One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods from door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to     36    for a meal at the next house.
However, he lost his nerve     37    a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked     38    so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it     39    , and then asked, “How much do I owe you?”
“You don’t owe me anything,” she     40   . “Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a __41  .” He said, “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger     42   , but it also increased his faith in God and human race. He was about to give up before this point.
Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled（難�。�. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called     43    to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now     44    , was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light     45    his eyes. Immediately, he     46    and went down through the hospital hall into her room.
    47   in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He     48   her at once. He went back to the consultation room and     49    to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave    50__attention to her case.
After a long     51    the battle was won. Dr. Kelly     52    the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was     53    that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her     54  . She read thesewords…
“Paid in full with a glass of milk.”
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly
Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she     55    silently. “Thank you, God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands.”

I made up my mind to drive to South Carolina to meet my friends in my used car. Though I had only been there once   36  and did not know the   37  very well. I was on the   38  after I had made some enquiries.
At Ashvelle, there was a crossroad where I could go on along the main road or I could take a short cut(小道，近路). The short cut was to   39  several hills and was dangerous, I hesitated (猶豫)for a little while and then chose the main road, for I wanted to be   40 .
Something strange happened   41  I drove a long way and found it was not the correct road that I wanted to   42 , but the hilly road I decided to avoid. I realized that it was at the   43  that I had made the   44  mistake. “What shall I do?” I asked myself. If I went back to take that road again, it would be very late by the time I got to Columbia. Thinking it   45  , I decided to go on. “If   46  people can go along this road, why can’t I?” I   47  myself.
The short cut, to my surprise, was not that   48 . In fact, it was only a very peaceful country road,   49  up and down two low   50  .There was   51  traffic. On both sides of the road, you could see trees, wild flowers, and   52  with cows and horses. My fear was   53  with the wind. Listening to the beautiful country music over my car stereo (立體聲), I drove on and   54  the scenery which was so quiet and so natural. Even my used car forgot to give me   55 . It was just in this light heartedness that I arrived at my destination. My friends, after they heard what had happened to me, all said it sounded like an adventure.

Half a year before graduation from college, my son began to seek a job. __1__ the financial crisis(危機), fewer companies would like to __2__ new staff. My son targeted a company that was __3__ to hire only one person __4__ there were more than twenty people filling their resumes(簡歷).
After the interview, there would only be 3 who could enter the final round, which would later ____5____ one person to be employed. Everything seemed to go quite ____6____ and my son passed the first round and entered the final round in a week.
On the day of the final interview, my son and other two __7__ arrived at the interview place on time, __8__ the test. Unexpectedly, the interview was unbelievably __9__. The interviewer only said to them, “All of you are very super. Please go home and wait for our __10__. We will tell you the __11__ in 3 days. Good luck to all of you!” On the morning of the third day, my son received a text from the company shortly after breakfast that he was not employed. We all felt very __12__.
In nightfall that day, my son suddenly told me __13__ on the phone, “Dad, I have been employed!” Greatly surprised, I could not wait to ask him, “What’s the whole __14__?” My son told me that he received another text saying that he was employed. Actually the first text sent to my son was also __15__ of the test in the interview. Three men received the same text this morning and only my son’s __16__ was “Thank you” while the others said “Goodbye”.
Only then did I know that my son’s “hope” __17__ in that way. That is, when you feel disappointed, do not __18__ to say “thank you” to the one who disappoints you. Saying “thank you” shows respect for others’ work and shows your grand __19__. Therefore, while under the same condition, you will get the upper hand in terms of __20__ compared with others!

My husband and I arrived in a new country just a month ago,  We were sort of   16  about what was waiting for us, However, when we   17  at the airport ,a tall man with smiling eyes greeted us, The days and months were    18  made easy for us by this kind man.
He greeted us every day with his smiling face, He    19  us in going to the bank; in buying our groceries, in telling us    20  to buy almost everything , He told us he is our big brother.
   21  , we watched the match in a coffee shop, During the first get- together ,he    22  us that we’re lucky-my husband and I are   23  in this foreign land, He said he has been   24  for eight years now because he rarely sees his family,   25  they are in his home country.
During the second get-together, he   26  told us that we are his family , He said that he loves us and that he will    27  us because he has been given a    28  of 45 days to go back to his home country, That night, he spoke these words which   29  a great impact in my life：“You changed my life ……”
That night deep in our hearts we were    30  by our friend’s words, We texted him up-on reaching home,   31  him for being a Big Brother to us in the foreign land, We told him    32  that we feel safe in going out when we are with him, to which he    33  ,“You are my family here.”
On the first week of October, we’re going to    34  him back from his vacation, We’ll watch the football match again in that   35  shop that holds dear memories.

