“Todd? Could you please give me a hand?” Todd’s mum asked.

“Yes, Mum?” Todd looked up from his Lego toys.

“I’ve ________ some biscuits from an old lady. Here’s her address. Could you help bring them back?”

Todd agreed and left for the bus stop. When he got to the lady’s home, he ________ the door. After a while, a kind old lady opened the door with a smile on her face. Todd told her the ________ for his coming. Then the old lady went inside and came out with a bag. After ________ the old lady, Todd waved goodbye and rushed back home. While walking to the bus stop. he noticed a thin little girl who was sitting against a wall. She was pretty but her clothes were ________. Beside her an elderly lady who was also dirty and thin was sleeping on a piece of cardboard. Todd felt ________ the two of them and he wanted to do something.

Pulling out his wallet, he realized that he had ________ money, so he looked into the bag he had got from the old lady. Inside were several boxes of biscuits. He thought for a moment, then pulled out a box and ________ it to the little girl. She looked at him in ________ and he just smiled at her.

As Todd walked off, he knew that he might be scolded (责骂) by his mum. However, he did not mind ________ he knew he had done something good.

It was sunny last Friday. I arrived at the railway station at three in the afternoon. I would take the _________ to Shanghai to see my old friend Jack. But it was two hours _________ my train left. I thought it was the perfect time and place to look _________ an act of kindness to do.

Outside the station, there was a girl having _________ for sale. I told her that I’d like to buy flowers for someone else, and that she could _________ who she will give the flowers to. She looked a little puzzled (困惑的), _________ I suggested that perhaps she could give the flowers to someone who looked a little _________. That was because the flowers might cheer him or her up.

“That’s a crazy idea!” said the girl. But then I explained a little more about the idea of doing something for a _________, and she understood.

“I’m leaving for Shanghai and then I’ll _________ know how it turns out,” I said. “But you will have a good __________ to make someone happy. __________ good deeds (善举) we do, they always come back to us.” At that time, she started to seem excited about it.

She went to __________ the flowers out of the water, and I explained, “You’d better leave the flowers there until the person __________.”

At that time, I thought she was __________ surprised and happy, because it might be her first time to meet a customer like me. I __________ for the flowers, said goodbye, and walked into the station.

How wonderful the day was!

As my husband, Doug, stood on the busy New York city street trying to stop a taxi, I tried to protect my daughter from the cold December wind and rain. I put my head down to kiss her tiny face.

Frustrated and _________, my husband gave up his attempt to flag down a taxi. I knew the feeling. Just after her first birthday, we _________ that our daughter Katie had a rare brain illness. Since that moment, Doug and I felt like runners in a marathon race where the finish line kept disappearing. We knew Katie was running out of _______. It had taken months before we finally _______ a name for the illness, but only a few specialists in the world knew _________ to fix it. Now, as we finally found a brilliant doctor to save our girl, we were in a strange _________ in the cold rain.

Just at the moment, a middle-aged woman pulled over and said, “Pardon me? May I offer you a ride?”

_______ we could say anything, she continued, “It’s really no trouble for _________. Just get in.”

It was then that I noticed her thick Irish accent, which _________ me up like hot soup. We ________ said, “Thanks! Roosevelt Hospital, please,” as we got in her car for the ride.

“Are you going ________ the baby?” she asked us.

I nodded my head, holding back my tears.

At the hospital, we ________ her a dozen times for the ride, as the woman hugged me. I noticed her face was wet with tears. She promised to pray for us before she left.

After three more visits to New York and two more __________ surgeries, Katie is cured. But the ________ of the Irish Angel still rang as a constant reminder of a tiny ray of light that appeared in our ________ days. We would pray for her just as she did for us.