【推荐1】My son Joey was born with club feet (足内翻). The doctors _______ us that with treatment he would be able to walk _______ — but would never _______ very well. The first three years of his life were spent in surgery, casts and braces._______ the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a problem when you saw him walk.

In seventh grade he decided to _______ for the cross-country team. Every day he _______ with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others — perhaps he _______ that the abilities that seemed to come _______ to so many others did not come naturally to him. Although the _______ team runs, only the top seven runners have the ________ to score points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never ________ the team, so he didn’t know.

He ________ to run four to five miles a day, every day — ________ the day he had a 103-degree fever. I was ________, so I went to look for him after school. I found him running all   ________. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He had two more miles to go. The ________ ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his ________. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running.

Two weeks ________ , the names of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. We never told him he shouldn’t ________ to make the team. We never told him he couldn’t do it...so he didn’t know. He just ________ it.

【推荐3】Jacky Hunt-Broersma, a native of South Africa, set her goal in mid-January. And since then she has been running 26.2 miles every day, about the _______ of a marathon. On Saturday, she completed her 104th marathon — a(an) _______ she expects to be confirmed by Guinness World Records. If so, she would then _______ a world record for 104 back-to-back (持续的) marathon runs, two more than her previous _______.

Hunt-Broersma _______ half of her left leg to a rare form of cancer in 2001. “The biggest _______ was accepting that part of my body was gone,” she said. “Until five years ago, I was not very _______. But after _______ running, I decided to give it a try.” Currently, she keeps running on a false _______ made out of carbon fiber. The carbon fiber blade (刀锋) she uses, designed specifically for ________, costs about $10,000.

But Hunt-Broersma says her ________ has been well worthwhile. “Running really ________ my life,” she said. “It gave me a sense of freedom. I fell in love with the process of ________ my body further just to see what I could do.”

Hunt-Broersma is hoping to ________ a single thought in others — “You’re ________ than you think and you’re capable of so much more.”

【推荐2】Many years ago, I went abroad traveling to the Giant Mountains in Czech Republic with a couple of people. We were ___in the mountains and ___it started to rain very hard. We had to take____under the roof of some ski lifts. The elderly man who worked there said we could ____the night in the loft (阁楼) there, and so we did, in our sleeping bags, after he____some drinks with us. Maybe the man felt sorry for us or was simply being____, and anyway, to our joy, he ___to guide us the next day.By drawing pictures and in languages we were not familiar, he____that we could come for dinner and spend the night at his____that night.

Being students ___enough money, we eagerly accepted his offer naturally, once we____that he was a kind person. At his home, his wife treated us as the most important____. For us, dinner was a _____affair of home-grown tomatoes and cucumber, bread and cheese, while he and his____just stuck to simple food, I noticed. The couple was lovely and we had a ___evening, even though communication was a bit tricky. That night we slept____in beds in a clean room.

It was lovely listening to the river outside. The next day our _____drove us through the mountains, stopping at nice places____we could take some amazing____. We visited him and his wife again about 10 years ___and they hadn't changed a bit! There is magic in the mountains.

【推荐1】I often watched her from my kitchen window, she seemed so _________ as she played basketball with a group of tall boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would often _________ the kids as they played after school.

I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball. And I began to notice her at other times, basketball _________, playing alone. One day I asked her why she practiced so much. She looked directly in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, “I want to go to _________. The only way I can go is if I get a scholarship (奖学金). I like basketball. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”Then she _________ and ran towards the playground happily to practice over and over again.

Well, I had to give it to her—she was _________. I watched her through those junior high years and into high school. Every week, she led her basketball team to success.

One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass _________. I walked towards her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. “Oh, nothing,” came a soft _________. “I am just too short.” The coach told her that at 5´5" she would _________ never get to play for a top team—not to speak of offering a scholarship—so she should __________ dreaming about college. She told me that her father said those coaches were __________. They just did not understand the power of a dream. He told her that nothing could stop her except one thing—her own __________. He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”

The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was __________ by a college recruiter (招生人员). She was indeed offered a scholarship, a full ride, to a Division 1, NCAA women’s basketball team. She was going to get the college education that she had __________and worked toward for all those years.

It’s __________: If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.

【推荐2】I remember the first day when I saw Sally playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she struggled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. She seemed so_________but she managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her _________nobody could.

I began to notice Sally at other times, basketball in hand, playing_________ sometimes until dark. She practiced dribbling (球) and_________over and over again.

One day I asked Sally why she_________so much. Without a moment of hesitation (犹豫) she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a_________. I’m going to play college basketball and I want to be the best one. I believe that if I am_________ enough, I will get one. My father has told me that if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t_________.”

I _________her through those junior years and into senior high school. Every week, she led her team to__________.One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting on the grass, with her head__________in her arms. Slowly and quietly, I__________ and sat down beside her. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “Oh, nothing. came a soft reply, I am just too short” The__________told her that at 165 cm she would probably never play for a top team-still less she would be__________a scholarship (奖学金) —so she should stop dreaming about college.

I felt she was extremely__________ I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were__________.They didn’t understand the__________ of a dream.

The next year, Sally was seen by a college basketball coach after the Northern California Championship game. She was__________ offered a scholarship and__________ to the college team. She was going to get the college education that she had__________and worked toward for all those years.

It’s true: if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.

【推荐3】We were near the summit of the Himalaya when a rock got dislodged (松动). It crushed my lower leg and nearly severed(割断)my leg. My climbing partner got me off the_________and to a local hospital. The hospital was just_________and the next day I was flown to Delhi and then, when_________enough, back home.

After nine operations, my surgeon recommended an amputation(截肢)if I wanted to be able to_________properly again. I found the experience too_________for words and was determined to put off the_________for as long as possible. After leaving hospital, I was in a wheelchair for three months. Gradually I was able to_________ using crutches(拐杖).

I bought an exercise bike and, although I could_________put any weight on my leg, I use it for 30 minutes three times a week to_________ some circulation. Then, I could put more weight on it and even__________a proper bicycle outdoors. Four years after the__________, I was able to walk a few yards without crutches. I couldn’t bend my ankle and my foot was rigid but, with__________shoes, I seemed to be making progress.

I got a new job and started to__________the 13 miles to work. One day on the way home, I found I had a mechanical problem I couldn’t________and decided to jog to the bus stop. The bus was late so I__________jogging all the way home. I was__________,but I realized I could run again.

About a year later, I________a local marathon, determined to________the demons(魔鬼)within me and show the rest of the world I could still run, I won by two seconds. The headline in the local paper__________“Miracle Man Wins Marathon”. My son got hold of one of the billboards and I have it hung in my room to remind me of the power of__________over body.