In Thanks for What We Have

I sat and waited for Kathleen to speak. “Annie,” she said, “A food bank that serves the elderly is asking for ______. I’d like you to organize the event” “Well, errr…sure.” As I stuttered(结巴地说) through my ______, all I could think was, “What? Why me?”

I walked back to my office wondering where to ______. This was a time when the economy was ______. The rise in unemployment forced many of my coworkers to ______ to survive. How could I ask them for more?

That evening I drove home with negativity. Then I remembered a time when my father was out of work. Mom wrote a note to Jim, the milkman, asking him not to ______ any more milk. Two days later Jim picked up the ______ and left four liters of milk. He wrote his message, which read, “Kids need milk.” The milk delivery ______ as usual and Jim never collected a cent ______ us.

The memory of Jim’s ______ fired my enthusiasm. Perhaps I’d be in for a pleasant surprise.

The next morning I ______ signs about our food drive all over the cafeteria and on every notice board I could find. Each sign said, “Food drive to support the poor elderly! ______ of non-perishable(不易腐的) foods are greatly needed.”

Within a few days I had to locate empty office space to ______ the massive number of contributions we had ______. One of my coworkers, Maggie, made the rounds with me every day from one department to another to pick up the canned goods and other ______. Though over sixty, she pushed our food trolley around with the ______ of a woman half her age.

I asked her where she got all the enthusiasm. She said, “with the unemployment rate touching 10 percent, I can’t think of a better way to be ______ for keeping our jobs when so many have ______ theirs. Sure money is ______. But when isn’t it? People need food.”

As I listened to Maggie, the milkman’s words ______ in my ears, “Kids need milk.”

1.A. advice B. help C. pity D. medicine

2.A. response B. comment C. explanation D. complaint

3.A. sit B. stay C. begin D. work

4.A. growing B. fading C. recovering D. booming

5.A. drive B. attempt C. refuse D. struggle

6.A. spare B. drink C. deliver D. sell

7.A. keys B. kids C. cents D. empties

8.A. returned B. continued C. stopped D. delayed

9.A. for B. to C. with D. from

10.A. kindness B. happiness C. patience D. politeness

11.A. designed B. noticed C. marked D. posted

12.A. Bargains B. Demands C. Donations D. Purchases

13.A. check B. store C. separate D. clear

14.A. collected B. bought C. found D. selected

15.A. clothes B. books C. foods D. gifts

16.A. satisfaction B. quality C. energy D. motivation

17.A. lucky B. proud C. delighted D. grateful

18.A. lost B. deserved C. abandoned D. wanted

19.A. available B. tight C. enough D. powerful

20.A. rang B. disappeared C. hid D. fell

To me, kindness is a chosen lifestyle. In my classroom, I tell my _____that every day they are offered a choice. They can’t choose what happens to them, but they can choose how they ______to it. Kindness is a ______. And it is a lifestyle. It isn’t something that we just choose once in a while---- it is a(n)______to live our lives.____, he chose how to react to it. To this day, seventeen years later , the nurses ______ write my mother letters. The ______? It was because of my father’s kindness to others even when he was _____ against the disease. He made kindness a lifestyle.

And I want to be ______ him.

Every day as a teacher, I try and teach my students the kindness lifestyle. Just recently, I turned 40 and a friend gave me 40 individual dollar bills. She challenged me to do something _____ with the money. I gladly accepted the challenge.

I gave 40 of my students one dollar each and challenged them to make a(n) _____. What happened? My Twitter and Instagram were ______with pictures of kids making the world a better place. One girl bought a dollar store stuffed animal(填充玩具). It was______that kids should have made a difference when they were given the___.

Living the kindness lifestyle _____ every day, every opportunity. As a high school teacher, I see _____ everywhere. In the hallways, in the lunchroom, in the locker room, ______words and gossip(随笔) fill the air. So I started a hashtag (标签) to _____ positive gossip called “third party compliments(称赞)”. The idea is that you talk about people behind their backs, but do it in a _____ way. In that way, the gossip that gets back to students makes their day instead of getting them down.

Our kindness lifestyle leaves a footprint on others, and let us be the movers and kindness-makers who________a better, more beautiful world.

1.A. teachers B. classmates C. students D. friends

2.A. respond B. refer C. return D. contribute

3.A. mood B. goal C. benefit D. choice

4.A. spirit B. way C. chance D. idea

5.A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. However D. Furthermore

6.A. still B. never C. once D. just

7.A. meaning B. solution C. purpose D. reason

8.A. working B. struggling C. seeking D. exercise

9.A. against B. with C. before D. like

10.A. reasonable B. private C. necessary D. creative

11.A. promise B. difference C. profit D. achievement

12.A. concerned B. equipped C. flooded D. decorated

13.A. confusing B. natural C. common D. amazing

14.A. opportunity B. advertisement C. payment D. introduction

15.A. means B. increases C. makes D. explains

16.A. progress B. negativity C. trust D. harmony

17.A. hurtful B. inspiring C. touching D. humorous

18.A. call off B. call for C. turn down D. set aside

19.A. honest B. flexible C. positive D. cautious

20.A. requires B. allows C. promotes D. works

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