Ruby Kate, 11 likes to spend time with residents at the local nursing homes where her mother Amada works as a nurse.

One day last summer, Ruby_______that a resident named Pearl was staring out of the window and looking very_______. Ruby and Amanda learnt that Pearl’s dog had just left. She couldn't _______to have someone take care of her dog and it was basically homeless. After a little more _______, Amanda and her daughter found out that Pearl only gets $40 each month from her Medicaid check. Many of the other residents received just as little — if _______ — spending money at all.

Pearl’s story_________Ruby. She wanted to do something to_________her and the other residents. So she got out a_________and wrote down a simple question: “What are three things you wish you had?”

Amanda was_________of Ruby’s broad question. She didn't think her daughter would ________with anything helpful. “In my adult mind, that question is not going to ________” said Amanda. “They're going to tell you that they want things you can't give them.”

She went door to door at the nursing home, __________residents to list their three wishes. When Amanda saw what her daughter wrote in her notebook, she was__________that the list was filled with just________ requests like new pillows, books, razors and peanut butter.

Ruby and Amanda________all of the items on the first list and that started a chain reaction of ________ and kindness. They launched a GoFundMe page to__________money to fulfill more wishes. Soon after, Ruby's story went viral and she's now collected more than $250,000 and__________ her own nonprofit called Three Wishes for Ruby's Residents.

“I'd like it to go on ________ and ever and ever,” she said. “Because I just want it to go________and I want it to go around the states and even in different countries.”

Zhang Guimei is the principal of Huaping High School for Girls, based in Lijiang city, Southwest China's Yunnan province. She has been granted the title “Role Model of the Times” in recognition of her devotion to the _______ for girls from poor families.

The school, which was founded by Zhang in 2008, was the first high school in the country to provide _______ education to girls who would otherwise have been unable to continue their studies after completing their nine years of compulsory education.

Anybody who knows Zhang's own conditions will be more deeply _______ by her situation. She has no personal property and has been living in the student dormitory but she has never charged students for tuition fees since its founding. She has spent most of her salary and the bonuses she received on her students. And, despite having serious _______ problems, she never stayed in hospital. For 12 years she has always taken morning classes together with the students. She has also covered 110,000 kilometers _______ her students’ families over the years. Besides her work with the school, she also has a part-time job as head of the local orphanage, _______ more than 130 orphans(孤儿).

Thanks to her efforts, about 40 percent of the school’s graduates are enrolled in key universities. More than 1,800 girls from poor families have _______ universities via her education.

Zhang deserves her honorary _______ “Role Model of the Times”. By helping the girls get higher education, she has actually helped them change their destinies and their later generations in the future will enjoy more opportunities as a result.

In a broader sense, Zhang has been helping to _______ the region as a whole. Influenced by her, many of her students have chosen to teach in poor areas, while some even went back to teach in her high school. Her ________ have thus benefited the local region in a sustainable way. What she has done will be long remembered and encourage more to follow her example.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

— Winston Churchill

We come by (获得) business naturally in our family. Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father’s hardware (五金制品) ________ in Mott, North Dakota, a small town in the countryside. We started working by doing small jobs like cleaning and ________ shelves, and later tried to ________ customers. As we worked and watched, we learned that work was more than about survival and making a ________.

One lesson stands out in my mind. It was shortly before Christmas. I was in the eighth grade and was working in the evenings, arranging the toys in the area. A little boy, five or six years old, came in. He was wearing a dirty, old brown coat. His hair was ________. His shoes were worn out. The little boy looked too poor to ________ to buy anything. He ________ looked around the toy area, picked up several toys, and put them ________.

Dad came down the stairs, walked over to the boy and asked what he could do for him. The boy said he was looking for a Christmas present for his brother. I was ________ that Dad treated him with the same respect that he would give to any ________. Dad told him to take his time and look around. He did so.

After about twenty minutes, the little boy chose a toy ________, walked up to my dad and said, “How much is this, Mister?” “How much have you got?” Dad asked.

The little boy held out his hand and opened it. His hand was covered with wet lines of dirt from holding his money. In his hand ________ five coins: two dimes, a nickel and two Pennies—twenty-seven cents altogether. The price on the toy plane he’d ________ was $3.98.

“That’ll be OK.” Dad said when he closed the sale. Dad’s answer still ________ in my ears. I thought about what I’d seen as I wrapped (包，裹) the present. When the little boy walked out of the store, I didn’t ________ the dirty, worn coat, the messy hair or the old shoes. What I saw was a glowing child with a treasure.