Long time ago, there was a king who was ruthless (残暴) and never cared about people in his country. All his people hated _______.

One hot day, the king went to _______ by himself in a river. Suddenly he felt very weak and _______ move his hands and legs. He began to drown (溺水). _______, two farmers were working in the field (田野) nearby and saw _______. Of course, the farmers didn’t know the man in the river was the bad king. So the two farmers jumped into the river and _______ him.

The king thanked the farmers and said, “I’m the king of the country. Ask me _______ anything, and I will give it to you.” “My mother and father are _______ at home,” the first farmer said. “Can you give me some money to _______ them to the hospital?” The king said it was easy. Then he turned to the second farmer and asked, “How about you? What do you want? ” The farmer looked worried and unhappy. “Please don’t let ________ people know I saved you, ” he said.

It was a cold windy winter day and I was walking home from work. My head pointed down against the ________when I noticed an old lady. She was walking on the sidewalk in her house slippers（拖鞋）.

As I ________her, I saw that she was well into her 80s, and she was holding some ________ in her hands.

I walked on and arrived at the traffic lights. Waiting there, I saw the mailbox ________the street. The light turned green, but I pretended（假装）to check my phone and waited for her to catch up with me. In this neighborhood, even crossing with the green light was ________. Drivers often drove ________ through red lights and stop signs.

I stayed there until she reached me. I turned to her and touched her gently on the arm. She smiled and took my hand in hers and ________it. Her small hand was soft and warm. Hand in hand, we were waiting for the light to change.

When the light turned green, we walked together slowly across the street, ________the letters into the mailbox. Then I took her back across the street.

As I walked the rest of the way home, I could still feel the ________ of her hand in my own.

People say the first language of all humans is touch. A caring touch helps to make a bad situation ________. And even now, every time I think of the old lady, I can still feel the power of touch.

Maggie Brown comes from New York. She _________ in a computer company. This year, Maggie makes a new kind of _________ for school students. It is different from other computer games. It is good _________ children.

Many children’s parents are very happy. They send emails or _________ telephone calls to Maggie’s office and say _________ to her. “Our children are very _________ now. They go to school on time (按时). They study hard at school. At home, they do their homework _________ before they play computer games. And they do not _________ for a long time.”

Maggie gets a lot of _________ and phone calls every day. Some people want her to make some cartoons (卡通) for children. And Maggie says yes. She _________ to make a cartoon on the computer. And she hopes children like it.