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 __________.

I became a gardener when I was twelve. My early _________ of gardening may not have originated from my love for nature. It was to _________ my parents.

At that time, we had a big yard in which a beautiful maple tree stood. But my mother often looked with _________ at this work of natural art. Those golden leaves seemed like tons of rubbish to her, “something else to _________!” Seeing the neighbors busy with gardening, my father even thought it a waste of time.

At that age, I always did something _________ to whatever my parents did! If gardening were something they found _________, I would plant a garden!

I planted some lily (百合花) seeds in the yard. But they failed to _________. I continued to plant sunflower seeds and roses. Wild _________ joy, I found the first rose bloom (开花). One by one, the flowers bloomed their heads off. _________, I was touched by this land of wonder. __________, my parents showed no interest in my garden. My father even __________ at me because he found it was __________ to move around my garden to the driveway. To my mother’s __________, I put in her vase my real roses which, in her eyes, were simply weeds __________ flowers.

Regardless of their __________, I kept on planting my garden and __________ to enjoy the pleasure of gardening. Plants make such good companions: they breathe, they bloom, and they __________ to care and love.

It has been many years since I made my first garden out of my desire to __________ my parents. Today I become known as Mrs. Greenthumbs, teaching gardening and hosting a gardening show which makes my parents feel very __________. And now I could say it is my __________ for nature that makes me a real gardener.

The other day, my husband and I took the kids for dinner at a branch of Pizza Express. There was a very friendly lady ____alone at the next table. When the time came for her to pay the ___, her bank card was declined. The waitress told her, in a very kind way, that there was a ____but that she would call her manager for help. Seeing this, my husband ___got up and told the waiting staff that we would pay for the lady's meal.____, when the manager arrived, he explained to the lady that although she couldn't use her ___, there was no need to ___. Pizza Express authorizes (授权) the restaurant to____two free meals per month and on this ____, they would like to provide her with a free meal.

She was extremely grateful and apologetic that she had been ____to pay. We were relieved that the lady had been ____with dignity instead of being placed in a ___position.

Then, the manager_____our table. He said that ___we had shown such generosity, he would like to donate the second free meal that the restaurant was able to ____to us! we were absolutely ___! I had never heard of any chain restaurant behaving in such a(n) ___way. We were quite____with gratitude. I made sure that the lady was able to get home OK, and then we ____the staff and left ourselves. I was really impressed by how the restaurant had treated this ____case.