coloured woman on the freeway  15 night. The rain  16 wet all over not only my clothes  17 my spirits. Then you  18 along. Because of you, I was  19 to make it to my dying husband's bedside  20 before he passed away. God bless you for helping me and. kindly serving others. Sincerely, Mrs Nat King Cole.”

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