An elderly woman is crediting (归功于) her neighbor's 4­year­old dog with saving her life during last week's dangerously cold temperatures.

Tim Curfman was ______ his garbage with his dog Midnight when he felt its ______ was unusual. It had its ears held up looking at him. It didn't ______ do that. Curfman got the feeling that something's ______. So he observed how his dog was acting and ______ it to a spot on the other side of his house. There, he saw his 87­year­old neighbor, Noreen, ______ in the snow. She was trying to fill her bird feeder when she fell.

Curfman ______ she was out there at least half an hour. She could not get up because she didn't have enough ______ to push herself up, and there was nothing around the corner to get a ______ of, either. The temperature was one degree below zero, but Curfman and Midnight were able to ______ her quickly.

Noreen, who didn't have serious injuries, was lucky to ______ frostbite (冻伤) even though her clothes were wet. Curfman called his wife and they together helped his neighbor up from the snow and into her ______， where his wife helped the elderly woman get into ______ clothes.

Noreen was ______ to Midnight for saving her life. “A dog like this ______ to be proud of because it's not every dog that pays attention to things like this，” Noreen said in an interview.

My father always told me：“All work is noble(高贵的)” He wasn’t _________，but he earned a reasonable living. Thanks to his _________, I was able to go to Art College. I, however, wanted to do something _________,something more interesting-I was special!

After graduation, I moved to New York in search of a graphic(绘画的)designer job. It was winter and, ever the optimist(乐观主义者)，I’d only brought enough money to_________myself for about a month. I wasn’t _________I was sure I’d find a fantastic job immediately.

Within a few weeks, though, I found myself wandering around the streets having been _________by every design office in town. My hostel rent was almost gone and I hadn’t eaten in days. “How had I reached this point? ”I wondered as I trembled in my thin jacket.

I was just about to_________when my dad called. He suggested that I get a job in a_________until something else came along. At first, pride made me_________.But I was cold, hungry, and unwilling to go home feeling __________and defeated.

I entered an expensive-looking cafe near one of the design offices that had turned me away and asked the manager if they were hiring. She said they were shorthanded, and offered me a __________right away.

__________,I found that I really enjoyed serving people. I started making big tips right away. Later, the manager learned that I had a design background and asked me to design the cafe menus. That led to a part-time job at an advertising company.

In the past, I’d have never considered being a __________,but there I was. I __________got my dream design job, but that winter I learned not to make final assumptions about __________too early.

Acts of kindness are wonderful in so many ways. They_________the recipient and they're also a great reminder of all the_________acts that are taking place in the world. With the media full of CO VID-19-related_________, these selfless acts are increasingly important. This was just the_________when Steve Farmer shared a recent uplifting event on his Facebook page that_________him.

Farmer posted how he'd gone to work after the quarantine(隔离)was lifted and had forgotten his work pass. _________, he had to lock his bike just outside an underground station next to his office. When he returned for his_________in the evening, he found just his lock that had been cut and the bike was_________

The London worker thought he'd never_________his bike again. However, as he went to ask at the station about any potential__________that had filmed the robbery, a rail worker, Abdul Muneeb, rushed over to him and asked him to unlock the__________bike lock to prove he was the__________. Farmer. then explained how Muneeb said "I have your bike" with a__________he would never forget.

With the lock undone, Muneeb told Farmer how he'd__________someone cutting the bike lock earlier on during his shift. He stopped the man from__________the bike and then wheeled it to a__________place. Muneeb__________four hours after his shift had ended so he could see the bike__________to its rightful owner.

As Farmer quite__________posted, “The world needs more Abduls, who is a legend(传奇)of a man and a__________to his employer.”