Everyone back home told me that one of the nicest things about college was the people I met. They all assured me that I would ______ friendships that could last a lifetime. I would always smile and agree. Frankly, before I ______ college, I really didn’t care.

I lived in the ______ where six guys lived in two small connecting rooms. All my roommates seemed to be good guys, but I didn’t really try to get to know them.

I have always been rather quiet and never been able to make friends ______. I would always forget names after I met people. When we ______ again and they called out my name, I would reply with a(n) ______ wave and a weak hello. This was how things went on for the first month or so. After a while, things started to ______. A couple of my roommates would try and keep me talking. Soon, these two roommates and I started becoming fairly ______. We began going to the cafeteria together, ______ together, and meeting in the library to study.

One night my roommates invited me to listen to a fellow roommate’s practice with one of our college choirs. They drove me to the campus where my roommate was to ______.

It was accidental that that day was my birthday, but I had kept quiet about it. So you can imagine my ______ when we entered the recital hall. The 120⁃member choir began to sing Happy Birthday to me. ______ at the dorm, my friends held a small party for me, complete with a card and a cake.

I was completely shocked, and I felt ______ to be able to call them friends. It was then that I realized that college means ______ the piece of paper you receive in the end — it’s ______ on both life and people.

It’s amazing how one dollar can change the culture of a school.

We have a ________ school of about 30 students. It is really full of competition and pressure as most of the kids get good ________ and try to be the best ones. It’s good except that a lot of us middle kids felt really ________. We got the feeling that we were so selfish—it’s every man for himself.

________, my friend and I set out to find a way to change the culture. We thought doing things for others was the only way to ________ our depression about school. On the first day of school we put a ________ folded into a heart into one of the leaders’ lockers with a piece of paper that ________“Buy yourself a snack.” We hoped to give away small gifts every day. We didn’t know the ________it would have.

People went ________ over it and everyone was talking about who it might be doing the acts of kindness and ________ that they should do something too. It is so much fun to see the ________ on everyone’s faces now! Lots of other people have started sharing ________ now too: chocolate bars, cookies and money left on purpose in the vending machine (自动售货机). And lots of notes are on the thanks board saying: “Thanks to whoever started.”

Now I actually expect to go to school to have the chance to ________ people up. I hope kindness will ________ to other schools. If anybody is struggling with being ________ at school and work, I totally suggested doing acts of kindness.

Agung was a flight controller in the city of Palu.On September 28, he was______at the control tower at the Palu-Mutiara airport, when a(n)______hit the island.Walls shook violently and buildings fell apart.

Other airport employees______withdrew from the control tower, but Agung knew that one plane, with 147 passengers, still needed to be______.He waited to make sure the plane successfully______and was safe in the air before trying to save his own life. His last words were"Batik 6321 clear for take-off.”

After that last______, he felt the tower starting to______.A few more seconds,the tower would fall down. Agung took the______of jumping out of the window from the fourth floor.He broke his legs and had______injuries.With the airport largely______, hours passed before a helicopter could arrive.He was______ to a major hospital for further treatment, but it was too______.He died shortly after arrival.

The______of the last plane, Ricosetta Mafella of Batik Airways, had no______what was happening on the island he had just______until his plane was in the air.It was then that the pilot______what the flight controller might face.He became______about the controller's safety.Later, he knew other air traffic controllers had asked Agung to______the tower.But he chose to remain at his post.

Agung showed us all what real______ and love mean for others.He has been highly praised as a hero after ____ his life at the age of 21.