1 . When I first saw the Boston Marathon in 1964, I just fell in love with it. I _______ to be part of it, but I didn’t know if I could do it.

In February, 1966, I sent my _______ to the Boston Marathon and they wrote back, saying, “Women are not physiologically (生理上) able to run a marathon. ”When I read the letter, I thought if I could prove that this was a _______ view about women, it was going to open up the discussion of what else we thought women could not do. So I took the bus to Boston and got there the day before the race.

When I got to the starting line, I knew the most important thing was that I should not be _______. To avoid being arrested or pulled off the course, I had a blue hooded (带风帽的) sweatshirt pulled up over my _______ with my hair tied back. Then, there was the bang, but I waited until about half the pack left—then I _______in.

Even though I was disguised (伪装), the other runners _______ very quickly that I was a woman. Fortunately, they were very _______ . I told them that I was _______ I would be thrown out if officials saw that I was a woman. But they said, “We won’t let that _________. It’s a free road. ”That’s when I ________ the hooded sweatshirt and everyone could see I was a woman. Then people went ________. They started shouting and clapping, “Way to go, girlie!”

Finally I ran into Boston and ________ the race in 3 hours and 21 minutes.

I went back to Boston and ran again in 1967 and 1968.1 hope to be a (n) ________ of someone who follows what they love and what they’re good at. I think everyone came to this world to ________ something.

2 . When our teacher asked us to say what career we will do in the future, we all seemed to be greatly surprised. We were only 13 and 14 years old! The teacher must be _______. “Yes. Each of you will have to _______ someone in your field and give an oral report.”

Finally, I picked journalism. This _______ I had to go to interview a true newspaper reporter. I sat down in front of him _______ able to speak. “Did you bring a pencil or pen or some _______?” I shook my head.

At last I thought he _______ I was anxious and I got my first big tip as a _______: “Never go anywhere without a pen and paper.” Later I gave my oral report totally from _______ in class. I got an A on the project.

Years later, I was looking around for a new career, but with no success. Then I _______ my goal at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didn’t ________ me. They just reminded ________ competitive the field was. But journalism did something to me and was in my ________. It gave me the freedom to go up to total strangers and ask what was ________.

For the past 12 years, I’ve had the most satisfying reporting career. I get ________ all the time: “How did you pick journalism?” “Well, you see, there was a teacher...” I just wish I could ________ her.

5 . Owura Kwadwo Hottish teaches computer science in a school. It is a normal school except for the fact that it didn't have __________.

Owura became famous after he posted photos of him on the Internet. In the picture, people could see he was teaching his students by _________ an entire computer on the blackboard. The photos showed the ________ level of education for children in Ghana (加纳). People were ________that Owura made sure each button was drawn correctly.

He would come to school half an hour ahead of__________every day. He drew the computer on the blackboard, but at the end of his class, it was __________ off to start the next class, so he had to _________ it the next day!

Owura’s efforts _________ when Microsoft (微软公司) took _________ of his act. They first took him to an international educators’ meeting in Singapore. He made a __________ about his teaching methods at the meeting and __________ a standing ovation (致敬) after the speech.

     __________, Owura got the thing he always wanted for his students—some companies_________computers to the school. Not a single child in the school had seen a real computer in their lives. Thanks to their teacher’s __________ , the world took notice and responded with __________ to them.

6 . Growing up, I always wanted to be an outgoing person because I thought that was the way I should be. I was always attracted to the________ that bigger personalities could achieve more. So I connected outgoingness with________ .            

However, I started________ the idea that outgoingness would help me achieve more when my skills as a leader were put to the________   .            

When I was 16, I volunteered at a summer camp for a week, where I led 12 fifth graders. Although I ________ to solve problems as they came up, it seemed there was always another________ following.

Every night, I was supposed to read bedtime stories. But on Thursday when my campers were getting________ bed, things reached a boiling point when one camper accused (指责) another of ruining the camp. After I called in a teacher, our small wooden house was finally________ . But the hidden anger made me realize that my campers’ experience would become less________   if I left things unsolved.

________ reading stories that night, I decided to________ a good memory that I had of each of my campers. After that, I________ my campers to describe their own memories. Watching the atmosphere (气氛) in our house________ as they described the good moments in the week gave me the feeling that________ my own ways to be a leader could be good enough.

The experience made me realize that I should grow in my own________ rather than forcing myself into a type that never really fit.

