Classmates’ laughter, parents’ nagging (唠叨) beautiful music–we can hear all kinds of ________ every day. However, that wasn’t the case with Jiang Mengnan.

At just 6 months old, Jiang lost her ________ after relatives gave her the wrong medicine. To understand others, Jiang learned to read lips and feel vocalization (发声) by putting her hands on her parents’ throats and feeling the vibration (振动) of their vocal cords (声带) ________ she was a kid.

It was a slow, hard process, but Jiang never ________.

As she got older, Jiang entered a standard primary school to study. She said it was ________ at first. During lessons, teachers would often turn their backs to students and walk around, so Jiang ________ to catch much of what they said. What she could do was to ________ everything on the blackboard and study after class.

Her perseverance made her a very ________ student. In 2011, she was admitted to Jilin University in Changchun, Jilin province. After graduating in 2018 with a master’s degree, Jiang furthered ________ studies in Tsinghua University.

Now, the 30-year-old is going to receive her doctorate at the end of this year. Feeling grateful for the respect and help that she received ________ others, Jiang wants to continue scientific research in pharmacology (药物学) and contribute to solving problems relating to life and health.

【推荐2】Sam loved basketball. One afternoon ________ his way to a basketball game,he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the next year. Suddenly a car hit him and he was thrown (扔) three meters into the air.

Sam ________ in a hospital room. When the doctor told him that both his legs were broken,he knew his college basketball dreams were ________. Sam did what the doctors told him. But it didn’t work when he left the hospital. Sam went to a health center.

A week after he arrived there,he met Sunny Chen. Sunny used to be a coach. His legs were hurt ________ in a skating accident. Though he couldn’t move his legs,Sunny became a coach of a basketball team called the Suns. It was an on-wheelchair(轮椅) basketball team,because ________ on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited Sam to ________ the game. Sam didn’t play well,but for the first time since the accident,he stopped feeling sorry for himself.

After becoming a part of the Suns,Sam improved quickly. Basketball was like ________ for him. Sam was ________ better than before. When Sam became sad or ________,Sunny was there to help him. The day before Sam left the center,he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny ________ he could be so happy,even with his broken legs.

Sunny smiled and said,“It’s really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun,the shadow fall behind.”