One spring afternoon I was driving down the road. A boy was standing on the side of the road, and he was ________. A driver had come down the road and smashed (冲撞) through his group of a dozen sheep, which made half ________. The driver never stopped. But we did.

The boy was nine or ten years old. I learned that his name was Eduardo. Eduardo’s family ________ those sheep to make money. It was Eduardo’s ________ to take care of them. But now he must go home and tell his family that they’d lost half of their sheep.

As Eduardo looked up at me, I took just a few ________. He was very shocked and upset. Then after a few minutes, we ________. We didn’t give him anything, because we have nothing to give — no food, no fruit. We did not give money, because it is not something we do when we are on a ________ trip.

When I got back to my hotel, I couldn’t take my ________ off Eduardo. I thought about his broken sheep, his tears and his family. I realized what it meant to lose that many sheep. The mountains of Peru can be a (an) ________ place to live and work.

As soon as I returned home, I spoke with the people at National Geographic. I convinced (说服) them to ________ the picture of Eduardo. I wanted people everywhere to ________ what it’s like in Peru for the people who don’t have anything. National Geographic magazine did that. But I didn’t ________ what happened next. Children and other readers from all over the world ________ to that photo. They were very generous (慷慨的). They sent in more than $6,000.

An organization that aids people found Eduardo’s family. They replaced the boy’s ________. They built a water pump for the village and help children go to school.

As a photographer, my pictures have interested and amused people over the years. They have brought people ________ through a lot of “taking”, but this time it gave me the chance to give instead.

On a stormy night, you drive your car through a stop where three people are waiting for a bus: a dying old man, a young doctor who once saved your life so that you want to reward back, a woman or a man who is your dream girl or your dream boy and likely disappears from your life once you ______ the chance. Unfortunately, there is room just for one person in the ______. Which one would you ______ up? Then give your reasons. Think it over ______ looking at the following text.

This used to be an interview question at a company, and each interviewee (面试者) had his own reason for answering it ______. The poor old man should be first helped. However, his final destination (终点) is ______. It’s reasonable for you to choose the doctor first—it is a good chance to express thanks for ______ he did for you. Meanwhile (同时), some people think it available (可用的) to pay the doctor back someday in the future. And ______ you miss the chance, you will never meet such an attractive person. Only one of two hundred people was accepted. He wrote his answer without providing his reason: “Give the key of my car to the ______, and let him take the old man to the hospital. And I wait at the stop for the bus with my dreamboat together.”

Everyone I know regarded it as the best answer but ______ (including me) realized it at first. Is it caused by our idea of not giving up the advantage (the car key) we have had? Sometimes, if we give up some of our selfishness (自私), advantages, and intransigence (不妥协), we can get more.

Every Friday I went to a senior nursing home (老人院). It seemed as if it needed _________, but little did I know it would help me too.

During my first visit I helped to polish (擦光) some ladies’ nails (指甲). One woman asked me many questions. After she was satisfied with my _________, she started to share some of her hidden hurt. By listening to her, I realized I had helped her a lot, she looked _________ from some of her past pains.

When she was finished, she told me something that _________ me to visit the nursing home every week. She said, “You’re the only person I was able to tell this to. The other volunteers are too busy to _________ me. You’ll come back next week, right?” After gently blowing on her newly coated nails, I smiled and _________, “Yes, I’ll see you next Friday.”

That day, I was glad by the fact that I had helped somebody. I realized an action as _________ as listening became something much more.

Every moment I spend chatting is a chance to tie that connection again, to _________ their worries, and to shape someone’s life. In turn, that _________ also shapes me. I not only learn about life and experiences outside of school, but also receive the __________ of being part of this process-this connection between humans.