I want to do the right thing by the environment, and so do you. But, let’s face it: it isn’t always ______.

The moment one thinks about the seriousness of the ______ we face, it is difficult not to feel profoundly hopeless. For example, in order to ______ this article, I visit The World Counts (www.theworldcounts.com), which offers all the latest ______ statistics (统计数据), and it was ______ to send me to bed for the day.

There’s one thing I find ______ about trying to be ______. It is choosing between all the countless ______ on offer. Are bamboo toothbrushes better than electric ones? Do trains always cause less pollution than planes? Should one replace old but perfectly usable smart phones with ______ and high-tech versions? There is so much ______ out there to analyse. When I find myself in despair (绝望), I ______ an article by Loren Eiseley in which two men are walking along a beach covered by thousands of ______, dying starfish. One of the men ______ throwing individual starfish back into the water. The other man ______ that as there are so many starfish in trouble, his companion’s actions will make no ______. But the first man ______ that it will make a difference to each starfish he manages to ______.

It is an oft-repeated story, but that doesn’t make it any less ______. Someone has put it in a nutshell when he said, “it is the greatest of all ______ to do nothing because you can only do a little — do what you ______.”

Sudha Chandran ,a dancer from India ,had to have her right leg cut off after a car accident. It also _______her career path._______ she didn’t give up. In the painful months that _______,she met a doctor who had developed an artificial(人造的)leg _______rubber.After she had been fitted with an artificial leg ,so _______was her desire that she decided to go back to _______.

Sudha _______herself and knew she could make her _______come true,so she began her _______ back to the world of dancing—________to balance ,bend ,walk ,turn ,twist and twirl again.

________every public recital(公演) ,she would ask her dad about her performance. “You still have a long way to go ” was the ________she used to get. In January 1984 ,Sudha made a historic comeback by giving a public recital in Bombay. She performed in such a ________manner that her performance moved everyone to tears. That evening ,when she asked her dad the ________question ,he didn’t say anything. He just touched her artificial leg as a ________of praising her.

Sudha’s comeback was so heart-warming that a film producer ________to make a film about it.

When someone asked Sudha ________she had succeeded in dancing again, she said quite ________ ,“You don’t need feet to dance. ”________is impossible in this world. If you have the will to ________ ,you can succeed in doing anything.

When he was a little boy his uncle called him “Sparky”. School was all but impossible for Sparky.

He failed every subject in the eighth grade. And his records in sports couldn't be any _________. Throughout his youth, Sparky was awkward socially. He was _________ if a classmate said hello to him outside of school hours. Because he was too afraid of being   _________   , he never asked a girl out in high school. Sparky was a _________. So he learned to live _________ it. He made up his mind early that _________ things were meant to work out, they would.

_________ , one thing was important to Sparky—drawing. He was _________ of his artwork. No one else appreciated it, but that didn't matter to him. In his senior year of high school, his cartoons were _________ by the editor of the yearbook, but Sparky was convinced of his ability. He even decided to become a(n) __________ .

After high school, Sparky wrote to Walt Disney Studios. They asked for samples of his artwork. Despite the __________ , he was rejected, too. But Sparky still didn't __________. Instead, he decided to tell his own story in cartoons. The main __________ would be a little boy who had been a long-term loser like him. People started to __________ this “lovable loser” because Sparky's cartoon character went on to become a cultural phenomenon. He __________ people of the embarrassing moment and the __________ from their own past.

The character, Charlie Brown, soon became famous worldwide. And Sparky, the boy whose many failures __________ kept him from trying is the highly successful cartoonist Charles Schultz. His cartoon, Peanuts, reminds us that life somehow finds a __________ for all of us, even the losers.

Sparky's story reminds us of a very important principle in life. We all __________ difficulty and discouragement from time to time, but who __________ what can happen if we hold fast to our faith and continue to develop the unique talents.