Each time I take a flight, I try to chat with the passenger next to me. Most people are responsive and they’re usually interesting once you’ve broken the ice. After all, with good _________ above the clouds, time flies.

_________, the man seated on my left, during the Dubai-Mumbai flight, was a puzzle. I kindly glanced his way a couple of times but he just _________ me or stared fixedly at the seat in front of him. What do you _________ if you just smiled at a fellow human being? I _________. Why are some people so full of themselves?

When the stewardess brought lunch, the _________ man had his eyes shut. She gave me a should-I-wake-him-up _________. I didn’t say anything and he didn’t get his _________. Serves him right.

He soon _________. I read a magazine. I listened to music. He did nothing. At times our eyes __________, but he wasn’t all there. By the time our jet landed in Mumbai, I found his presence almost __________.

Just before the aircraft came to a stop he was __________ to stand up. “Excuse me,” he said to me. “May I leave? I can’t miss my connecting flight.” Hmm... I unwillingly got up to __________ him when he went on mechanically: “My wife and child died in a road accident in Delhi. I....”

I was shell-shocked as I saw the man __________ before the other passengers could block the aisle. Suddenly __________ fell into place. The tables had turned. I was the bad guy for having __________ him so hastily -- and so wrongly.

Despite his terrible loss and the soul-crushing __________, he was controlled throughout. And maybe, he didn’t want to __________ a stranger with his pain.

I learnt an __________ lesson: To look beyond the facade(表面) and to never __________ anything until you have walked in another person’s shoes.

Many years ago, I saw a homeless woman, who was wearing only thin clothes, coming in when I was working at a college. She started coughing as she sat down on a sofa in the student public room.___________, she wasn’t well. Without_________too much about it, I went to the Student Affairs Office where I knew I could find clothes in the “Lost and Found” box. I gathered her up all clothes and made my way___________. A co-worker told me I should not help this person_________it would only lead to her wanting_________help. I ignored (忽视) her and carried on, in spite of the warnings.

Two weeks later a lovely elderly man came to my office and asked to speak with me in private. Curious, I gave him my full_________. He went on to tell me that he had overheard (无意听到) the___________with the co-worker about helping the_________woman. He wanted me to know that it was always okay to help people, and that was_________he wanted to give me a check for $1000! I burst into tears, because I really____________the money at the time, but also because I had____________been recognized in such a way for helping someone! We became good friends and, twenty years later, he called me up____________and told me he wanted to help me buy my first home! He gave me $ 120,000 to buy my____________house in my home town.

I asked him why he wanted to give me such a large____________. And he said it was because I was a “giver” and that I deserved it. I was able to own the perfect little home for me, all because one day I______________a homeless woman without hesitation.

Fresno County went through a big wildfire last fall. When the fire threatened little Reese’s community, her family was _________ to evacuate (撤离) with some important things only. Then she had a great _________: her collection of baseball cards. _________ she had asked her dad to get her collection, but he _________ it due to limited time.

When her father _________ for that, she felt sad. It took the big _________ of baseball three years to collect those cards. Thinking they must have been _________, she couldn’t help crying. Her family tried every means to make her _________, but nothing worked.

Reese’s loss _________ some local firemen, and they decided to support her. They posted her ____________ on the Facebook page of their firehouse and ____________ baseball card donations so that those including Reese who had lost their ____________ and collections to the wildfire could start their hobby again.

Kevin Ashford, a restaurant owner, had been a(n) ____________ collector of baseball cards since 1990. He had a collection of over 25,000 cards worth about $50,000. He was thinking about ____________ them, when he noticed the message. Then he changed his mind. “It was a(n) ____________ decision for me. However. I felt pleased when I thought I could ____________ the problem quickly,” said Kevin.

Reese had never expected a(n) ____________ would donate packs of baseball cards. Clearly, Kevin’s donation was the ____________ one Reese had received, but it wasn’t the only one. Cards continued to ____________ in, so she decided to pass the kindness on. She and her family created a website to ____________ the baseball cards with those in need. Moreover, she is planning to send cards to children in hospital.