Carly’s eyes filled with tears as the dusty bus rattled(颠簸) down a dirt road in southern Vietnam. Now, hundreds of ______ school children lined the entrance to the Hoa Lac School, which Carly had ______ money for.

Carly started helping others when she was eight, ______ out baskets of gifts to families in need. ______, Carly wanted to do more — she wanted to “change ______”. She remembered that her grandmother’s Rotary club (扶轮社) had, years earlier, raised money to build a school in Vietnam. That was ______, She decided to build a school too.

At 12, ______ able to see over the podium (讲台), she gave her first fund-raising ______. Though her new braces (牙套) made it hard to ______, she spoke with enthusiasm to 200 Rotarians in a room. “That’s not ______. They are also children. I want to give them a place to make their lives better.”

That summer, Carly ______ with her family across Ohio, visiting three or four Rotary clubs a week. The first few ______ collected no donations. One night in a rundown building in ______fifteen Minerva, Carly and her dad, Fred, Rotarians in a darkened back room.

There was ______ silence and blank stares after Carly had finished. Fred thought this was never going to ______. Then someone proposed : “Let’s give this girl a check right now.” Minutes later, a(n) ______ Carly walked out it with her first donation: $500.

As ______ spread, in two years, Carly had raised $50,000. The Vietnam Children’s Fund also ______ $50,000. At the ______ of Hoa Lac school, the school principal was ______ with the ninth grader. “How wonderful it is,” he said through a translator, “that a girl at her age wanted to do something for kids so far away.”

I'm not as smart as I think I am, since I'm a bit more humble these days, I was that kid in class with my hand _________ in the air, correcting people's grammar and pronunciation. I got mostly straight A's, and I _________ myself if I didn't. I didn't attach value to _________ skills, sports, and so forth. I was definitely arrogant when it _________ to TV, movies, and music. And I pretty much thought I was _________ than just about everyone else.

The _________ really began when I went to a top-ranked law school, and it was the first time I had been absolutely surrounded by those who were smarter than, or _________ as smart as me. It was a bit of jolt (震惊) as I tried to find my _________ in that community. I did fine in law school, but there was no particularly special about my _________there. Since I could no longer identify myself as “the smart one”, I had to look for other ways to __________ myself.

Ultimately, I found I could __________ that obsessive (痴迷者) need to always be the best at everything. I __________ myself up to new experiences: art and physical activities that got me out of my head. I watched all the high school movies I had __________ to watch and found that I actually really liked them. I also began to truly appreciate other types of intelligence __________ book smarts. I now see my type of intelligence as only one among many types of intelligence. The world actually became a much more colorful place __________ I learned this lesson.

Ethan Katz enjoys playing with his dogs, MeFly and Brooklyn, and often helps his grandma feed and __________ her five dogs. For his ninth birthday, Ethan_________ the idea to sell T-shirts for his favorite_________, City Dogs Rescue in Washington, D.C.

The dogs of Ethan’s and his grandma’s were_________ from animal shelters. Most shelters have _________on the number of animals they can care for. City Dogs Rescue _________dogs from over-crowded shelters. Volunteers, called fosters, care for the animals _________ they’re adopted.

Ethan went on a website for T-shirt designing and fund-raising. He typed a(n)_________ about his project, designed a T-shirt, and _________each shirt at $ 20. Every time someone bought one part of that money went to City Dogs Rescue.

As _________ spread, many people bought shirts. “My_________goal was to sell 75 shirts, and I went ________that in three days, “said Ethan. By the end of his 30-day fund-raising _________, he had sold 179 shirts and raised $2,640.That money helped City Dogs Rescue save 10 dogs from overcrowded shelters.

But Ethan wasn’t finished. People continued to _______ City Dogs Rescue about buying shirts. So Ethan decided to________ the fund-raising event for another month. Through T-shirt sales and other _________, he finally raised more than$14,500 in all. Dogs in D. C are _________ to have him as their friend!

Kids often feel as if they had no say in things, and Ethan _________ them that they could make a real_________His love for his own dogs _________ Ethan Katz to help others.