There's an old saying to the effect that if something can go _______, it probably will. Recently my wife and I took a trip, by ship, to Hawaii. It was a nice trip and we enjoyed it but the cabin we were in had problems.

One day, I awoke in the small hours of the morning and_______my way across the dark cabin to the washroom. On the way I stepped _______ a puddle （污水坑）on the carpet. Then I found that there was a slow but _______ drip of water coming from the ceiling. So I called the ship's office. Someone came, addressed the problem, pronounced it _______ and went away. That night the ceiling was dripping again. I called and someone came. This time they _______the ceiling apart and spent some time with tools searching inside. They pronounced the problem solved and went away. The ceiling dripped. We put a towel on the floor to catch the _______.

Though the drip had_______ the next day, some black and sticky things came out from the main drain （排水管）in the ceiling. Someone came and _______ the ceiling.

The following day there was a note on our desk expressing _______ for the problems we had been having. The note was _______ down by a bottle of nice wine. We were very _______ to accept the peace offering and just owed the experience to bad _______.

In general, cruising on large ships is a wonderful experience and, in the main, it was a great trip. I suspect, _____,that if all this had happened to someone on their first cruise, they would have sworn never to go to sea again. Although I hope I don't end up like this on our next trip, don't let the_________things beat you down.

An 18-year-old student was struggling to pay his tuition fees. As an orphan, he didn’t know whom to ______ to for money. So he decided to host a musical concert at Standford University to ______ money for his education.

He reached out to the great ______, Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Paderewski ______ a fee of Us $2,000 for the piano concert. A deal was ______. And the boy began to ______ to make the concert a success.

The ______ day arrived. Paderewski performed at Standford University. But ______, the boy hadn’t managed to sell enough tickets. The total ______ was only US 1,600. Disappointed, he went to Paderewski and ______ his plight (困境). He gave Paderewski the entire US $ 1,600, plus a cheque for the ______ of US $4,00. The boy promised to ______ the money as soon as possible.

Paderewski tore up the cheque, ______ the US $1,600 and told the boy, “______ the money for your tuition fees, and just give me whatever is left.” The boy was very ______, and thanked him sincerely.

It was a small ______ of kindness. We all come across ______ like this in our lives. And most of us only think, “If I helped them, what would happen to me?” The truly ______ people would think, “If I don’t help them, what would happen to them? They don t do it ______ something in return. They do it because they feel it’s the ______ thing to do.

Medical bills were piling.Kids needed glasses,cars needed repairs,and the dog needed surgery.On top of that,Christmas was almost _________ us,so presents needed to be purchased.

But all of that was _________ when my husband,Brian,was waiting in our local tire shop to have his six truck tires _________ on a snowy night.He overheard the tire salesman _________ a young mom with 3 children that she was in serious _________ of all new tires,as each one was completely _________ down._________,the young mom said she didn’t have the money to replace more than one tire on her car.

On hearing that,Brian _________ to pay for a tire to be fit,_________ of the one tire this woman was able to purchase.Brian knew that even though it was just a start,the young mom would be much __________ driving on the __________ roads with a balanced set of two new tires than they would with just one new tire.

The young mom was so surprised that she __________ choked up.Eyes filled with tears,she thanked Brian and pulled away.

My husband is a naturally modest,__________ man who feels rewarded in the giving,not in the __________ in life.So imagine his unexpected __________,when he later discovered the salesman had __________ the entire amount spent on the __________ tire to his bill!__________ the seven tires my husband bought,the salesman only __________ him for six.

The simply act of one man making the decision to share what he had,rather than worrying about what he would __________,changed things that night.