When Brooks Dame was in high school, a friend, Jessica had a serious disease. Thanks to specialized treatment which was made possible by bone marrow donors(骨髓捐赠者), Jessica _____ .

The experience of watching Jessica go through the _____ finally encouraged Brooks to _____ his fear of needles and sign up to be a bone marrow donor.

A year later, Brooks received a phone call about a possible _____. A man in his 30s was fighting a hard battle with a cancer. “I was _____, but I thought a lot about that man,” Brooks remembers. “This was his last chance of survival.”

After a series of tests (including needles), Brooks flew to a _____ in Denver for the donation. “It is dangerous and very _____, but I knew it was the right thing to do,” Brooks says.

“The more I thought about that man and his family, the more I hoped that my small sacrifice(牺牲), in some way, made a _____.”

Afterwards, Brooks was still afraid of _____. But what he’d gained was much greater than fear. He had _____ that it was worth any sacrifice to help another person survive.

Our lovely neighbors have a beautiful St Francis statue (雕像) by the gate on the side of their house. I’ve always loved to _______at it whenever I look out of the kitchen window. The other day I noticed it wasn’t there! I ________where it had gone! I hoped it was just moved and not stolen! I told Milan about its_________and he said he would ask the ________the next time he saw them.

Yesterday he_________Mrs “Neighbor” and mentioned the missing statue to her. He told her how much we loved it and hoped it hadn’t been________!She said that she had just moved it to the backyard________would bring it back right away! “Oh”, said Milan, “We’re just glad it’s________!” That evening we went out to sit in our garden and________that the statue was back in its old_________! Oh sweet neighbor! You are so kind and __________!

The next day we were out in the garden again planting ________, and realized that we had too many. We actually couldn’t_______where to put them all! I had to leave before we__________what to do with them. On my way out, I met Mrs “Neighbour” and________her for moving the statue back! But she said that the spot ________the statue lay was too bare(光秃秃的).

There were no flowers._________an idea went on in my head. I thought of the remaining flowers. She could have them, and she was sure to be________;

Now St. Francis______among beautiful flowers. I look out of my kitchen window again now and smile! The statue is__________more beautiful to me now.

The plane took off. A passenger needed a cup of water to take his medicine. An air hostess (空姐) told him that she would bring him the _________ soon. But the air hostess was _________ busy that she forgot to bring him the water. _________, the passenger couldn’t take his medicine on time. About half an hour later, she hurried over to him with a cup of water, but he _________ it.

In the following hours, each time she _________ the passenger, she would ask him with a smile whether he needed help or not. But the passenger _________ paid notice to her.

When it was time to get off the _________, the passenger asked her to hand him the passengers’ booklet (留言簿).   She was very _________, She thought that he would _________ bad words in it, but with a smile she handed it to him.

Off the plane, she opened the booklet and then __________. The passenger put it, “In the past few hours, you have asked me whether I needed help or not for twelve times in all. How can I refuse your twelve faithful (真诚的) smiles?”