Last summer, I went home to visit my parents in Brunsville, Minnesota. Sometimes, a 14-year-old boy, Matthew, would come to help. Early one morning, as I was _____, I heard him outside cutting the grass. I paid no ____ and went back to sleep.

I dreamt I was in the ____ bathroom, standing in front of the sink （水槽）and looking at my face in the____ . But there was something ____ about my face. I looked down at the sink, and the ____ was running in a circle down the drain （排水沟）.I held my hands under the water and __ washing my hands with soap. _____, I looked at the face that wasn't my face.

I ____ washing my hands, but my left thumb __ . Then I looked down at the sink again, and there was blood running into the water, _____round and round in that counter-clockwise （逆 时针的）circle. Blood was rushing from my __ , pouring out from the fatty part ____ below the knuckle（关节）,then running down my arm and dropping off my elbow into the sink.

Just then I heard a voice ____ to me. "Jim! Jim!" I woke up and realized that it was my mother calling me from the top of the ____ . She told me to come quickly. I rushed up to her. Matthew had hurt himself cutting the grass, she said, and she ____ me to go to the upstairs bathroom to help him.

I walked into the bathroom and was____to see Matthew standing in front of the mirror and holding his left hand over the sink. Blood was ____ out from a cut between his thumb and first finger. The blood was running down his ____ and into the water, going round and round as it ____ down the drain.

When I was little, I often helped my mother plant our family’s garden. In April, I would kneel by Mum’s side for hours, carefully digging holes and ______ seeds into the earth.

When I grew up, I was unwilling to do any planting. ______, my mother never said much about my decision until two years ago. I was leaving home when Mum ______ me.

“Would you please help me with the planting today?” she asked, I mumbled (咕哝) something along the ______ of, “Uh, maybe … I’ll see. By the time I left the house, Mum was already in the garden. She ______ for a moment as I walked past, and from the corner of my eye I saw a certain ______ in her stare. A few hours later, I decided to head back home to help her and felt very _____   for my selfless decision. But I was too late.

I ______ little about that day until nearly a year later, Mum unexpectedly ______ her friend Sara to cancer. She went to see how the two children were ______ the sudden loss. There Mum learned the answer. “Mummy made me my own garden,” Rachel said ______, leading her outdoors to see the masterpiece. Sara had decided to plant her children something that would ______ long after she was gone.

As I listened to my mother tearfully tell Sara’s story, I realized the true ______ of a garden. Our annual planting was about kneeling together, planting potential life and creating the best ______ together.

I won’t ever ______ the planting day again.

I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a town of Italy.

As we enjoyed our coffee, a man entered and sat beside us. He called the waiter over, saying, ”Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the _________”

We heard his order with _______ and noticed that he was served one cup of coffee _________he paid for two.

When he left, the waiter put a piece of paper on the wall saying "A Cup of Coffee".

While we were still there, two other men entered and ______three cups of coffee , two on the table and one on the wall. They had two but paid for ______.   This time also, the waiter did the same thing.   It was ______unusual for us.

After a few days, we had a chance to enter this coffee shop again. While we were enjoying our coffee, a man _______appeared homeless entered. He looked at the wall and said, "One cup of coffee from the wall."

The waiter served a cup of coffee to this man with _____. The man had his coffee and left without _______. We were amazed to watch all of this as the waiter ________ a piece of paper off the wall and threw it into the bin.

Now it was no surprise for us---the matter was very ______. The people of   this town showed great respect for those people who needed help.

Just think about ______ this man wanted. He didn’t have to lose his face to ask for a(n)_______ cup of coffee.   _____asking or knowing who was giving him this cup of coffee, he only looked at the wall, placed an order,_____ his coffee and left.

It’s a truly beautiful thing---probably the most beautiful wall anywhere in the world.