My son was born with club feet     1     made him possibly never run very well. Almost the first three years of his life    2    (spend) in hospitals. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a problem when you saw him     3    (walk). The children in our neighborhood ran around     4     Joey would jump right in and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be able to run like the other children. So he didn’t know.

In Grade 7, he decided to join the cross-country team. Every day he ran     5    (hard) than the others, partly because he sensed his     6    (different). Although the whole team runs, only the top seven runners have the chance     7    (score) points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make     8     team, so he didn’t know.

Two weeks later, the     9    (name) of the team runners were called. Joey was No. 6 on the list. He was in Grade 7 while the other six team members were all 8th graders. We never told him he shouldn’t expect to succeed, so he didn’t know. He just made     10    .

LEGO has been around forever and is still a favorite toy for     1     (child) of all ages. Now, however, one teenager has found another use for LEGO     2     could help improve the lives of people who are missing limbs (手臂).

David Aguilar, a 19-year-old from Spain, was born without a right forearm. He was only 9 years old when he     3     (manage) to make a prosthetic arm (义肢) for himself out of LEGO. Though this LEGO arm was     4     (help) for David, it was not very strong. It wasn’t until nine years later that David was     5     (eventual) able to make another prosthetic arm. It was     6     strong that he could do push-ups with it!

Now,     7     (be) a student at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, David studies bioengineering. In the coming years, David is hoping to make other much     8     (cheap) prostheses to give more people access to them around the world. He loves using his LEGO arm, and he wants other people who are missing limbs     9     (experience) the same thing!

It’s so refreshing to see such a clever young man who tries to help others in similar situations to his own! We can’t wait to see     10     David creates in the years to come!