I’m sorry to hear that you haven’t been feeling well recently. But the doctor is__________—you do need to take more exercise. I have some__________that you might find helpful.

First, remember that you don’t have to __________non-stop for 30 minutes or a whole hour__________, try to do small amounts of exercise whenever you can. For example, try taking the stairs up to your flat instead of the__________.When you study for a long time, remember to take regular breaks.

Second, you don’t have to__________to exercise in good weather. Many forms of exercise can be done outside the gym. You can do some__________in the school playground, in the park or around your community. All you need is a pair of __________shoes.

Finally, I understand that exercise alone can be boring, but you could invite your family and friends to __________with you. Encourage them to take exercise too so that you can have fun exercising together. This way, you are more likely to __________with your exercise routine.

I hope you’ll soon feel happier and healthier.

All the best.

Rachel

2 . The Olympic spirit is about a lot more than winning medals and setting records. Just look at the story of _________ Eric.

The boy from Equatorial Guinea found his_________ for swimming shortly after high school._________ he found it difficult to get a swimming pool to learn swimming. Eventually, he_________ a 13-meter hotel pool that he could only use three hours a week. On days he could not practice in the pool, he_________ in rivers. After about eight months of swimming, he_________ the chance to compete in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

On the 100m freestyle, Eric was in the first_________ along with the other two strong swimmers. Both swimmers were_________ to carry on competition for starting too early,_________ Eric as the only man in his race. Not only were the eyes of the 17,000__________ at the scene entirely on him, but the billions__________ the Games that day, from all over the world.

When he heard the crowd shouting, encouraging him to ‘Go, go, go.   he gathered all his__________ to finish the race with a time of 1:52.72,the slowest__________ time in Olympic history. But the fans did not care,__________ him as if he had broken the world record.

Although he is not outstanding in performance, he has made__________ for his motherland and has left an everlasting chapter(篇章)in the swimming field.

4 . 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!

6 . Billy Mills was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the Oglala Lakota people. His mother died when he was 9 years old. Hurting from the________, young Billy took up sports,________ an article that stated that Olympians are chosen by the gods.

So Billy started running. He ran his first race ________   jeans and basketball shoes. He finished dead last but fell in love with the sport. Then his father ________, and with a broken heart, he stopped running. Being orphaned at 12 and feeling ________, Billy didn’t run again ________   he reached high school.

He came out of high school with the fourth-fastest mile in the nation. He went on to the University of Kansas and ________ hard, hoping to make the Olympic team. He finished second in the trials and was on his way.

At the start of the 10, 000-meter race in that 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, Billy Mills, an orphaned boy from ________ Pine Ridge, South Dakota,________ up to run for his country, his parents, his people. As the race wore on,________   fell behind, lap (一圈) after lap, until four led the pack. With one lap to go, he was nudged out of his lane from behind, then bumped off his stride again. He was ________ at a distant fourth place.

In the last 100 meters, an unheard-of Billy Mills ________ into a dead sprint from lane four and strode his way into the ________ books with an Olympic record.

“It was ________ a belief,” Billy remembers. “Beliefs ________ us or destroy us, but we have that opportunity to create our own journey. ”

8 . In the spring of 1977, Rick Hoyt told his father, Dick that he wanted to participate in a 5-mile benefit run. Far from being a long-distance runner, Dick _________ to push Rick in his wheelchair and they finished all 5 miles, coming in next to last. That night, Rick told his father, “Dad, when I’m running, it feels like I’m not _________.”

This _________ was just the beginning of what would become over 1,000 races _________. The 2009 Boston Marathon was officially Team Hoyt’s 1000th race. Rick always says if it comes down to doing one _________ a year he would like it to be the Boston Marathon: his _________ race.

2013 was going to be Team Hoyt’s last Boston Marathon together, but they were not able to finish due to the terrorist bombing at the finish line. They _________ to be back in 2014 to finish the race with all the other runners, which they did, _________ many times along the 26.2 distance to take photos and shake hands of the many well-wishers.

Dick and Rick will continue to do shorter distances races together, but teammate Bryan Lyons will be _________in pushing Rick in the 2015 Boston.

Rick was once __________, if he could give his father one thing, what would it be? Rick responded, “The thing I’d most like is for my dad to sit in the chair and I would __________ him for once.”

Racing in support of others less fortunate, devoting their time and energy to __________ others, Team Hoyt continued in that same __________ for 37 years. They proved to everyone that anything can be done with enough __________, devotion, and above all, the bottomless depths of __________ that can be found only in the unique bond between a father and his son.