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江西省南昌市第十中学2020届高三上学期英语期末考试试卷（含小段音频）
From a young age, Michael Platt loved two things: Martin Luther King and cupcakes. He remembered statistics about income inequality and children hunger. But he also1afternoons at his computer in his Bowie home, awestruck by YouTube bakers who transformed a base of eggs, flour and water2edible (可食用的) works of art.
Michael saw a way to3his twin passions. At age 11, he founded a bakery that operates on the Toms one-for-one model: For every cupcake, cake or cookie Michael4, he donates another to the homeless and5. Michael, now 13, said he6enjoys handing out cupcakes to kids.
Sometimes Michael bakes to7money for hunger-fighting nonprofit groups, too. He spent a morning last weekend teaching a baking class to raise money for No Kid Hungry.
He can keep up with his baking in part because he is homeschooled by his mother, who quit her job to8Michael full time. Michael9from public school-and his mother from job-after his epilepsy (癫痫) was diagnosed in sixth grade. His epilepsy became too10and too frequent to allow him to sit in a classroom, his mother explained.
"It was a very, very11time," she said of the period after the diagnosis, during which Michael had to12 his physical activity. "He had to stop everything he13:Gymnastics, climbing trees, diving. So that's when he kind of threw himself into baking," she said. Baking, Michael said, makes him feel 14 .
But when he started the bakery, he knew from the beginning that he wanted his15to do more than make money. Michael hopes his cupcakes spread awareness of the past and16others to work for social equality.
Sometimes, Michael17, he grows tired of being in the kitchen. Then he remembers the18boy he met once while19cupcakes. A couple of days afterward, the boy's father messaged Michael on Facebook to say that his son, encouraged by Michael's example, now aspired (向往) to20a baker, "That inspired me," Michael said.
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