【推荐3】Running for a Dream

I will never forget that November day．It was hotter than normal．This was the ________ my father and I had waited so long for，because we had been working towards this race for three years．Dozens of familiar faces from church and school flashed across my view．They had come ________me．I saw worry and ________on my father's face．Then the race began!

For the first two and a half miles．I felt________．I had never before been so ready for something．The weeks leading up to the race were filled with controlled________and a strict diet．My friends hadn't seen me in weeks，but they understood the _______required to make my dream a reality．As in all of my races，I didn't _______ out in the front，I loved the pleasure of passing people as my strength overtook their premature speed．

Then without warning，my strength began to decrease．Neck and neck with one of my greatest competitors，I ________see the finish line．I had begun the final dash into_______when my knees became weak and my legs gave way．Nothing I could do would make them _______ weight．

I watched as runners rushed by me．________ I knew my dreams of victory were destroyed．I had to finish the race．However，my legs hurt badly．With all of the ________ left in me，I got on my hands and knees and crawled （爬），inch by inch，across the finish line．Voices，both ________ and familiar，cheered me on．They gave me the courage to keep ________until the very end．

The doctors were there in seconds，but my eyes searched the crowd for him．There was only one person I wanted to ________to．I whispered，"I'm so sorry，Dad，I'm so sorry I ________you．"He looked at me，saying，"You could never disappoint me．Sometimes these things just ________．All that matters is that you did your best．"

"But we worked so ________．What about our dream？"He reached over for my hand and said，"Don't you know that you are my dream and it has come true？"

It wasn't long before my running shoes were back on，marking a________path for my journey，I learned that all of the miles，the tears，the sweat，and the pain my dad and I experienced together were not for a________．What I realized，though，was that to him，I was the greatest prize he had ever won．

【推荐1】Sonia learnt some first aid skills in her infant CPR (幼儿心肺复苏) class. Last week she told us that she_______ her daughter’s life using the skills. Her experience might be _______ to other parents with young children. Here is her _______.

Last Friday I took my 9-month-old daughter to a doctor and she had blood drawn (抽血) from her finger. The doctor put a band-aid on her finger. Then we _______.

My husband _______ the car outside his friend’s house because he had to _______ something that he borrowed from his friend. Then I heard my daughter make _______ sounds. I looked at her and found she had tear-filled eyes, vomit (呕吐物) on her shirt, and a look that said, “Help me, Mom.”   _______, she wasn’t blue (青紫的).

I jumped out of the car, _______ her out of the car seat, flipped her over, and hit her on the ________ three times. I saw something fly out of her ________. I saw it was the ________ when I picked it up. I was so ________. I couldn’t imagine what could have happened if we had ________ home instead of parking the car there.

I went home and ________ signed up for Child CPR. I had taken Infant CPR in our town and remembered not to stick my ________ in her mouth to get out the choking object (填塞物) ---- ________my instinct (直觉) was to do just that.

It terrifies me that ________ like this can happen so suddenly to people around us. I think if it happened to my daughter, it could happen to anyone’s ________. I’ve also been telling all my friends with children to sign up for CPR classes because you just ________ know what might happen.

【推荐3】Walking down a path through some woods in Georgia, I saw a water puddle (水坑) ahead on the path. I walk around to the side of the path that wasn’t covered by water and _______. As I reached the puddle, I was suddenly attacked! Yet I did nothing for it was so _______. I stepped back and my attacker stopped attacking me. _______attacking more, he flied in the air with its graceful _______ in front of me. Had I been hurt, I wouldn’t have found it amusing but I was unhurt, it was _______ and I was laughing. After all, I was being attacked by a butterfly!

I took a step forward, and my attacker rushed me again. He pushed and _______me in the chest with his head and body over and over again with all his might. It’s just not everyday that _______ is attacked by a butterfly, so I stopped to find out the _______. My attacker moved back as well to _______ on the ground. That’s when I discovered why my ________ was charging me only moments earlier. He had a mate beside the puddle ________ he landed and she was dying.

Sitting close beside her, he opened and closed his wings as if to fan her. I could only ________ the love and courage of that butterfly in his concern for his mate, even though she was ________ dying and I was so large. He did so just to give her those extra few ________ moments of life. Now I knew why and what he was ________. I couldn’t do anything other than reward him by changing my ________ to the more difficult side of the puddle. He had truly ________ those moments to be with her, undisturbed. I cleaned the mud from my boots and left.

