Night fell. Falter returned home, teary-eyed and_______. The 33-year-old, Professional photographer had just run from one end of Hawaii’s Waimea Bay, to the other, _______ his “baby”, a custom-made blue surfboard.

When back home, Falter wrote on Facebook: “Was surfing tonight and_______ my baby.” He hoped it would wash ashore soon and that whoever_______it would have also seen his Facebook post. Unfortunately, the currents swept it out to sea,_______Oahu.

Weeks passed with no_______ of the surfboard. Then months. Lyle Carlson, who had customized the board, comforted Falter with the possible reunion but nobody knew when.

Falter never completely forgot about the board. Finally the board_______ on the remote island of Sarangani, Philppines --- six months after and over 5,000 miles away. It was discovered by a local fisherman, who sold the unusual_______to Branzuela, for whom _______ the big waves had been his dream.

The once-blue board had turned pale with its________markings still there: “Lyle Carlson Surfboards, Oahu, Hawaii”. Branzuela soon________ Carlson online, who, in turn, contacted Falter.

Falter confirmed the board was his and was________ to learn his “baby” had floated across the world’s largest ocean and________.He was thrilled, but not only for himself. Seeing interest in the sport grow________ a lot to Falter and he couldn’t imagine a better________to the story.

According to a media release , a criminal had escaped from prison. In panic , he ran to a _________ living area close to the prison. He tried to ________ grandfather Luis Mena’s truck after he ________ his granddaughters Stephanie, 3, and Amy, 7, who had just come from the daycare center.

“ We started ________, ” Mena told the media. The man ________ the door to the driver’s side of the truck and tried to ________ Mena out of the vehicle. “ My T-shirt got all ________. He grabbed me by my T-shirt and threw me to the ground. ” Mena’s head hit the ground violently and lost ________. The man escaped in the truck , with Stephanie and Amy still in the back seat.   That was my biggest ________,” Mena recalled.

However , when he came to himself , he learned that Amy had ________ to get out of the truck before the man fled the scene in the ________ vehicle. “She jumped from the truck and pulled her sister out so they could escape and be ________.” Mena proudly accounted his granddaughter’s ________ actions in detail. ________, police found the truck. The criminal reportedly ________ it and ran away into the woods. Later, a police dog team caught and ________him. He was taken to the ________ to treat the dog bites. The community where the family lives ________ the 7-year-old girl as a ________ after she saved both herself and her younger sister from the ________.

I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice.

As we ________our coffee, a man came in and sat at a(n)________table beside us. He called the ________and placed his order saying. “Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the ________". We heard this order with rather interest and observed that he was ________with one cup of coffee but he________ for two. As soon as he left, the waiter________a piece of paper on the wall saying “A Cup of Coffee".

While we were still there, two ________men entered and ordered three cups of coffee. Two on the table and one on the wall. They had two cups of coffee________ paid for three and left. This time also. The waiter did the ________;he pasted a piece of paper on the wall ________,"A cup of coffee."

It seemed that this gesture was a norm(惯例)at this place. However, it was something ________and puzzling for us. After a few days, we again had a(n)________to go to this coffee shop. While we were enjoying our coffee a man walked in. The way this man was dressed did not match the standard nor the atmosphere of this coffee shop.________was obvious from the looks on his face. As he ________himself, he looked at the wall and said. “One cup of coffee from the wall. “The man had his coffee and left without paying. We were________ to watch all this when the waiter ________a piece of paper from the wall and threw it into the dustbin.

Now it was no surprise for us the matter was very ________. I was________to tears by the great respect for the needy shown by the people of this town.

When we analyze this story, along with the other characters, we need to remember the role played by the wall that ________the generosity(慷慨)and care of the people of this town.