When Elizabeth married Joseph Fry, it seemed as if her life would be 【小题1】 (comfort) and peaceful. However, Elizabeth was not content with her easy life. One day Elizabeth Fry visited 【小题2】 prison. At first the prison officers did not want her to visit the women prisoners because they feared the prisoners would attack her, but Elizabeth was not afraid. She found that the prisoners behaved 【小题3】 (bad) because they were being treated like animals. So the first thing that Elizabeth 【小题4】 (do) was provide food, clean clothes and straw for beds. Her 【小题5】 (kind) helped her gain the friendship of the prisoners. Later Elizabeth 【小题6】 (ask) by the government to see the leaders of Britain to discuss how 【小题7】 (improve) the conditions for prisoners. Of course she did not do all the work 【小题8】 her own. Other women helped her and went around the country, 【小题9】 (raise) money for her work. Some people did not like her ideas and quarreled with her. Other people said she enjoyed being famous too much. However, her husband, Joseph, supported and encouraged her, so she continued working to help improve the lives of prisoners 【小题10】 she died.

   My kids and I were heading into the supermarket over the weekend. On the way, we spotted a man holding a piece of paper that said, “_______ my job. Family to Feed.”

At this store, a _______ like this is not normal. My 10-year-old noticed him and make a _________ on how bad it must be to have to stand _________ in the cold wind.

In the store, I asked each of my kids to _______ something they thought our “friend” there would _________. They got apples, a sandwich and a bottle of juice. Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a _________. I thought about it. We were _______ on cash ourselves, but… well, sometimes _______ from our need instead of our abundance is ________ what we need to do! All the kids __________ something they could do away with for the week.

When we handed him the bag of ________, he lit up and thanked us with ________ eyes. When I handed him the gift card, saying he could use it for __________ his family might need, he burst into tears.

This has been a wonderful ________ for our family. For days the kids have been looking for others we can ________! Things would have played out so __________ if I had simply said, “No, we really don’t have __________ to give more.” Stepping out not only helped a brother in ________, it also gave my kids the __________ taste of helping others. It’ll go a long way with them.

   I have received many Christmas gifts over the years. I remember many of them, from the tape recorder I _____ from my dad in 1975 to the black guitar my wife gave me several years ago. The best gift I ever received was presented to me by a _____. I never even knew his name and I only had contact with him for less than 60 _____. His Christmas present to me changed the way I thought about _____ and about Christmas.

It was several years ago when my wife asked me to meet her at the local _____. They had advertised a kind of _____ for children that she wanted to purchase for our son. We stood with a very large crowd, waiting for the manager to blow the whistle, _____ his employees to cut the shrink-wrap off the box. After a while the whistle was blown. It was like _____ a bucket of bait (鱼饵) into a tank of sharks. I knew this was going to happen.

As the bikes began to _____ decrease in number, I saw my opportunity to wrap my ______ around the corner of one of the boxes. I ______ one box and suddenly felt some mild resistance. I ______ to see one of the largest gentlemen I had ever seen in my life. I felt somewhat ______. Obviously, tattoos (文身) were his hobby.

I started to ______ the box but he gently pushed it back in my direction and back into my hands. He then ______ it into my shopping cart. He looked at me, ______, and said, “Merry Christmas.” My wife and I went to the ______, paid for the bike and went home. All the way home I was thinking that this moment was by far the best Christmas ______ I had ever received. I will never forget the ______ of a stranger and the gentleness of a human heart in a ______ act.

Last Sunday Li Lin，one of my classmates，and I go to a bookstore. At a counter we noticed that the foreigner was talking to a clerk，and the clerk didn't understand what the foreigner said. So we went up to the foreigner and was asked if he needed help in English. After known what kind of books he really wanted，we took him to the shelf which he was looking. He was interested in Chinese folk music deep. We gave him some advices on what to choose. The foreigner picked some music tapes with his help. He gave his sincere thanks to us and left，satisfied and happily.