1    ago, my wife and I    2     a gift catalogue for people    3     and invited each of our kids to choose something that we could buy     4    . When we handed the list to our nine-year-old daughter, we expected her to choose a toilet or a sewing machine or something similar. But instead, she thought it through    5     and chose village development package, which was worth    6    $5,000.     7     were surprised and ashamed, as our daughter’s generosity really challenged our finances and pushed the limits of our generosity    8    .

After     1     from the company, Mr Brown visited a remote village in Africa. However, things shocked him greatly. Owing to high levels of poverty, the children couldn’t enjoy the     2     of being educated. They had no     3     of using computers! The income distribution system had not yet been established there, not to     4    the social security system. Mr Brown made a voluntary donation. He purchased books for children and tractors for farmers. He had a school built for children with     5    . He even adjusted his arrangement and stayed there for a fortnight, showing the children how to operate computers. Such knowledge, he thought, would be relevant to their future careers.

The evening was cold and dark. He changed out of his     1     and     2     into bed. He still felt uncomfortably cold, even under a heavy     3    .

The house was old with     4     and a look of somewhere that had not been taken care of for many years. The     5     in the bedroom swayed in the wind that blew through the old window frame. If someone had ever told him that he would be back here after so long, he would have looked at them with     6    .

He fell into a restless sleep. He dreamt he was on a boat,     7     through a black, stormy sea. As he looked at the waves crashing, he felt himself falling     8     and awoke with a shout. He opened his eyes and looked around. He could sense some     9     person in the room and was certain that he saw a pair of dark eyes near the door     10     at him. His heart began to beat faster and he felt a terrible unease. He recognised those eyes…

When Helen was young she lost her sight and hearing. With these     1     restrictions to her communication, Helen’s     2     was often unbearable and sometimes she was troublesome, stubborn and angry with a tendency to break things when she was not understood. Anne Sullivan was a     3     teacher. Anne’s technique was simple and straightforward. She put an object into Helen’s hand and     4     out the word on her other hand. The precious knowledge she taught Helen gave her hope and joy. From “doll” and “water”, Helen’s knowledge and vocabulary     5     and this changed her thinking process.