1 . In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919), America’s 26th president, signed the American Antiquities Act. The law ______ him—and future presidents—to take immediate action to protect important cultural or natural ______. During his time ______ (1901-1909), he established five new national parks and 18 national monuments. He became ______ as “the conservationist (环境保护主义者) president”.

Roosevelt’s______ for the land and environment came from the time he spent in the Dakota Territory. In 1883, he came to Dakota in ______ of hunting huge animals called bison and had a great ______ in the Western frontier lifestyle.

Roosevelt soon developed an interest in ______ cattle. He entered the business and ______ $14, 000 to build the Maltese Cross Ranch (牧场). Roosevelt returned to New York while workers constructed the ranch. But, in 1884, he experienced two great ______ losses. His mother and wife ______ illnesses on the same day.

Roosevelt again ______ west and sought to ______ the reminders of his recent losses. Roosevelt ______ between New York and Dakota. In 1885, Roosevelt published his first book about his ______ as a rancher and hunter. In it, he predicted that the cattle industry was not sustainable (可持续性的). In other words, it would not ______.

Roosevelt was right. Severe weather ______ the area in 1886 and 1887. In the winter, a terrible ______ killed many cattle. The animals that survived the cold soon starved. The experience, however, influenced Roosevelt’s beliefs about the need for ______ in America. Those beliefs, in turn, helped ______ his policies as president.

2 . My 18-year-old daughter was admitted to hospital after a serious car accident.Her ______ was badly injured and she had to have an operation. The hospital was full of patients with brain injuries or ______ problems. Some even had difficulty recognizing people. I ______ my daughter once a day. She was the only patient who had ______ visitors; some were lucky to have a visitor once a ______.

Christmas was coming, and one day when I visited her, I was ______ by the patients to prepare Christmas ______ for them to give to the nurses. I was given enough ______ to make a(n)beautiful basket. My colleague Oliver came into my ______ when I was trying to make the basket while my students were out. She could see I was not good at doing this as I ______ to put the materials together. Oliver ______ the task and made a great job of the basket and then carried it to my car.

When I brought the basket to the patients, they were______ delighted. I was there when they gave it to the ______. They’d never been given anything like this before and they were so ______. It was a wonderful moment, as those in hospital knew clearly who was ______ them.

A few days later, I received a thank—you card and a box of chocolates from the patients for helping them with their basket. How touching it was! Oliver also bought me a beautiful Christmas gift, ______ that she would always be there, encouraging me and supporting me.

This is a great ______ of the importance of love and support. ______ their own health problems, the patients showed their _____ to the nurses and to me as well. We are all here to love and serve each other, and no matter what our ______ situation is, loving and serving others is still possible.

3 . It was Christmas morning. The ground was white with _________. The birds could not get anything to _________.

Bessie looked out of the window and saw them jumping about the street. They were _________ food. Bessie was a kind little girl. She felt _________ for the poor birds. She wanted to ask them to come into her warm home. _________ she knew that they were afraid to come in. At last she thought of a good idea. She decided to make a Christmas _________ for the birds. Bessie put a little tree outside the window. Then she hung on it little baskets full of _________ and small pieces of bread.

_________ the birds did not come to the tree. But by and by two or three came near and looked at it. They ate some of the seeds and bread. Then they flew _________ to tell the other birds about it. Soon many birds flew here to get their __________. They liked them as much as Bessie liked her Christmas presents. They sang songs to give their __________ to her.

Being __________, Bessie told her parents that she would give some of her bread to the birds every cold day. But her father said that she could not feed all the hungry birds even if she gave __________ of their bread. Thinking for a while, she said that all the birds would be fed __________ other children did the same.

4 . Marley Christian found a young koala, next to his dying mother. However, becoming motherless wasn’t his only _______. The rescuer from Friends of the Koala also _______ he was missing a foot.

Marley did her best for Triumph, the koala. She used socks to _______ his stump (残肢), which helped ease the discomfort Triumph felt whenever he tried to put _______ on it, but Marley thoughts he couldn’t _______ there. She began searching the Internet for pet prostheses (假体). But for a koala, there was nothing _______. “I was told it couldn’t be done,” Marley said.

