3 . Eric Moussambani, a swimmer from Equatorial Guinea, won brief international fame at Sydney’s 2000 Olympic Games for an extremely unlikely victory.

Twelve months before the Olympics, Moussambani had never gone outside of his home country, an extremely poor tiny African nation. Having_________his admission into the Olympic Games, Moussambani set about teaching himself to _________. The only pool that was_________belonged to a local hotel, and they _________ him to use it between 5 and 6 am, three times a week. Before Sydney he had never set eyes on an Olympic _________, let alone practiced in one. Moussambani had no_________, no lanes（泳道）, and no way of tracking his efforts. Worse still, he didn’t know he had been entered in to the 100m race, not the 50m he had_________.

When the day came, events got _________. Of the three competitors in the first round, Moussambani was the_________competitor who was not removed from the game for starting early. He now had to do it alone, against the ________, fighting for a chance to be in the final. __________it seemed that he’s not going to finish it in the second half of the race, he ________completed it with a time of 1＇5". It was the slowest time in Olympic history, __________a personal best.

International media __________him ‘Eric the eel’ and a real model of the Olympic __________that it’s not the winning, but the taking part that __________. When he was__________after the race, Moussambani said, “At first I got worried that I couldn’t ____________. Thinking of the dear people__________me, I kept on and it happened.”

Moussambani never gives up. He is now the head coach of the national team and thanks to his__________, the country has built two 40m pools.

4 . After work one day, I grabbed a pizza for dinner at the mall. As I was heading home, I saw a girl sitting in a corner of the mall. Her hair covered her face and her body was_______. I determined to walk past her_________that’s what we often do. But something made me turn_________. I learned her age, and why she begged for money and lived on the streets. Her parents_______years ago and she suffered from a serious skin disease. She was_______to work because of her disability and had to live in the safest place she could_______. She had stayed in shelters in the past, but was treated_______. She had to seek shelter from the mall to keep_________on cold days, but even the mall she said wasn’t_________because security(保安) always threw her out.

I’m one of those people who used to believe there was a system of ________ to help her. Ideally, I would like to believe in that. I used to think maybe one day I would________“them”. Maybe one day I would win the lottery(彩票). But when I________that girl, I thought to my self, what if no one ever helped her? What if this so called________system that I believed in didn’t even know or ________her existence? What if I didn’t ________any money? What if she was not going to be around long enough to __________that “one day”?

I didn’t really think about what happened next. I ________my dinner with her and gave her all the money I had. When security came, I talked them into assisting her ________driving her away like they usually did.

Don’t ________one day to come before you help someone. Now is that one day—not tomorrow, not next week. If you can do something to ease someone else’s ________, don’t wait for that distant one day. Be the one day. Be it now.

5 . William Butler Yeats, a most famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin in 1865. His childhood _________ the harmony that was _________ of a happy family. Later, Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered “little of childhood but its pain”. In fact, he inherited (继承) excellent taste in _________ from his family — both his father and his brother were painters. But he finally decided on literature, _________ drama and poetry.

Yeats had strong _________ in the coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the _________ task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s. His early theatrical experiments, however, were not received _________ at the beginning. He didn’t lose heart, and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama.

_________ with his dramatic works, Yeats’s poems attract much _________ notice. The subject matter includes love, nature, history, time and aging. Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms, he brought modern sensibility to them. As his literary life ____________, his poetry grew finer and richer, which led him to worldwide ____________.

He had not enjoyed a major public life ____________ winning the Nobel Prize in 1923. Yet, he ____________ writing almost to the end of his life. Had Yeats stopped writing at age 40, he would probably now be valued as a minor poet, for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who ____________ his greatest works between the ages of 50 and 75. After Yeats’s death in 1939, W. H. Auden wrote, among others, the following lines:

Earth, receive an ____________ guest :

William Yeats is laid to rest.

Let the Irish vessel (船) lie.

Emptied of its poetry.

6 . I went deaf in my right ear and was left with 50% hearing in my left when I was a little boy. My doctors _______ that I would be completely deaf, and today, my hearing has _______ to 20%, so I think I’m doing pretty _______.

For my 18th birthday, my dad asked me to deejay（当唱片节目主持人） at the restaurant he owned. I was _______. I e-mailed a well-known New York City was DJ: “I know you like challenge. How about _______ a deaf person to deejay?” He wrote back the next day: “Challenge _______.” He tutored me twice a week for two years, helping me develop proper skills. I practiced four hours a day. Now when I’m _______, my muscle memory recovers.

