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.

I frequently went to Pune during my stay in Mumbai three years ago. The two cities are just 15 km away from each other, but traveling that ________ is a headache. My work required me to do it and I would ________ to travel at least twice a week.

This one time I was returning from Pune. Like other drivers, this taxi driver also struck up a general ________ about me and my city. He ________ by saying that kids are one’s greatest happiness. As a confirmed bachelor (单身汉), I got slightly ________ when he started all about kids and family. Then he said something that really ________ me. He said he was a musician. I asked him which ________ he played, and he replied, “I have no electronic system.” Thinking that taxi drivers can’t afford an electronic system, I ________ listened to him continuing with his ________.

His name was Naveen. He was basically a musician who was ________ playing the guitar and the keyboards. Naveen had left his ________ after a quarrel with his father over taking music as a ________. Naveen had his instruments but didn’t know how to make ________. The only other thing he could do was to ________. So he joined Mumbai-to-pune taxi services. That served him as the regular ________ in weekdays and in the weekends he’d perform in Pune, Nasik or Mumbai. By now he had ________ a slightly famous musician in Maharashtra. But he had a ________ wherever he played. He asked that the place couldn’t be ticketed. They can ________ for food or drinks if it’s a pub or a restaurant but no tickets.

I heard Naveen’s songs. He was ________. He had a trick which made me call him a ________. Among all the faceless drivers, Naveen stood out. He inspired me to leave my job and start a theatre career in Delhi.

I was very angry after a terrible morning and decided to go for a _______. I put my headphone on, pushed on a program I was _______ to listen to and ran out the door. However, the terrible events of my morning kept flashing through my _______ over and over. I couldn’t even hear the program I love so much.

And then something _______. About 3/4 of my way through the run, I _______ a couple I’d guess to be in their early 30’s. As I was passing by, the man _______ and gave me a thumbs-up. Did he just do that? I thought so _______ I wasn’t sure. It _______ my mood (心情) right away and made me smile.

I thought to myself how _______ that was. A little piece of kindness from a __________! I was very __________ his small gesture. It was __________ what I needed and I hoped he knew the difference it made. And then I realized that the only way for him to __________ was for me to tell him. I’d __________ it if I didn’t.

So I __________ and rushed back to catch up with them. I came up behind them completely out of __________ and said “Excuse me … pant (喘), pant, pant … did you just smile and give me a thumbs-up?” He smiled again and said “Yes!”

I told him how much of a difference it made. That I was having a really __________ morning, how it made me feel so much __________. And that I really __________ it.

A moment of kindness is simple. It is __________. But it makes such a difference.