On Tuesday, my husband and I were going on a birthday getaway staycation in Sydney to celebrate my birthday. At one station about to enter the subway, I ________ left behind a very valuable bag. Not just valuable in price but very ________ as it was the gift my parents bought me when I became a doctor a few years ago.

I thought I forgot it on the subway and when I ________ 10 minutes later, my husband and I got off the train ________ looking for staff (员工) to tell them. I filed a report to ________ all people. I couldn’t help it — it started to ________ my time away I’ve been waiting for for so long. I cried because it ________ so much to me. By the time we got home yesterday, I officially lost hope.

This afternoon, when the door bell rang, my husband opened the door and ________ an express package. He came up stairs, “A ________ for you”. My God, my bag! A lady ________ me up on Facebook and tried calling so many times but because we were not friends, I couldn’t receive the calls or ________. She finally found my address. I was over the ________! I texted her back and knew she ________ so much effort to get it back to me.

She sounded like such a(n) ________ person and she even suggested we meet up for a coffee to celebrate ________ and I will do just that!

I learnt an important ______ from one of my patients. When I first met Linda, she was only six years old, lovely and energetic. ______, an accident happened when she fell into the fire on a camping trip, leaving 30% of her skin surface ______.

Linda was ______ to the hospital and needed three additional surgeries. Between each ______, nurses daily took her for disinfection (消毒).

Overnight, the dressings (敷料) would ______ to the wound and have to be pulled away. Each step was more painful for Linda than the ______ one. For an adult, the disturbing ______ and daily fear prove overwhelming. For a child, it has a(n) ______ forever. Linda’s life would never be the same.

I took care of Linda for the next several years, ______ her scars and freeing areas of tightness in her face and neck. Over that time, her scars faded and her appearance improved ______. Eventually, her family moved away and I ______ her.

Years later, at a national meeting, I ______ a plastic surgeon I knew and he told me he had met a former patient of mine. It was Linda. She was doing extremely well and she was his ______ instead of his patient. Linda had become a nurse and worked with him in a burn ______.

She was the nurse the patients most often asked to clean their wounds and change their dressings. Her compassion and her courage in returning to a burn unit ______ their confidence and reduced their fears. Linda turned her pain into ______. She devoted every day of her life towards helping others ______ their pain.

Physicians can be ______ when we don’t have enough time in a day to complete everything we need to do. Linda taught me the importance of slowing down. Among the best ______ we, as physicians, can give our patients, whether in the exam room or at the bedside in the hospital, is to take the time to show the compassion we feel.

I was a boy of nine in 1960. I used to mow the lawn for Mrs. Long. She paid me little for the job, but _________ to give me a Christmas present.

I spent much time _________ what it would be. Many boys had baseball gloves or ice skates and I was _________ to have any of these. “It would _________ be a baseball glove,” I _________ with myself. She wouldn’t know much about baseball. So I was _________ that she would give me ice skates. I even _________ myself upon the skates.

As Christmas approached, it was with _________ that I stopped myself from reporting to Mrs. Long and demanding my present. On December 22, I _________ myself at the door of the house. Mrs. Long sat me in a chair and handed me a small box which under no circumstances could __________ a pair of skates. I was __________. When lifting it from her, I was curious about the __________ of the present. It weighed almost nothing.

“What is it?” I asked.       

“A kind of magic,” she said. Her words were enough to set my mind dancing with new __________ . There were other presents of normal dimension and weight. But Mrs. Long’s box dominated all, for it had to do with __________ .

On Christinas morning, before the sun was up, I had this box on my knees. With great __________ I opened the box to find inside ten sheets of black paper, each labeled in colorful letters, Carbon Paper Regal Premium. “What is it?” I asked. Mum took two pieces of white paper, placed between them one of the black paper, and wrote my name on the upper sheet. Then she handed me the second sheet, which her pencil had in no way touched. There was my name!

It was a miracle to my __________ mind. In that one moment, I __________ the ideas about the duplication (复制) of words and the printing and the mystery of spreading ideas. Thank Mrs. Long for her __________ to guess that a boy might profit from a present totally outside the realm (领域) of his __________ experience.

The average present __________ satisfies a temporary desire; the great one lights up all the years of life that remain.