Alice Moore is a teenager entrepreneur (创业者), who in May 2015 set up her business AilieCandy. By the time she was 13, her company was worth millions of dollars with the invention of a super-sweet treat that could save kids’ teeth, instead of destroying them.

It all began when Moore visited a bank with her dad. On the outing, she was offered a candy bar. However, her dad reminded her that sugary treats were bad for her teeth. But Moore was sick of missing out on candies. So she desired to get round the warning, “Why can’t I make a healthy candy that’s good for my teeth so that my parents can’t say no to it?” With that in mind, Moore asked her dad if she could start her own candy company. He recommended that she do some research and talk to dentists about what a healthier candy would contain.

With her dad’s permission, she spent the next two years researching online and conducting trials to get a recipe that was both tasty and tooth-friendly. She also approached dentists to learn more about teeth cleaning. Consequently, she succeeded in making a kind of candy only using natural sweeteners, which can reduce oral bacteria.

Moore then used her savings to get her business off the ground. Afterwards, she and her father secured their first business meeting with a supermarket owner, who finally agreed to sell Moore’s product — CanCandy.

As CanCandy’s success grows, so does Moore’s credibility as a young entrepreneur. Moore is enthusiastic about the candy she created, and she’s also positive about what the future might bring. She hopes that every kid can have a clean mouth and a broad smile.

Meanwhile, with her parents’ help, Moore is generally able to live a normal teenage life. Although she founded her company early on in life, she wasn’t driven primarily by profit. Moore wants to use her unique talent to help others find their smiles. She donates 10% of AilicCandy’s profits to Big Smiles. With her talent and determination, it appears that the sky could be the limit for Alice Moore.

2 . I would often watch the kids from my window as they played basketball. One day, among the children a girl ________ me. She seemed so small as she pushed her way through the crowd of boys. They always tried to stop her but no one could. She ________ to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the basket. Later I often saw her practise alone until dark.

One day I asked her ________ she practised so much. Without hesitation, she said, “I want to go to college on a scholarship (奖学金). The only way I can do that is to play basketball well enough. My dad always says to me that if the dream is ________ enough, nothing could stop me.”

I ________ her through junior high and into high school. One day in her senior year, I saw her ________ in the grass, head in her arms. ________ I asked her what was wrong. She said softly that she was too short. The coaches told her that she would probably ________ get to play for a top college team — much less be offered a scholarship.

Sensing her ________, I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were ________. They didn’t understand the ________ of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to ________ for a top college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, nothing could stop her ________ one thing — her own attitude.

The next year, the girl was ________ a full scholarship to a NCAA women’s basketball team. She was going to ________, which she had dreamed of and worked toward for all those years.

4 . One of my neighbors used to have a beautiful tree in her front yard. Her dad had planted it for her _________ it was nothing more than a little branch and several years later it started to _________ towards the sky at an amazing speed. Soon it blessed her with cooling _________ in the summer and glorious, golden leaves in the fall.

When the two-day snowstorm struck our town, heavy snow _________ the tree’s branches that were still full of leaves. The weight split that lovely tree down the _________. It was so sad seeing half of it _________ on the ground after the storm. When I talked to my neighbor later, she said that the damage had been too much and that the _________ tree would have to be cut down. _________, she had saved a few seedlings from it that she hoped to _________ in the future.

Still, it was a shock to drive by her house the other day and see __________ but a stump (树桩) in her front yard. I missed that tree. I missed its branches, its leaves __________ in the afternoon sun. I missed seeing its limbs (树枝) reach towards the heavens. I thought that the stump would be a sad __________ of its loss for a long time to come.

My wonderful neighbor had another plan, __________. When I drove by her home today I saw a tiny bird feeder sitting on that stump and a colorful songbird having its __________. It was such an affirmation (肯定) of life. It was such a joy to __________. I could feel my heart __________.

Life by its very nature is a __________ bag. It hands us both beauty and tragedy, love and loss, __________ and pain. What we do with it, however, is up to us. We can let it __________ us in two, or we can use even its hardest times to make our __________ stronger and our hearts more loving. We can spend it complaining or we can use it to help others.

6 . I’d always dreamed of exploring Africa, ever since I read my first Tarzan(《人猿泰山》)comic as a child. Finally, in 2004, to celebrate my 60^th birthday, I went to Tanzania to experience a safari(东非游猎)and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Seated next to me on the flight was Tanzania’s minister of water and wildlife development. We talked for thousands of miles, and he arranged me to visit a school. When I toured the school, I was shocked. The leaky(漏的)roofs turned the dirt floors into mud during the rainy season, and the walls couldn’t keep out the heat, cold or bugs(小昆虫). The school was in need of all material goods, but the kids possessed great human spirit.

It broke my heart that these children had to struggle to survive, so I asked the headmaster what it would cost to feed them. As little as 20 cents per child per day, he told me. Immediately I got home, I founded Kids of Kilimanjaro. Since then we’ve grown to provide hot lunches for nearly 13,000 schoolchildren every day. The free lunch program has eased a major problem the youngsters face.

