With a determined(坚定的) look on his face, Chicago’s Michael McCarthy held on to the banister(扶手) and climbed to the top of the Willis Tower not long ago. The tower stands 1,451 feet (442 meters) tall, the ________ building in the US.

As he got to the last step, McCarthy ________ fell down, but that didn’t stop him. The 14-year-old boy finally finished climbing the 2,109 steps and arrived at the top, where he ________ cheers from many people.

“I just want to show people that ________ a kid with no legs can do it, anyone can do it,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy, who was born without legs, has to wear prosthetic legs(假肢) and use a stick to walk. But McCarthy has a strong ________. He believes having a disability shouldn’t stop anyone ________ achieving his or her success.

He has been in a special school ________ he was four. When he decided to climb the Willis Tower, his teacher, Jeff Kohn, was ________ by his determination(决心) and offered to help train him. They ________ more than ten hours practicing climbing stairs and keeping balance with the prosthetics and sticks on the steps every day. “________ seems that he never knows how difficult it is. Sometimes I was so tired that I asked him to rest for a day,” said Kohn. “But he said he was still full of energy and wanted more exercise.”

In the middle of a dark forest, there lives an owl (猫头鹰). All the animals know that he is the wisest among all of them. So they often go to him and tell him their troubles. Then the owl always teaches them what they should do.

One day, a little bird goes up to the owl. She is crying. “What’s wrong with you?” asks the owl.

“I’m not happy at all. “I don’t want to be a bird,” the bird says.

“Why don’t you want to be a bird?” asked the owl.

“I am so small, weak and useless,” she cries. “I want to be big and strong like the lion. He

One day in summer, little Jack was playing on the beach with his father. Suddenly, he saw a little tortoise moving slowly on the sand. He started to look at it carefully and began to touch it with his hand. To his surprise, the tortoise stopped moving. It pulled in its head and legs , and closed its shell tightly. He touched it again but the tortoise didn’t move at all Jack became angry. He used a stick and tried to force(强迫）it to open.

When his father saw this, he stopped him and said, “No, son, you mustn’t do that! You will kill the tortoise. You won’t get it open with a stick ” Jack was curious and asked, “Why?”

“Just wait and see,” his father replied. Then he picked up the tortoise and put it in a bag.

After they came back home, the father took the tortoise out of the bag. He put it near the fireplace(壁炉）. After a few minutes, the tortoise began to move a little. Then the tortoise stretched out(伸出）its head and legs. At last, the tortoise began to crawl across the room. How excited Jack was when he saw this.

“Son, now you see,” said his father, “Sometimes, you can’t force someone to do things he doesn’t like. But if you get him warm first, he will do what you want him to do. ”

54. 假如你是王林。你所在学校的“爱心协会（Helping Hands Society）”将招收新会员。你想加入该协会，请根据下面表格中的内容及图片，用英语写一封自荐信。