Sometimes you meet an ordinary person doing something extraordinary. On a recent trip I met Normand Gallant. Normand is someone you could pass on the street and _______ notice but he is a very special person who___________ recognition.

Norm lives in a remote area far from the _________ big hospital, so when his wife_________ cancer several years ago, Norm was faced with a four hour_______to where she could be treated. That meant lots of_________ for meals, fuel, hotels and so on. But in the end the cancer took his wife _______.

Norm was obviously_________ by his wife's passing, but he was also very angry, _________ he realized that other people were________ the same sorts of hardships. He wanted to do something but he didn't want to give money to the ________ that support cancer research because he didn't know how much would actually get to the researchers. What he did was to __________ parties.

About every three weeks on Saturday evenings, there is a party in Norm's garage. There is music and dancing, and ________ during the evening Norm tells about a family who are having difficulties __________the cost of supporting a cancer patient undertaking __________ far from home. Then a honey-pail is passed around and the money ________, every cent of it goes ________ to that family.

Norm's personal loss has ________ an act of kindness that honors the __________ of the wife he has lost. Wouldn't it be ________if we had more people in the world like Normand Gallant? He makes the world a better place.

1.A. often B. ever C. always D. never

2.A. deserves B. dislikes C. avoids D. achieves

3.A. best B. nearest C. cleanest D. cheapest

4.A. discovered B. cured C. examined D. developed

5.A. flight B. walk C. drive D. wait

6.A. trouble B. expense C. efforts D. preparations

7.A. anyway B. somehow C. meanwhile D. instead

8.A. impressed B. stricken C. moved D. terrified

9.A. if B. although C. before D. because

10.A. understanding B. questioning C. facing D. settling

11.A. doctors B. families C. organizations D. hospitals

12.A. attend B. promote C. throw D. enjoy

13.A. at some point B. by this means C. for some reason D. in this case

14.A. calculating B. decreasing C. budgeting D. meeting

15.A. research B. treatment C. responsibility D. risk

16.A. collected B. distributed C. saved D. deposited

17.A. gradually B. smoothly C. directly D. explicitly

18.A. served as B. resulted from C. gone through D. contributed to

19.A. memory B. recovery C. cancer D. kindness

20.A. interesting B. nice C. precious D. meaningful

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