Ella was sitting with a full plate of steak and potatoes with her father in a restaurant. And then Ella saw a _______ guy outside the restaurant.

“ Can I just give it to him?” Ella _______ asked her father. “Of course. _______ ,” her father nodded. Ella, full of initiative(积极性) , quickly hurried from the table with the full plate of food and a fork outside the _______ .

From the view of the restaurant window, the father’s eyes_______ his daughter as she walked away. Ella then _______ the homeless man sitting on a bench right outside the restaurant with the full meal and a fork. The man happily _______ the meal. Ella’s father, unable to _______   his pride, repeated, “That’s my girl.” As Ella, full of _______, made her way back into the restaurant, the homeless man looked back before ________the hot meal.

“Good job Ella!” her father said. “I think you just made his week. How does that make you feel?” “I ________ it!” she grins(咧嘴笑).

About the moment, Ella’s father described it________: “My daughter learned a valuable ________ by giving back to people that ________ less. It is really a proud father ________!”

It’s acts like these that show how it just ________ one person to make a positive difference to the world. Whether a friend, family or stranger, a kind act can go a long way.

A simple act of kindness, no matter how big or small can make a significant________on someone’s day. There’s no________ to acts of kindness for kids, or anyone of any________, to do. As we can see from Ella’s________, it just may make someone’s day.

I was sitting on a medical table. Beside me was a woman in scrubs (手术服) talking about the ______ weather recently. I ______ all the other people laying back on their medical tables too. Each one of us had a ______ in our arms with a long tube running down from it ______ a plastic bag below. Each one of us had come to ______ blood to help others, make the world a better place, and perhaps even ______ a life.

It was the local blood drive and I had driven 12 miles across ______ roads to get there. I tried never to ______ one even in the wintertime. ______ all the time and effort it took, I felt ______ to be able to give this gift back to others. I had been ______ with so much in this life: a loving family, ______ friends, adorable pets, a comfy home, and enough money to ______ my needs. The gifts I had been given felt wonderful, ______ the one thing that brought me more ______ than anything else was giving something back. The more you ______ , the more you get in ______.

There are so many ______ you can give in this life too: a smile, a few dollars, a caring letter or e-mail, and even a pint of blood. Each one of them is ______ and precious. May you fill your life with giving then. May you fill your life with ______.

It surprised me — every time I saw Joe, he was smiling. It didn’t ________ whether he had to stop at a stop light, or if he were the seventh person in ________ at the bank, and the service stopped just before he got there. Joe always smiled. It made me wonder why he seemed so_________ every day.

Having observed Joe with other people, I ________ something else also. Joe asked people how they were doing, and really seemed to listen to their ________. If someone were hurting, he had ________for him and kind words, and offered to ________in any way he could.

It made me think. What if I tried to smile more? A(n) ________of sorts began when I went to the grocery store. I smiled as I went up and down the aisles, and people I didn’t even ________smiled back at me. Some even ________! The little kid in the cart (购物车) who was giving his mother a ________time saw me smile and ____ talking, and, you guessed it — he made a shy little attempt at a smile.

As I drove home, I was smiling. I________ what I had just learned, and when someone passed me and gave me a(n) ________, I smiled at him.

Now I know a smile is a small thing, but what if we were all to try to smile a few more times each day? Nothing in my life had changed, but maybe it had. What I had learned was that such a small thing could ________not only my spirits, but also the spirits of those around me. So smile!