As Ryan Lee Cox was waiting to pay for his coffee order at an Indiana, US fast food drive-through, he decided to try something he^’d seen on a TV news show - he paid for the coffee order of the driver in the car behind. The small _______ made the young businessperson feel _______, so he shared his experience on Facebook. An old friend suggested that _______ paying for people’s coffee, Ryan put that money towards helping school students pay off their delinquent(拖欠税款的) school lunch accounts. Sometimes because of _______ hardship, the accounts fall into _______ balance and the kids suffer. She got the idea after hearing that a Utah student was _______ lunch.

So the following week Ryan visited his nephew’s school _______ and asked if he could give some help, and _______ $100. Impressed by his _______, the supervisor began ________ fines before Ryan asked what the entire school’s balance for lunches was. It was $1261.98. “I’ll see you next Friday,^” he told the supervisor.

When he got home, Ryan shared what he had done on social ________, and that he ________ to help Lakeside Elementary have no lunch accounts in the negative. He set up a bank account and encouraged people to ________. Their target was ________ in a matter of days. With more than enough money to pay for Lakeside, Ryan ________ another school.

Within two weeks they had ________ $4142.82 and were able to help four schools. Inspired by people’s ________, Ryan organized a non-profit called Feed the Kids, Inc., which ________ a website, www.kidslunches.org, for people to start ________ for specific schools or to set up repeated payments to ________ a student. Today, this “paying it forward” organization is onto its fifth school.

We have, like in many more countries, refugees(难民)in our country. Through the years I have tried to   _________ without pay by teaching women our country's language as one of their _________ . They have to learn the language, and also our culture, for example, what to_________when they have to go to the doctor, or how to express what's_________in such a place like a farm.

Only by_________the language will they be able to join in our society. Once a year, just before Christmas break, all the women from different countries make delicious food which are _________ for us all together.

Many _________ I have noticed that it seems _________ for women to accept any help than men, probably   _________ the children that they have to raise.

Problems with the kids __________ happen due to being in a __________ country with a different culture and another __________ . The women often miss their homes very much and feel __________ , because they have to get used to this life as __________ as possible. I have seen the __________and pain in their eyes. It is so good to give some comfort(安慰)in one way or another, even just to be there for them. And it is really __________when you make friends.

They and many more new, people are trying to __________ up their new homes in this new country. Will we be able to get them out of __________ , for everyone? And nowadays, though at times their lives look almost broken, I __________ it won't always. Because wherever we __________ , we are together, as we are citizens of the world.

Fifty years ago on a hot July 4th afternoon, an agent showed us a house in the South Farmingdale—North Massapequa area. My husband and I liked the house. The price was _______ our reach. So we made our decision to buy it.

But there was one issue. It was a corner property (房产). We both agreed there had to be a _______. So after moving in, my husband put up a fence and I painted it _______.

There have been many_______ in our lives since that fence went up. Our four children have grown up and _______. Most of the old _______ have been replaced with new ones. _______ , the fence remains, and at the moment, so do I.

The fence has been _______ more often than I can remember. Most times a broken board or two was _______ repaired. During the past ten years, it has been repainted professionally.

But more ________, the white fence had turned green with mildew (霉菌). The boards were too old to paint. So this spring I had it rebuilt and repainted. Within a week, however, I was________ to discover that a part of it was destroyed.

A post (桩) was ________ and some boards were left lying on the ground. 1 don’t know who or what did this. The fence is ________ a thing, not a life, but for the first time in the years I had spent on my corner, I felt defeated (被打败). I felt as if possibly there was a(n)________: Time to move on, stop trying. Defeat is not usually part of my make-up. This time it was.

As I was taking a photo of the damage for a police report, a young man ________me from across the street. He ________ himself as a relatively new neighbor, and offered sympathy (同情) for the________. I appreciated meeting him, and also his ________.

The next evening as I ate my dinner, I heard a ________ outside. When I walked into the yard, I realized the sounds came from my property. As I walked closer, I saw the neighbor I had just________ repairing my fence.

There were still warm-hearted people who loved our community and reached out to a stranger in my time of need.