Since then, I’ve always tried to remember the ________ of that butterfly whenever I see huge ________ facing me. I use that butterfly’s courage as an inspiration to ________myself that good things are worth striving for.

【推荐1】Beginning to learn gymnasties even before she could barely walk. Svetlana had always dreamed to enter the Olympics scene some day.

However, her ________ ended in the car on the winding road when a lorry appeared out of nowhere. The last thing she ________ was a blinding flash of light. In hospital, when told she would never ________ again, she couldn’t believe it. Three months later, she was ________ out of hospital on a wheelchair. Then a friend came to her house to visit her with an old Child’s storybook. A bookmark in it made her ________ to page 117. The name of the ________ was ‘The Day Clare walked’. She was determined to return to stage whatever it might cost.

________, after a year’s hard exercise, Svetlana ________ and was able to display her gymnastics. While she was sitting on the green bench ________ the Athens Stadium, memories ________: first, the pain and the tears, the book under her pillow, the words of relatives full of advice and comfort, and the pity in those eyes that had once held ________ for her talent. Then followed the trips to the gym where everyone looked on ________, their disbelief transforming slowly to wonder, ________ she could balance the hoop (健身圈) as well as her teammates. She registered for the Olympic Games and finally she received ________ from the Olympic Committee.

Her ________ was interrupted by the attendant who said. “It’s time”, two words that she had been ________ to hear for so long. Smoothing her dress, she walked into the stadium each ________ firm and steady. Everything was ________, and the applause rang loud in her ears, her heart hammering violently against her chest.

Later that night. Svetlana pulled the gold medal out of her pocket and placed it on the old ________ on the shelf, which opened to pare 117, to the chapter ‘The Day Clara Walked’, tears ________ her vision.

【推荐2】Kids love percussion instruments (打击乐器). In truth, becoming a percussionist requires a great deal of __________ and practice. It was believed that one more thing was vital—a good sense of hearing. Dame Evelyn Glennie, __________, has proven that isn't always true.

At age 8, Glennie began taking piano lessons, and she also began losing her hearing. She was totally deaf when she joined her school orchestra (管弦乐队) at 12. The moment Glennie saw the __________ in the percussion section, she knew that was where she __________. At 15, She __________ the Royal Academy of Music in London for a solo percussionist. However, never hearing of it, they were unsure about accepting her. Ever __________, she persuaded them to take her.

Since Glennie made her first professional __________ in 1985, she has gained fame as the world's first fulltime solo percussionist and won many awards.

When asked how she __________ the music, she says, "I use all my __________, especially sight, feeling and touch." Paying close attention to the __________ and relying on feeling the music, she performs in bare feet on a wooden platform, which __________ her to feel vibrations (震动) from the instruments through the floor. She is in __________ motion as she moves from one instrument to the next.

She has become a(n) __________ wherever she performs. As a writer observed, "She was able to __________ disabilities aren't barriers. They're __________ to thinking differently."

【推荐3】Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. However, her _______ nearly ended one night in 2010. A car accident put the 17-year-old high school senior in the hospital for 51 days and left her paralyzed (瘫痪) from the _______ down.

For most people, that would have _______ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning. Far from being a _______, her wheelchair brought out her bravery. She wanted to prove she was still “normal” by dancing. _______ Hill did it, rolling her wheelchair right alongside her nondisabled high school dance team. “It feels as if half of my body was _______ from me, and I have to move it with my hands,” Hill said. “It definitely took a lot of _______ and patience.”

After graduation, Hill wanted to _______ her dance network to include women like her. She began to meet people online who had suffered similar injuries but _______ her determination. Then in 2014, Hill moved to Los Angeles and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes. “I want to __________ the stereotype (刻板形象) of wheelchair users and show dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re __________.”

Dancing on wheels can be just as fast-paced, artful, and __________ as the foot-based variety. In disabled dance competitions around the country, her team danced to the popular tunes, __________ their upper bodies, shaking their heads to the special __________, striking poses, and __________ their wheelchairs in well-timed, dynamic, highly designed routines. They’re having fun, and as the audiences’ exuberant (热情洋溢的) reactions indicate, the fun is __________.

Hill has attained what many of us never will: her childhood __________. She’s a dancer. But the Rollettes have helped her find something else just as __________. Every year she holds a dance camp for other wheelchair users with an eye to helping them find their inner __________. In 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they __________.