When I was a student, my family went through a few rough financial years. We got by, but only with much effort and many _____.

I had a pick-up truck that was _____ breaking down and the thought of the 600 km drive to school in it was a (n) _____ one. As I drove away from home one day, my uncle walked up. I stopped and he _____ something onto my dashboard (仪表板).

He leaned against the window, speaking _____. “Years ago,” he said, “when I was a _____ student myself your grandfather once did this to me. I _____ one day I would return the _____. And now I have.”

Then he _____ without looking back, and I ______ he did so in order to hide his emotions.

A few miles later I opened the ______. It contained a few bank notes. It was a gift ______ more than twenty years later to a second generation; almost like a full circle, ______ I’m the only one who bears my grandfather’s name. The amount (金额) was not large. Twenty years ago it had been ______ to buy a full trolley of groceries, or a few tanks of fuel. Now it was just a (n) ______, something to express his good intentions. But my uncle was jobless at the time and I almost had no money. Therefore, for both of us, it was a ______ amount.

I paid it forward some years later to another poor boy with an old car, ______ the amount for inflation (通货膨胀). As far as I can remember, that boy has been the only one I’ve told this ______ to — until now. I can only_______ that one day he will pay it forward too.

I couldn’t help but feel that Grandpa had made a good ______ all those years ago.

“I was attacked by a tiger shark in October 1997. It was near my home on the island of Kanai. The waves were really good, so nothing was stopping us.”   That was until large shark came right up under Mike and _______ his teeth into Mike’s lower leg. There’d been no splashing, no noise, and Mike felt no pain, only intense pressure on his _______ body.

As he tried to get himself free, the shark bit down harder, shaking its head back and forth and tossing Mike around like a doll. Mike hit the shark hard in the face, again and again until the shark _______ him. As Mike swam back into shore, he felt his lower right leg spamming(痉挛); when he looked down, he realized it was _______. The shark had bit his lower leg off. Mike’s friends came to his aid immediately, and tried to control severe bleeding and rushed him to the hospital.

When Mike opened his eyes, he realized he was in the hospital.

During the next few weeks, Mike researched prosthetics (假肢) and considered the _______.

As soon as Mike was given the OK by his doctors, he did what many of us might consider _______: he started riding the waves again. In fact, his first time back was near the site of his attack. But Mike was unshaken. Instead, he was curious-why was he attacked? Mike _______ that the water had a fishy smell the morning of the attack. Was that what attracted the shark?

His curiosity led him to research sharks, and while he never_______ why he became a target, Mike did learn something that would change his life: Humans are far more _______ to sharks than the other way around, Mike tells Reader’s Digest. “I watched a documentary called Sharkwater, and I learned about the ________for shark fin soup and the fact that 70 million sharks a year are killed for their fins alone.”

His unique situation as a shark survivor empowered him to give sharks a ________, Mike says. He began working with the Hawaii state legislature (立法机关)to help pass a ________ on shark-related products.” I partnered with other like-minded shark attack survivors and marine biologists, and we headed to Washington to urge the government to create a nationwide bill protecting sharks.”

I was dropping my mom and sister off at the train station after their holiday visit. On the way I saw a man in a_________in an empty lot. It_________like he wasn’t wearing_________.

After dropping off my family, I went back to the lot and he was there. His wheelchair was on the incline (斜坡) that led to the_________and it looked like he was_________with his bare foot to keep from sliding into the street. I helped him to pick up his feet and pulled him back up into the lot. He didn’t respond when I asked if this was far enough. Then, I_________the box I had brought with me. It was a shoe box with a(n)_________pair of shoes that I had kept in my_________in case I found someone in need.

You should have seen the look on his face. First it was shock, and then it was pure _________.When he spoke, I couldn’t__________what he said, but I knew he was__________me.

On the way back to my car I saw a couple who were in__________and gave them a couple of my old bags. As I drove past the first man, I saw he had already__________one shoe and was working on the second.

Keeping old pairs of shoes in my car for__________like this is so much more important than throwing them out or__________them at a yard sale.