1 . American runner Isaiah Jewett took a deep breath. Entering the final stage of the men’s 800-meter semifinal race. Jewett _________ to finish in the top two and make it to the finals. And he was in the best possible position to achieve his aim.

“I was like ‘Okay, there’s a _________ to do this. Let’s do this,’” Jewett said.

That is when something unexpected _________. When Jewett got to the turn, Botswana runner Nijel Amos tripped (绊倒) him from behind.

“It was _________. I didn’t even believe it was me even though I was on the ground,” Jewett said. “I felt so _________.”

For Jewett though, showing good sportsmanship was more _________ than winning a medal. Growing up, he was exposed (使接触) to the world of anime (动画), which taught him valuable _________ such as never giving up and always finishing a race.

That is exactly what Jewett did with Amos.

“I just _________ that he was sad, and I shut off how I was feeling. I knew I couldn’t help him in any way but I _________ to do the best I could.” Jewett said.

After the __________, Jewett got up and helped Amos to his feet. Amos apologized for his __________, and Jewett put his arm around his competitor.

“Hey man, let’s __________ this race together; we’re not done yet,” Jewett told Amos. __________ , they crossed the finish line.

“It’s okay to compete but it’s also important to show that you’re a __________. That’s the way you show your heroism by __________ each other along the way and finishing the race together,” Jewett said.

2 . You might say I found marathoning, step by step. Or perhaps it found me. I was _____________ an athlete growing up. In fact, I have a hard time _____________ that term to myself even today.

It started when I joined a group of women in my neighborhood for a daily three-mile walk. At first it was _____________. But soon, my body adjusted and I wanted _____________. Before long, I was running 5 miles. Then I set a goal to run a half marathon. And I did complete the Covered Bridges Half Marathon. I thought, “Now what?” I started to _____________ a marathon.

It so happened that I _____________ a meeting one night and listened to the speaker and coach, Rick Muhr, and was so _____________ by his words. I told him that I had signed up for the Ocean State Marathon, just a week away, and that I really didn’t believe I could _____________. Rick locked eyes with me and said, “Trish, you’ve done enough training. You’ll finish!”

I never had someone _____________ me like that, let alone a real, live coach. He gave me the ________________ I needed. I set out to run my ________________ marathon and completed it in 4:25:00. Little did I know that this would be the beginning of nearly a decade of marathon and distance running.

Running a marathon isn’t for everybody. But it is for anybody, anybody who wants to ________________ the unreachable and to take that ________________ into the rest of their life. When you cross the finish line you may never have a ________________ picture of what you are made of and capable of accomplishing. Your ________________ of the world and, more importantly, of yourself will forever be changed!

3 . At the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Derek Redmond was a 400-meter runner for the UK. The _______ started well. In the semifinals(半决赛), Derek was far ahead of his _______ . But shortly before the halfway mark,he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right leg and _______ . Derek struggled to his feet and began hopping(蹦)on his left foot. The crowd stood up and cheered as he hopped _______ toward the finish line.

Then a figure _______ from the crowd: Derek’s dad, Jim Redmond. Waving off officials who tried to get him off the _______ , he ran up to his son and put an arm around his waist. Derek _______ and wept on his father’s shoulder. _______ , father and son walked the final meters of the race. The Olympic

Committee called the finish one of the most _______ moments in Olympic history. And twenty years later, they were invited to take part in the nationwide torch(火炬)relay for the 2012 Games in London.

“I saw my son having a(n) __________ and it was my duty to help”, he told CBS News in 2012. “I actually went on the track to try to stop him from __________ himself further. But he was __________ to finish the race. So I offered him a shoulder to support him.”

“He was telling me that I had nothing to __________ and that I didn’t need to do this, but I told him I was going to __________ . Then he said that we would do it together,” Derek Redmond remembered at the same interview. “So we did, and I hopped over the line in __________ .”

4 . Five days a week I go out for a run—a short and slow run. The only way I can _______ to it is to keep it a habit. It’s a spiritual approach to making exercise a habit.

