Our house was across the street from the entrance of a famous hospital in the city. We lived downstairs and _________ the upstairs rooms to outpatients (门诊病人) at the clinic. As I was _________ supper one summer evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened it and saw a truly awful-looking man whose face was _________ and red.

He told me he’d been _________ a room since noon, but he had no success. “I guess it’s my _________. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments…”

For a moment, I _________ but his following words persuaded me, “I could sleep in this chair on the porch (门厅). My bus leaves early in the morning.” So I told him we would find him a bed but to rest on the porch.

When I had finished the dishes, l went to talk with him for a few minutes. He told me he fished for a living to _________ his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who was _________ disabled from a back injury. He didn’t tell it by way of complaint, but was grateful that no pain _________ his disease, which was a form of skin cancer. He thanked God for giving him the __________ to keep going. On his __________ trip, he brought a big fish as a gift. Other times we received packages in the mail. When I received these packages, I often thought of a(an) __________ our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning. “Did you keep that awful-looking man last night? You may lose roomers by __________ such people!”

Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But I know our family will always be __________ to have known him; from him, we learned to accept the bad without complaint and the good with __________.

What a man offered to take care of a stranger’s baby so that the baby's mother could rest on a recent flight, many people on the plane watched it.

“It was so ________,” one passenger, Andrea Byrd said. She shot a photo of the man ________ the baby up and down the aisle and ________ it on Facebook, where it spread ________.

“I was ________,” Byrd wrote in the post, which has been shared almost 100,000 ________. “Not because he was white and she was black ________ because it showed me today that there are still good people out there in a world ________ evil.”

The Southwest Airlines flight was ________ from Minneapolis to Atlanta on September. 5.

The mom, Monica Nelson, who is pregnant, said she had been ________ about traveling alone with her 20-month-old son Luke. When he grew annoyed and wouldn’t ________, the man seated next to them ________ her by offering to help, she said. He walked ________ the aisle holing the boy, relaxing him to sleep.

“It was such a ________ because I was a little worried traveling ________ my husband there to help out” said Nelson, a teacher who lives in Atlanta. “I’m still very ________—he was so kind.” She said the man’s name is Reid, and she learned that he also has a son ________ Luke.

Byrd said die was particularly ________ by the scene because she has two children of her own and could put herself in the mom’s ________. Now their story has touched thousands of people across the world, reminding people how powerful a simple act of ________ can be.

The sun was preparing to rest for the evening. Saying goodbye to the clan (氏族), I headed back to camp. I looked forward to setting my ________ aside for an evening to reflect on my time in Ethiopia.

I wasn’t long headed home when I heard a ________ behind me. “Photo, photo, photo.” A young Surma boy about 7 or 8 years old followed closely at my ________. I breathed a tired sigh. I hoped he would find someone else to ________ his photograph, but he kept following me. He managed to draw my attention. With eyes ________ open, full of hope, he asked me again with ________ on his face, “Photo?”

As I looked at him, half interested, an idea for a composition ________ into my mind. I prepared to take the photograph, but his energy suddenly shifted from eagerness to shyness to fear. No matter what I told him to do—how to stand, how to ________ — I just couldn’t get the shot. Struck by ________, I gave up. The boy looked alone and awkward. He’d wanted his photograph taken, but now he went camera ________.

To cheer him, others in his clan gathered around, clapping loudly. ________, the boy’s face immediately broke into a smile. I intuitively (凭直觉地) took a few shots of the moment.

That photograph turned out to be better than the ________ I’d imagined. Reflecting on my experience with the Surma boy, I realized I had been ________ in my own ideas and wants. When I agreed to take the shot, I was looking for a ________ end result for myself. But all the boy had really wanted was to be seen for a moment. That was the moment that needed to be ________.