I almost messed up “big time”.

My 5-year-old son and I were coming back from school when we saw a(n) ________ man on the side of the road. I wanted to give the man some money, but I didn’t have any cash(现金). My son Justus noticed the man as well. And then it happened...

Justus insisted on giving the man the 30 cents he had in his pocket. I was more than happy that he wanted to do this with ________ . But honestly I was hesitant(犹豫不决的), I didn’t want to give this man who clearly needed all the help he could get, just 30 cents. My own pride and thoughts of the homeless man’s unknown reaction(反应) to ________ just two coins were standing in the way.

I quickly realized that I was the only problem in this situation. I almost told my son what he had wasn’t enough by my inaction. I almost showed him that what he saw as a good thing, and was in fact a good thing, wasn’t good enough to make a ________ in someone’s life. I almost taught him that pride was more important than helping another human. Thank goodness I quickly dropped that foolishness.

I then rolled down the window and said, “I’m sorry, man. I don’t have any cash on me, but my son back here wants to give you everything he ________ right now. He just turned five.”

The smile on that man’s face lit up the crossroad and he said to Justus, “Thank you so much!”

The only thing that ________ the brightness of that stranger’s smile after that moment was... the bigger smile on my boy’s face!

I also believed that a chain reaction of ________ started behind us that day, as other people rolled down their windows to help him, too.

My little boy, without even ________ it, reminded me once again by his actions that it was always about the heart. It doesn’t matter how much you have or how little; giving in love and sincerity is very important.

There is an old Chinese saying: “To give people fish and you only offer them one meal; to teach them to fish and it can be ________ all their lives.” It means the best way of helping people is to teach them to support themselves. Shenzhen Polytechnic (深职院) gives us an excellent ________ of practising the saying in the real life.

A group of boys stood around a tree. “How tall the tree is!” they said to each other. “It would be _________ to climb to the top!”

The group of boys then decided to play a game to _______ who could climb to the top of the tree first. Their mothers were sitting not far away, looking at their _______ as they played. One of the climbers was an 8-year-old boy named David. He was the shortest child in the group. _______ thought he would win.

Then the game started. All of the boys tried their best to climb as fast as they could. Although the other boys climbed faster than David in the beginning, he _________ the top of the tree fastest in the end.

His mother was _______. She asked him, “David, how did you reach the top of the tree so_______?”

“It was easy,” David said. “The other children _______ looking down as they climbed. When they realized (意识到) how high they were, they were afraid of _______. I, however, looked only up. When I saw how close I was, I kept going higher and higher ________ I reached the top.”

It is true in life that if we just keep going forward without looking back, we are more likely to reach our goals.