I live in a big city with a lot of homeless(无家可归的) people. Luckily there're small ways of helping them and you needn't have a lot of  1.  

    One way to help is to buy their monthly magazine. 2 doing this one day, I got to 3 a young homeless man, He was often  4 the magazine at the train station.

    He was a poor farmer from another country. After a while, I found that his 5 was close to mine. It  6 that we were born in the same month.

    I met him last year 7 after his birthday, and after congratulating him, without 8, I asked if he had had a good day. He 9 and said he hadn't really celebrated. I felt so 10.

    I just couldn't think of this nice, young man being 11 on his 25th birthday with no presents, no cake, nothing! So I went home and looked in my yarn（纱线） basket. 12 for me, I had enough yarn 13. I set to work and knitted（编织） a 14 for the young man. The yarn had become a little dirty  15 I didn't knit very often. Then I washed the yarn so the scarf would be 16 when he got it.

    I met him on my own birthday as I was going shopping. I had 17 to meet him so I had 18 the scarf and a piece of my own birthday 19 around with me. He was very happy with these gifts and so was I. The 20 in his eyes was the best present he could have given me!

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    I went online to check if my pay was in my bank 1. To my amazement I discovered that not only had I been paid, a 2 I'd never worked for had also paid me! I knew I'd have been beside myself if my own salary was not in my account, so I tried to get the money 3 to the right person. Easier said than4 .

    The bank couldn't help as it wasn't a bank 5. The human resources department at the company that paid me was unable to help as I didn't have enough 6 . I rang the bank again. 7, I had a sympathetic call operator who gave me a(n)8 , so I again rang the company “Daniel” worked for.

    I expected the bank would 9 me to arrange to take the money from my account and repay Daniel. I heard 10 for a month and the money remained in my account when Daniel called, 11 he'd tried to get back his money but had been unsuccessful as neither the bank nor his company felt it was their12 . He had rung to ask if I could speak to the bank, but after chatting for a few minutes we realized we could probably 13 this problem ourselves.

    We decided I would take the money from my account and he would14 it up from me. Due to my busy job I was unable to meet Daniel 15 but he left me a lovely bottle of wine 16 what was rightfully his. I never had any 17of keeping Daniel's pay but red tape(繁琐手续) made 18 difficult to do the right thing. It all came down to (归结为) 19 people being able to do what a huge bank and a large company couldn't do— 20 a mistake has occurred and fix it.

    I was doing a year of voluntary service abroad for people with learning disabilities. It was set in an English 1 ， quite different from my home in Sweden.

    One of my fellow 2 ， a girl from Tanzania, seemed a bit 3 ， so I asked what the problem was. She told me she had a 4 back home who was really 5 with her university studies. It seemed that 6 difficulties would make it impossible for her to complete her course. So this friend of 7 had done something unbelievable: she had sent all her pocket money for the month to Tanzania to 8 her friend! This meant that she didn't have much food to eat and had no money to go anywhere outside the village.

    I was so 9 that she did this for her friend and I felt I had to do something. 10 ， during my next trip to one of the ear by towns I walked into a shop to buy some food for her. I started 11 to the woman working in the shop and 12told her about my friend. The woman looked at me, 13."Does she eat pasta (意大利面)？" she asked."Yes，" I replied. She immediately 14 loading a bag with pasta, cookies, sweets and other things until the bag was full."Give this to her for me. It's my15！" I couldn't believe it but cried with 16.

    Imagine my friend's face when I 17 the gifts on my kitchen table and 18 her from her room to see! I have 19 seen her so happy! She told me that due to the generous help, she could definitely 20 the month.

    For most people, getting a car opens up a new world of freedom. You can go wherever you want and whenever you want. Getting a car did 1 these for me, and it also brought my best friend and me 2. But then it tore us apart (分开).

    My best friend lives not far from my 3, soon I seemed to become her 4 when I turned 16 in December, since her 5 is in late summer, seven months behind mine.

    And so I 6 her up for school and took her home. We made ice-cream 7, went shopping and to the movies —all in my car. I would drive to her house just to sit on her bed, read magazines and have a good laugh. I went to her house so 8 that she gave me a key to her house.

    A week after I began to9, she was with me when I had my first accident. She was there and10 me and we kept it a 11, since I didn't want people to 12. From then on, I, my car and my best friend share happiness and sadness.

    High school is a time of 13, but for a long time I couldn't 14 how we became so distant （疏远）. Finally, my best friend 15 her dream car. With its 16, the passenger seat of my car became 17. Our car trips became less frequent until I didn't 18 drive down her street.

    It's funny how a car can change a(n) 19 so much. I had wanted her to get a car, but when she did, I 20 it. I wanted her friendship back, even if it couldn't be the same.

    Our apartment has been hit by a "hurricane". Every bit of furniture is 1 with paper chains, scissors, tape and modeling clay. 2, I'm so exhausted tonight, recovering from a surgery.

    The phone rings—for the sixth time in less than an hour. We know it is my mother, again. A stroke claimed her brain, but not her life. She is troubled by a severe mental 3— She has no idea that she has 4 the things she is about to say a million times. Nor can she recall I had a 5.

    Each time she calls, I play a game with 6 called "How Good a Person Can I Be?" I've won five rounds of the game tonight; I am due for a 7 this time.

    "Mom!" I 8. "You are not being removed from your home! And we visited two days ago!" Silence. Then:

    "I was only calling to say hi." My mother continues, "Why are you yelling?"

    I sink into the couch, aware that my daughter is 9. She hears me scold my mother and lose my 10. I have not only failed at being a good person; I have failed at being a good 11 to my daughter.

    "Can I talk to Grandma Ellie?" My five-year-old 12 the phone. 13, I hand it over.

    Then, I hear my mother 14 through the receiver. "Sweetheart! How are you? Did you go to school today?"

    What magic is this? All she says is "Hi, Grandma," Out of the phone comes a waterfall of good 15. My mother tells her how much she loves her and how lovely her voice sounds.

    I am not tired or angry; I am 16 inside, watching my kindergartner 17 her fragile grandmother with such skillfulness. I'm fascinated by their 18.

    The mess in our apartment still 19 around me. I listen to my daughter whispering to her grandmother, caring for her with extreme 20.

In 2009, Kevin Pearce was at the height of his professional snowboarding career and bound for the Winter Olympics. But in an instant, it came to an end. During training, he struck his head on the edge of a pipe, resulting in a traumatic (创伤的) brain injury. It changed the course of the then-22-year-old's life.

He had to relearn how to walk and talk and essentially start over. His older brother Adam quit his job and moved across the country to help him through rehab.

He eventually started doing yoga, and his family saw how it transformed him and gave him a sense of hope: "It was the first time I remember so clearly coming out of a class with him and just seeing in his face this new expression, this new person." Adam Pearce said, "We were like, ‘We need to figure out why and how that just happened.'"

Wanting to bring hope and healing to others through yoga and meditation (冥想). Adain and Kevin co-founded the Love YourBrain Foundation in 2014. The nonprofit offers week-long meditations and community-based yoga classes across the United States for people who are living with long-term brain-related disabilities. "I think people feel isolated after brain injury because they don't feel able, and when you don't feel able, you generally retreat back inside." Adam said, "At these retreats, people are given the space to lean into those deep challenges and express them and talk about them."

Ultimately, the organization aims to create a safe space and supportive community where people with brain-related disabilities can heal together. "Connection happens quickly because there's such a shared common understanding among the group." Adam said. "Once someone sees someone be vulnerable, it instantly allows the next person (to be). By the end, people start to see vulnerability as a superpower."