Yesterday, I saw the old lady fall down when I went to school. I was going to help him up. At that moment, a passer-by stop me, saying I might be misunderstood. Hearing from his words, I began to slow down my steps. However, another student, that saw everything, went quick up to help. The old lady said nothing but lots of thank to the boy. I felt badly and ashamed. Help others is forever a virtue of China. We can’t let it disappear. I will try my best reach out my hand next time.

   On a cold winter afternoon, the first-graders were trained in football. It was the day of our first _____.

These children were asked to sit on a long bench on the grass. When I was training a _____ team, I spent a few minutes _____ them to know one another, each kid saying his name and the names of all the kids siting to the left.

A few minutes later, I _____ to put the kids to a test. Alex was chosen to _____ at the far left end of the bench, _____ to each kid, say that kid's name and then shake his right hand.

Alex did well and he went down the row—Dylan, Micah, David, and Beau—_____ he reached Ben. He said Ben's name and _____ out his right hand, but Ben just sat there, his right hand _____ in his jacket.

"Ben, why don't you let Alex shake your right hand？"I asked. Ben stood up, and said, "But I don't have the ______. "He pulled his jacket ______ from his right shoulder.

Ben's arm ran from his right shoulder but his arm ______ at the elbow（肘）. No forearm（前臂）, no hand and no fingers！

I got ______ and couldn't think of anything to say, but the little kids were unwilling to hide their ______.

"Look at that, "said Alex. " Hey, what ______ to your arm?" another kid asked. "Does it hurt?" Ben took off his jacket to ______ the kids what they all wanted to see. He explained to them that he had always been that ______ and that there was nothing ______. What he meant was that he wanted to be treated like ______ else.

From that day on, he was ______ Ben, one of the players on the team.

   Determined to keep my private life from the census taker（人口普查员），I locked the front door. After several more days of _________to answer the door，one afternoon I _________ to my car. The census taker，who had been _________all week to catch me，spotted me and ran up to _________.I told the man firmly I would not answer his questions. He glared at me and _________ walked away.

A week went by. All my neighbours had _________their census questions，and the census taker _________. Then one afternoon there came a knock at the door. I answered the door and found a middle-aged lady. Suddenly，I realized my _________."I'm Carla with the US Census Bureau，"she said，_________herself the way the former one had. Only there was something __________：she was smiling.

So I let her in, offered her a bottle of water, and waited for the __________. But first, she asked about my family. __________she told me about her own family and something else. I __________ a lot about Carla, as she was in no hurry to get to the __________. She was pleasant and relaxed. And so was I. After about an hour, she put away her _________ and thanked me for the water, __________as she got into her car. I realized I didn't __________her visit at all.

Carla would call every few months, asking if our __________had changed. We always talked about our families and lives __________we were friends.

   My daughter is a single parent. She works hard to_____ for herself and her three young sons. She carefully controlled how much money they spent and_____ to plan for the little luxuries（奢侈品）. When her eldest son，David，wanted a_____ so that he could do an after-school newspaper delivery job，she_____ and soon，he was the proud_____ of a good second-hand bike.

One afternoon，my_____ asked David to go to a local shop. He rode his bicycle，but foolishly left it outside the shop_____ locking it up. When David came out of the shop，it was_____. He walked home in_____ and then，together with his frustrated mother，went to the local police station to report the______ .

Imagine their______ when they arrived at the station：David’s bike was in a car’s boot（行李箱）.The_____ told them how he’d seen a group of kids______ the bike once my grandson went inside the shop.

The driver—in his late teens himself-called out to them to“leave that bike______”. Despite this，one member of the group______ on the bicycle and rode it away while the others followed. Not to be ______，the teen got in his car，drove after them and______ that they give the stolen bike back.

He was______ to be able to return it to my grandson together with a lecture about the bad result of______ to use the bike lock. ______，in all the excitement，he slipped away，without even giving them his name or telephone number.