[填空题]Leslie’s 10 - year - old sister Aubyn asked how many foster children there were in the area and found out that there were 300. Most of those children had to carry their things from place to place in plastic or paper bags. Leslie’s concern and the thought of those 300 children inspired young Aubyn to take action. Aubyn decided to ask people to donate their old suitcases to these foster children. ______ But after a few weeks, she had not received any donations.

• A. Charles and Isaac Meadows, ages 14 and 11, and Welland Burnside, Aubyn’s 8 - year - old brother, got involved with the project in its early stages.
• B. She began making and hanging posters, speaking at churches, and asking other children for help.
• C. Aubyn inspired other kids to help with the cause too.
• D. Eventually, Aubyn’s humanitarian efforts were noticed by the media.
• E. By its sixth year, the little organization reached international status, having chapters in more than ten countries.
  

A few weeks back, I asked a 14-year-old friend how she was coping with school.
Referring to stress, she heaved a big sigh and said: "Aiyah, anything bad that can happen has already happened."
Her friends nearby then started pouring out their woes about which subjects they found hard, and so on. Pessimism again, in these all-too-familiar remarks about Singapore’’s education system, widely regarded as too results-oriented, and I wonder why I even bothered to ask.
The school system of reaching for A’’s underlies the country’’s culture, which emphasizes the chase for economic excellence where wealth and status are must-haves.
Such a culture is hard to change.
So when I read of how the new Remaking Singapore Committee had set one of its goals as challenging the traditional roads to success, encouraging Singaporeans to realize alternative careers in the arts, sports, research or as entrepreneurs, I had my doubts

A 80-year old man from Cincinnati in America is making legal history by suing doctors who saved his wife. Edward Winter has witnessed his wife’ s death from a (21) attack. The doctors had tried to restart her heart with an electric (22) with remarkable success, but leaving her brain (23) . Her death was a long and (24) experience, which he did not want to go through himself. After she died he asked his doctor (25) to save him in (26) circumstances, but instead to let him die (27) .
While out visiting in May 1988, Mr. Winter (28) the heart attack, which he was treated, and was rushed to St Franc’ is hospital in Cincinnati. The doctor who (29) him wrote down on his chart that he was not to be (30) but the duty nurse was not informed of Mr. Winter’s (31) . The nurse took the usual (32) action and tried to revive him with an electric shock. His life wa
A. not try
B. try
C. not to try
D. to try