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北京市房山区2020届高三英语第二次模拟考试试卷
The Power of Kindness
Leo Kellner loves helping people in the sweetest way possibleby baking them cakes and pies. The 99-year-old man from Hastings, Nebraska, 1 his wife in 2012. They had been together for 72 years.
Since his wife passed away, Kellner took up 2as a way to give back to the community. "I didn't know what to do with myself ," Kellner said. "I was 3 all the time, and I thought I'd better do something that could make me get out of the 4and be good to the community as well, and that's how it started."
That first year, Kellner made 144 pies for people in need. He 5 community organizations to let them know he'd like to connect with families having a 6 time. Kellner then started reaching out to those families, getting to know them, and baking up some lovely cakes and pies during their time of need.
What he did made him 7 known around the communities. And whenever people met him, they showed their 8 to him.
"I regard everybody as a 9 I love everybody even people that gave me an unpleasant time when things were going hard for me.
Born in 1918, Kellner lived 10 the Great Depression, when his family lost their farm. Kellner had to move from state to state as a teenager looking for possible 11 on farms to make a living. "I knew what it was to be 12 , and a lot of times we just had vegetables and flour mixed up together;" he said. "So as long as I can do it, I will lend a helping hand."
And Kellner's made quite a/an 13 . "I've got friends from all over," he said. "I've gotten thank-you cards from Alaska". Through his baking, Kellner has helped the 14 a lot.
15 is powerful. Children begin to learn to cook so they can spread 16 just as he does. Kellner believes that this interest to give to everyone just might be the secret to a long, 17 life.
Life constantly presents us with opportunities to take an extra step or do a kind deed that will make a 18 . And the wonderful thing is that as we do, it changes things for the 19 for us too. Kindness is also a kind of noble cycle. It twice blessed; it blesses him who 20 , and him who receives.
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