Marley did find a company specializing in animal prostheses that would like to _______ the case, but they were unsuccessful after several _______. Eventually Marley found the _______ right in her neighborhood. She mentioned Triumph’s trouble to her dental prosthetist Jon Doulman, and he ________ to find a way to make a prosthesis for Triumph.

“________, it’s different from tooth problems,” Jon said. “But it’s worth a try.” After making one ________ of Triumph’s stump, he created a pink rubber boot, which could help make Triumph’s ________ of movement return. “It’s a seemingly ________ thing. But the design of the dentist does change Triumph’s life. Once the boot was ________, he did a little jump, and then ran around. I actually cried,” said Marley.

5 . Rachel had a healthy life both physically and mentally till one unfortunate winter evening. It was raining cats and dogs; everything was wet. Rachel’s cat went outside in this cold weather. She ________ him to bring him back inside. He hid near a utility pole (电线杆). Since it rained heavily the pole was charged and ________ to touch. Rachel, bent down to ________ her cat. She held the pole for support not ________ it was charged. The pole electrocuted her so badly that she was barely ________ seconds before her death. The electrocution resulted in ________ both her arms, which had to be cut off.

Rachel had to face such a (n) ________ accident. People get ________ about losing a finger. What would it be like if you lose both your arms? That’s what Rachel was trying to digest. It wasn’t easy at all. Rachel, slowly and gradually was accepting the ________ that she lost her arms and was ________ dependent on others for basic necessities that ________ the use of her arms. It upset her that she could not ________ her own duties herself.

Many people would lose hope. ________, that was not the case with Rachel. She did not want to ________ her dream. She didn’t let the slightest hopelessness bring her down and make her ________ her motivation. After recovery, Rachel ________ day and night to do most of her work with her feet. She emphasized mostly on ________ since she had no arms to do that with. She tried and tried. After many ________ and failures, she finally could write with her feet. She continued her school, ________ her examination and got a scholarship for law school.

Her optimism paved the way for a bright future. Her hard work ________ all because she never gave up.

6 . Some people say he is a hero. Some people say he is stupid. Emmanuel Tulor thinks he did the _________ thing.

The 18-year-old from Liberia found $50,000 on the highway. He gave it back to the _________ . Life in Liberia isn’t _________ . The country went through 14 years of civil wars. Tulor dropped out of school in seventh grade and started driving a motorcycle taxi to _________ money. One day, he was _________ on the highway _________ he saw a bunch of money wrapped in a plastic bag. It had been _________ on the road unnoticed. There were thousands of dollars inside. “I was _________ because it was plenty.” he said. “and so I brought it home and gave it to my aunty to _________ until the owner could ask for it.”

That day. Musu Yancy, the businesswewoman who had lost the money, went on the radio __________ for her money and appealing to anyone finding it. So he took it to her, Yancy gave him a(n) __________ of cash and some gifts, which was __________ about $1,500 in all. Yancy __________ with Tulor.

Tulor said that while many Liberians are praising his actions, others including some friends __________ him. They said he should keep the money. “Since my decision, when I have a(n) __________ on the highway and some of my rider friends see me, they don’t help; they say I was __________ to find and return money. I should let the money help me.”

Tulor __________ thinks he made the right choice. He thinks people should __________ lost things and the cash they find. Tulor planned to __________ the gifts with some people who were with him when he found the cash. “But the __________ I got will be given to my grandma." he said.

7 . Deliberation is not always the best option

Humans have developed over millions of years of evolution to respond to certain situations without thinking too hard. If your ancestors _______ movement in the undergrowth, they would run first and ask questions later. At the same time, the _______ to analyse and to plan is part of what distinguishes people from other animals.

The question of when to trust your gut(直觉)and when to test your _______—whether to think fast or slow, in the language of Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist—_______ in the office as much as it does in the savannah(大草原).

Deliberative thinking is the feature of a well-managed workplace. Strategic changes and budget discussions are built on rounds of meetings, memos, formulas and presentations. Processes are increasingly designed to _______ instinctive responses. From blind screening of job applicants to using “red-teaming” techniques to pick apart a firm’s plans, precision _______ instinct.

Yet instinct also has its place. Some decisions are more connected to emotional responses and inherently(固有的)less _______ to analysis. Does a marketing campaign capture the _______ of your company, say, or would this person work well with other people in a team? In _______ customer-service situations, intuition is often a better guide to how to behave than a script.

