Many years ago, my dad was facing a serious heart condition. He ________ do a steady job. Most of the time, he might be quite ________. But he would then ________ suddenly ill and had to be sent to the hospital.

He wanted to do something to keep himself ________, so he decided to volunteer at the local children’s hospital. My dad loved kids. It was the perfect job for him. He ended up working with the seriously ill children. He would talk, play, and do arts with them. Sometimes he would feel much pain for ________ one of his kids. But he still tried his best to offer ________ to the kid’s sad parents.

One of his kids was a girl with a rare disease that paralyzed (瘫痪) her from the neck down. She couldn’t do anything, and she was very depressed. It seemed that Dad could ________ the pain of the girl. He decided to try to help her. He started visiting her in her room, bringing paints, brushes and paper. He stood the paper up ________ something, put the paintbrush in his mouth and began to paint. He didn’t use his hands at all. The girl’s pale face began to ________. All the while he would tell her, “See, you can do anything you set your ________ to.”

Under the ________ of my dad, she began to paint by using her mouth, and she and my dad became friends. Soon after, the little girl was sent home because the doctors felt there was nothing else they could do for her. My dad also left the children’s hospital for a little while because he became ill. Sometime later after my dad had recovered and returned to work. Suddenly he was deeply ________ when he saw the little girl who had been paralyzed and only this time she was walking. She ran straight over to my dad and hugged him really tight. She gave him a picture she had done using her hands. At the ________ it read, “Thank you for helping me walk.”

My dad would cry every time he told us this story and so would we. He would say sometimes love is more ________ than doctor, and my dad—who died just a few months after the little girl gave the picture, showed us that love can make a great ________.

It’s Sunday afternoon. It’s my son’s eighth birthday today. I go into a _______ shop to buy a big birthday cake for him.

There are a lot of people in the shop. When I am looking for a cake, I find a little boy watching the cakes for a long time. He is in old clothes. At last he chooses a cake. Then he gives money to the girl shopkeeper and says to _______, “I want the _______ cake.”

“Sorry, the cake is 15 yuan, but you only have _______ yuan,” says the shopkeeper.

“I…I have _______ more money,” says the little boy and he begins to cry(哭).

“Oh, my boy. Who would you like to _______ the birthday cake for?” I ask.

“My _______, madam.”

“_______ doesn’t she come and buy one?”

“My father left us three years ago,” the boy says. “We don’t have much money. My mother has to work from morning to night every day. She celebrates(庆祝) my birthday every year, _______ she never celebrates hers. It’s her birthday tomorrow. I want to buy a small cake for her. But I don’t have enough money...”

“Oh, my boy! I’m your ________ friend and I work with her,” I say. “I will buy her a nice birthday cake.” I give the money to the shopkeeper and leave the shop.

A mom felt tired because she was the only one to clean the house. She came up with a new game to keep her ________. She put money under the litter, including toilet rolls and pieces of paper on the floor.

When the money wasn’t taken away, she ________ the prize money. She said that anyone who ________ lend a helping hand could get a small fortune. Unluckily for her family, they don’t join in the litter picking, leaving only their hard-working mom to ________ her own money.

The mom posted the idea to Facebook with a photo of the toilet roll. It was lying on the ________ floor, and showed it was there for seven days. She wrote online, “Needing something to encourage kids and husbands to tidy up around the house? ________ this game hasn’t worked here yet, maybe one day. For now, I’ll ________ raising the prize money, knowing it’s coming back.”

One said, “My kids would probably pick it up, take out the ________ throw it back on the floor and forget about the whole thing.” A second replied, “No one will pick them up even if it saves their life.” Another mom has used a way to get her child to lend a hand with ________. After she changed her laundry（洗熨衣服）area, she left a(n) ________ sign to everyone else living in the home that reads. “Put your laundry away, or I’ll beat you. Love mom.”