We’re meant to treat the _______ with respect, doing all we can within our power to keep it _______ and serviceable.

I have a wild heart history. I have _______ heart surgery twice in my life. After each procedure, I signed up for cardiac rehab (心脏康复) where I worked with a nurse, a physical therapist (治疗专家) and got exercise three days a week, building back my _______ and my confidence.

The last time I wanted to _______ running, the nurse and therapist urged me on, for running is _______ for my body and my soul.

Their _______ was a reminder: keep it up. _______ jogging up and down hills, I’m not out to ________ any races. Recently, as I came up the hill running with a friend, a neighbor cried out, “You look like the last two finishers of the marathon.”

“You must really ________ to run,” people will say to me. Love is a too ________ word. But I love to finish a run. That feels good.

The only way I can do it is make it a habit. Sometimes I do it ________ in the morning. As the weather gets cold, I prefer going later in the day when I won’t ________. I can learn and grow while running.

Good habits are, in turn, habit-forming. I find it ________ if I simply make it a rule, trying a spiritual approach to making running a habit.

5 . Jacqueline’s dream of being a world-class runner began when she was a child in Kenya. She soon realized she had to _________ full-time to improve her performance, which meant not being able to work to help support her family. But she was _________ that the training would make her perfect and she could bring home prize money.

Jacqueline traveled to China to _________ in the Zheng-kai marathon knowing she had a good shot at _________ the race, but more importantly, the $10,000 prize that went with it. She was leading the women’s _________ when a male runner _________ the water station at the 20-kilometer mark. The man was running at a good pace but had trouble _________ water because a birth defect (缺陷) had left him without hands. He _________ to drink from the slippery plastic bottles. But any assistance from fans or race officials would result in his _________. Jacqueline noticed the man and __________ knew that he needed help. She __________ a water bottle and helped him get the fluid his body needed to __________ the race. Then she ran at his __________ with the bottle and helped him sip (小口喝) while they strode along.

Jacqueline missed out on first place, but she __________ with something more important: her humanity. When asked about the bigger __________, she said that money isn’t everything.

6 . On Oct. 11, hundreds of runners competed in a cross-country race in Minnesota. Melanie Bailey should have _________ the course earlier than she did. Her _________ came because she was carrying a _________ across the finish line.

As reported by a local newspaper, Bailey was more than two-thirds of the way through her _________ when a runner in front of her began crying in pain. She _________ to help her fellow runner, Danielle Lenoue. Bailey took her arm to see if she could walk forward with _________. She couldn’t. Bailey then _________ to let Lenoue climb onto her back and carried her all the way to the finish line, then another 300 feet to where Lenoue could get _________ attention.

Once there, Lenoue was _________ and later taken to a hospital, where she learned that she had serious injuries in one of her knees. She would have struggled with extreme __________ to make it to that aid checkpoint without Bailey’s help.

As for Bailey, she is more __________ about why her act is considered a big __________. “She was just crying. I couldn’t __________ her,” Bailey told the reporter. “I feel like I was just doing the right thing.”

Although the two young women were strangers before the __________, they’ve since become friends. Neither won the race, but the __________ of human kindness won the day.

7 . One day, on my way to a fried chicken shop, I noticed many people warming up at the starting line. Runners of all ages, ________ and sizes, were preparing for the 5-kilometer running. I ________ everyone looked glad and proud there, high-fives happening everywhere, accompanied by friendly encouragement and wishes. I ________ what caused such enthusiasm. The idea of running for any reason ________ running towards an ice-cream truck had never been appealing to me.

As the runners took their places at, the starting line, I heard ________ cheers from the the bleachers (看台). I decided to stay and watch the whole race. The officials ________ for the start and all the runners rushed forward. They ran with ________   initially, but halfway, some runners looked tired, and one girl appeared ________ exhausted. I guessed she would   ________ in no time. Just then, a man in the bleachers shouted to the girl, “Come on, Tiffany! You can do it!” Hearing the words, Tiffany gave a ________ smile to the man and continued running. Soon some other runners who were slowing down also received ________ from people in the bleachers. No one seemed to drop out.

