Our son is my newest “Hockey (曲棍球) Hero”. He plays goalkeeper on his small hometown ice hockey team.

One weekend on match day, my wife and I arrived ________ because of the bad traffic. We quickly found our seats and settled in. As I looked around, I ________ we were sitting with a couple who bad a disabled child—with only one leg. We could hear the ________ in his voice when he shouted, “Mom, look! The goalie (守门员) is going to get the ball now!” Happily, I listened to him and the excitement and joy in his voice as he praised the goalkeeper time and time again.

During the ________, we went and told our son what was truly happening in the bleachers (露天看台), and he went up into the bleachers, introduce himself to the parents and sat next to that little kid. He started talking to him and before long (很快) the boy was ________ our son’s gloves and helmet. When the game was about to start again, my son told him to ________ the game as he went back out on the ice. The small child was so excited that he kept telling his parents, “The goalie is my friend. He is so ________!”

________ the game, I saw my son talking to the coaches before leaving the ice. He then skated over towards us and motioned (打手势) to the boy’s dad to come ________. He then asked him to give the game ball to the little boy. Everyone sitting there had tears in their eyes and the biggest smiles on their faces. Needless to say we are very ________ hocky parents and our son is our new hero!

Mary’s dime（一毛钱）

What else could I do? Then, with no reason, I suddenly _______ the pale face of that little beggar(乞丐) girl. I could see the glad light _______ her eyes when I put the dime in her little dirty hand.

How much I _______ that dime, too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month ago, and I kept it ever since in my red box upstairs, but those sugar apples looked so attractive(有吸引力的), and they were so _______ — only a dime a piece — that I wanted to have one.

I could imagine（想象） the little girl stood there in front of the _______ in her old dirty dress, looking at the _______ that were put all in a row in the window. I wonder what I should say, “Little girl, what do you want?” I gently asked. She felt _______ and looked straight at me, just as if（似乎）nobody spoke so _______ to her before. She realized what I meant, so she said seriously and sadly. “I was thinking how good one of those delicious hamburgers would __________. I haven’t had anything to eat today.”

Now I thought to myself, “Mary Williams, you had a good breakfast and a good lunch today, __________ this poor girl didn’t have a mouthful yet. You can give her your __________. She needs it a great deal more than you do.”

I could not run away from that little girl’s sad, __________ look — so I dropped the dime right into her hand. How __________ the girl was! I am so glad I gave her the dime, __________ I had to go without the apple lying there in the window.

Dr. Smith was very poor when he was young. He had to _______ newspapers from door to door to make money for his school things.

It was a _______ winter afternoon and he had only ten coins left. He felt very cold and hungry, but there was _______ for him to eat. “Newspaper, newspaper!” The little boy cried. But no one answered. He _______ in front of a door and knocked at (敲) it, “Would you like to buy a newspaper, madam?” he asked the woman when she opened the door.

“Oh, we don’t need _______ newspapers. Thanks!” the woman answered.

“Could you please give me a glass of water?” the boy _______ asking.

The woman looked at the boy _______ and then said, “Come in, please!” She gave the boy some bread and a glass of milk. The boy had them in a minute and then said in a _______ voice, “I only have newspapers. How much should I pay (付钱) you?”

“My mother teaches me that I would never get money for any kindness (好心),” said the woman, “so you _______ pay at all.”

Twenty years later, Dr. Smith had a lot of money. He went back to his hometown and visited the woman again. Before he left, he gave her a check (支票) of $10,000. And there were also some words ________ it: for bread and a glass of milk.