I stopped at a local store the other day after a fitness class to buy some food. After I got the food, I got in ______ behind a lady who looked about twenty years old. She had quite a lot of things in her shopping basket. She ______ her credit card to the clerk but the clerk told her it had been refused. The young lady ______ she had paid it off the day before. The clerk replied, “Maybe it hasn’t got through the system yet. Do you want to ______ someone?” The young lady took out her cellphone and was looking through it. ______, they opened another counter (柜台) to let me ______ out.

I was walking out to my ______ when I thought, “Okay! You’re always wishing you could help someone. Now it is time for you to do it!” Immediately, I made a ______ to help her. I got out of my car and ______ with my bank card in my hand. The young lady was still looking through her phone. She looked a little ______. I returned to the counter, handed my card to the clerk and said, “I will pay her bill.” She ______ her head and took the card.

As the clerk gave the card to me, the lady was still ______ her phone. And I didn’t think she had even ______ what had happened! And I told her that I had paid her bill and then I left before she expressed ______ to me.

The bill was about $52. However, the feeling inside me was ______! I realized that helping others did make me happy.

Not many 17-year-old girls know how to solder（焊）copper pipes together or light a pilot light. These are_________I’ve learned as an assistant to my dad in his plumbing （管道）business.

My summer job deals with_______that constantly arouse physical and mental discomfort, and the work_______an attitude of determination and patience that I frequently struggle to adopt.

Each morning, I wrestle myself into large-thick men’s jeans most girls would_________to wear and climb into the plumber truck. As my classmates begin their_______babysitting, or selling groceries, my dad and I carry heavy toolboxes and work in the dark basements. I often get _________in messy storage boxes looking for the water meter. Nothing around is beautiful or tidy.

Sometimes I_______why I stand the dust and sweat when I could be in my air-conditioned house doing summer homework. Yet as much as I hate the mess of plumbing, I look down upon myself for being so easily annoyed by disorder._________, the world was built by people willing to get their hands _________.

Five such summers have taught me that the messy parts of people’s houses__________the messy parts of their lives. As I learn to__________the mess, I also learn to handle the__________and contradictions (矛盾) in my adolescence. Life is a process of accepting__________and learning to put it in order. Plumbing work is no different. You can see it in each newly soldered group of copper pipes. And when customers express__________, I understand that, in a small way, we bring__________to their lives.