Gut instincts can also be ________. Plenty of research has shown that intuition becomes more unfailing with experience. In one well-known experiment, conducted in 2012, volunteers were asked to ________ whether a selection of designer handbags were fake or real. Some were instructed to operate on instinct and others to deliberate over their decision. Intuition worked better for those who owned at least three designer handbags; indeed, it ________ analysis. The more expert you become, the better your instincts tend to be.

________, the real reason to embrace fast thinking is that it is, well, fast. Instinctive decision-making is often the only way to get through the day. Researchers at Cornell University once estimated that people make over 200 decisions a day about food alone. The workplace is ________ but a succession of choices, a few big and many small: what to ________, when to intervene, whom to avoid in the lifts and, now, where to work each day.

8 . Wilson, 55, of Westchester County, New York, donated one of his kidneys (肾) two years ago. As a cyclist, Wilson was determined to _________ that the operation didn’t change his lifestyle. _________, earlier this year, he climbed to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

He was _________ to sign up to become a non-directed (非定向) kidney donor after seeing a friend’s post on Facebook. The friend had written that his teenage daughter had recently received a life-saving kidney donation from a _________.

When he got home, he started _________ kidney donations on the Internet. He didn’t know anyone who needed a _________, but he did find out about non-directed transplants (移植). _________, Wilson told his wife about his idea to become a non-directed donor, and she was totally supportive.

Wilson began taking the _________ to become a kidney donor, including numerous tests and _________ physical and psychological evaluations.

Wilson’s __________ was an even more advanced, minimally invasive (微创) one called a single-port surgery. Doctors __________ Wilson’s kidney using an incision (切口) made in his bellybutton. After about two weeks, he was back on his indoor bike, training __________.

As a __________ of a living thing, Wilson said the most important thing he wants people to know is that when someone donates a kidney, life really doesn’t __________ at all.

“If you can make an impact during your time there, it’s a wonderful thing,” Wilson said. “But the planet is a __________ place, so it was a way for a small individual to make an impact on just one person.”

9 . The 12-year-old Abraham Olagbegi developed a strange disease. ________, he got a chance offered by Make-A-Wish. It’s an organization whose ________ is to make the dreams of seriously ill children ________.

Rather than something for himself, Abraham chose to show ________ for his good luck by passing it along to others. The ________ Abraham asked for was to feed the homeless one day a ________ for a year.

His mother Miriam was very ________ of Abraham and she wasn’t surprised by her son’s ________. That was because Abraham and his family often ________ in their community handing out hot meals to the homeless. “It was always a ________ thing to do, and that’s what I grew up doing that,” Abraham said. “So, I am so thankful to have the chance to do what I was ________ to do.”

On the third Thursday of each month, volunteers in Make-A-Wish help Abraham to ________ up to 80 homeless people.

While a dozen days of ________ is admirable, when the year is up, Abraham plans to go on. “We’re very excited to be able to ________. It’s just so meaningful.” Miriam said. “If I was homeless, I would want somebody to think of me and to do something ________ for me, so, that’s what I try to show.”

10 . Lentil as Anything was first opened in Melbourne’s St. Kilda in 2000. At the time its founder, Shanaka Fernando, was living in a tent, so he knew something about what challenges those living a(n)_________ life faced.

Shanaka Fernando saw that lack of money was often the _________ to people who tried to connect and contribute to their community. The _________ of his Lentil as Anything from the onset was to re-engage those who were _________ .

What is special about Lentil as Anything is that it placed a _________ box on the counter instead of a cash register. Customers were asked to _________ what they felt their meal was worth and what they were _________ to donate towards the not-for-profit philosophy. The money left in the box was, and is _________ today, used to run the restaurant.

Shanaka Fernando _________ that instead of money alienating（使……疏远）people, it became a unifying force for his staff and his diners. The burden of paying Lentil as Anything's __________ , bills and rent is surrendered to the goodwill of the people.

Food is mostly __________ from local organic food suppliers and is prepared on-site and often served in buffet（自助餐）style allowing diners to __________ their own meals. For vegetarians（素食主义者）there is also a small range of vegan __________. Over the past years, hundreds of the disadvantaged or __________ have worked at the Lentil as Anything restaurants.

In 2007, Shanaka Fernando was awarded the Australian of the Year award as local hero for his __________ culinary（烹饪的）company.