One day, hundreds of people were stuck in traffic on the highway in below-freezing temperatures due to a snowstorm. With the conditions making it _________ for rescue workers to help, many were trapped overnight with no access to _________.

But one stuck driver found a _________ spot in the despair. As she was sitting in her car fearing the _________, Casey Holihan and her husband, John Noe, _________ a bread truck just ahead of them in the jam. Willing to try just about anything, they called the customer service number listed on the back of the truck and left a _________ begging for the driver to open the back and _________ bread to the hungry passengers around them. It was a last-ditch effort, and the couple wasn’t very _________ about getting a response. But to their _________ they soon received a phone call from the company’s owner, Chuck Paterakis, with the news that he was __________ the truck’s driver to open up and pass out loaves of bread from his cargo. Overjoyed by the news, Holihan and Noe __________ the truck’s driver to bring much-needed things to the cars around them.

The simple loaves of bread were surely a ray of __________ in an impossibly disturbing situation. Holihan herself calls it “one of the __________ moments” she’s ever witnessed. This company could have made a(n) __________ from the bread but instead chose to help the people around them. That is just so incredible that someone chose __________ over profit, especially in a situation where people were so desperate.

Many people pass by the Mega shopping center every day. They have been used to the sweater-wearing dog calmly _________ for someone on the cold road. The clean sweater the dog wears shows that he isn’t lost. To make sure people don’t _________ him away and are friendly to him, his _________, a woman named Svetlana, always _________a hand-written “home” next to the dog. It's aimed to explain that he is _________ waiting for her to get off work to go home together. It’s said that the dog howls (犬吠) from morning till night if left alone in his owner’s _________. So Svetlana _________ to take him out by car in the morning and pick him up in the evening. She _________ him outside the Mega shopping center, where he waits like a _________ boy.

Svetlana said that she would spend her lunch break __________ him and taking him for a walk. She added they would __________ back home together after work.

“We __________ in a rented public apartment. I can’t leave him alone because the __________ say that he howls without me all the time. There is a seven-month-old child and a grandmother living next door to us. If he howls，we will be kicked out and __________ go, Svetlana said. “Luckily, we’ve found a way and he feels quite __________ now.”

My baby son was in the hospital, connected to a NG tube(鼻饲管).

I just couldn’t stand the _______ sight of food being slowly pushed through his nose into his stomach. The lovely dreams I had of nursing my baby, and rocking him while he fed, were _______. On the fifth day, I _______, saying I wanted to feed him with a bottle. The doctors _______ and closely recorded my son’s feeding to see if he was able to get _______ milk intake without the tube. 18 hours later, the doctors commanded the tube to be reset immediately.

The next morning, when I saw the tube in his tiny nose, a _______ that he wasn’t improving, I _______. The situation felt so _______. Seated close to my son’s bed, I started crying desperately.

Then came a young nurse. I couldn’t help asking again if we could take the tube out, though fully aware that she could not overrule the doctor’s _______.

She ________, “Not today. But remember, tomorrow is a new day.”

She’s ________. Today, there may be heartache, but tomorrow has its own ________ that NG tubes cannot touch. The advice of this nurse completely changed my ________ away from focusing on the challenges to seeing the promises tomorrow might bring.

On day ten, the doctors approved ________ the NG tube completely. ________, “tomorrow” came.