The writer Devin with his friend Johnson went to his favourite news-stand. Johnson _______the salesman selling the newspapers gently, but in return he received poor _______The salesman never even looked up at his customer when he _______the late-night edition. Accepting the _______, Johnson politely smiled and wished the salesman a pleasant weekend. The salesman made an unclear sound and seemed _______that the two men had completed their business. As the two friends walked down the street, Devin asked, “Does he always treat you so _______?”

“Yes,_______he does,” Johnson responded. “And are you always so _______and friendly to him?” “Yes, I am!” Johnson _______ as they turned a corner. “Why are you so nice when he is so unfriendly to you?” Johnson ________,“Because I don’t want him to decide how I am going to ________”

Who ________ how you are going to act? Is it your circumstances or the difficult people in your life that determine your ________? When we allow our conflicts to ________ us, we behave as if getting rid of our difficulties is our only priority(优先权)________, it doesn’t really matter how we treat one another. For example, we’ll say, “This ________ is causing me problems right now so I don’t care about exercising ________, self-control, and loving kindness. Instead, I want to let him know how ________ I am because of his action.”

We forget our difficulties will eventually weaken. But the way we handle conflicts will influence our ________for a long time. Will you only respond to the momentary crisis（危机）or will you be more concerned about the ________ of what kind of person you are becoming? Who decides how you will behave when the pressure is on?

Hundreds of community members poured into the home to express their condolences (哀悼) to Eli's family. I walked in and_________myself, saying I was the headmaster of a school in a neighboring city. I then told the following_________ to the family.

When I was in middle school, I was the troublemaker and always behaved_________in class. One day, when I was bored in class, I_________a paper ball at the teacher. With a bright red_________face, the teacher lifted the ball and said, “I will ask only once for the student who did this to_________and get out of the room. I won't_________class until that student leaves, "The room was_________. I was not going to give myself up. I never_________what would happen next. After 30 long seconds, a boy named Eli, who was always a__________and well-behaved student, stood up and walked out with his__________ down. He had no reason to help me but he__________to anyway.

I wiped my __________ and said, “I want you to know that Eli saved my life. Through that__________act, he conveyed to me how concerned he was about my dignity (尊严). That shook me up. From that __________ on, I took my life more __________. With a lot of work, I stopped being a __________.

When I heard that Eli __________, I had to go to let all know that if I've __________ people's lives through my work as an educator, it's all due to Eli's__________and selflessness.

It was a rainy day. It had stopped raining but the ground was still wet. I was in the ______ with my friend, and ahead of us was a（n）______ old man, with a walking stick in his hand. It seemed that he was having a hard time standing up. I have always had a ______ with old people; they break my heart, ______ the ones begging on the streets, or ______ flowers or gum. I feel sad for them, who have to be on the streets ______ being taken care of by their families or the ______ . There was a car in front of us before we reached him, and I had prepared some money to give him. I was looking at the car in front of us. The driver ______ a dollar bill out of the window, and it fell on the ______ in a wet spot.

The old man looked at the bill with a sad look； it would take him a（n） _______   effort to pick it up because he could _______ stand, so I opened the car door and ran to him as he was _______ to pick it up. I took it, _______ it on my jeans, gave it to him and gave him the money I had prepared for him. The look in his eyes _______ he saw me doing this was the most _______ look anyone had ever given me; clearly people had _______ him badly. He started to thank me for what I had done. I couldn't look him in the _______ how can someone so _______ be left on the streets？ I can't really explain how overwhelmed （难以承受） I felt.

Helping him out really made his day, but what he didn't know was that he had _______ me in a way he could never imagine. I still think about him very often, and I just _______ that everyone will look at old people the way I do.