【推荐2】Losing parents is every kid's nightmare（噩梦）. _________, six-year-old Jaden has experienced it twice. First he _________ his dad when he was four and then last month his _________ died unexpectedly in her sleep.

“I tried to get her _________ but I couldn't,” said Jaden. He was understandably _________. But he intended to turn sadness into _________. A few weeks ago, his thoughts were first made _________ when he told his aunt, Barbara, that he was sick and tired of seeing everyone sad all the time. And he wanted to be stronger and had a plan to _________ the situation.

“That was the beginning of it. In other words, that was where the adventure _________,” said Barbara. Jaden asked his aunt Barbara to buy some __________ and bring him to downtown Savannah, Georgia, near where he lived, so he could __________ all the things. He was just trying to make people __________. And he would __________some people who weren't smiling to give his things to and then make them happy all day.

Jaden has been to four nearby __________ downtown and he is brave to meet different persons__________sometimes he doesn't get exactly the __________ he is hoping for.

It is just so __________ to some people. They can't believe a six-year-old boy should give away toys, expecting nothing in __________ except a smile.

“I __________ to give away 100 toys,” said Jaden. When asked if he thought he could reach that __________, he answered, “I think I can.”

【推荐3】Cheating happens a lot in our city. It can be hard to know who is really in_______and who is trying to take advantage of other people's_______

Recently, I was finishing my work at home_______the dog barked letting me know that_______was at the gate. I rushed to see who it was and there I saw a_______weak woman in her late fifties. I said to her, "May I ask you what you_______?" She_______, "Hello, my name is Mary. My husband and I live in the slum nearby. We earn our living_______working at construction sites. A few days ago my_______tripped on the stairs while __________a heavy load. He is__________hurt and hasn't been able to__________for the past five days, so we have no food. Now he is at home in bed with a high fever. Please help me! I need to take my husband to a doctor!"

"Oh!" I said. "Please__________here." I went into the room. I felt really bad about her__________but--- Was she telling me the__________or trying to cheat me out of my money?

Finally, I__________to help her. But first I said a simple prayer, "Dear Lord, you know__________I earn my pennies, so please make sure that my hard earned money helps those who__________need it. Amen." I went out with a fifty note and __________it to her. The moment she got the money she broke down in tears. She took my hand and said, "May god bless you, my dear! Thank you so much!"

I was so__________, and turned back to my work smiling.

【推荐1】I’m a boy of 12. Every Saturday night my family and I go out and______the homeless people in our city. There are hundreds of people______any food or______. We have been doing this for several months. We wanted to see______it was like in the life of a homeless person.

One special thing I’d like to______is, my family and I do not eat before we begin our   _____, so we know how it feels to be______. We all get together in the kitchen and_____the food. Some of the meals are sandwiches and cookies and a bottle of water. ______my mum prepares a steaming _____delicious meal. We then______them all up. I like to write special notes on the bag like “ Best Wishes.”

A lot of people______homeless people. But not all of them are drug addicts or bad people. Some are______nice. Some just had bad things that led to them.

At first, we had to gain their_____, because a lot of people are_____to them for no good reasons. But now that they see us every week, they______have faith in us. We all have to remember that these are people who have______.

Some of them shake our hands for_____them food. Some sing and dance happily.

After we finished feeding the homeless, it makes me_____what I have at home. I love feeding the homeless, and making a/an_____in someone’s life.

【推荐2】When I opened my door this morning, I saw a sign that______, “Good morning, beautiful business.” It is a reminder to me of just how beautiful our business can be when we put all our care and energy into it.

I opened the White Dog Cafe in 1983 on the first floor of my house. It is the house I have lived in since I was a child. Today, much of the food we ______ comes from the same land where my ______ once farmed. Years ago, it was a simple coffee take-away shop serving students who lived nearby. Over the years, we have ______our menu and grown to ______five buildings. I owe my success to making decisions not for the purpose of maximizing ______ but instead maximizing the ______with our customers and community. Today I still have the ______way of doing business--the way it was in the old days with the family farm, the family inn. When I make a ______, it comes ______for my decision to be made in the common interest of all _______

Business schools teach “grow or die”. But I make a conscious decision to continue to be a “small” business ______ I know when we focus too much on physical size, we would ______something very important--authentic relationships with the people around us. I have come to realize that we can measure our ______by measuring how much we improve our knowledge, achieve ______ and deepen our relationships.

【推荐1】When I asked my mom for piano lessons in 2010, we were in the fallout of the recession (经济衰退). She said a polite “No”.

That didn’t stop me. I googled the ________ for a keyboard, drew the keys on a piece of paper and ________ it on my desk. I would click notes on an online ________ and “play” them back on my paper one—keeping the ________ they made on the computer in my head. Once my mom saw that I was ________, she borrowed money and bought me 10 lessons.

I still remember the first one. I was ________ by how real the sound of the piano was. I ________ my grade one test after eight lessons. But when I started secondary school, we couldn’t ________ lessons again. I passed grade five, practicing only on my piece of paper.

When I was about 13, my mom said she had a ________ for me; it was an electronic keyboard, bought with ________ borrowed money. It was the first time I’d played for her.

Later I found the Purcell School for young musicians. The tryouts were ________. Some of the questions ________ an assessment of the composer or when the music was written. I felt stressed out. To my amazement, I was offered a ________. At Purcell, I saved enough to buy my first piano.

When I left Purcell, I was awarded the senior academic music prize. I am now at the Guildhall School in London, one of the world’s leading music schools. I feel proud: it’s been 10 years ________ I drew my paper piano. I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano: what we call ________ practice. The paper piano helped solve my curiosity about how music works and what forms the masterpieces.

【推荐2】No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own _________.

I learned this lesson from a(n) _________ many years ago. I took the head _________ job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a tradition for the school’s old team to play against the _________ team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to _________ the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated. Thinking hard about it, I came to _________ I had to change my attitude about their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little pride. Most importantly, I began to treat them like _________. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their _________, we met every day and _________ passing and kicking the football.

After six months we won our first game and our second, and continued to __________. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it didn’t __________ even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me the greatest __________ of my life!

From the experience I learnt a lot about how the attitude of the leader can __________ the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and __________ them. I helped them to see themselves __________, and they built themselves into winners. Winners are made, but born.