Tom was a driver. One day, he was tired after a day’s driving. On the way home, he noticed a woman carrying a boy in her arms, who was rushing (冲) to every car passing by and trying to _________ one. Her behavior was so _________ that she might be hit. But many drivers could be frightened by her _________, and no one was willing to stop. She was so _________ that Tom slowed down and wanted to find out the _________.

“Can I help you, madam?” Tom asked. The woman _________ and said, “Please go to the nearest hospital immediately.” Later, Tom learned that woman’s child Peter was suffering a heavy fever. Without hesitation, Tom _________ against time and drove them all the way to hospital. Peter was sent inside for _________. Half an hour later, the doctor said, “Mrs. Thomas, your son is out of danger now.” Mrs. Thomas gave a breath, _________ and turned to Tom, thanking him and trying to pay twice but he refused it and said “No money for those making trips to the hospital. This is my __________. ”

Fifteen years later, retired Tom __________ a taxi to hospital for a test. In the car, the young driver said, “Sir, all the trips to the hospital are __________.” Tom couldn’t understand, asking for the reason. The young man replied, “Because a taxi driver once saved me when I had a fever and he never __________me for the trip to hospital. His __________ inspired me to do like this. ” “What’s your name?” “My name is Peter.”

Tom didn’t speak, but with tears in eyes he was __________ by the young man’s action as well as his.

In the evening, Kasi usually gets out of a park and returns home via Hilpher Road. That road has a very unique _________, with kids playing and people bargaining. One day she found a _________ just wandering in the lawn(草地) beside her house. His red coat made dull grass in the lawn _________. Kasi decided to wait for another fifteen _________ for the boy.

Then the boy sat on the bench. He was extremely _________, fear floating in his eyes. She clearly read the _________. After all, she had _________ been homeless. Her own eyes were filled with the memories of _________ times and tears rolled down from her pretty eyes. Yes, she once lived under a bridge where life was _________.

Then, she didn’t know how that fifteen minutes had __________. Still the boy was there. He was looking at a biscuit wrapper lying there. She stood up, wiped off her __________ and went to the boy and smiled. The boy got __________ and backed off and started crying. People in the park suddenly became very “__________” and ran to that boy, who opened up about Kasi. Everyone just got an opportunity to __________ Kasi and said unkind words about her existence. She needed to __________ immediately.

After reaching home, she could not __________ anything. So she put on her clothes and left. When she got to the __________, the poor boy appeared again. She was filled with a mixture of __________, but she could not help but start __________ those people. She immediately __________ the boy up and took him to her home. She decided to think of him as one of the family.

“You’re going to buy me a bicycle?” I asked in_________. “Have you forgotten how old I am?” “No, I haven’t, and what_________does it make? Everybody of our age who travels in a motorhome has bicycles,” my husband said. I could not believe my ears.

When I was six, a girl was hit by a car while riding a bike and_________instantly. My parents told me bicycling would kill me. So, I never_________to ride.

But after I had children, I satisfied their_________to own bicycles and taught them to ride at an early age. Of course, I never_________that I would buy one for myself.

_________, I didn’t want to mess up my first travel before it started and I knew I needed to face my_________, so I decided to go along with this. One is never too_________to learn a new skill, I told myself.

After buying a bike, we were on our way to my first__________. With sweaty hands and a flying heart, I__________held the handlebars(车把) and balanced on those two wheels. There were a few sudden stops and__________starts over the course of the next thirty minutes, but I did it. I learned how to ride a bike.

Since that day, I have__________throughout Texas, California and Virginia. Bicycling has truly__________my retirement years, given me more self-confidence and, more__________, taught me that a simple, courageous act knows no age.