Driving home from work every day on a long winding country road, I passed a house where an elderly man sat on his front porch（走廊）.I had been _____ to him only when I first moved into my home.

For these past fifteen years, I have _____ my window, waved, and shouted, "Hi, Charlie." I felt _____ to greet him in this way because I couldn't _____ going through a day without hearing someone say my name. I felt he also needed to hear his name _____ by someone else.

I used to _____ at his wife, too, when she was out walking their dog. She was a（n）_____ woman in a long wool coat, whatever the _____. I didn't know her name, but I'd _____ and say "Hi, Grandma" and she'd smile and wave back.

But then came the day when she was not ______ walking their dog；instead, Charlie was doing so. I realized he was alone, and the desire to greet him grew ______. My window was rolled down before I came around the corner, and ______ he was not on the porch, I'd shout to him, hoping that in his ______ he'd hear me. As long as there was a ______ on in the house, I felt that he was all right.

But that day came when he had to sell his belongings; Charlie's pickup truck was for ______ on the front lawn. A few days later, a sign was ______, and I knew Charlie was gone. I still wave and ______, "Hi, Charlie" as I pass just as I did in the past. The house is dark now.

It is my ______ that all of us need to be greeted at least once a day and that we need to hear our names spoken aloud by another person, to know someone sees us and ______ the truth of our being. I believe it is our duty to greet each other each day, in this way to prove that ______.

Sanford Greenberg was once a lucky guy. A poor kid from Buffalo, New York, he was ____ into Columbia University on a full scholarship and had a great ____, Arthur Garfunkel. But in his third year of college, Greenberg’s ____changed—he was going blind. He was so ____ that he refused to see anyone from college. But Garfunkel went up to Buffalo, ____ Greenberg to go back to Columbia and offered to be his _____

Greenberg returned to campus. Garfunkel and two other roommates read textbooks to him, taking time out form their own studies, and Greenberg ____ scoring straight A’s. ____ , he was afraid of getting around alone and relied on his friends to help him.

Then, one afternoon, Greenberg and Garfunkel went to Midtown Manhattan. When it was time for Greenberg to ____, Garfunkel said he had an appointment and couldn’t ____ him. Greenberg panicked. They argued, and Garfunkel walked off, leaving Greenberg ____in Grand Central Terminal. Greenberg stumbled (跌跌撞撞地走)through the rush-hour crowd. He ____ a shuttle train west to Times Square, then changed to an uptown train. Four miles later, he ____at the Columbia University stop. At the university’s gate, someone ____him.

“Oops, excuse me, sir” Greenberg ____the voice. It was Garfunkel’s. Greenberg’s first ____was anger, but in the next second, he realized what he had just _____ -- and realized, too, who had made it possible. “It was one of the most brilliant ____” Greenberg says. “Arthur had been with me the whole way.”

After graduation, Greenberg got his doctor’s degree from Harvard and became a successful inventor and businessman. _______blind, Greenberg sees everything. “You are talking,” he always says, “to the_____ man in the world.”

It was hot and humid. I _______ myself out of the house to ride my bike along the Hudson River. I had _______ myself I would learn to ride with no hands and my summer freedom is decreasing. _______ lifting my hands before losing balance, I rode steadily up the bike path.

Later, I parked my bike and lay down on a wooden _______ Just as I got _______, a man appeared in my vision. “It looks like it’s going to rain,” he said. “I was just like you once,” the man continued. “One day, I went for a bike ride and lay down on a bench, _______ it started to rain. People walking by me probably thought I was _______” I listened, with the rain falling down. “Rain is like therapy (治疗),” he said, “_______ you just lie there and let it fall on your face.”

“I’m taking a tai chi class, and there’s this word, Kua, that means ‘Everything in the _______ is connected.’” He began to sway (摇晃) a little. “When the shoulders move, the hips move. Everything is connected.”The rain fell ________, and I told the man I’d better get home.“Nice to meet you,” he said, and we called each other’s bikes beautiful before ________ forever.

I had never ridden in the rain before. I was ________ that I wouldn’t be able to practice my hands-free skills on the way home. But then a(an)________ thought came into my mind: Why not? The wind and icy summer rain beat my face ________ my bent knees took turns being first and I ________ my arms in the air, my balance holding strong. I yelled to no one ________ I’d never been more truly in the moment. Everything was connected.