Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches (沟) along the highway I travel daily to work.

For 2 weeks, there is one particular blue flower that has always ________ my eye. I’ve noticed that it blooms (开花) only in the ________ hours. The afternoon sun is too warm for it.

This spring, I started a wildflower ________ in our yard. I can look out of the kitchen window while doing the ________ and see the flowers. I’ve often thought that those lovely blue flowers from the ________ would look great in that bed alongside other wildflowers. Every day I ________ the flowers thinking, “I’ll stop on my way home and ________ them.” Gee, I don’t want to get my good clothes ________. Whatever the reason, I stopped to dig them ________.

One day on my way home from work, I was quite ________ to see that the highway department had removed the ditches and the ________ blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, “Way to go, you ________ too long. You should have done it when you first saw them in flowers this spring.”

A week ago we were shocked to learn that my oldest sister-in-law died from cancer. Unfortunately, ________ age and distance, we haven’t been as close as we all would have liked. I couldn’t help but see the connection between the blue flowers and the ________ between my husband’s sister and us.

And yes, if I see the blue flowers again, you can bet I’ll ________ and transport them to my wildflower garden.

One day, I was on my way to a meeting in town with a colleague (同事) of mine. We had already _________ the car and were walking toward the meeting place. _________, we saw an old man with a walking stick trip up (绊倒) on a _________ of a building about 20 feet in front of us.

We immediately _________ to sit him up and checked if he was _________. He had broken his glasses and _________ his nose a little, which was bleeding. Neither I nor my colleague had any tissues _________ another passer-by stopped to give the old man some tissues.

We helped him to his _________; he was looking for the local museum which was _________ on the other side of the road. We held his __________ and walked him across the road and into the museum. We helped him __________ on a chair and informed (告知) a woman clerk there, who got him some __________. And the old man drank it up. We told the clerk to __________ him a taxi and I gave her $10, telling her to use it to __________his taxi home. He had __________ that he lived about a 20-minute walk away. As we left, he thanked us and called us “__________ Persons”.

If you see an elderly person in __________, even though he/she is just walking across the road or even if he/she has __________ something, please help him/her. You can even just __________ at him/her and be nice. That is somebody’s grandfather or grandmother and all of you reading this would want somebody to do the __________ for your own grandparents.

I sat down at my desk and started writing a letter of thankfulness, but when it came to actually putting the letter into the mailbox. I__________.I couldn’t do it. I suddenly felt a sense of __________and insecurity(不安).

The letter was to an old teacher with whom I kept in__________ on Facebook. For months, I read about what she __________ on her Facebook page, which helped me to live my life differently. Her volunteer work wasn’t huge. __________, she was doing small, local good deeds. __________, she changed my views on the world and for some reason, I felt I should let her know how her example__________influenced me.

I could have easily sent her an email, but that seemed not enough for such an important thank-you. That’s why I ended up__________the letter. But now here I was, standing before the mailbox, unable to put the envelope inside. What was stopping me? It suddenly hit me that I was __________of being too nice. I guess I felt strange__________it wasn’t like she was my best friend or a relative. Maybe my__________was too heartfelt. Thinking this over, I put the envelope in the mailbox__________.

Weeks later I received a message from her. It turned out she was__________ a hard time and my note__________a lot to her. She said she had no idea she was playing such a big__________in others’ life.

Not only did this letter make her happier, but her response to it brightened my world and __________my joy as well. I was so__________that it had such a great influence on her that I decided to write a letter of __________ to someone each month. Now it’s easier for me to__________the goodness in others and be more__________for this beautiful life I’m living.