Recently Steve had a car accident. So he put his car in the ______ to carry out the repair work. Since he had to go to the job daily, he ______ that until the car is ready, he would travel by metro train. One day, he noticed a ______ guy at the train station at night. He felt ______ for him, so he gave him some change from his pocket.

The homeless guy thanked him for it. Next day again, he ______ the homeless guy at the same place. This time Steve thought to ______ him something to eat, so he went outside the ______ and brought him a meal. The homeless guy thanked him for his kindness. But Steve got ______ and asked him, “How did you get to this _____?”

The homeless guy looked up at him and with a smile, he said, “By showing ______.” Steve didn’t understand it, so he asked him, “What do you mean by that?” The homeless guy replied that “Throughout my whole life, I made sure that everyone was happy. No matter what was going right or wrong in my life, I always ______ everyone.”

Steve asked him, “Do you ______ it?” To which the homeless man replied, “No, it just hurts my soul that the very people I gave the ______ off my back to wouldn’t give me a sleeve of that same shirt when I was in need. Son, it is ______ to build your own house and invite someone in for shelter than to hand them your ______ while you are building yours, because one day you will turn around and look at the ______ where you had planned to build your house. It will be an ______ lot. Then you are the one looking for bricks.”

Steve understood what the homeless guy meant and thanked him for the good advice.

Helping others is not a bad thing at all. But sometimes, ______ we are helping others, we forget our own problems and needs. One must remember that sometimes sharing is better than ______ away. You can do a lot more by being in a ______ position instead of bringing yourself into a weaker situation.

If your home were on fire, what would you try to save? Our area was just a few miles from the largest wildfire in Colorado’s history. On getting the call to evacuate(疏散), we had to consider what we couldn’t live without, ________ whatever we could save and leaving immediately.

We ________ suitcases with necessary clothes. We took the ________ financial records ---- who wants to _______ himself with the government over _______ documents? Now, what else? We seized the valuable family ________ from the walls, which couldn’t be replaced.

Then we took a hard look at all that ________. A lamp that ________ my great grandmother. A ________ my wife learned to play as a kid. A large tent we spent months ________ money for camping. Bedroom furniture we wanted to pass down to our ________ some day. The gifts that decorated our house from our treasured friends. These things ________ our love as a family and friends. It was ________ to move everything from our home. ________ at all that we might lose, I found it difficult to say goodbye. But ________, I felt warm.

We were ________ with memories as we ________ at these items. Each had stories to tell just like the photos. They told about where we’d been, where we ________ were and where we were going. They were ________ of those people we had loved and who loved us. Now I didn’t think my “things” meant that much to me. Indeed, the spirit of them was all that truly ________.

When I was in primary school, I had a big argument with a boy in my class. l can't remember what it was about, ____ I have never forgotten the ____ I learned that day.

I was ____ that I was right and he was wrong. However, he strongly believed that I was wrong and he was right. The ____ decided to teach us a lesson. She came up with a good idea. She____ both of us to the ____ of the class and ____ him on one side of her grey desk and me on ____, In the middle of the desk was a large, round object. I could ____ see that it was black. She asked the boy ____ color the object was. "White," he answered in a loud voice.

I couldn't believe that the object was whites ____ it was certainly black! One more ____ started between the boy and me, this time about the____ of the object.

The teacher told me to go stand where the boy was standing and told him to come stand where I had been. We changed ____, and then she asked me what the color of the object was. I ____ answer, "White." It was then that I knew what was wrong. It was an object with two ____ colored sides, and from his side it was white. ____ from my side was it black.

My teacher taught me a very important 1esson that day: You must ____ in other person's position (位置) and look at the ____ through their eyes in order to____ understand their ideas.