It’s easy to see how to help others, but what about those whose needs aren’t so obvious? This story may have happened a while back, but it was a(n) ______ which has stayed with me and helped me ever since.
It was Thanksgiving and I was volunteering with my ______ at a shelter for the poor. We stood behind the counter dishing out hot food to ______ came in. Most of our diners looked like they had been having ______ times, their clothes old, worn and dry. In ____, they looked poor!
Then, a man came in, who looked ______ but poor. He was well dressed, wearing a(n) ______ suit. I wondered what he was doing there and my jaw dropped in ______ when he joined the line for food. The ______ he came to my service station, the more I muttered. What was this man doing? I wanted to know. ______ he wasn’t going to take food.
Then my mother quietly took me to one side. She said, “You have ______ that the needs of the people who come here must be purely physical: poverty, hunger or ______ shelter? What if he needs comfort, ______ or just to be among other human beings?”
Her words hit me like a ton of bricks! I felt like I should ______ to the man, but I didn’t.
About a week later the shelter received a large ______ from an anonymous (匿名的) source. I can’t ______ but wonder if it came from that man.
Now, whenever I meet others, I ______ my mother’s words and try to send kindness and blessings to them, ______ of how they look.
Needs aren’t always ______. But kindness always makes a(n) ______.
1.A.activity B.story C.lesson D.performance
2.A.cousin B.brother C.sister D.parents
3.A.anyone B.whoever C.who D.whom
4.A.hard B.easy C.cozy D.smooth
5.A.total B.all C.word D.short
6.A.anything B.something C.nothing D.everything
7.A.cheap B.ordinary C.strange D.expensive
8.A.amazement B.disappointment C.embarrassment D.appreciation
9.A.close B.closer C.far D.farther
10.A.Likely B.Surely C.Immediately D.Instantly
11.A.said B.required C.wanted D.thought
12.A.enough B.great C.inadequate D.comfortable
13.A.friends B.work C.assistants D.money
14.A.refer B.shout C.belong D.apologize
15.A.collection B.contribution C.donation D.affection
16.A.expect B.help C.assist D.wait
17.A.remind B.remember C.think D.forget
18.A.regardless B.despite C.beside D.instead
19.A.obvious B.shown C.hidden D.unclear
20.A.effect B.breakthrough C.impression D.difference
There is hardly anybody walking in the street in the night, _____?
A.isn’t it B.isn’t there C.is there D.is it
That is the only way we can imagine ____ the overuse of water in students’ bathrooms.
A.reducing B.to reduce
C.reduced D.reduce
There is a common belief among the students in our school _____ they should make great efforts to learn and reach the peak of their academic performances.
A.which B.that C.whether D.if
Training of the employees was suggested as one _____ to dealing with the problem of low efficiency.
A.method B.way
C.approach D.means
Many a student in the class ____ that Jack is the only one of the students who ____ the chance to attend a key university.
A.thinks; has B.think; have C.think; has D.thinks; have
