Don and his 11-year-old son, Allen, love basketball very much. On Allen’s birthday, Don_______ to drive him to Chicago, more than two hours’ distance, for the first game of the World Championships. They had no _______ but hoped to buy two from other people.

After arriving, they _______ in the streets for two hours carrying a _______ which said, “We need two tickets”. _______ the cheapest ticket was $175 and they could not _______ it. They were about to leave when a man _______ them. He pulled _______ two tickets and handed them to Don. “How much do you want?” “_______! No money is needed!” said the man.

When asked, the man ________, “I am working for Joe, who hasn’t ________ a World Championships for 16 years. But he is ill and can’t make it this time. So he told me to give the two tickets away. The only ________ he set is to give the tickets to people who I think will be deserving. A lot of people looked as if they might just take the tickets and ________ them right away. Then I saw you. You seemed very ________ and you make me ________ my Dad and myself when I was a child. I ________ wanted to go to see a World Championships game with my father at that time. But I never got the ________”.

How important and ________ the game was to Don and his son! Here is what Don said, “It’s the most worth ________ thing that happened to us. My boy and I must have turned to each other 30 times during the ________ I can’t forget that night.”

【推荐2】I had been swimming competitively for about five years and was ready to quit, because I ________ receiving “Honorable Mentions(鼓励奖)”at each competition, which simply ________,“Thank you for coming. You didn't even rank first, second or third, but we don't want you to go home with ________.”

The very day before a big swim meet, I decided to tell my grandma that I was quitting the swim team, but she said, “Baby, ________ these words:A quitter never wins and a ________never quits. You go to that swim meet tomorrow.”

The next day I arrived at the swim meet, and as I ________ the board,I noticed the other girls with their skintight caps, goggles (护眼镜) and Speedo suits were here to do one thing—________ me.

The competition began and I was swimming ________ than before. I noticed I was tied with one person. I thought we were battling for eighth place and I refused to finish ________, so I added more kick on the last two hundred yards.

I hit the ________ and looked to the left and to the right for the swimmers who had beat me, but ________ was there. They must have gotten out of the ________ already. I raised my head to see my coach ________ hysterically(歇斯底里). My eyes ________ her pointing finger and couldn’t believe what I saw--the other swimmers had just reached the halfway point of the pool.

That day, I broke the national 15- year-old- 400-freestyle record. I had hung up my honorable mentions. That day, I ________ them with a huge gold medal.

【推荐3】When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant _______ Miller King, who was the best _______ at our school.

Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for _______.

Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he come back from hospital. He looked very _______, but he didn’t cry.

That season, I _______ all of Miller’s records while he watched the home games from the bench. We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player, but I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller’s _______.

One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller _______ going over a fence - which wasn’t _______ to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept _______ from. But even that challenge he accepted. I __________ him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally __________ on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did __________. Thank you for filling in for me.”

His words freed me from my bad __________. I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was still ahead of me. I was right to have __________ him. From that day on, I grew __________ and a little more real.

【推荐1】My husband and I cried when we learned our home had been destroyed in the Northern California Camp Fire. The souvenirs (纪念物) of our fifty-plus years of marriage along with generations of ________ items no longer existed.

Several weeks after the ________, we were allowed into the area where our home once stood. I had researched online what items would________fire and was prepared to collect as many as possible while digging through the remains. Tears ________ down my face as I dug. Every item I found was a ________ to be restored.

I looked at the broken stones mixed with ashes, ________how long we would be living in hotels and how we could start over. I questioned my strength to survive the oncoming ________.

An afternoon wind started and________partly burned pages from books that had been buried under metal items. A piece of ________was stuck to the top of my boot. I pulled it off and________the printed message: “If life seems ________, I stop and reflect on the blessing sometimes hidden within every circumstance. With renewed faith and ________, I begin again.”

I framed (给……做框) that piece and put it where I could ________it often in every hotel room we stayed in. The framed message now sits on a shelf in the home we ________four months after the fire. It had sustained me through the long ________recovery process.

【推荐2】A little boy told his mother that there was a teacher-parent meeting in his school. To the little boy’s_________, she said she would go. This would be the first time that his classmates and teacher met his mother and he felt _________of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar (伤疤) that_________nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to_________why or how she got the scar.

