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高三英语完形填空训练105 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 also 1 afternoons at his computer in his Bowie home, awestruck by YouTube bakers who transformed a base of eggs, flour and water 2 edible(可食用的)works of art. Michael saw a way to 3 his twin passions. At age 11, he founded a bakery that operates on the Toms one-for-one model: For every cupcake, cake or cookie Michael 4 , he donates another to the homeless and 5 . Michael, now 13,said he 6 enjoys handing out cupcakes to kids. Sometimes Michael bakes to 7 money 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 to 8 Michael full time. Michael 9 from public school—and his mother from job—after his epilepsy(癫痫) was diagnosed in sixth grade. His epilepsy became too 10 and too frequent to allow him to sit in a classroom, his mother explained. “It was a very, very 11 time, ” she said of the period after the diagnosis, during whic Michael had to 12 his physical activity. “He had to stop everything he 13 :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 his 15 to do more than make money. Michael hopes his cupcakes spread awareness of the past and 16 others to work for social equality. Sometimes,