Sunshine Community has been taken care of by the volunteers for a long time. Back in the old days, the community _______thousands of old people. For the past twenty years, the _______of selflessness has been passing in the community, whose members fix _______for the elderly every day.

An old resident, Lisa, enjoyed the generosity twice. “When I _______ both my legs, the community volunteers fed me and my husband so much food that with great gratitude I had to say stop. But my husband_______, ‘I hope I’ll break my legs, too, because I love the food,’” Lisa says, breaking out laughing. As they grew older, the volunteers were more_______than she imagined. “When my husband _______, the comfort cards and calls were _______,”she says. They kept helping her know she was _______ alone.

As Lisa grew older, she needed more care. However, it didn’t prevent the volunteers from ________ and helping. They even offered better service and________ to cooking in their own homes. They all enjoyed it, and then they delivered the food to Lisa’s.

Now they are serving almost ten times as much food to the elderly. And many ingredients in those meals are ________. In spring, the volunteers supply all kinds of usual vegetable seed-lings to the residents to plant in the gardens. The ________then gladly bring their ________back to share with other residents. The whole community is full of ________when enjoying the food.

I worked as a waitress at a bar inside a health-food grocery store. Most of our _________ were well-off retirees and 30-something recently divorced men hoping to get a date with someone coming in after a yoga class. They were generally rich but _________. Forgetting to bring salt to some might be a huge offense (冒犯), but automatically bringing it causes others to give a _________ about sodium (钠) intake. It was a(n) _________ balancing act.

It was St. Patrick’s Day and we were short staffed. Needless to say, it was a crazy evening with me _________ around serving everything, and making sure no one was becoming _________.

The bar supervisor always liked to have food specials _________ for people to see. It generally just caused us to get mean looks when we told people they probably shouldn’t _________ it, as it was a sample (样品) and had been sitting out for hours.

As the night was beginning to slow down, I had an older couple sit at the only open seat — next to our food displays. I was _________ tables and leaned over to let them know I’d be right back, and ____________ a plate I was carrying, dropped right into the food display. The sauce of the food flew up, and then ____________ right into the man’s lap.

I was ____________ and apologizing in a panic while trying to set down the mountain of dishes. The man looked up at me and said, “I just have one thing to tell you.” He slowly leaned in — at which point I was thinking he was about to ____________ in my face — and he said,“I don’t have to fart (放屁) anymore because you ____________ it out of me.” It was the laugh I needed that night, and he wouldn’t even let me give him a free beer as a(n)____________.