At the meeting, the people were _________by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother_________the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed (尴尬的) and_________himself from everyone. He, however,_________ a conversation between his mother and his teacher.

The teacher asked_________, “How did you get the scar on your face?”

The mother replied, “When my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was too afraid to go in because the fire was out of__________, so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked __________but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She __________the burned side of her face. “This scar will be permanent, but until this day, I have never__________what I did.”

At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and appreciated her great __________of sacrifice (牺牲), He held her hand __________ for the rest of the day.

14.

A．honour

B．spirit

C．happiness

D．pride

【推荐3】Today, I felt terrible. My head was full of problems and ________ . I decided to take a walk ________ I didn’t know where to go.

________ , I saw an old man sitting on a chair. He was a seller of second-hand shoes, who ________ at least 70 years old. He seemed so old and tired and nobody was ________ his shoes. I wanted to give him something ________ I had not brought anything with me. Then, a little girl came ________ him. I heard the child say, “Grandfather, may I ________ your shoes?” That old man took pity on her, and ________her a shoe to polish (擦亮). The girl said, “I polish the shoe because I need money to buy my brother a new school ________.”

I heard this and tears came to my ________ . The old man answered, “Oh, little girl. Just stop doing this. Come with me and I will buy you a bag.” Then they walked to a ________ (I followed behind) and he bought her a bag. The girl was so ________ . She said, “Thank you so much for doing this.” Then she left, ________ the old man smiling. He walked away from the store, but I stopped him. I said in a low ________ in his ears, “You are a hero! Thank you for your ________ !” As I walked away, I looked back and I could see him still ________.

I was ________ by the kindness I had just seen. Someone who had so little themselves, was able to show such ________ generosity! My own sadness had completely ________, blown away by the light of this kind act. At the same time, I began realizing that I have a lot to be thankful for.

【推荐1】Sudha Chandran, a classical dancer from India, had to have her right leg cut after a car accident.She was also _____ on her career(事业) road.

Though the accident brought her bright career to a _____，she didn't give up.In the _____ months that followed，Sudha met a doctor who developed an artificial(人造的) _____ made from rubber filled with sponge(海绵)．So______ she wanted to go back to _____ after she had been fitted with an artificial leg.Sudha knew that she believed in _____ and could realise her dream，_____ she began her courageous journey back to the world of dancing _____ to balance，bend，stretch，walk, turn，twist and twirl.

After every public recital(个人表演)，she ______ ask her dad about her performance.“You ______ have a long way to go” was the answer she used to get ______．In January 1984，Sudha made a historic ______ by giving a public recital in Mumbai.She performed in such a great manner that it ______ everyone to tears and this ______ pushed her to the number one position again.That evening when she asked her dad the ______ question, he didn't say anything.He just touched her feet as a praise.Sudha's comeback was ____ a success that a film producer ______ to make the story into a hit film.

When someone asked Sudha how she had ______   to dance again，she said quite simply，“YOU DON'T NEED FEET TO DANCE.” ______ is impossible in this world.If you have the will to win，you can achieve anything.

【推荐3】Since the age of three, Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. Hill, then a 17-year-old high school _________ was in a car accident that left her paralyzed(瘫痪)from the waist down. For most people, that would have ended any _________ of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning. She wanted to prove that she was still ‘_________’. So Hill danced in her wheelchair right alongside her nondisabled high school dance team. It _________ took a lot of learning and patience.

After graduation, Hill met people online who had suffered various spinal cord(脊髓) injuries but shared her _________ , and she invited them to dance with her. Hoping to reach more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and _________ a team of dancers with disabilities called the Rollettes. “I want to _________ the stereotype(刻板印象) of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re _________ ,” she told CBS News.

Dancing on _________, the Rollettes discovered, can be just as fast, artful as the foot-based people. Hill has achieved her childhood __________. Every year she holds a dance camp for wheelchair users of all ages and abilities. In 2019, 173 people from ten countries __________. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they __________. “I had a girl say it was the most empowering thing when she rolled into a room and everyone was at __________ level,” Hill told CBS News. Edna Serrano says that being part of the Rollettes team has given her the __________ to get behind the wheel of a car. “I didn’t know I could do so many things that these girls have taught me,” she says. “It’s so __________ to have my teammates in my life, because they’re my teachers. I have more confidence.”