Fifteen-year-old Michael Platt is the owner of Michaels Desserts. Born with an _________ love for sweets, he became interested in baking when he was nine. _________, Michael was learning about income inequality and childhood hunger from his parents. He felt inspired to _________ those injustices. Since he was diagnosed with severe epilepsy (癫痫症) at 10, Michael has been homeschooled by his mother.

With his activities limited by his _________ condition, Michael threw himself into baking. His parents once bought him a pair of TOMS shoes, whose business model gave him a(n) _________: For every pair sold, TOMS gives another pair to a _________ individual. Supported by his parents, he _________ Michaels Desserts. When a dessert is sold, he donates another to someone _________ homelessness or hunger.

Michael sells about 170 treats a month. There are various _________ for tasting, and the most important item on the menu is the “Freedom Fighter” cupcakes created __________ historical figures like Martin Luther King Junior. Stephanie Gerstenblith, one of his customers, says that Michael’s cupcakes are not only delicious, but also have inspired her to “ __________ everyone with sweetness”.

Besides running his bakery, Michael __________ bake sales for the non-profit No Kid Hungry. Jessica Bomberg, a leader of fund-raising for the campaign says, “Young heroes like Michael prove that everyone can __________ in society”.

It is Michael’s faith that everyone should undertake the responsibility to __________ others. “When I see people starving, I want to give them something,” he says. “It’s my way of telling them that they haven’t been __________.”

It’s about 250 miles from the hills of west-central lowa (艾奥瓦州) to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota (明尼苏达州). During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting, Ehlers _______ about the small dog he had seen _______ alongside the road. He had _______ to coax (哄) the dog to him but, frightened, it had _______.

Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that _______ dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove _______. After a long and careful _______, Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving _______ away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with _______. It just started licking (舔) Ehlers’ face.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one________ as lost in the local paper. The ad had a ________ number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers called the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had ________ their dog.

Jeff had hunted in lowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched ________ for Rosie in the next four days.

Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. “It’s good to know there’s still someone out there who cares enough to go to that kind of ________,” says Lisa of Ehlers’ rescue effort.

“figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as close to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would be ________ to go that extra mile.”

There are a thousand heroes in a thousand people's eyes. In my view, a hero is someone who uses his way to _________ others.

When I was 12 years old, my grandparents died. I really loved them, and_________ them was the hardest thing I've ever had to go through. I couldn't eat, sleep, or think; I felt like I couldn't even _________ . It was as if my whole world had fallen down from under me, and I  _________ into this huge hole of sadness.

_________ I was fighting against sadness, I was determined to enjoy my high school years. It was_________to be happy, but I had to try. It was then that I decided to join Women's Choir(合唱团). Mr. Wright was the choral director who was so funny that I knew I had made the best _________of my life. As the year went by, I began to smile again.

Then one day that all_________. My friends or those that I thought were my friends—started talking about me behind my back. I was_________, sitting by myself. Mr. Wright came over and asked what was wrong. The look in his eyes told me that I could __________ him. Trying hard to__________  back tears, I told him the whole story.

"If you never learn anything from me, learn this: No one can__________your joy." What Mr. Wright said really made me moved. He __________cared about me and what was going on. I'm really__________ , because he not only saved me but has influenced my life ever since. Whenever I wanted to__________, I remembered Mr. Wright's words and pushed forward. At last, I got over(克服) my __________and now enjoy being in the best choir at my school.

Mr. Wright is a(n)__________to me and everyone he meets. He cares about every single person who walks through his door, and he loves what he does __________any other teacher I've known. That's why he __________Educator of the Year. He is worth owning the__________not just this year but every year.