I was halfway across Indiana headed home to Kentucky when my car broke down. My phone was 1 , too. I managed to get to a gas station, but it was Sunday in the early fall, and there was no 2 on duty. I was working my way through university then and had little money for 3 the car.
I sat alongside my car for several hours trying to 4 the heat when an older gentleman 5 to fuel his car. He asked about my car, and I 6 my predicament (困境). To my 7 , the gentleman told me that he had a daughter my age, and then he opened his trunk and 8 a tool set.
Right then and there, this total 9 examined my engine, explaining as he worked that my spark plugs (火花塞) hadn't been changed for so long that they were 10 to function. After about an hour, he 11 that my car was safe to finish the trip.
12 came at the hands of a stranger. 13 his clothes, working on a hot September afternoon, this man 14 a college student from disaster, just because she could have been his 15 .
