When I was 14, I got tired of school and left my home town to search for my fortune in big cities. One day I was _________ in the street when I noticed an old beggar at the corner. After _________ me for some time, he said to me, “Boy, come with me as I have something good for you.” Feeling curious and _________ , I followed him to a small house.

The beggar first asked me to wait for a moment. A few minutes later, he returned with a couple of old _________ . “There are two things that I want to _________ you, young man,” said he. “Number one is that you should never_________ a book by its cover, for it can fool you.” He _________, “I bet you think I’m a _________ , don’t you, young man?” I said, “Well, uh, yes, I guess so, sir.” “You are _________ , but I’m sure you are a dropout(辍学生),” he said. I was __________ .

“Well, young man, I’ve got a little __________ for you. I am one of the __________ men in this city. I have probably everything any man could ever want. A year ago, my wife passed away. I __________ there were certain things I had not yet __________ in life, one of which was what it would be like to live __________ a beggar in the streets. For the past year, I have been going from city to city doing just that.”

“Number two is to learn how to __________ . There is only one thing that people can’t take away from you, your __________ .” Then, he reached forward, took my __________ and put them upon the books.

The beggar then__________ me back in the streets near where we first met. His parting __________ was for me to never forget what he taught me. I headed for my home that very day and returned to my school the next day.

Kim Stemple was a special-education teacher In 2012, she found herself ________ to an IV (静脉注射) in a Boston hospital being ________ for one of several diseases she had been diagnosed with, including lupus (狼疮) The normally lively Stemple was ________ getting upset a lot. And then a friend gave her a ________.

Before she got too sick to ________, Stemple had been a marathon runner. The medal came from a racing ________ who had just finished a half marathon in Las Vegas and hoped the present would ________ a kind of similar pick-me-up (提神剂). It worked like a(n) ________ —and then some.

After Stemple ________ the medal from her hospital IV pole, other patients said they wanted medals too. That got Stemple ________. “A medal is a simple way to give a(n) ________ message,” she told pilotonline. com. And so was born her ________, We Finish Together, which collects medals from ________ —runners, dancers, swimmers, singers, and even spelling bee winners—and donates them to all sorts of people in ________.

Receivers have included hospital patients, people of homeless shelters, and old soldiers. Part of the process is ________ with the donators writing a personalized ________ on the ribbon (缎带). “This gives them a connection to someone,” says Stemple. “If they receive a medal, they will know someone ________.”

Can a simple medal really make a ________? Yes, says Joan Musarra, who develops pulmonary fibrosis (肺纤维). “I opened my package containing my new medal and the notes of positive, warm thoughts. I was ________,” she wrote to Stemple. “At that moment, I was sitting on my sofa breathing through an oxygen tube because my lungs have become so worse. It means so much to me to feel that I am not ________.”

The world’s youngest DJ who is just two years old has thousands of fans thanks to his ability. Oratilwe Hlongwane, whose DJ name is AJ, is   ______   learning to put together words, but the baby is already able to ______ and play music from a laptop and has become famous in South Africa. His abilities have even ______ him special appearances, with fans   ______ to hear his bass-heavy house music.

A mobile phone recording of him playing music was shared online and the youngster now has nearly 25,000 Facebook ______. However, some people ______ his parents of abusing and making money from their child’s ability. Mr. Hlongwane said he would not “______ his kid” and said he wasn’t allowed to play in clubs or at parties ______ his age. The parents also insisted that they would not ______ their son to be a DJ when he grows up, but said they believed his interest in electronic equipment would probably decide his future. Mr. Hlongwane added, “I can see a ______ Bill Gates here. ”