Raynor Winn and her husband Moth became homeless due to their wrong investment. Their savings had been  (1)   to pay lawyers’ fees. To make matters worse, Moth was diagnosed（诊断）with a   (2)   disease. There was no   (3)  , only pain relief.

Failing to find any other way out, they decided to make a   (4)  journey, as they caught sight of an old hikers’(徒步旅行者）guide.

This was a long journey of unaccustomed hardship and   (5)   recovery. When leaving home, Raynor and Moth had just ￡320 in the bank. They planned to keep the  (6)   low by living on boiled noodles, with the  (7)   hamburger shop treat.

Wild camping is   (8)   in England. To avoid being caught, the Winns had to get their tent up  (9)  and packed it away early in the morning. The Winns soon discovered that daily hiking in their 50s is a lot   (10)   than they remember it was in their 20s. Raynor  (11)   all over and desired a bath. Moth, meanwhile, after an initial   (12)  , found his symptoms were strangely  (13)   by their daily tiring journey.

  (14)  , the couple found that their bodies turned for the better, with re-found strong muscles that they thought had  (15)   forever. "Our hair was fried and falling out, nails broken, clothes  (16)  to a thread, but we were alive."

During the journey, Raynor began a career as a nature writer. She writes, "  (17)   had taken every material thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a(n)   (18)   written book. It had also given me a  (19)  , either to leave that page   (20)   or to keep writing the story with hope. I chose hope.”

The Homeless Hero

    For many，finding an unattended wallet filled with £400 in cash would be a source（来源）of temptation（诱惑）．But the    (1)   would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money． All of this makes the actions of the homeless Tom Smith   (2)  more remarkable．

    After spotting a    (3)    on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down，he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the    (4)   to return．

    After hours in the cold and wet， he   (5)   inside and pulled the wallet out hoping to find some ID so he could contact（联系）the driver， only to   (6)  it contained £400 in notes，with another £50 in spare change beside it．

    He then took the wallet to a nearby police station after  (7)   a note behind to let the owner know it was safe． When the car's owner John Anderson and his colleague Carol Lawrence returned to the car﹣which was itself worth £35，000﹣in Glasgow city centre， they were  (8)  to find two policemen standing next to it． The policemen told them what Mr．Smith did and that the wallet was  (9)  ．

    The pair were later able to thank Mr．Smith for his   (10)  ．

    Mr．Anderson said："I couldn't believe that the guy never took a penny．To think he is sleeping on the streets tonight    (11)  he could have stolen the money and paid for a place to stay in．This guy has nothing and   (12)    he didn't take the wallet for himself；he thought about others  (13)  ． It's unbelievable． It just proves there are  (14)  guys out there．"

    Mr．Smith's act  (15)   much of the public's attention． He also won praise from social media users after Mr．Anderson   (16)  about the act of kindness on Facebook．

    Now Mr． Anderson has set up an online campaign to   (17)    money for  Mr．Smith and other homeless people in the area， which by yesterday had received ￡8，000． "I think the faith that everyone has shown  (18)   him has touched him． People have been approaching him in the street； he's had job   (19)  and all sorts， "Mr．Anderson commented．

We have all heard how time is more valuable than money， but is it   (1)  to have too much time？

    I   (2)  back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also   (3)  a team sport． By the time I got home， I only had a few hours to do my homework， and I had to do it  (4)  ．

    When I got into college， things  (5)  ．  I suddenly found myself out of class before noon time． Because of all this   (6)  time， there was no sense of   (7)   to do my school work immediately． I was performing this action of waiting until it later became a   (8)  ． Once that happened， I just kept  (9)  my studying further and further back in my day． Then I got to the point where I was   (10)  really late at night to get my work done．

    One day I  (11)  a former classmate of mine who was   (12)  _a lot of money running a sideline （副业）． Since his regular job was   (13)  ， I asked him why he just didn't do his sideline full﹣time． He said without the job， he would   (14)  have too much time and would just do what I did back in  (15)  ． He said that if he   (16)  the job， he would lose his   (17)  to work and succeed．

    So， try   (18)   your time with other work． This is why there is a  (19)  that if you want something done， ask a   (20)  person to do it．

While high school does not generally encourage students to explore new aspects of life, college sets the stage for that exploration. I myself went through this ____  (1)  ____ process and found something that has changed my ____  (2)  ____ at college for the better: I discovered ASL-American Sign Language(美式手语).

