1 . My mother turned ninety. I knew I needed to find a senior _______ center. Not for her — for me. If I were at her age, I would want to stay in shape to _______ life, getting a lot of pleasure. Yes, walking in local parks was my _______, but I wasn’t so active as before.

I called a nearby center, “Do you have aerobics (有氧运动) classes _______ for seniors?” “Sure. Come and check us out! We start at 10 am,” the receptionist (接待员) replied and _______. The next morning, I went there. One part of me was _______ that the class was too easy, not doing me any good. The other part feared it was too hard for me to _______.

When I came into the room, a woman _______ me, “Oh, you’re new. Welcome.” Then the music started. The hour-long workout woke up the muscles I didn’t often _______ in daily walks, suiting me fine. I became a member there. My classmates ranged in age from fifty to ninety. Most gave the exercises their own ____________, doing as much or little as they could. ____________ no one kept score. Soon I learned physical well-being wasn’t the only ____________ there. During breaks, people chatted happily. Whenever some people were ____________ we asked around. Were they busy? Were they in hospital? Moreover, we signed cards for those who were ill.

I ____________ to be in good shape now as I’ve hoped. Still, I’m grateful for things more valuable from the class — close friendships and new social ____________.

2 . After graduation, I decided to take the gym seriously. Accompanied by a friend, I _______ a routine of walking on the treadmill(跑步机). I was _______ with our routine in the gym. My friend, however, became bored.

One day, he suggested that we _______ an outdoor sport. I was an uncoordinated (动作不协调的) person, so I _______ his idea.

But several weeks later, he managed to _______ me to step onto an outdoor racquetball (美式壁球) court. When I hit the ball, I sent it flying in every direction except the direction that I had _______. Still, somehow, I tried hard to learn it and became _______ after constantly practicing.

“We’re not getting enough _______ on the treadmill. Why not play tennis to build up our body?” suggested my friend.

“Tennis? I can’t play tennis! That _______ real skills!” I firmly resisted (抵制) his new ________.

However, weeks later, I started playing tennis. After several months of painful practice, one day, as the ball came flying towards me, my racket and the ball met in what tennis players ________ as the “sweet spot”. I had ________ learned how to play tennis properly!

I learned a valuable ________ from these experiences: I can do whatever I set my mind on. I just need to put in efforts, and the results will ________. And I become quite ________ about trying new things and I’m always filled with a sense of excitement.

3 . Growing up and playing hockey(冰球) with her brothers in the area, Manon Rhcaume learned pretty quickly that, despite her _________, she was often cut from teams _________ because she was a girl. Although it was _________ for the youngster, she continued to work hard and _________ her skills to prove she could _________ with the boys.

It didn’t take long for her to make a _________ for herself. In 1984, she became the first girl to _________ in the well-known Quebec City International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament.

When the Tampa Bay Lightning, a National Hockey League(NHL) team, came calling the following year, it was a _________ Rheaume could not pass up. When Rheaume arrived in Tampa Bay, she remembers there was a big bouquet(花束) of flowers waiting for her in her dressing room, along with a _________. “It was from a radio station in Montreal and the card __________ ‘Go further, good __________ to you, we’re all on your __________ and you’re not alone,’” she said. “When I got that, I realized a lot of people were __________ me to be successful.”

Although her experience with the NHL was brief, Rheaume encouraged countless girls to __________ their hockey dreams. Rheaume said, “Hard work and never giving up is what makes you __________. ”

4 . After graduation, I decided to take the gym seriously. Accompanied by a friend, I________a routine of walking on the treadmill (跑步机). I was ________with our routine in the gym. My friend, however, became bored.

One day, he suggested that we ________an outdoor sport. I was an uncoordinated (动作不协调的) person, so I_______his idea.

But several weeks later, he managed to ________me to step on to an outdoor racquetball (美式壁球) court. When I hit the ball, I sent it flying in every direction except the direction that I had __________Still, somehow, I tried hard to learn it and became ________after constantly practicing.

“We’re not getting enough________on the treadmill. Why not play tennis to build up our body?” suggested my friend.

“Tennis? I can’t play tennis! That ________real skills!” I firmly resisted (抵制) his new ________.

However, weeks later, I started playing tennis. After several months of________practice, one day, as the ball came flying towards me, my racket and the ball met in what tennis players viewed as the “sweet spot”. I had ________learned how to play tennis properly!

I learned a valuable ________from these experiences：I can do whatever I set my mind on. I just need to put in efforts, and the results will ________. And I become quite________about trying new things and I’m always filled with a sense of excitement.

9 . It’s 6:15 a. m. on a school day, and Jocelyn Murzycki has two kids and she needs to ġet out the door in an hour. As the sky begins to ________, Murzycki doesn’t manage a few more minutes of sleep. ________ , she’s heading out in the freezing cold on her daily plog — a run to ________ litter.

First, the ________are: a litter grabber (垃圾夹具) and a reusable shopping bag, one side for landfill (废物填埋) and the other for ________. Covering herself up, Murzycki jogs ________ down Main Street, stopping briefly to pick up a plastic cup. She usually needs to stop halfway through her 20-minute run to ________ her bag. Within a few hours the street will look littered again. But she isn’t ________ — it just adds fuel to her plogging fire.

The word “plogging” comes from plogga, a ________ of two Swedish words that mean to pick up and to jog. The activity was ________ by Erik Ahlstrom. When he moved to Stockholm, he felt________at the amount of litter in the streets and began gathering friends to clean up the neighborhood while out for runs. Now Mr. Ahlstrom is traveling the world, making the ________of plogging known to the public. In the U. S. , social media and running groups are ________ people to get out and plog: the “plogging” tag (标签) alone has more than 40, 000 posts.

Murzycki has been doing this for a few years even before the trend hit the U. S. “It really is super ________ if you go out every single day and just pick up litter,” she says. But she’s figured out how to make it fun by jogging with friends and adding the ________, and she adds one push-up (俯卧撑), finding a tiny glass bottle.