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I was on a plane returning home to Dallas, Texas after completing my duty in Vietnam. There were no hometown parades for us veterans （退役老兵） from that ____16____ war and I had been warned about the unfriendliness from our countrymen at that time. ____17____, I was just trying to get home without incident.

I sat, in uniform, in a window seat, ____18____ eye contact with my fellow passengers. No one was sitting in the seat next to me, which ____19____ my loneliness. A little girl, not more than 10 years old, suddenly ____20____ in the passage. She smiled and, without a word,____21____ handed me a magazine. I accepted her ____22____ together with her quiet “welcome home”. I turned to the window and wept. Her small ____23____ of caring was the first I had ____24____ in a long time.

I believe in the ____25____ between strangers when we reach out to one another.

Today, that young girl ____26____ has no memory of what happened years ago. I like to think of her as having grown up, continuing to ____27____ others and teaching her children to do the same. I know she might have been told to give me the “____28____” by her parents. It doesn’t matter why she gave me the magazine. The ____29____ thing is she did.

From then on, I have followed her ____30____ and tried, in different ways for ____31____people, to do the same for them. I know that my ____32____ since then are all due to that little girl. Her offer of a magazine to a tired, scared and ____33____ soldier has echoed throughout my ____34____. I have to believe that my small gestures have the same ____35____ on others.

16. A. fair    B. great    C. unpopular    D. unexpected

17. A. However    B. Therefore    C. Besides    D. Meanwhile

18. A. making    B. keeping    C. reducing    D. avoiding

19. A. resulted from    B. accounted for    C. contributed to    D. added to

20. A. screamed    B. appeared    C. jumped    D. waved

21. A. anxiously    B. casually    C. shyly    D. unconsciously

22. A. admiring    B. offering    C. apology    D. invitation

23. A. gesture    B. discussion    C. idea    D. exchange

24. A. predicted    B. imagined    C. experienced    D. evaluated

25. A. coincidence    B. connection    C. conflict    D. conversation

26. A. ridiculously    B. surprisingly    C. undoubtedly    D. unfortunately

27. A. panic    B. tease    C. touch    D. judge

28. A. gift    B. lesson    C. reminder    D. reward

29. A. important    B. unusual    C. appropriate    D. concrete

30. A. advice    B. dream    C. example    D. requirement

31. A. old    B. wounded    C. homeless    D. different

32. A. worries    B. attempts    C. puzzles    D. emotions

33. A. unfit    B. tough    C. lonely    D. desperate

34. A. life    B. duty    C. career    D. journey

35. A. stress    B. effect    C. threat    D. consequence

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