Mrs. Green told her pupils to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful. She thought what these little children in a worsening neighborhood had to be _____ for. Most of the _____ drew pictures of turkeys or Thanksgiving tables full of everything _____ to eat. That was what they believed was _____ from them.

What made Mrs. Green _____ was David’s picture. David was so disappointed and _____ in his own world as other students went outside for break. David’s drawing was _____ this: A hand. Whose hand? The class were strongly attracted by his _____. “I think it must be the _____ of the cook ______ our food,” said one student.

“A hand of a ______,” said another, “because he raises the turkeys.”

“It looks more like a policeman’s, and he ______ us.” “I think,” Lucy said ______, “it is ______ to be all the hands that help us, but David could only draw one of them.”

Mrs. Green had almost forgotten David in her ______ of finding the class so responsive (积极的). Having the others working on another project, she bent over his ______ and asked whose hand it was.

David whispered, “It’s yours, Mrs. Green.”

Then Mrs. Green ______ she had taken David by the hand from time to time; she often did that with the children. But what surprised her was that it should have ______ so much to David…

Perhaps, she thought this was her Thanksgiving, and everybody’s Thanksgiving — not the things ______ to people, but the ______ that others give something to people.

On February 20, 2003, a fire broke out at the Station Club on Rhode Island. It 【小题1】 (kill) 100 people — mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. But as in any disaster （突难）, heroes were ready 【小题2】 (help).

One of those heroes is a man named James Paolucci. He is the owner of the Cowesett Inn（旅馆）, 【小题3】 is a comfortable place across from the station. On 【小题4】 (hear) the news that the club was on fire, James decided to do something to offer help. The inn turned 【小题5】 a hospital immediately. The injured got 【小题6】 (medicine) attention there, and Rhode Island officials held 【小题7】 (meeting) there. What’s more, the injured people’s family，firefighters, nurses stayed there.

James, efforts 【小题8】 (think) highly of by Governor Don Carcieri. In an article of the Kent County Daily Times, Carcieri stated, “The Cowesett Inn 【小题9】 (certain) helped the lifesaving work a lot that night. ”

James and 【小题10】 inn were all heroes in Rhode Island’s biggest disaster, and they saved a lot of lives.

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.

   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.