One day I pulled up to my apartment building and noticed there was a father and daughter
__1__ some things from a moving truck. Normally I'm shy away from contact with __2__.
That particular day, though, something was in me; I can't explain __3__, but I felt like I should
 just help these people, even __4__ something as seemingly unimportant as unloading a truck.
So I __5__ and introduced myself, welcomed them to the town, and asked them to give me
a(n) __6__ to put some proper shoes on. After I had flipflops(夾趾拖鞋)on, I went over and
helped them move all of their __7__ into the apartment.
     After we finished, we talked some and I got to know my new __8__. It might seem unimportant,
but it seems like people are less __9__ and friendly to their neighbors these days; I wanted to
__10__ that, at least in my small __11__ block. So we did talk,and they're from Florida, just
like me.
     At that __12__ time in my life, I was going through a really difficult __13__ with my girlfriend
of 7 years. I didn't feel like helping anyone or doing anything __14__, but I figured why not?And
I'm glad I did. Also, as __15__ would have it, their daughter is my age(college student)and we
each had a mutual(相互的)__16__in one another. This developed into a friendship, and in the
coming months, probably more.
     The __17__ was the act itself, though. I got to know my new neighbors and made some new
friends in the __18__. And I felt really good about it. Since then, I've tried __19__ my comfort
zone to perform other unplanned acts of __20__. So far, so good.I'd encourage everyone else
to do the same!

     By the third year of teaching I'd begun to expect Christmas break more for the school holiday
and less for the excitement of the children. I was teaching fourth grade and my students had made
me__1__. I just had to get through one of the hardest days of the school year.
     The morning bell rang. I walked__2__through the cold into the overly heated school building.
Twentytwo smiling faces__3__me at the school bus stop. I forced myself to __4__ their smiles.
Back into the classroom, they__5__, comparing plans for the__6__. I had to remove one student
from each arm__7__I could take a seat at my desk for my morning duties. Before I could find my
roll book(點(diǎn)名冊) my desk was covered with__8__and gifts followed by a__9__of "Merry
Christmas" wishes.
     "Oh, thank you," I must have__10__a million times. Each gift was truly special to me, except
my__11__mood(情緒). It was kind of them to__12__me. After a while, I heard a small nervous
__13__say my name. I looked up to see Brandon standing__14__by my desk, holding a small,
round gift. "This is for you."
"Thank you, Sweetheart." I laid it on my desk with the others."Um, could you__15__it now?"
     I gently tore at the paper and tape. "__16__," he said, "it's breakable." Slowly I opened a small,
green Christmas tree ornament(裝飾物), complete with a hook already__17__. It dawned on me
what he had done. Then a nearby student said that he just pulled that off his own tree. I tried to keep
my__18__back.
     Later that day, I sat__19__the ornament in my hands. Was I really so important to this child that
he had searched for something to give me? Now every year as I__20__pull a green Christmas ball
from my ornament box, I remember the deep influence my students have on me.

     "Two books per visit per week,"said the unsmiling librarian as she handed a library card.
Neither the limits nor her attitude __1__ me, a 9yearold Jewish girl growing up in Berlin in
the 1950s.I needed those visits.The books were filled with stories in which, however__2__
things seemed, everything__3__ well in the end, __4__ justice, bravery, and wisdom-a
striking contrast (對比) to my everyday experiences.
     Thirty years later, I, a recent immigrant to the US with a daughter aged 13, stood in front
of another librarian.This librarian was__5__.
     "What did she say?" I asked my daughter, who already knew a little English and often
__6__as my interpreter.
     "She said 'Can I help you?'"
     "Ask if they have any books in__7__," I requested.
     "No, they don't." translated my daughter.
     While hunting for a job, I was told that the library needed people to__8__ books.The
interview was short－the job didn't require much English, just a__9__ of the alphabet.I started
the next day.Every day, I handled hundreds of books whose meaning was__10__ from me,
mentally dividing them by size and color.     One day, while shelving, I found English for
Beginners and began studying it on my own.__11__ English letters started forming words
I could__12__, words combined into phrases, and-oh,__13__!-I was reading.It was a slow
process, supported by dictionaries and __14__ by tears, but it was progress.Afterwards I got
promoted to the front desk-__15__ books in and out and answering simple questions.
     Every day I receive dozens of people.Sometimes I spot new immigrants.They come from
all over the world, so they look different, but the hesitant expression on their faces and their
__16__ manners are similar.My heart goes out to them,__17__ they are people like me.I fully
understand the __18__roads on which they have stepped."They've come to the right place," I
think to__19__.Then I smile and say-just the__20__ a librarian said to me a long time ago "
Can I help you?"

     Not long ago I wasn't doing very well in exams and I was full of disappointment and  __1__
thinking.While on the Internet,I met many new friends, but one in particular __2__.His nickname
is Colorful Day and we __3__ on the Web.He told me: he lost his __4__ at age 15, and felt the
whole world had closed its door to him.
     He was __5__ so fast that I couldn't believe he was blind! But he continued to __6__: Five
years ago, I realized it was time to change my life.I had read about Helen Keller and understood
 her life and __7__.So I developed a website about her life __8__ mine called Three Days to See.
     I visited his website which was well produced and vividly __9__.
     I asked, "How did you __10__ to build such a website?" He said,"Owing to the new technology,
I can use software specially __11__ for the blind. __12__ I point the cursor(光標(biāo)), it will just read
it out to me.We can do far more things and __13__ more information than we could before."
     I then asked, "Didn't you have great difficulty with it?"
     He hesitated and then began his __14__ with a smiling face," Yes, but I have faith in myself to
__15__ my  colorful day. And modern technology gives me this __16__ to do it."
      His __17__ attitude towards life made me believe that our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
__18__ the chalice (大杯) of opportunity. I returned to my lessons, and this time with a smile on my
face and with __19__ of a colorful future.
     The Internet, which opened to me to __20__ different lives and cultures, has a charm you couldn't
find in another wise nonvirtual world.