The Youth Commission meeting (青年委员会)only just started;With piles of homework sitting on my desk at home，I didn't wanted to ________ the youth involvement in the annual holiday parade in the meeting, much less ________ the speech of Ray D.

Ray D. came to every meeting of the Youth Commission. The local papers ________ him as “a thorn（刺）in public official’s side-open, honest and overactive.”He gave himself the ________ of “Citizen Ray” and even wore a baseball cap with this name printed on the front. He came to the meetings and ________ unsafe bike lanes and noise complaints, ______they had nothing to do with our ________ and we could do nothing about them. He always went over the two-minute limit for guest speakers, and would not stop ________ until one of us told him his ________ was up.

After countless nights of staying up to finish my ________ because of meetings that ran ________, largely due to distractions provided by Citizen Ray, I began to hate his ________. Why did he waste his time with the Youth Commission, when we couldn’t ________ him with all of his issues? ________, we planned youth forums and relayed information about the town government to our peers; we didn’t fix problems or give out building permits that he seemed to ________.

It took me several months to ________ understand the motivations of Citizen Ray. Most people in their late seventies are ________ to leave the workplace and live in the relaxation provided by ________. Ray D, however, considered participating in the public good as his duty as a(n) ________. His efforts should be admired, not hated. After all, Ray is motivated, dedicated and ambitious. His persistence and ________ would prove valuable in any field of study or work, and I realized I should value his presence.

When I was a teenager I was in a group of students who took a trip to Pittsburgh. Being a country boy, I found it_______just being in such a big city. While most of the students headed for the mall then I decided to tour the streets_______.It was almost Christmastime and the store windows were filled with_______displays. I bought several cinnamon sticks(肉桂棒) to ward off (挡住) the_______while walking and looking at the sights.

At some point,_______,the stores became less and less and the bars became more and more. I realized I had crossed into a not so_______section of town. I saw a small bus stop and decided to sit and take a rest before walking back. The bus stop was just in front of a_______store and before long an old woman in an old coat came out. She was carrying two large_______in one hand. Her other hand held a cane that steadied her slow,_______walk. Her young, dark-haired granddaughter clutched her coat as they__________their way to the bench.I__________at them both and we talked a bit about how cold it was before the bus__________.When it arrived I picked up the old lady’s bags and carried them up the steps. Then I helped her granddaughter up while the lady slowly climbed on behind us I pulled out my__________cinnamon stick and gave it to the sweet girl while her grandma smiled her__________to me. I got off the bus and looked up to the window where the little, curly-haired Child of God was waving goodbye to me. Then I started back to meet the other students a little__________at heart if not in body. As I was__________the corner, though, a voice called out from an alley. “Hey man! Want to get__________?” I smiled and said. “No thanks. I__________got. ”

No drug in the world can ever__________the high that comes from one__________act, one shared laugh, one second of giving love.

One day last June, Clifford Luther served a burger and fries to a man passing through his restaurant, Old West Express, in Saskatchewan, Canada. Two ____ later, the man returned and wrote him a ____ for $500,000. “I thought, they were good burgers and fries, _____ they weren’t that good,” Luther told CTV News.

The ____ man was Bob Erb of British Columbia, who won Canada’s $25 million Max jackpot (累计赌注) in November 2018 and has been giving money to people ____. He’s donated his_____ to food banks, the old people, and some organizations, and he ____ 20 people in Terrace, his hometown, to get necessary care they couldn’t _____.

While giving the burger that first afternoon, Luther ____ Erb that his 25-year-old daughter had just got cancer in Vancouver, about 1,000 miles away. “He and I had a _______ experience. One of my children had cancer, too. But he died four years ago. So, I know the ______ a parent has,” says Erb. “I ____ on the way home I’d ____ him some money so he could go to see his _____.”

Two days later when Erb was on his way back to British Columbia, he ____ the restaurant for another burger, which Luther ____ to buy him because Erb had tipped him well just two days ago. Erb said “no way” and asked the restaurant owner for a ____, then wrote the check and left it on the table. “Luther looked at the check and couldn’t _____ anything. He just held his arms out,” Erb says.

Erb, 60, ____ works on a building site part-time and hasn’t ____ twice about the $7 million he’s given to his family, friends, and society. “If you have enough to feed yourself, you help others out,” he says.