Alonzo Johnson stopped. He decided to help a(n) _________ elderly man down an escalator (自动扶梯) in a Massachusetts shopping mall last week, _______ the 23-year-old could never have predicted that his simple, random act of kindness would win him the _______ of thousands of people on line.

An old man _______ at the top of an escalator and a few people started gathering _______ to get on. It was clear he was feeling _______ as to whether to step on to the escalator or not. Johnson spotted the senior citizen hesitating and _______ the simplest kindness. He reached out a(n) _________ and asked with a smile on his face, “Can I help you, sir?”

The old man quietly started to _______ to the young man that he had gotten stuck on an escalator once and was a little __________. The young man gently offered his assurance, they __________ each other eye to eye for just a moment and the old man ________ his arm. Everyone else remained ________ and waited.

Paula Picard and a friend were standing nearby and ________ to take a touching photo of the pair linking arms as they ________ the escalator together. She posted the ________ on Facebook and it spread __________ with more than 420,000 likes and 25,000 comments in just a few hours.

Johnson said he never ________ his action would reach so many people.

“He looked very afraid and I thought maybe I could __________.” Johnson said, “My Mom always tells us to be nice and do the ________ thing. It’s really the way I was brought up and how I was raised.”

A nine-year-old kid is sitting at his desk. Suddenly, there is a puddle (小水洼) between his feet and the front of his pants are _______.

He thinks his heart is going to _________ because he cannot possibly _________ how this has happened. It’s never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out, he will never hear the _________ of it.

When the girls _________ it, they’ll never speak to him again as long as he lives. The boy puts his head down and _________, “Dear God, this is a(n) _______! I need help now! Five minutes from now, I’m dead meat.”

_________, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish _________ that is filled with water. She trips (绊倒) in front of the desk and unexplainably pours the water on the boy’s __________. The boy pretends to be __________, but all the while is saying to himself, “Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!”

Now all of a sudden, the boy is the object of sympathy (同情). All the other children are on their hands and knees __________ up around his desk. It’s __________. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else — Susie. She tries to __________ but they tell her to get out. “You’ve done enough, you klutz (笨手笨脚的人)!”

Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, “You did that __________, didn’t you?”

Susie whispers back, “I wet my pants once too.”

For years, secret gifts had been a holiday essential in Stephanie Levinson’s classroom at San Fernando Elementary School in Los Angeles County. A teacher in a______neighborhood, Levinson knew that her young students led a______life—some were homeless and others lived in garages.   So every holiday season she______to bring the kids some small gifts—a pack of crayons, a pencil, or something.

Then something unexpected happened, and the district______online learning. It opened the educators’ eyes to many other______their students faced. Some attended virtual classes from motel (汽车旅馆) rooms where their families were temporarily______, and some took classes in the places where their parents worked. When the temperature dropped, Levinson began to hear a common______. “They told me they were cold,” she said.

Levinson knew she had to do something. But with her limited______how could she possibly keep all her students______? So she created a wish list on Amazon: a blanket for each of her 24 students to______the cold. She made a heartfelt______to the residents of the rich neighborhood.

Five minutes later she got a text from a neighbor. “I’m looking at your wish list,” the ______ read, “but there’s nothing there.” Feeling puzzled, Levinson______the Amazo page. Just like that, in five minutes, her neighbors had finished the______!

Christmas comes once a year, but______knows no calendar. In the days that followed, Levinson created more wish lists, and there were always generous donors.