Jody, a high school wrestling coach sprang into action after hearing that his longtime friend Ray needed a kidney (肾).

“Last year Ray gave me a call and he sounded________. I asked him if he was okay. He stopped for a moment and said, ‘I’m________ ,’” Jody explained.

Without thinking twice, Jody began________.Unfortunately, he found out he wouldn’t be a kidney match for Ray, who was running out of time because of how________he was on the donor list.

“I quickly realized through the________donor program at LV Hospital, I could actually donate to the kidney bank,________another person’s life who I don’t know, and Ray would move up on the kidney donor recipient (受方) list,” said Jody.

And that’s________what he did. With the support of his family, Jody got the green light and________with the surgery.

Following the surgery, Jody’s doctor told him the________fact: “We found cancer in you.” ________, Jody was in the early stages of a type of cancer that usually goes________ until it’s too late. If not for his________to donate an organ, doctors might not have been able to________the disease in time.

Jody announced the fortunate save on Facebook, “ Sooner or later, if you take actions based on ‘goodness’ and in the best________of others, it comes full circle back,” he said. “It was a________that I donated my kidney. I got a bonus gift and saved my own life!”

My father and I always had a bit of trouble in our relationship. It’s not that we didn’t love each other. It’s just that we used to have ________ opinions. My dad is one of the most hard-working men I know, but I was a(n) ________. I played sports as a kid, but________ when I was making progress. Then I showed an ________ in music. My father got excited and ________ me a guitar when I was about eight. But I didn’t like it until I was a teenager. During those teen years, I took up my guitar and ________ playing along.

Then I went to college. My father thought I should focus more on my ________ when I had more fun playing music. I dreamed to be a musician. When I grew into a young man, I suddenly fell ________ ill one day and it was discovered that I had a terrible kidney (肾) disease. I had to accept treatments all my life, or get a transplant (移植).

I felt like there was a heavy ________ on my shoulders. Life became hard for me. But I was lucky enough because of my loving parents who ________ me and took care of me. While trying to ________ just what to do with my life, my father got tested to see ________ he was the right man to give me his kidney. I tried to refuse, but he’d hear ________ of it. He saved my life at last.

Two years ago, I ________ a band. He had always wanted to play in a band, but ________ got the chance when he was young. It was one of the greatest gifts I could give to him.

For a long time, a boy wondered why his deskmate was always the first in the class, whereas he could only rank the 2lst. He asked his mom, “Am I more stupid than others? How come I always _______?” Mom was aware that her son’s self-respect had been damaged by the_______ system.

She was intended to say that intelligence_______ and her son’s friend really was smarter. Thank goodness she_______ the intention to say it.

After entering high school, her son tried as hard as he could, but her son’s friend still _______ him. But she was_______ of her boy for his hard. She decided to take him on a trip to the_______. On the trip, she at last_______ an answer for him.

Today her son no longer_______ rankings. He is now the top student in the top university he ________. Invited to speak to his old high school, he mentioned a valuable childhood ________:Once, on a trip to the sea, my mom said to me: ‘Do you see the seabirds________ food out there?’ When a wave comes near, the little birds rise quickly. The “clumsy” seagulls (海鸥) are far less ________ and have to struggle to get away from the________. But these “clumsy” birds prove to have the biggest, strongest wings, which allow them to travel the ________ and leave the little birds behind. Son, I felt you are one of those seagulls.”