7 . My mother worked as a housekeeper, and she often brought many leftover things home, including used _________as well as many other things.

One December day, an old-model toy car _________ among a load of other things. It was as long as my forearm and took both hands to lift. I immediately began _________ it and polishing (抛光) it to a bright candy-apple red. It was a thing of _________, and I glowed (容光焕发) as much as it did from the pride of _________.

Our relatives from France came to visit that Christmas, and my young French cousin _________ that wonderful, shiny red automobile. He’d been _________ so far in life, suffering several illnesses as a child and _________ himself badly earlier in the year when his bicycle hit a plate-glass window.

By now, everyone _________ how I felt about the car, so nobody dared suggest that I give it to him. But, deep down, I knew it was the __________ thing to do. So when they __________, my red car went with him. Though I was sad to see it go, my heart __________ when I saw the pleasant smile on his face as he tightly held it.

I still __________ that car and miss it to this day. But with that beloved __________ Christmas gift, I bonded with my cousin for life.

Giving that gift __________ showed me that it is better to give than to receive. It was the first gift that I gave that keeps me giving.

8 . On Dec.26, Gelinne was at home. Suddenly, his daughter cried “Look!” Gelinne looked up just in time to see a small ________ a few hundred yards away, losing ________.

As the plane disappeared behind the trees, Gelinne, a former ________, realized it would land in the creek. ________, he ran down to the waterfront. The plane had slid to a stop on the broad, frozen creek, far from shore, sinking. The pilot was standing on the ________. Gelinne knew from his previous training that even a few minutes in the ________ water could kill the pilot.

Gelinne ________ the ice with his foot and decided not to take any chances walking on it. So he and his son, John, pulled two kayaks (皮划艇)out. “If it can float on the water, it can ________ on the ice,” Gelinne said.

The kayaks’ paddles (桨)proved too weak, so the ________ tried using sticks to push the boats along. When Gelinne reached the plane, the pilot was standing on a tail wing, surrounded by open water. Gelinne pushed his kayak off the ice and into the water, thinking, “What if he panics? What if I fall over?”

With his son nearby, Gelinne focused on keeping the pilot ________, joking, “Just ________ the kayak as if you were hugging your wife.” The pilot grabbed the kayak’s bow. Gelinne knew he had to get the pilot onto the shelf of ________ ice. But each time Gelinne tried, the kayak ________ the ice. He needed help.

Soon a police officer arrived and radioed for help. A boat appeared and ________ the pilot, Steve 71, and rushed him to safety, who would be treated for minor injuries.

The boat had arrived just in time, Gelinne recalled. “I’m 60 years old,” he says. “There was no way I could get him to shore.” Still, he was ________.

10 . Nixon, 59 years old, was born and grew up in St. Petersburg. Each morning, he sits on a bench, watches the sunrise, and connects with _________ from all walks of life.

Eight years ago, he decided to begin each day from a bench (a kind of chair) with an impressive view of the St. Petersburg waterfront (圣彼得堡海滨), because it made him feel calm and _________ before starting his day.

About a year later, a woman stopped to say hello, and she said something that _________ Nixon’s view on his daily visit. She said, “Every morning when I see you sitting here, I know everything is going to be OK.” That’s when Nixon _________ he needed to pay attention to the people walking past.

Instead of staring straight ahead at the waterfront, Nixon started _________ at people and talking to them. And pretty soon, some early risers began _________ him on the bench, sometimes sharing their pressure and asking him for advice about personal problems.

No matter what problem a person wants to _________, Nixon lends an ear. One day, a couple came by to talk about their problems. The husband was always working. It was destroying their _________. Nixon told him, “You have to know what’s really important.” The man admitted he’d put everything he had into his _________ for many years instead of focusing on his family. “He started to cry and agreed that he needed to __________,” Nixon says. “We hugged each other and became friends after that.”

Nixon was always happy to listen, and he listens without __________ and without any kind of return expected. “You have to listen with an open heart, because you never know who’s going to walk up,” Nixon says. He is a loving and loyal __________ to many. For those who walked past the bench, they were always __________ with a smile and asked how they were doing. No topic is off limits, but some people don’t want to talk. They simply want to sit next to someone and share the __________. Once a woman stopped and just sat with Nixon for an hour; then she said thanks and walked away. She just wanted a moment of peace and to know she wasn’t __________.

And at that moment, she truly wasn’t.