Santa Can Come before Christmas

It was last June. I was shopping in a supermarket. A young man walked up and asked, “Can you tell me where the ________ counter is?”

“In the lower right corner.” I replied.

Some minutes later, I met the same man ________ almost 10 bottles of milk.

I asked, “Do you need a trolley (手推车)?”

“Sure, thanks.” he answered.

Then I was ________ that his trolley had 24 bottles of milk and was still   ________ more ones.

I couldn’t help asking, “Why do you have so many bottles?”

“These are for my street ________ .   I want to be a Santa ________ them.”

“It’s too _______ to be a Santa. It is still June.”

He turned at me but saying _______ .

________, we met again at the bread counter.

“So these bread and cakes are also for the street dogs, Mr. Santa?”

“Yes. I love to be Mr. Santa in the month of June. Santa is a ________ of surprise and love. He comes in December as we ________ him around Christmas. But in real life there is a Santa that shines at some time, ________ which month it is. Maybe when you offered a trolley to me, there was a ________Santa in you. When we offer food to a poor man or a(n)________to someone who is caught in the rain, we are being Santa there. So just think that Santa has come all the way for you.”

He is right. We just need to realize that Santa is around us by ________ happiness and unconditional (无条件的) love. He can come before Christmas.

Last year, Tom left school. He came to Beijing to _______ a job. He went from one company(公司) to another but _______wanted him. Now he had _______ money. He had to go back to his small town. So he came to the station.

He felt _______ and tired. It was very late at night but the _______ was full of people. They were waiting to _______ tickets of the last train. He bought the last ticket, and he was very _______.

_______that time, a woman with a crying baby walked to him. She asked him _______her the ticket. He gave her the ticket. He thought they needed it ________ he did. After ________left, he sat on the bench(长凳) and didn't know ________ to go. Just then, an old woman came and said, "Young man, I ________what you did to the woman. I have a big ________. I need a good young man like ____________. Would you like to work for me?"

A 14-year-old boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday after he saved the life of a woman in another country.

Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas, is a school boy who has much________in computers. One day, he_________an email to a friend on the Internet. Suddenly he received a message saying “Help! Pain! Help！”The message was from Finland, _____ kilometers away from America.

“I didn’t know ______ I should do,” Dean said to a reporter afterwards. “It was really difficult to tell if the message was real.” So Dean did nothing at first.______ the message kept coming.

“By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble，” Dean explained. He _______   and discovered that the sender was a student called Tarja, who   was alone in a university library. She was ill. What was_______there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with

the world was by email. Dean got in touch_______the police immediately. And they realized that the situation was quite serious. They called the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the library. ______, she was still alive and was sent to hospital quickly.

“I’m glad she’s OK,” Dean said. “It’s hard to believe, but _____ saved her life.”