Finally, Tiffany managed to arrive at the finishing line breathlessly. ________ she wasn’t the winner, but the was pleased to finish the whole race. She raised her ________ in the air happily. Some other runners arrived one by one, and they _______ each other. Inspired, I began trying to avoid fast food and doing exercise after that day, which changed me a lot. Now I become healthier and more ________.

8 . We all know that physical exercise has treatment power, but who would have ever imagined that playing ping pong could help _________ the brain?

For decades, the recording artist and activist Nenad Bach _________ the world performing with famous musicians like Bono and Luciano Pavarotti. However, everything came to a _________ stop in 2010 when Nenad was _________ to have Parkinson’s disease(帕金森病). Everything that Nenad thought was ordinary in life was _________. “Music is a passion of mine,” he said. “When I was told I had Parkinson’s, I didn’t know what it was. Five years later, I couldn’t play a single chord(和弦) on the _________.”

One day, a friend of Nenad’s asked him to play _________ with him, and Nenad said yes. The effects were _________ and positive: he woke up the next day filled with a “_________ to live”, and his physical and cognitive(认知的) issues had __________. Encouraged, he kept playing. For months, he told everyone around him about how ping pong was __________ his Parkinson’s, but his praise fell on deaf ears. __________, he took matters into his own hands and started Ping Pong Parkinson’s sessions. Once the sessions __________ momentum(势头), he created a nonprofit organization called Ping Pong Parkinson (PPP). PPP hopes to encourage people living with Parkinson’s to play ping ping for its multiple __________.

Nenad has made spreading the word about the power of ping pong as his new life goal! He hopes others will __________ the sport and see the same sort of cognitive and physical improvements he’s enjoyed.

9 . Marcus is a handsome and athletic kid. He plays tennis and _________ the state tournament every year. Marcus’s neighbor, Conrad, is also _________ to compete, but he has rheumatoid arthritis (类风湿性关节炎). Although it pains him just to walk, he _________ painful days at school walking to the sports field. He loves watching his school compete so he doesn’t _________ a game.

Marcus has known Conrad since primary school. They’ve always been _________. He sees Conrad in pain and his _________ at not being able to play sports. So, every day alter school, Marcus _________ his classmates to go to Conrad’s for a moment of discussion about the game competition. The discussion is as _________ as a real high school game, which makes Conrad forget the hurt.

Finally, the doctors found a new _________ to reduce the pain. Conrad walks without much pain, and then begins running, but he still has to learn the __________ of running. After a childhood of walking carefully and taking __________ steps, Conrad has to train his walking like a kid again and stay in shape. He pushes himself every day，building his lungs and doing leg lifts repeatedly for his leg __________. He knows what pain feels like, but running for Conrad is no longer __________.

To Conrad’s delight, he gets a chance to join the cross country team. Conrad doesn’t win, not once, but Marcus is there, __________ for him who always finishes in the middle of the competitors, breathing in wind and waving his hands __________.

10 . I love the idea of a marathon race with just simply having a beginning point and an end goal. But what I love more about it is all about the_________to my marathon.

Before I found my appreciation of running, _________ speaking, I was never a fan of it. As I got older, I had the _________to do things that I had never thought of doing-that was when I _________ myself.

It was during late summer that I_________ to join a run. In every training session, I got the _________to learn something new about myself and everything else that surrounded me. I found my connection to nature _________ and it made me much more _________of everything-the wind, the rays of the sun and every step I take. During training, I passed by _________people-some eventually ran faster than I, and some others I __________them. This reminded me everyone has different battles.

If I hadn’t decided to get ready and just go for it, I would have never known what running __________for me. But of course with all these amazing feelings, there came __________days when I felt terrible with aching muscles and hurting laps. Every aspect of life always comes__________ those two, doesn’t it? Good and bad, right and wrong. It all__________ perspective-which side will you let shine even more?

I hope you find your own marathon and__________ it!