1 . My son Joey was born with disability. The doctors _________ us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally—but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in _________ with the help of casts (石膏) and braces (支架). By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a problem when you saw him walk.

The children in our _________ ran around as most children do during game play, and Joey would _________ and run and play, too. We never told him the _________ that he probably wouldn’t be able to run as well as other children.

In seventh grade he _________ his mind to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He made great efforts and ran more than any of the others—perhaps he _________ that the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. The entire team ran. _________, only the top seven runners had the chance to score points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make it.

He _________ running four to five miles every day—even the day he had a high fever. After school, I found him __________ by himself. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. The sweat __________ down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn’t run four miles with a high fever, either.

Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were __________. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had __________. He was in seventh grade—the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he shouldn’t __________ to make it. We never told him he couldn’t do it.

With the strong __________, you can achieve your dream.