【推荐1】Austin Perine looks like a superhero, with his cape(披风) flapping against his blue shirt. And he is indeed. But he is not your typical superhero. Two things set him ________: His “enemies”—hunger and homelessness—are very real. ________, he’s only four years old.

One day, Austin and his father, TJ Perine, were ________ a program on Animal Planet about a mother panda leaving her cubs(幼崽). “I told him that the cubs would be ________ for a while,” TJ says. “Austin didn’t know what homelessness meant, but he wanted to know more.”

Seeing this as a ________ moment, TJ took Austin to a local shelter that provides _______, food, and other services for homeless men. There they saw some homeless men who are hungry and sad. Austin said. “Can we take them some food and make them ________?”

That day, Austin used his ________ to buy each man a Burger King sandwich and handed the food out himself. Seeing what their ________ meant to those men, they returned the next week. Austin again _______ into his piggy bank to buy sandwiches, which he handed out along with his new catchphrase(标语), “Don’t forget to show love!”

After he returned every week for five weeks, word of Austin’s acts of ________ spread through social media. Burger King jumped aboard, ________ to donate $1,000 a month for an entire year toward the ________. Soon, churches and shelters across the country began inviting Austin to come ________ food in other poverty-prone areas.

As for Austin, he continues to ________ food, smiles, and his inspirational message of love. “It makes me feel like I’m saving the day.”

【推荐2】Seventeen-year-old Nadia Clarke talks about her African experience.

Last summer I got the chance to spend a month______in a hospital in Africa. I had one year left at school, and I was ____ in studying medicine at university. I thought it was the perfect chance to get some experience and to see if I really wanted to be a ( n ) ____ .

It was a month that changed my life. I was ____ to a world that is very ____ to mine in so many ways. I was shocked at how poor so many of the families over there are and how ___   their lives can be. But I was also amazed at how ____ people go about their everyday lives . The way they ____ together and help each other is a real inspiration, and something I think a lot of us here in the UK have ____. I think many of us don't realise how lucky we are.

Every day, I spent a lot of time ____ floors and changing bed sheets, and I also got to spend some time ____ the patients. Although my work in the hospital was rather hard, I'm very delighted that I could do something meaningful. And I got the chance to ____ some doctors and ask them about the profession in person. I saw some truly awful things in the hospital, but none of them changed my mind about being a doctor. In fact, they only made me more ____ to do medicine.

After the experience, I know ____ what I'm going to do: I want to work for an international organisation like the Red Cross and try my best to ____ people overseas who haven't been as lucky in life as me.I can't wait to get started.

【推荐3】NEST4US, a charity organization, was born when 17-year-old Amanda realized how much food waste there is, how many _________ people there are, and how simple it would be to use the food waste to help the people in need. “There was a _________ man standing on a corner and he was holding a _________ that said “Hungry Need Food,” she remembers. “So I gave him my _________. It was so _________, it only took me 30 seconds, and it really _________ him.”

Hunger is just one of the many serious problems of living on the streets. But the ease of this small act _________ her to find a way to get food to the people who need it the most. She didn’t think too much about it and decided to just _________.

How would she _________ this huge task? Many kids have difficulty talking on the phone but talking to strangers is not a problem for Amanda, who says she emails, calls, and __________ to business owners to ask for money. From there, she and other volunteers __________ enough food.

“We have 1.5 times the amount of food we need to __________ every person on the planet, it’s just a matter of how to hand it out,” she says matter-of-factly, “__________ there are so many people who want to help the hungry people all you have to do is to ask them.”

She thinks running NEST4US has __________ her life skills like time management, public speaking and leadership. “What it’s really given me is this viewpoint, of putting other people __________.” she says.

【推荐2】In interviews, famous people often say that the key to becoming both happy and successful is to “do what you love.” But mastering a skill, even one that you deeply love, requires a huge amount of hard work

Anyone who wants to master a skill must run through the _______of practice, critical feedback, alteration, and improvement over and over. Some people seem able to concentrate on practicing an activity like this for years and _______their gradual improvement. Yet others find it _______to do this kind of focused, time—consuming work. Why?

The _______may turn on the ability to enter into a state of “flow”, the feeling of being completely involved in what you are doing. Flow states can happen in the course of any activity, and they are most common when a task has well—defined goals and is at a(n) _______skill level, and where the individual is able to _______their performance to clear and immediate feedback.

Flow states turn the boring practice into an autotelic activity that is, one that can be enjoyed for its own sake, rather than as a means to an end or for obtaining some _______reward. Then how can we get into a flow state for an activity that we want to master, so that we enjoy both the _______and the rewards?

Those who most _______entered into flow states had an “autotelic personality”—a quality to seek out challenges and get into a state of flow. While those without such a personality see ________autotelic individuals see opportunities to build skills. Autotelic individuals are receptive, open to new challenges and also persistent. Such people, with an ability to focus on tasks rather than ________, have a great advantage over others in developing their inborn abilities.

________, for those of us who aren’t necessarily blessed with an autotelic personality, there is evidence that flow states can be promoted by environmental factors. In particular, the learning framework advocated by Montessori schools seems to encourage flow states. In Montessori schools, learning comes through discovery rather than direct instruction and students are encouraged to develop individual interests.