1 . I teach in a low-income, urban high school. After I began _________ , I wanted to start a Culture Club at my school.

About eleven years ago, a reporter came to my school to _________ me. A few days after the resulting article   _________ , I got an email from a woman named Jeanne. She said she _________ the work

I was doing at my school, and asked me if I _________ funding for an extracurricular activity or club.

I have always seen the _________ of extracurricular activities, so I decided to give Jeanne a call. I told Jeanne about my _________ in a Culture Club. It turned out Jeanne was _________ .

Less than three days later, I received a check for $ 5, 000 to start the _________. She later connected me with a grant (资助金) that has since __________ the club for the past eleven years. To say I'm __________, particularly for the doors this has opened for my students, would be an understatement.

My Culture Club members have since __________ plays, ballets, operas, dance performances, and museums. They write essays that are __________ all over the US, and their art is featured in projects both local and national. We engage in community __________ , taking part in local beautification projects and raising funds for great causes. All those extracurricular activities give students a chance to show their intelligence and students have __________ strong bonds with one another.

I have __________ first - hand the impact extracurricular activities have on students. __________ a Culture Club at your school is a great place to start. Even if you don't __________ a benefactor (捐助者) like Jeanne the way I did, you can still find plenty of events and activities that are __________ or low - cost. It is definitely __________ it.

2 . Leonardo was born with an undeveloped left hand. He couldn't use his left hand for________tasks like grasping objects.________, an incident during his childhood aroused his________in building things.

A few years later, he built his first prosthetic hand(假手). It was a simple________, but it allowed him to grasp objects. That was only the________, as he soon worked on another one, but it was not as good as he expected.

While________online, he learned the story of a French boy who became the first one to receive a 3D-printed robotic hand. He also found a foundation that________them for disabled kids. He got in touch with the foundation and________one. Unfortunately, it was too large for him to use________.

Despite all the difficulties, Leonardo never________his dream. He decided to create his own robotic hand.________by the given one, he designed his own robotic hand which________strings that pick up the movements of his wrist and transmit(传送)them to the fingers.

________countless efforts, Leonardo finally had an advanced hand that fits him properly. Tough it's not perfect, it allows him to do things that he________dreamed of. And best of all,________advanced bionic(仿生的)hands end up costing around $15,000, he only spent $ 100 on his. It's________for anyone who can't afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars.

Leonardo's amazing story has already made him________, and he has even received several________for robotic hands. He built one for a 7-year-old girl, but usually he________commercially available models, because his is not as strong as he would like. He also decides to________himself to building advanced robotic prosthesis.