   I never felt an urge to ____  (3)  ____ any sign language before. My entire family is hearing, and so are all my friends. The ____  (4)  ____ language were enough in all my interactions(交往). Little did I know that I would discover my ____  (5)  ____ for ASL.

   The ____  (6)  ____ began during my first week at college. I watched as the ASL Club ____  (7)  ____ their translation of a song. Both the hand movements and the very ____  (8)  ____ of communicating without speaking ____  (9)  ____ me. What I saw was completely unlike anything I had experienced in the ____  (10)  ____. This newness just left me ____  (11)  ____ more.

   After that, feeling the need to ____  (12)  ____further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL club's meetings. I only learned how to ____  (13)  ____ the alphabet that day. Yet instead of being discouraged by my ____  (14)  ____ progress, I was excited. I then made it a point to ____  (15)  ____ those meetings and learn all I could.

   The following term, I ____  (16)  ____ an ASL class. The professor was deaf and any talking was ____  (17)  ____. I soon realized that the silence was not unpleasant. ____  (18)  ____, if there had been any talking, it would have ____  (19)  ____ us to learn less. Now, I appreciate the silence and the ____  (20)  ____ way of communication it opens.

    A Toronto man is offering a free round-the-world air ticket to the right woman. But ____  (1)  ____ apply. You must be named Elizabeth Gallahgher and have a Canadian ____  (2)  ____.

    Jordan Axani, 28, said he and his then girlfriend, Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily discounted round-the-world air tickets in May, but their ____  (3)  ____ ended and he did not want her ticket to ____  (4)  ____. The ticket had a strict notransfer (不可转让)____  (5)  ____, but since passport information was not required when ____  (6)  ____, any Canadian Elizabeth Gallagher can ____  (7)  ___ it.

    "I just want to see the ticket go to good use and for someone to ____  (8)  ____ a lot of joy," said Axani. He posted his ____  (9)  ___ on a social networking website, and received thousands of e-mails, including thirty from actual Elizabeth Gallaghers with the ____  (10)  ____ passports, "More ____  (11)  ____ , there are hundreds of Canadians who are interested in ____  (12)  ____ their name to Elizabeth Gallagher, " Axani said. "It was absolutely out of ____  (13)  ____ , thousands of e-mails, people around the world ___(14)___ their stories of travel."

    Axani wrote in his post that he is not ____  (14)  ____ anything in return and that the woman who uses the ____  (15)  ____ ticket can choose to either travel with him or ____  (16)  ____ the ticket and travel on her own.

    The ____  (17)  ____ is scheduled to start on December 21 in New York City and continue on to Milan, Prague, Paris, Bangkok and New Delhi before ____  (18)  ____ in Toronto on January 8．He said the ____  (19)  ___ woman will be announced on the website and the trip will be shared online.

In the 1960s，Douglas McGregor，one of the key thinkers in the art of management，developed the mow famous Theory X and Theory Y．Theory X is the idea that people instinctively (1)work and will do anything to avoid it．Theory Y is the view that everyone has the potential to find satisfaction in work．

In any case，despite so much evidence to the (2)，many managers still agree to Theory X．They believe，(3)，that their employees need constant supervision if they are to work effectively，or that decisions must be imposed from (4)without consultation．This，of course，makes for authoritarian（专制的）managers．

Different cultures have different ways of (5)people．Unlike authoritarian management，some cultures，particularly in Asia，are well known for the consultative nature of decision﹣making﹣all members of the department or work group are asked to (6) to this process．This is management by the collective opinion．Many western companies have tried to imitate such Asian ways of doing things，which are based on general (7)．Some experts say that women will become more effective managers than men because they have the power to reach common goals in a way that traditional(8) managers cannot．

A recent trend has been to encourage employees to use their own initiative，to make decisions on their own without(9) managers first．This empowerment（授权）has been part of the trend towards downsizing：(10)the number of management layers in companies．After de﹣layering in this way，a company may be (11) with just a top level of senior managers，front﹣line managers and employees with direct contact with the public．Empowerment takes the idea of delegation（委托）much further than has (12) been the case．Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to (13) that the overall business plan is being followed，and that operations become more profitable under the new organization，rather than less．

Another trend is off﹣site or (14) management，where teams of people linked by e﹣mail and the Internet work on projects from their own houses．Project managers evaluate the (15) of the team members in terms of what they produce for projects，rather than the amount of time they spend on them．