Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One early morning, I   1 a call for a taxi. When I arrived at the building, it was 2:30 a.m. and I found the building was dark except for the only light in a first floor window.

Many drivers would just shout once or twice and then drove away, but I thought this 2 might need my help. So I walked to the door and knocked, “Just a minute,” answered a 3 , elderly voice. After a long time, the door opened. A small old man showed up before me, 4 a small bag. He kept thanking me for my 5 . “It's nothing,” I told him.

“Oh, you're such a good man.” He said. When we got into the taxi, he gave me a (an) 6, and then asked, “Could you drive through the city center?”

“But it wasn't the 7 way.” I answered quickly. “Oh, I'm in no hurry.” He said. “I'm on my way to a hospital. I don't have any family left. The 8 says I don't have much time left.”

      I   9   started the taxi and shut off the meter(计程器). For the next two hours, we drove  10   the city center. He showed me the building where he once worked. We drove past the church where he got married. He would never forget that happy moment. Sometimes he'd ask me to slow down in front of a building and would sit   11  the darkness for a long time, saying nothing. When the sun began to rise, we drove in silence to the address he had given me. When we arrived,   12 without thinking, I gave him a big hug. “You gave an old man a little moment of  13  . Thank you!” He said with tears in his eyes.

      I was completely lost in thought for the rest of the day. What would happen if I had refused to do   14  I did? We always think that there are no   15  moments in our lives, but great moments are just in what others may think small and unimportant ones.

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    Amy is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter. She was moving into her house in Atlanta early on the morning of March 12, when a man 1her to her door, and put a gun(枪) to her side.

    “I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really 2 ,”she said in a TV interview last week.

    The man was Brian Nichols, 33 years old. He killed three people at an Atlanta courthouse on March 11.The police were 3him.

    Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but set her free after she begged(恳求) him not to take her 4 again and again. “I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mummy,” she said with tears.

    “I just talked to him and tried to make him believe me,” Smith said.

    She asked Nichols 5 he chose her. “He said he thought I was an angel6 from God, and God asked him to do so.”

    Smith even 7 for the man before he allowed her to leave. Nichols was8when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched TV, seeing the police looking for him. “I cannot believe that's me on the TV!” Nichols told the woman.

    Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he 9do. She said, “I think you should turn yourself in. If you don't, more people are going to get10.”

    Finally, he let her go. Then she called the police.

The day was Thankful Thursday. Thursday has become my day to go out and do charity(慈善) work with my two 1 . On this special Thursday, we had no idea exactly 2 we were going to do. At noon I 3to a McDonald's with my daughters because they kept telling me that they didn't have enough to eat at breakfast. There we saw some homeless(无家可归的) people in the street and we decided 4 lunch for them.

We ordered fifteen 5 from McDonald's and started to give them out. We were 6 to see those thankful people holding up the lunch bags.

    Then we noticed a dirty, old woman 7 at the corner(角落). We handed her our final lunch bag. When we 8 the car and wanted to drive home, she walked to our car and said, "Thank you, lady! No one has ever done 9 like this for me before. "Well, I'm glad that we were the 10 ,"I replied. "So, why don't you eat the lunch now?" I asked.

She just looked at me 11 her tired eyes and said, " I'm not going to eat this lunch. I have a little girl at home 12 she just loves McDonald's, but I can 13 buy it for her because I don't have the money. But tonight she can have McDonald's! "

    I don't know if the kids noticed(注意) the tears( 眼泪) in my eyes. So many times I questioned （询问）myself whether（是否） our acts of kindness were too 14 to make a difference. However, at that moment, I 15that we cannot do great things but we can do small things with great love.

    One day a lion met a spider, who was just busy making a web. The lion 1 for a while and said，"How clever you are! How did you learn to do that?" The spider answered proudly," I learned it from my mother."

    The lion watched a longer while. Then he asked the spider, "But why don't you catch your food in the way that I do?"

    "I am just a small animal," the spider 2 ."I cannot run fast or fly. 3 with my web I can catch flying insects(昆虫)，and I don't even have to run after them."

    The lion then asked," Could you make a 4 for me? Then I would not have to run after animals either."

    "Sorry,"the spider said."My web can only catch flying insects. But you cannot love 5.

them."

    The lion was 6 with the spider. She did not have to work 7 for food. And she would not help him get his food. So he hit the web and broke it. But the spider jumped 8 the lion's back and bit him.

    "Now you will remember me," said the spider as she jumped into the grass. "Think carefully 9 you do something bad to other animals. Some of us may be small, but we are very smart."

    The lion tried to scratch(挠)his back, but he could not reach 10 the spider bit.. It itched (发痒)for several days. He remembered the smart spider for a long time.

    Sometimes I really want to know if (是否) there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy making money for our life. One day, my mother was sewing a quilt (缝被子). "Mum, is there1between you and dad?" I asked.

    With surprise in2eyes, my mum stopped her work for a moment. Then she said,“Susan, look at this thread (线). You can't see it easily, 3 it's really there. It makes the quilt strong. If life is a quilt, love should be a thread. Love is inside."

    The next spring, my father4ill. After they were back from hospital, my mother helped my father walk5 the country road every day. They were kind and happy.

    After two months, my father still couldn't6“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day." Susan, don't7me," he said, “I just like walking with your mum. I like this kind of life."8 his eyes, I knew he loves my mother. 9.

    Now I know that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside. It makes life strong and10.