One day, we had a family dinner. While the adults were busy with their serious talk outside, I was left alone in the ________ to help my grandmother wash dishes. ________ my grandmother would tell me stories about her childhood.

Born just before WWII, my grandmother ________ an entirely different childhood lifestyle from mine. She did not have a chance to go to ________. Like in typical families, where boys were ________ much more than girls, my grandma had to stay at home to do ________. The only opportunity (机会) she could seize to ________ was when her brother was having Chinese ________ with the family tutor. She would sit quietly at the far end of the long dinner table, listening ________. This training taught her to read and write her Chinese upside down — a skill that has turned out to be quite ________, especially whenever we share the newspaper. On most weekends, my grandmother, a young girl then, and her brother would go to the ________. There, they would walk through deep water, sit down cross-legged underwater and hold their ________ while they watched all action going on around them. This is something I ________ — her ability to open her ________ underwater and still sit comfortably on the seabed.

My childhood is quite ________ compared with hers. I am ________ that I did not need to ________ the hardships like she did. I've never faced the problem of ________. I guess our different childhood background is what makes my grandmother such an amazing person to ________ to: her stories always make my history textbooks ________.

While driving home today, I passed a man who was holding a sign, begging for donations. I had two dollars in my wallet. I decided that I was not going to give _______ money was so tight(紧的) right now.

Then, I felt it _______ not to give, and therefore I decided to give him half of what I had. I rolled down my window and _______ him one dollar. He said, “God bless you!” and I said, “You too.” It was not a full _______.

As I _______ away, I wished that I had spoken more to him, and I wished that I had given him all that I had, but instead I was too _______ to give more of myself.

On my way home, I wondered why helping others didn’t make me happy. I wondered if I had _______ a powerful universal law—the law of giving from my heart instead of my head. Perhaps just _______ not giving it all from my heart, I had blocked(阻塞) what I need to _______ right now.

I did not feel guilty, __________ I did feel sad in my heart over my __________. My giving was from my head, not my heart. Now I __________ have the other dollar in my wallet. I hope that I will have a __________ soon to give it all.

It is true that all of us should have courage to give all that we have. Though we do __________ money to buy our own children food and clothes, Christmas presents, socks, toilet paper and so on, we are __________ to try our best to help those in need of our help.