One of my fellow volunteers, a girl from Tanzania, seemed a bit desperate, so I asked what the problem was. She told me she had a friend back home, who was, really _______ with her university studies. It was beginning to look like financial difficulties, which would make it _______ for her to complete her course.

So this friend of mine had done something _______: she had sent all her pocket money for the month to Tanzania to _______ her friend! This meant that she didn’t have much food to eat, no money to go anywhere outside the village, no money to buy any clothes, and so on.

I was so _______ that she did this for her friend and I felt I had to do something. So, _______ my next trip to one of the nearby towns I walked into the fair trade shop to buy some food. I didn’t have much money left myself but I thought I’d buy her an extra box of the muesli we both liked and some rice. I started talking to the woman _______ in the shop, who was also a volunteer and _______ told her about my friend.

The woman looked at me, _______. “Does she eat pasta?” she asked. “Yes,” I replied. She immediately started to fill a bag with pasta, cookies, more muesli, sweets and other things until the bag was full. “Give her this for me. It’s my __________!” I couldn’t believe it but cried with __________.

I left the shop to go home with my __________ bag of food. I asked the woman her name. “Just Gloria! God bless both of you!” she said. Imagine my friend’s face when I arranged the gifts on my kitchen table. I have never seen her so happy! A few weeks later, she found Gloria in the shop and thanked her __________.

These two __________ women really showed me what true kindness and compassion is, and the __________ will stay with me for the rest of my life!

Every day, there are 25,000 flights in America. Accidents are so rare that flying is much ________ than car travel. But that doesn’t stop many people from feeling ________ when they are moving at 500 miles per hour, 33,000 feet above the ground.

That’s what ________ recently to a woman flying on a commercial airline. Floyd Dean-Shannon ________ the woman’s distress. As a flight attendant, he has plenty to do during a flight. But he paused and spoke ________ to the woman. Floyd calmly explained what the ________ was and all the other perfectly routine sounds you hear as a plane flies.

________ the woman began to calm down a bit, Floyd sat down in the aisle beside her and held her hand. He sat with her through the ________ flight. When Floyd learned it was another passenger’s birthday, he led the plane in a song to ________ — another way of making the woman feel safe by ________ her from her fears. He stayed by the woman’s side until it was time to land.

In a world where most focus on what’s happening on a screen, we can ________ occasionally and check on those ________ us. Like Floyd, we can be ________ enough to see to be there. We don’t have to be professional counselors; we just need to be ________. Having a friend when you most need it not only gets you through the ________ parts in your life — it also gives you the confidence to be a friend to others.

One day, when I was in high school, I saw a kid named Kyle from my class walking home from school with all his books. I thought to myself, “ _____ would anyone bring home all his books for the weekend? He must really be ________ .”

As I was walking, I saw several kids running toward him. They ran at him, ________all his books out of his arms and he fell down in the dirt. His glasses went _______and landed in the grass.

My ________ went out to him. So, I ran over to him.   ________ I handed him his glasses, he looked at me and said, “Hey, thanks!”

I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. As it ________ , he lived near me. We talked all the way home. Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends.

Kyle was the ________ student of our class, one of those guys that really found ______ during high school. Therefore he had the honor to prepare a ________ speech. On the graduation day, I could see that he was ________ . So, I patted(拍) him on the back and said, “Hey, big guy, you’ll be ________ !” He looked at me and smiled.

He cleared his throat, and began. “Graduation is a time to ________ those who helped you make it through those _______ years. Your parents, your teachers…but mostly your friends. I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best ________ you can give him.”

I just looked at my friend with _______ as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to ________himself over the weekend and was carrying his books home. “Thankfully, nothing happened. My friend _______ me from doing the unspeakable(不能说出来的).”

Not until that moment did I realize that you should never underestimate(低估) the _______of your actions. With one small act you can ________ a person’s life. For better or for worse.