Hannah Taylor is a schoolgirl from Manitoba, Canada. One day, when she was five years old, she was walking with her mother in downtown Winnipeg. They saw a man __________ out of a garbage can. She asked her mother why he did that, and her mother said that the man was homeless and hungry. Hannah was very upset. She couldn’t understand why some people had to live their lives without shelter or enough food. Hannah started to think about how she could ___________, but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve(解决) the problem of homelessness.

Later, when Hannah attended school, she saw another homeless person. It was a woman __________ an old shopping trolley(购物车) which was piled with __________. It seemed that everything the woman owned was in them. This made Hannah very sad, and even decided to do something. She had been talking to her mother about the lives of homeless people __________ they first saw the homeless man. Her mother told her that if she did something to change the problem that made her sad, she wouldn’t be so bad.

Hannah began to speak out about the homelessness in Manitoba and then in other provinces. She hoped to __________ her message of hope and awareness. She started the Ladybug Foundation, an organization aiming at getting rid of homelessness. She began to host “Big Bosses” lunches, where she would try to persuade local business leaders to make a __________ to the cause. She also organized a fundraising(募捐)drive in “Ladybug Jars” to collect everyone’s spare change during “Make Change” month. More recently, the foundation began another activity called National Red Scarf Day—a day when people donate $20 and wear red scarves in support of Canada’ s __________ and homeless.

There is an emergency shelter in Winnipeg called “Hannah’s Place”, something that Hannah is very __________ of. Hannah’s Place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that _________ outdoors can mean death. In the more than five years since Hannah began her activities, she has received a lot of __________. For example, she received the 2007 BRICK Award recognizing the __________ of young people to change the world. But __________ all this, Hannah still has the __________ life of a Winnipeg schoolgirl, except that she pays regular visits to homeless people.

Hannah is one of many examples of young people who are making a __________ in the world. You can, too!

Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, we accept these failures as a necessary part of the learning process. But too often we express to our children either by words or by actions that failure is somethings to be ashamed of.

Donnie was my youngest third-grader. His fear of failure kept him from classroom games that other children played excitedly. He seldom answered questions-he might be wrong. He seldom finished his work because he repeatedly checked with me to be sure he hadn’t made a mistake.

I tried my best to build his self-confidence. But nothing changed until midterm, when Mary Anne, a student teacher, was assigned to our classroom. She was young and pretty, and she loved children. My pupils, Donnie included, admired her. But even warm-hearted, loving Mary was baffled by this little boy.

Then one morning, we were working on math problems. Donnie had copied the problems with pains-taking neatness and filled in answers for the first row. Pleased with his progress, I left the children with Mary. But when I returned, Donnie was in tears. He’d missed the third problem.

Mary looked at me in despair. Suddenly her face brightened. From the desk we shared, she got a container filled with pencils.

“Look, Donnie,” she said, “I’ve got something to show you.” She removed the pencils and placed them on his desk. “See these pencils , Donnie?” she continued. “They belong to Mrs. Lindstrom and me. See how the erasers are worn? That’s because we make mistakes too. But we erase the mistakes and try again. That’s what you must learn to do, too.”

She kissed him and continued. “I’ll leave one of these pencils on your desk so you’ll remember that everybody makes mistakes, even teachers.” Donnie looked up with love in his eyes and a slight of a smile.

The pencil became Donnie’s prized possession. That, together with Mary Anne’s frequent encouragement and praise for even Donnie’s small successes, gradually reminded him that it’s all right to make mistakes — as long as you erase them and try again.