At just 21 years old, Nija Charles is one of today’s most popular songwriters. She has ______ with Beyonce, Jay Z, Cardi B, Kehlani, SZA and many other today’s ______ music artists. She was even ______   in three Grammy nominations (提名) this year.

But just a few years ago, Charles was only another ______ in the crowd. Growing up in New Jersey, she was ______ into a musical family. “My dad’s a DJ. My mom is a dancer,” Charles recalled. “So growing up, I was always just ______ music.

Charles said her first introduction to ______ music was at age 13 when she asked her mom for a mini keyboard because she ______ to produce. “So she got ______ for me, and right then and there, I ______ banging (敲打) on the keyboard,” she said.

Charles continued to study music at New York University, where she’d make beats in her dormitory and _____ them online. Soon she ______ herself flying across the country on weekends. performing on stage and studying.

“It was very ______ . There were some classes I ______ had to skip. But yeah, it was just ______ management and I had to ______ and finish my homework before I got on the plane or do my homework on the plane and then write the ______ during the weekend. I make sure I studied hard ______ I could finish school that year,” she said.

Talking about her success, Charles said. “It’s ______ that my favorite artists are now the people I work with. Several years ago, I was at their ______ and now I’m in the studio with them.”

I woke up by my dog barking in the early morning. I went outside to find a koala (考拉) at the yard gate wanting to enter. It was the first time that I had ______ a koala in my neighborhood. What a welcome ______ !

I was wondering why he was here, as koala ______ came down from the trees and didn’t like walking, either. ______ , there was no eucalyptus (桉树) around. Was he hungry or lost? Or maybe the bushfire across Kangaroo Island ______ him here?

He just sat there, clearly ______ , and sort of looked at me with a look, like helping me out of my suffering. At a(n) ______ look, I discovered a long cut at his back with bloods, ______ of attacks or cuts of something sharp in some other way.

I rushed into my room and came out with some iodophor (碘伏药水). It was not a ______ problem as I was a nurse. This poor koala seemed to quite ______ my kindness when I ______   the cut with the liquid. It ______ out that he came to ask me for ______ !

After the treatment, I watched the koala finally ______ in the wild, hoping he was able to ______ the hard time and live his life as he should.

When a homeless man named Marcus wandered into Abigail’s Cafe asking for spare change, he didn’t get turned away. Looking at the man, the owner Abigail asked, “Why don’t you have a_______? You know nothing is given to me for free?” Marcus_______that he had “a lot of crimes”. Because of his_______, no one wanted to hire him, so he had made money the only way he knew how: “_______or asking for money.”

Although the young owner had hit some hard times for her café, Abigail was_______of hands that day and then decided to_______Marcus the task of washing dishes. “His_______opened wide and his smile made my_______!” She wrote on Facebook.

“He said he would do_______for some food.” For the past two weeks，Marcus has been on time every day for his__________of working for two hours when he washes dishes. He uses the money he__________to buy his own food at the restaurant, __________to take it for free.

“A lot of people are saying that I’ve been a blessing for him.__________, at that point I was the one who needed a blessing,” Abigail told CBS News. Her post has earned a lot of attention with plenty of__________on the Internet. Because many people have asked__________they can help people like Marcus, she__________a GoFundMe page with a modest goal of $1, 000. “The hope,” she said, “is to create more hours and opportunities for him__________others in the community.”

Abigail said she shared the story, hoping that people might be moved to help a__________, too. “Do something nice for whoever may not be familiar to us and don’t__________them just because they go out there asking for money, for we don’t know their real__________,”she said in her post. “They deserve another chance.”