I was working as a consultant(顧問) in a beer company, helping the president and senior vice-presidents with something important. It was a big   16  . At the same time, my mother was in the  17 stages of cancer. .
I worked during the day and  18 40 miles home to be with her every night. It was 19 and stressful, but it was what I wanted to do. My promise was to continue to do excellent consulting during the day, 20  my evenings were very hard. I didn’t want to 21 the president with my situation.  22  I felt someone at the company wanted to 23 what was going on. So I told the vice-president of Hunan Resources, asking him not to 24 the information with anyone.
A few days  25 , the president called me into his office. I  26 he wanted to talk to me about one of the many issues we were  27 on. When I entered, he asked me to sit down. He faced me from across his large  28 , looked me in the eye and said, “I   29  your mother is very ill.”
I was totally  30 by surprise and burst into tears. He just looked at me, let my 31  subside(平息)，and then he  32 said a sentence I will never forget: “Whatever you need.” That was it. His  33 and willingness to both let me be in my pain and to offer me  34   were qualities of compassion(同情) that I   35 with me to this day.

A year ago I paid no attention to English idioms,     36 ___my teacher said again and again that it was important.  
One day, I happened to  37 ___an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to  38____. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner shook his head, saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!” I was   39 ____, I thought, perhaps this is not a  40  topic. Well, I’d   41____ change the topic. So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall?       42 ___the way, have you ever 43 ____ there?”
“Certainly, everyone back home will   44 ___me if I leave China without seeing  45 ___” It was great. I said, “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. It is a place of  46 ____.” Soon I was interrupted again by his words, “ 47 _____ !” I couldn’t 48 ____asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t ask you to do 49___”, he answered, gently surprised.
I said, “Didn't you say 'You don’t say'?”
Hearing this, the Englishman 50 ____to tears. He began to  51 ____, “'You don't say' actually means 'really?'. It is an  52 ___of surprise. Perhaps you don't pay attention  53____ English idioms.”
Then I knew I had made fool of  54____. Since then I have been more  55 ____with idioms.

There were once three little butterfly（蝴蝶）brothers, one white, one red, and one yellow. They played among the flowers in the garden, but never grew tired because they were so happy. One day there came a    1   rain, and it wet their wings. They   2   home, but when they got there they found the door 3 and the key gone. So they had to stay outdoors in the    4  .
Soon they flew to the    5  and yellow tulip（郁金香）, and said, “Friend Tulip, will you open your flower and let us     6  till the storm is over?” The tulip    7    , “The red and yellow butterflies may enter, because they are   8    me, but the white one may not come in.”    9   the red and yellow butterflies said, “If our white brother may not find shelter in your flower, we’ll stay  10     in the rain with him.”
It fained harder and harder, and the   11  little butterflies flew to the white lily and said, “Good Lily, will you   12  your bud（花蕾）a little so we may fly in out of the rain?” The lily answered, “The white butterfly may  13  , because he is like me , but the red and yellow ones must stay outside in the storm..” Then the little white butterfly said, “If you won’t   14  my red and yellow brothers, I’ll stay out in the rain with them. We would rather be   15  than be separated.”
So the three little butterflies flew away. But the  16  , who was behind a cloud,   17  it all, and he knew what good little  18  the butterflies were. So he pushed his face through the clouds, drove away the rain, and  19  brightly on the garden. He dried the   20   of the butterflies, and warmed their bodies. They danced among the flowers till evening. When they flew back home, they found the door wide open.

