One day, an old man came inside a restaurant. The restaurant’s 【小题1】(own) Annie noticed him and asked if someone was together 【小题2】 him, and how he got there. The old man could not give any answers. Annie then asked him if he knew his name, and 【小题3】(unexpected), the old man said, “Of course, I know my name!” But unluckily, the old man could not give any name either.

Then Annie called the government, and 【小题4】 officer answered the phone. After ten minutes, the officer came and talked with the old man, from which the officer learned that the man had a son. Then he got in touch with the old man’s son, 【小题5】 came to pick the man up later. This heart-warming story 【小题6】(post) online later by Mike. So far, many people 【小题7】(express) their lovely comments, and thousands have “liked” it as well.

It is 【小题8】(thought) of people like Annie and the officer to go out of their way 【小题9】(help) the old man. Giving a hand to strangers is one of the best 【小题10】(gift) at difficult times.

“I hope your dad will be happy here,” Mom said. We were settling my father into his room at a new nursing home. .

It hadn’t been easy to find the right place for my father, 【小题1】suffered from brain disease. At first, we cared for him at home. When we could hardly manage the work 【小题2】our own, we moved him into a care facility (护理机构), but it wasn’t a good fit. There was only one 【小题3】 (real) positive thing about it: a nurse named Don. Dad’s eyes always lit up when Don 【小题4】 (enter) the room. Don was 【小题5】 (energy) and kind. All of us 【小题6】 (touch) by his thoughtful and warm services. When Don got a new job elsewhere, it made our decision to move Dad easier.

Now that we were in the new nursing home, we could only hope we had made the right 【小题7】 (choose). Mom took Dad's hand, 【小题8】 (ask),“Are you okay here, dear?” Just then the door opened and 【小题9】 worker came in. Unbelievably, it turned out 【小题10】 (be) Don. At the sight of Don, Dad's eyes immediately lit up. Yes, he was right where he belonged.

Today, we have the Internet. We can instantly send someone on the other side of the world a message using email. But many decades ago, it took an age 【小题1】 (send) someone a message. People wrote letters on paper. They then put these letters in the envelopes. The sender then 【小题2】 (buy) a stamp from a post office and stuck it on the envelope. They then put it in a mail box in the street. A postal worker would collect the envelopes and a few days later, the letters reached their 【小题3】 (destination). If the address was in 【小题4】 same country, it could take weeks. If the address was overseas, it sailed on a ship and 【小题5】 (call) “sea mail”. Later, airplanes transported mail and we used “air mail”.

But a letter 【小题6】(mail) from the English city of Bath in 1916 got lost in the post. It was 【小题7】 (final) delivered 107 years later to an address in London. The Royal Mail postal service in the UK said it was uncertain what happened. A spokesperson said she was 【小题8】 (amuse) that the letter arrived, 【小题9】 she had no idea why it was more than a century late. She said it may have fallen behind a piece of furniture. The person to 【小题10】 it was addressed was no longer living. He passed away in 1951.