_______ I started, I wouldn’t tell the club managers I was deaf. I would just _______, introduce myself and start playing music. At the end of the night, someone would say, “Oh, here’s the check.” And I’d say, “What? Oh, I can’t hear.” They were always so ________. Sometimes I would bring doctor’s ________ because they wouldn’t believe me. It was reassuring（令人安心的） that they came there not out of ________, but because I was good.________ people started calling me “Deaf DJ”.

It is not all about ________. For each show, I can hear some of the lower frequencies（频率） and feel the ________ in my feet. I can feel the energy of the song and the ________ goes crazy. The next time you go dancing ________ your ears, and you’ll feel a little bit of how I do it. You’ll start using your other senses. You’ll start seeing that you’re able to listen to the music in a ________ way.

Now, I play at all sorts of get-togethers in many different places. I also go to schools for the deaf and talk to the students about motivation and ________ themselves. I tell their parents, “My ________ to you is to let your kids follow their dreams. I’m a deaf DJ, so why not your kids?”

7 . Monty was a hard-working man who sold bread for a living. He spent all his evenings after work ____ classes, hoping that he could one day find a better-paid job. Except for Sundays, Monty ____ ate a meal together with his family. He wanted to ____ his family with the best things money could buy.   

____ the family complained (抱怨) that he was not spending ____ time with them, he ____ that he was doing all this for them.   

The day came when the ____ results came out. Monty passed with a high score! Soon after, he was ____ a good job. Like a dream coming true, Monty could now ____ to buy nice clothing and fine food for his family.   

____, the family still did not get to see Monty for most of the week. He ____ to work very hard, hoping to get a ____ job as a manager. So he went to study in the open university.

Monty’s hard work ____. He decided to hire a housekeeper to ____ his wife from housework. Having experienced the ____ of his work many times before, Monty decided to ____ his studies and work once more. The family still did not get to see much of him. In fact, to please his ____, sometimes Monty had to work on Sundays.   

As ____, Monty’s hard work achieved a big success and he bought a beautiful flat near the seacoast. On the first Sunday evening at their new home, Monty declared (宣布) to his family that he decided not to take any more ____. From then on he was going to spend more time with his family.   

But Monty did not ____ the next day. His family were very sad about it.

8 . There was a boy in India who was sent by his parents to a boarding school (寄宿学校). Before being sent away this boy was the _______student in his class. He was at the top in every _______. He was a winner.

But the boy _______ after leaving home and attending the boarding school. His grades started _______. He hated being in a group. He was _______ all the time. And there were especially dark times when he felt like _______ himself. All of this _______ because he felt worthless and no one loved him. His parents started _______ the boy. But they did not _______ know what was wrong with him. ________ his dad decided to travel to the boarding school and talk with him.

They sat ________ the bank of the lake near the school. The father ________ asking him casual (随便的) questions about his classes, teachers and ________. After some time his dad said, “Do you know, son, ________ I am here today?” The boy answered back, “To ________ my grades?” “No, no,” his dad replied, “I am here to tell you that you are the most important person for me. I want to see you happy. I don’t care about ________. I care about you. I care about your happiness. You are my world.” These words ________ the boy’s eyes to fill with tears. He ________ his dad. They didn’t say anything to each other for a long time.

Now the boy had everything he wanted. He knew there was someone on this ________ who cared for him deeply. He ________ the world to someone. And today this young man is in college at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him sad!

9 . Several years ago, my husband and I were travelling through Italy and stopped in Venice for days. Anyone who’s ever been to Venice _______ about the maze-like(迷宫一样的)streets and how easy it is to get _______ . We were on a crowded narrow street consulting our map when I happened to look up and see a 4-year-old Asian girl _______ a red dress coming towards us on the other side of the street. As she looked around     _______ , I knew this little girl was lost.

In the next instant, a tall man wearing a belted brown raincoat swept up beside her, _______ her hand, and continued walking. Immediately, and without thinking, I ran across the street and _______ right in front of him. I pointed my finger in his face and _______ , “NO!” He was at least three inches taller than me and _______ built, but I was totally fearless. His mouth dropped open as he gaped at(目瞪口呆地看)me. He let go of the child’s _______ and I quickly pulled her to the side of the street as she ________ on walking.

About 30 seconds later, her parents ________ the corner. I’ll never forget the horrified ________ on their faces and how they were ________ when they saw her with me.

Sometime during my later years, I decided that I wanted to be someone who was ________ rather than harmful. I began to see goodness everywhere, which strengthened my ________ that there is more good than bad in this world.