Dear Mr Brown,
“Do you like my dress?" A little girl asked a passing stranger. "My mommy made it just for me." She said with tears in her eyes. "Well, I think it's very pretty. So tell me , little one, why are you   1   ?"  With a quiver(顫動) in her voice the little girl answered，"After Mommy made me this dress, she had to   2   ." "Well, now," said the lady, "with a little girl like you waiting for her, I'm sure she'll be right   3   ." "No ,Madam,you don't understand," said the child through her tears," my daddy said she's up in  4    now with Grandfather. "Finally the woman   5   what the child meant, and why she was crying. Kneeling down she     6 cradled(抱著) the child in her arms and together they cried for the mommy that was gone. Then suddenly the little girl did something that the woman thought was a bit 7 .She stopped crying, stepped back from the woman and began to  8 .She sang so softly that it was almost a whisper. It was the    9   sound the woman had ever heard, almost like the song of a very small  10 . After the child stopped singing she explained to the lady, "My mommy used to sing that song to me before she went away, and she made me    11  to sing it whenever I started crying and it would make me   12   ." "See," she exclaimed, "it did, and now my eyes are13 !" As the woman turned to go, the little girl grabbed her sleeve, "Madam, can you 14 a minute? I want to show you something." "Of course," she answered, "what do you want me to see?" Pointing to a spot on her dress, she said, "Right here is where my mommy   15  my dress, and here, "pointing to another spot, "and here is another kiss, and here, and here. Mommy said that she put all those kisses on my   16  so that I would have her kisses for every booboo (錯誤) that made me cry." Then the lady realized that she wasn't just looking at a dress, no, she was looking at a  17 who knew that she was going away and would not be there to kiss away the   18   that she knew her daughter would get. So she took all the love she had for her beautiful little girl and put them into this dress that her child now so proudly 19  . She no longer saw a little girl in a    20   dress. She saw a child wrapped…in her mother's love.

On the Iraq-Syria border, a pack of wild dogs circled a group of American soldiers for food. The 1 of the pack was a gray-and-white dog. The soldiers 2 him Nubs. Nubs was shaking and 3  able to stand. Marine major Brian Dennis looked closer and saw that there was a knife wound 4 his chest.
Dennis couldn’t 5 seeing the dog suffer. He and his men immediately treated the wound, and gave Nubs oral medicine. Nubs pulled through but was still 6. The next day, the team had to leave. Ten days later, Dennis’s unit was back and so was Nubs. He was still 7, but the men fed him and played with him.
Before long the unit once again 8 an outpost (前哨) 70 miles away. Nubs, slowly but 9 tracked them far into the trackless wasteland until the men lost 10 of him. Two days later, beyond Dennis’s 11, he saw Nubs just outside the outpost. The dog had 12 him across 70 miles of frozen desert to meet the friend who had saved his life. From then on Nubs and the men slept in the same place, and ran around in the same ruins.
Until a(n) 13 came down from above that they should not be allowed to have pets, Dennis decided to make sure the dog 14 continue to live the good life. So he quickly 15 $4,000 from his family and friends to fly Nubs to 16.
A month later, when Dennis and the dog were 17 in California, at first Nubs didn’t recognize the guy. 18 within seconds , the dog flew into Dennis’s arms, 19 up again and again to lick his friend’s face.
A little care and concern in the middle of war will not save a 20 world. But small stories, like the story of a soldier and a dog, hold a promise of a harmonious world.

The family had just moved. The young woman was feeling a little__31__. It was Mother's Day — and 800 miles separated her from her parents.
She had called them that morning, and her mother had__32__ how colorful their backyard was__ 33__ spring had arrived. Later, she told her husband how she__34__ those lilacs（丁香）in her parents' yard. “I know where we can find some,” he said. “Get the__35__ and come on.” So off they went.
Some time later, they stopped at a hill and there were lilacs all round. The young woman rushed up to the nearest__ 36__ and buried her face in the flowers. Carefully, she__37__ some. Finally, they returned to their car for the__38__ home. The woman sat smiling, surrounded by her__39__.
When they were near home, she shouted “stop,” got off quickly and__40__ to a nearby nursing home.  She went to the end of the porch(門廊), where a(n)__41__ patient was sitting in her wheelchair, and put the flowers into her lap. The two__42__, bursting into laughter now and then. Later the young woman turned and ran back to her__43__. As the car pulled away, the woman in the wheelchair__44__ with a smile, and held the lilacs__45__.
“Mom,” the kids asked, “__46___ did you give her our flowers?” “It is Mother's Day, and she seems so__47__ while I have all of you. And anyone would be__48__ by flowers.”
This satisfied the kids, but not the husband. The next day he__49__ some young lilacs around their yard.
I was the husband. Now, every May, our yard is full of lilacs. Every Mother's Day our kids__50__ purple lilacs. And every year I remember that smile of the lonely old woman.