I know a good education could really make a difference in these children’s lives. My parents always stressed the importance of education. I paid my own way through college in Tokyo by teaching English to students and business people. After attending university I moved to San Francisco, when I was 25 years old. In 1978 I realized my American dream when I founded my own company. My success all started with a good education.

It’s amazing that something as simple as a nutritious lunch can change and enrich so many lives. Giving young people a better, healthier life can inspire them to go all the way through college and lead a movement that transforms their country.

7 . “Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they’re given after all. Choice can be hard.”

I got the idea to _______________Amazon years ago. I _______________the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2, 300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an _______________ bookstore with millions of titles was very _______________to me. I had just turned 30, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife that I wanted to _______________my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t_______________ since most start-ups don’t and I wasn’t sure what to _______________. She told me I should _______________ the idea. As a young boy, I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my_______________.

I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a __________________boss that I admired very much. I went to my boss and __________________ with him that I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened __________________to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea,____________ it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some__________________to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours ____________ making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult__________________, but finally, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret__________________ and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.

After much__________________, I took the less__________________ path to follow my dream, and I’m__________________of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.

8 . I was never very neat, while my roommate Kate was extremely organized. Each of her objects had its place, but mine always hid somewhere. She even labeled(贴标签) everything. I always looked for everything. Over time, Kate got neater and I got messier. She would push my dirty clothing over, and I would lay my books on her tidy desk. We both got tired of each other.

War broke out one evening. Kate came into the room. Soon, I heard her screaming, “Take your shoes away! Why under my bed!” Deafened, I saw my shoes flying at me. I jumped to my feet and started yelling. She yelled back louder.

The room was filled with anger. We could not have stayed together for a single minute but for a phone call. Kate answered it. From her end of the conversation, I could tell right away her grandma was seriously ill. When she hung up, she quickly crawled(爬) under her covers, sobbing.

Obviously, that was something she should not go through phone. All of a sudden, a warm feeling of sympathy rose up in my heart.

Slowly, I collected the pencils, took back the books, made my bed, cleaned the socks and swept the floor, even on her side. I got so into my work that I even didn’t noticed Kate had sat up.

She was watching. her tears dried and her expression one of disbelief. Then, she reached out her hands to grasp mine. I looked up into her eyes. She smiled at mc. “Thanks.”

Kate and I stayed roommates for the rest of the year. We didn’t always agree, but we learned the key to living together: giving in, cleaning up and holding on.

9 . When Deirdre Taylor was preparing to leave her Virginia home to fight Covid-19 in New York, she made sure to   ________ a possession that she kept for over thirty, ________: a front-page newspaper article.

This article ________ Taylor’s rescue from a burning New York City apartment by a ________ in 1983. She was only four then. The picture on the front-page article shows a young Taylor with the man who ________ her, Eugene Pugliese.

“I always knew I came ________ to losing my life that day,” Taylor told CNN. “I could have a second chance at life ________ him.”

Today, Taylor, 41, is an emergency room ________ with a happy family. Ever since the incident, she wondered what ________ the firefighter who saved her, coming up empty when she ________him online. ________ to spend two months helping in the ________ against Covid-19 at NYU Langone Hospital, Taylor saw this as a(n) ________ to find him.

During one of her shifts (轮班), Taylor gave an ________ of her experience to a fire fighter her. He called the current captain of New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in Manhattan, who ________ knew whom Taylor was looking for.

Taylor gave Pugliese a(n) ________ right after her shift and was very happy to hear his voice on the other end. “I wondered about him on 9/11 and hoped I would get the chance to thank him, and I finally ________,” said Taylor.

Now 76 years old, Pugliese was ________ when he got the call from Taylor on Friday.

“We just sat there crying on the ________,” Pugliese told CNN, “________ that he’s had the same article framed on his wall for 37 years now.”

10 . When Deirdre Taylor was preparing to leave her Virginia home to fight Covid-19 in New York, she made sure to _________ a possession that she kept for over thirty _________ : a front-page newspaper article.

This article _________ Taylor’s rescue from a burning New York City apartment by a _________ in 1983. She was only four then. The picture on the front-page article shows a young Taylor with the man who _________ her, Eugene Pugliese.

“I always knew I came _________ to losing my life that day,” Taylor told CNN. “I could have a second chance at life _________ him.”

Today, Taylor, 41, is an emergency room _________ with a happy family. Ever since the incident, she wondered what _________ the firefighter who saved her, coming up empty when she __________ him online. __________ to spend two months helping in the __________ against Covid-19 at NYU Langone Hospital, Taylor saw this as an __________ to finally find him.

During one of her shifts (轮班), Taylor gave an __________ of her experience to a firefighter. He called the current captain of FDNY in Manhattan, who __________ knew whom Taylor was looking for.

Taylor gave Pugliese a(an) __________ right after her shift and was very happy to hear his voice on the other end. “I wondered about him on 9/11 and hoped I would get the chance to thank him, and I finally __________ .” said Taylor.

Now 76 years old, Pugliese was __________ when he got the call from Taylor on Friday. “We just sat there crying on the __________ .” Pugliese told CNN, __________ that he’s had the same article framed on his wall for 25 years now.